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David Lammy is unfit to be Britain's Foreign Secretary

David Lammy is unfit to be Britain's Foreign Secretary

Telegraph3 days ago
As if Israel was not facing enough challenges, at the very moment it finds itself facing an existential war on seven fronts, it is cursed with a British Foreign Secretary of the calibre of David Lammy.
It is like some kind of divine comedy. This morning, the MP for Tottenham took to the airways to talk tough about the Jewish state, threatening sanctions on the 'appalling' regime in Jerusalem as it strives to defend Western freedoms against the forces of jihad.
It was most revealing, but not in the way the Foreign Secretary appeared to think. Lammy's rhetoric exposed not the supposed shortcomings of Israel but his own gullibility to Hamas propaganda, ignorance of the Middle East and inadequacy for high office.
Yesterday, a video emerged apparently showing Hamas thugs marching half-naked Gazan civilians who had received Israeli-American aid to an unknown destination after rounding them up for punishment.
This took its place among countless other videos of Hamas killing, torturing and intimidating its own people as it continues to use them as pawns in its attempt to exterminate the Jews by way of Western media.
Yesterday, another short clip showed a gathering of brave Gazans risking their necks to rally against their jihadi overlords. Shamefully, these courageous souls showed more opposition to Hamas than displayed by Britain's Foreign Secretary.
The truth is as obvious as it is widely overlooked. Israel is a democracy that only wants its hostages home and those threatening its people defeated, then to be left alone; Hamas wants to destroy the Jews, and is willing to bring the Strip down around their ears in the process.
We know that the Israeli-American aid efforts are designed to circumvent the United Nations; the UN agency UNRWA has been reported as working hand-in-glove with the jihadis. We also know that this starves Hamas of the source of its income, bringing its defeat much closer.
That is why the terrorists and their media partners have been creating as much propaganda as they can to convince the world that Israel is – for some reason – both going to the trouble of providing aid to Gaza and then massacring anybody who comes to claim it, blackening their international reputation in the process.
Bit of a waste of effort, no? The Jews are known for many things, but not normally for their stupidity.
It is quite obvious that this war comprises a bunch of depraved jihadis who herd their own people to death for propaganda, against a democracy fighting a war it did not start while confronted with human shields. Should Israel just give up? What then?
Yet Lammy and the rest of this atrocious Government has been entirely taken in by the disinformation. When's the last time you heard our Foreign Secretary criticising Hamas or their enablers in the West?
UNRWA employees reportedly took part in the atrocities of October 7. At least 1,200 of them, according to Israeli intelligence, are card-carrying members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad. Has the Foreign Secretary ever made mention of that?
His interview with BBC Breakfast this morning was a case in point. All the usual slurs were present. In an exhibition of preening self-fashioning, he stated that he was 'sickened' and 'appalled' by Israel.
Jerusalem's actions were 'grotesque', he said, as Lammy had seen 'innocent children holding out their hand for food… shot and killed in the way that we have seen in the last few days'.
The Foreign Secretary might as well have delivered a speech entitled 'your foreign policy is in the hands of a man who is fool enough to believe Hamas propaganda'. Lammy declared that if Israel failed to reach a ceasefire in Gaza, Britain would impose further sanctions upon it.
Does Lammy really think that it is purely in Israel's gift to reach a ceasefire? Doesn't it take two to fight a war? Again and again, negotiations in Qatar have been derailed by Hamas, which strings the talks along only to scuttle them at the last minute. Why? Because it understands that if it released the hostages, it would soon be out of power.
For Israel to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza now, with its citizens still in the catacombs and the jihadis still clutching the levers of power, would only store up further atrocities, war and unrest in the future.
Israel has tried unilateral withdrawal in the past. In 2005, it pulled all Israelis out of Gaza, handing over the keys to the Palestinians. The result? A terror state in which every aspect of governance was geared purely towards the deaths of the Jews.
Lammy's short-sightedness is beyond belief. But it is not just Israel that the Foreign Secretary is betraying. It is the West as a whole, which accelerates towards its final decline with every jihadi victory.
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