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David Lammy meets Israeli politician who called for Palestinians to 'starve to death' (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 1 month ago by Linkerbaan@lemmy.world to c/uk_politics

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Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy has met with an Israeli opposition leader who called for the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.

"First of all, close all supplies to Gaza. I think in this battle we should not allow a humanitarian effort," he said at the time. "We need to say to them: listen, until the hostages are released, for all we care, you will starve to death. It's completely legitimate."

On Sunday, Golan posted a photo of his meeting with Lammy in Liverpool on X, formerly Twitter. He said the two "discussed the conditions necessary to remove the restrictions imposed by the British government on the export of defence weapons".

Meanwhile, Starmer drew laughter and applause from Labour delegates after he was interrupted by a pro-Palestinian student protester, who shouted about the "children of Gaza". Starmer responded by joking that "this guy's obviously got a pass from the 2019 conference", in reference to the last conference that Jeremy Corbyn was party leader.

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[–] mannycalavera 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In his defence, the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom has to meet with and negotiate with all kinds of unsavoury cunts across the globe. It kinda goes with the territory.

This is also, however, the same David Lammy that when questioned about calling for a vote on assisted dying and whether he would respect his constituent's preference for a vote said, "I will follow my faith and vote against it because I believe in the sanctity of life under God" (paraphrasing but pretty much this). That's not how you represent people you smarmy dick.

Unfortunately I think the calculation Lammy is doing is how many votes and how much money Labour will lose if they took a principled stance against Israel's actions in the Middle East.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately I think the calculation Lammy is doing is how many votes and how much money Labour will lose if they took a principled stance against Israel’s actions in the Middle East.

Increasingly the entire motivation of the incoming Labour government. Just boils down to how rich they can get before they lose their jobs in the next election.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

UN-fucking-believable

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

BREAKING: Foreign Secretary does job.

[–] Mrkawfee 4 points 1 month ago

The job being to provide a diplomatic fig leaf for genocide.