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AIBU to think Labour are worsening tensions at home and abroad?

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SweetAudry · 08/09/2026 16:10

Not content with making us enemy No.1 with Russia, pissing off the USA, rising tensions with Argentina … they’ve now managed to make an enemy of Isreal too.

Dont even get me started on the hostility rising within our own country!

WTF are Labour playing at??

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Fartughtyred · 08/09/2026 21:51

muddyford · 08/09/2026 21:01

A majority voted for Hamas in the most recent elections.

TPalestinians are obliged to vote for Hamas if they want to keep their jobs, homes and ability to feed their families......

Fartughtyred · 08/09/2026 22:33

Martymcfly24 · 08/09/2026 21:48

Because they don't agree with enabling Israel with ethnic cleansing and both countries already have a sizeable refugee population from Gaza that they cannot afford to support.

Wrong.

Jordan wants nothing to do with them because they took in Palestinian refugees from the West Bank in 1967 when Israel took the West Bank from Jordan in the Six Day War, only to have the PLO repay their hospitality by using a Jordanian border town (Karameh) as a base from which to attack Israel, thereby leading to reprisals by Israel, which almost started another war between Israel and Jordan. The Palestinians also assassinated the Jordanian prime minister and attempted to assassinate the King. A Palestinian group calling itself the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine staged a series of airline hijackings, seizing three civilian passenger flights and forcing their landing in the Jordanian city of Zarqa, where they took foreign nationals as hostages and blew up the planes in front of international press.

The Jordanian Army then went to war against the PLO and the PFLP and the Palestinians were eventually chased out of Jordan in 1971

Egyptian problems are the Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood have been trying to overthrow Egyptian governments since it started in the 1920s. The Muslim Brotherhood assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981 because they made a peace deal with Israel in the 1979 Camp David Accords. Most importantly Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Jordan doesn’t want them because Abdullah, the current king of Jordan, fears they’ll overthrow him, which nearly happened to his father Hussein in 1970 when the PLO tried to take over the country.

The Egyptians don’t want them because they also fear the Arabs from Gaza will once again cause chaos.

The Palestinian leadership doesn’t fight for its subjects’ rights anywhere either. It gets funding to get militarized, pockets the humanitarian aid, uses its subjects—including children—as human shields and cannon fodder, and pursues only one goal: the destruction of Israel, so as to take over the territory as a Sharia state.

That's just for starters.

CoventryCity · 08/09/2026 22:35

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Agrumpyknitter · 08/09/2026 22:41

Shesafancyflapjack · 08/09/2026 16:29

Long overdue, and each of those push backs are principled and justified.

Agree. And Israel secretly sold weapons to Argentina during the Falklands war so not sure they value their relationship with us much.

also as a state Israel keeps on encroaching on occupied land and while I have sympathy with Israel over the Hamas attacks and that they had every right to defend themselves, I think Labours actions are spot on.

CorporalJohn · 09/09/2026 11:54

Give it a rest, Kemi. Nobody's listening.

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