Dan Sabbagh – The Guardian Aug 17, 2024
There is a rising risk of “full-scale regional war” in the Middle East, the foreign secretary, David Lammy, has warned, amid frantic international efforts to calm tensions with Iran and reach a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.
With the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, flying into Israel this weekend to push for a deal, Lammy has joined forces with his French counterpart, Stéphane Séjourné, to warn that now is a “perilous moment” for the region in the midst of widespread fears of escalation involving Tehran and allied militias in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
In a joint article for the Observer highlighting a growing cooperation between Britain and France, the pair state that the world is witnessing a “destructive cycle of violence” that has to be averted. “Fighting between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah has intensified,” they write. “Iranian threats of further escalation mean the risks of a full-scale regional war are rising.
“One miscalculation, and the situation risks spiralling into an even deeper and more intractable conflict. This cycle, with its tendency towards escalation, is making progress towards a political solution harder.”
The Times of Israel spells it out more clearly …
Israel expects UK, France to help hit Iran if Tehran attacks, Katz tells counterparts
Times of Israel – Aug 16, 2024
Israel expects Britain, France and other US allies to join it in taking military action against Iran should the Islamic Republic launch a promised assault on Israel to avenge the killing of Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh, Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Friday.
Katz made the comments as he met with the British and French foreign ministers making a joint trip to Israel, as international efforts to mediate a ceasefire in Gaza intensified, amid heightened fears in Israel that Iran and Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon could attack Israel in retaliation for last month’s killings of Haniyeh and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr.
Katz told British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné “that Israel expects France and Britain to publicly clarify to Iran that it is unacceptable for it to attack Israel and that if Iran attacks, the US-led coalition will join Israel not only in defense but also in an attack against significant targets in Iran,” his office said in a Hebrew-language statement after the meeting.
“Israel cannot not respond strongly to attacks on it,” he added.
An English-language statement from the meeting, which was held in English, sent out by the Foreign Ministry softened Katz’s message and omitted the sentence about needing to retaliate.
“I thanked them for their support of Israel and made it clear that the right way to deter Iran and prevent war is by announcing that if Iran attacks, they will stand with Israel not only in defense but also in striking targets in Iran.”
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer reportedly attended the meeting as well.
The UK and France were both part of an international coalition that helped defend Israel in mid-April when Iran launched hundreds of missiles into Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s insistence that Israel respond with a strike of its own on Iran reportedly led to tensions between Jerusalem and Western capitals, which see the tit-for-tats as liable to snowball into a full-blown conflict
Could someone please explain to me what that fat fck’wit Lammy – who looks like the 2nd Coming of Idi Amin – is doin as “British” Foreign Sec???
All you need to know. Israel is finished, so is the UK, and France is led by a plonker. Globally on a diplomatic level, Macron is viewed as an idiot.
LOL..
((Dan Sabbagh)) at the ((Fraudian))…I always have a chuckle at how these people fiddle with their names..it’s the first and most obvious of their methods of subterfuge… your Cowans and your Sellers and your Howards and your hehe..
Brittans…
the public is dead against defending israel from its crimes by jailing those who did not agree with defending israeli crimes
this is said by a pal in the MOD to possibly mean a civil war in the UK and this is why all the toerag migrants were people trafficked in by government
yes this is exactly what warmonger jews want.
and they know stupid goyim dont listen to wisdom .
all staged…
(((they))) want revolution
then total police state & conscription.
does the Dunce even know where the ME is?
all these nogs & pakis suddenly in parliament is all part of the satanic kikes collapsing Britain…
Truly Existential
Us or (((Them))) !
Lammy is like Steve Martin ‘The Jerk’ – in reverse lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WmltnDR2Xg
I see England likes to send their gorilla out there.
How diverse of them.
I see England likes to send their giant chimp out there. Is that a thing now in the west? Find the most ape like diplomat and foist it upon the world?
How diverse of them.
Black cryptos….useful.
Drake…a black hiphopper
Harris possibly the foist black president
Kravitz a degenerate pop star.
Just three of them there are a lot of them.
There was Austin the flim flamer etc etc These blacks are safe…and won’t rock the boat.
Unlike Cynthia Mckinney the former black congresswoman ….strangely after her boat trip to save Palestinians…..well she was out of congress shortly thereafter.The blacks in Washingstein now know the drill!!
Obama the pathetic twat is entirely fake….his mom was an American jewess….DUH!.
Even remote NZ has the same Zio-BS going on…..with a Hollywood director masquerading as Maori….his mother’s surname “Cohen”…he is hitched to that former pop star from Bosnia…….who is very likely to be a crypto jew…..
Are these cryptos relevant?.Well in the case of the drunkard Winstein Churchstein…..absolutely.