Foreign Secretary David Lammy makes a statement about the situation in Gaza to parliament
Imran Mulla – Middle East Eye.net May 20, 2025
The UK has announced it is summoning the Israeli ambassador in London and suspending its free trade agreement with Israel in a landmark move that tears up friendly relations between the two countries.
Speaking in parliament on Tuesday afternoon, Foreign Secretary David Lammy condemned “this Israeli government’s egregious actions and rhetoric”, adding that the government is “isolating Israel from its friends and partners around the world”.
He criticised Israel for expanding its military operations in Gaza and restricting the entry of humanitarian aid.
Lammy said: “I find this deeply painful as a lifelong friend of Israel and a believer in the values expressed in its declaration of independence.”
He argued that Israel’s approach is “incompatible with the principles that underpin our bilateral relationship, rejected by members across this house, and frankly it’s an affront to the values of the British people”.
The foreign secretary said: “Therefore today I am announcing we have suspended negotiations with this Israeli government on a new free trade agreement.
“We will be reviewing cooperation with them under the 2030 bilateral roadmap. The Netanyahu government’s actions have made this necessary.
“Today my honourable friend the foreign minister for the Middle East is summoning the Israeli ambassador to the Foreign Office to convey this message.”
Lammy also added that Palestinians must have their own state and live “free of occupation”.
Negotiations on a UK-Israel free trade agreement began in July 2022 under the previous Conservative government.
In the initial agreement, the UK government agreed to oppose the use of “apartheid” to describe Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and pledged to confront “anti-Israel bias” in international institutions, including at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council.
“The world is judging,” Lammy said. “History will judge them [the Israeli government]. Blocking aid, expanding the war, dismissing the concerns of your friends and partners. This is indefensible and it must stop.”
‘Urging, begging’
A number of MPs have questioned the effectiveness of the policy shift by the Labour government and have asked for more strident action against Israel.
They include Conservative politician Kit Malthouse who said Lammy knows that Israel does not “give a damn” about the sanctions announced on Tuesday and continued to kill Palestinians since the foreign secretary’s statement was issued.
Speaking in parliament, Malthouse said: “Many of us in this chamber have tried to spur the government into taking action over the last few months. We’ve tried anger and outrage, and got nowhere. We’ve tried shaming ministers into action and got nowhere. So maybe we need to beg.”
He added: “I’m urging, begging the foreign secretary to pluck up all his moral authority and courage, stand up in government against the blockage in Downing Street, and please try to save these children’s lives as soon as possible.”
The Scottish National Party leader in Westminster, Stephen Flynn, called for a vote in parliament on recognising a Palestinian state.
The UK further announced sanctions on three individuals in the occupied West Bank, including prominent settler leader Daniella Weiss, who appeared in a recent BBC documentary presented by Louis Theroux, as well as two illegal outposts and settler organisations.
In response to the announcement by the British government, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said the suspension of trade negotiations would harm the UK’s economy and was motivated by anti-Israel sentiment.
“If, due to anti-Israeli obsession and internal political considerations, the British government is willing to harm the British economy, that’s their decision,” the ministry said.
“The British Mandate ended exactly 77 years ago. External pressures will not divert Israel from its path,” it added.
Gaza crisis: Israeli strikes escalate as aid trickles in
as people creep out from the rubble toward food lorries
israel kills 91 people
Story by Kamila Gurgul •
Monday, Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip resulted in the deaths of 91 people, marking a significant escalation in efforts to turn people away from Hamas.
The first humanitarian aid deliveries in three months have reached the region.
Sniper attacks killed many who came out for food
UN says aid hasn’t reached Kerem Shalom yet despite entering Gaza
the truck carrying humanitarian aid for Kerem Shalom Crossing in southern Israel, has been blocked by jews Tuesday May 20, 2025
a Silverback & a Sikh representing British people…
courtesy of the KIKES
there is only (((One Enemy of the World)))
“Lammy said: “I find this deeply painful as a lifelong friend of Israel and a believer in the values expressed in its declaration of independence.””
Lammy, you being a negro, do you really think the kikes care about your “lifelong” friendship? As a matter of fact Lammy, the kike’s declaration of independence is as invalid as their little hell-hole in Occupied Palestine.
That picture makes me sick. A gorilla and a towel wearer. Welcome to “britain”. And look at all the empty seats in the background.
!! Lammy said: “I find this deeply painful as a lifelong friend of Israel and a believer in the values expressed in its declaration of independence.”
What, another “friend of jewland”? Who’d have thought it. Nice of the gorilla to put it on record.
!! “it’s an affront to the values of the British people”.
LOL.
!! “Today my honourable friend”
LOFL.
!! “The world is judging,” Lammy said.
And that’s exactly why the gorilla has been ordered to make his “speech”.
!! “We’ve tried anger and outrage, and got nowhere. We’ve tried shaming ministers into action and got nowhere. So maybe we need to beg.”
ROFL. Now you almost know what it’s like to be a shitizen of the jew-k. All you need now is to be forced into rent slavery for life and be executed under the “euthanasia bill” when you can no longer slave for the jew.
!! “I’m urging, begging the foreign secretary to pluck up all his moral authority and courage”
Woah, stand back, the gorilla is going to show its “courage”.
How about suspend the bank of England & abolish compound interest.
Lets have our own bank, & kick the family owned banking system/cartel out.
I think Lammy may be sore because some months ago when he went to Israel I think to give or sell them weapons, he wasn’t well received by the Jewish racists. He’s learned that sucking up to them even with a powerful office of state behind him supplying them what they wanted, he wasn’t treated as well as his rank demands, and this may have pierced his rose-tinted ideological bubble. Not being treated quite like a high-ranking foreign diplomat should be is a harsh way to find out that to these people he’s just another blackie.
For ZOGUK to finally clamber aboard its ‘High Horse’ and cry crocodile-tears over the Gaza carnage must mean that Izzy’s Extermination Campaign is almost complete…
thanks – in NO small part! – to RAF surveilling the area and providing bombing- cordinates to Izzy of anything stirring in the rubble..
Btw Anyone know what it has to do with the story or the significance of that fat orangutan – and what i can only assume is his turbanned taxi-driver – in the above photo? 🤔
Tia
Its all Orwellian illusion. This is done to convince the morons Israel is ‘alone & surrounded by enemies’.
White brits defeated Hitler so they could have gorillas, jews & sikhs ruling over them in parliament.
All conversion begins with the recognition of evil in our lives.
For the UK, France and Canada to all suddenly turn against Israel like they have I think something quite profound has happened, as none of them would turn like this against Israel just to inconvenience Trump. I wonder if some organisation or independent body of people, possibly lawyers but certainly using the courts in a legal process, have started proceedings against the people running the departments that have supplied murderous aid to Israel. Individuals cannot pass the blame onto government institutions ie. “I was just following orders”, because Adolf Eichmann and other Nazis and later war criminals were not able to use that as a defence in their own trials. It’s surely the same with our own politicians who can’t say the job demanded it, and I wonder if writs accusing them of war crimes have been passed to them?
And now Israel is talking about attacking Iran without US support so they’re rattled too. Something big seems to be happening and if so it is just a matter of time before we get the gist of it.
Is it a net positive when the invaders go against (half of) the Conspiracy? I’d say not