Above: HMS Queen Elizabeth<\/p>\n
The following article provides readers with what is essentially disinformation dressed up as \u201cnews\u201d.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t lie outright. That would be too obvious. Instead, it makes a crucial omission that alters the entire thrust of the story.<\/p>\n
The Telegraph fails to mention that the Houthi are only targeting shipping to and from Israel\u2019s Red Sea port of Eilat<\/a>. In other words the UK and US are effectively going to war on Israel\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n Although you might not realise it from the following, Israel is the only nation that will benefit from this deployment. No one else. Not Britain or the U.S., and nor most certainly will any Palestinians benefit. Only the state of Israel will gain, which makes one wonder: why Britain and the U.S. are putting their ships and sailors lives on the line?<\/p>\n Does the Zionist state have that much control over both countries’ political ‘leaders’ and their media?<\/p>\n Judging from what follows it would seem that it does. Ed.<\/p>\n Britain is poised to send an aircraft carrier to the Red Sea <\/a>to counter drone and missile attacks from Houthi rebels.<\/p>\n The Royal Navy is preparing to step in to replace USS Dwight D Eisenhower when it returns to America, as the Houthis warned of a \u201clong-term confrontation<\/a>\u201d in one of the world\u2019s busiest shipping lanes<\/a>.<\/p>\n James Heappey, the armed forces minister, said on Tuesday that the UK may \u201cco-operate with the Americans\u201d and step in to \u201cplug a gap\u201d in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n The UK has two aircraft carriers designed to carry F-35 fighter jets. One is HMS Prince of Wales<\/a>, which would face its first combat operation if it were deployed. The other is HMS Queen Elizabeth<\/a>, which has been sent into combat once before.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, Mohamed al-Atifi, the commander of the Iran-backed Houthi forces<\/a>, said the group was prepared for a long conflict over the Red Sea, where it has launched dozens of drone and missile attacks against commercial and naval ships since November.<\/p>\n The attacks have caused major delays for global shipping, as tankers and container ships are re-rerouted around Africa to avoid the narrow Bab al-Mandab strait, the entry point to the Red Sea between Yemen and Djibouti<\/a>.<\/p>\n Britain and the US have launched two rounds of joint air strikes on Houthi drone and missile sites, using American F\/A-18 Super Hornet jets from USS Eisenhower, and the RAF\u2019s Typhoons launched from a base in southern Cyprus.<\/p>\n However, Mr Heappey said the US carrier, nicknamed \u201cIke\u201d<\/a>, must soon return to the US. \u201cThe Eisenhower can\u2019t stay there forever, and so there\u2019s a thing about just maintaining a carrier presence in the region where we might cooperate with the Americans to provide a capability there,\u201d he told The House magazine.<\/p>\n He said Royal Navy carriers could be used \u201cwhen the Eisenhower goes home\u2026 if we were needed to plug a gap in US deployments\u201d.<\/p>\n The plans come after weeks of calls for the UK to deploy one of its \u00a33.1 billion aircraft carriers, which are both based in Portsmouth.<\/p>\n The Telegraph revealed this month<\/a> that HMS Queen Elizabeth was not at optimal readiness for deployment because of a Navy staffing shortage that had affected RFA Fort Victoria, the solid support ship that provides it with ammunition, food and other supplies while at sea.<\/p>\n Lord West, the former First Sea Lord, previously said it was \u201cabsolutely extraordinary\u201d that the UK had not deployed a carrier to protect commercial ships, although Mr Heappey said on Tuesday that there was \u201cno real need\u2026 for more carriers to be in the region than the Ike can provide\u201d.<\/p>\n A sea trial of HMS Queen Elizabeth in 2019 was aborted after the ship sprung a leak. However, a defence source said both carriers were now ready to be deployed<\/a> if necessary. They stressed the \u201cinteroperability\u201d between US and UK forces, after American F-35B jets took off from the deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth during Operation Shader against Islamic State in 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we make a decision, we will tailor the package from there,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n The UK is not set to reach \u201cfull operating capacity\u201d \u2013 with two squadrons of its own F-35 jets \u2013 until next year, but each carrier can support up to 36 jets.<\/p>\n Lord Cameron, the Foreign Secretary, travelled to Oman on Tuesday, where he is expected to call for stability over the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and de-escalation of tensions in the Middle East.<\/p>\n Earlier, Lord Cameron said Britain was considering whether to formally recognise a Palestinian state<\/a>. He told a reception of Arab ambassadors in London that the Government had a \u201cresponsibility\u201d to work towards a two-state solution, which would result in an independent Palestinian state coexisting with the nation of Israel.<\/p>\n \u201cMost important of all is to give the Palestinian people a political horizon so that they can see that there is going to be irreversible progress to a two-state solution and, crucially, the establishment of a Palestinian state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a responsibility there because we should be starting to set out what a Palestinian state would look like, what it would comprise, how it would work and, crucially, looking at the issue \u2026 of recognising a Palestinian state, including at the United Nations.\u201d<\/p>\n In Oman, the Foreign Secretary will reiterate Britain\u2019s commitment to delivering aid to Yemen, and outline the actions the UK is taking to deter the Houthis from targeting ships in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n The news came after Joe Biden said he had made a decision on how to respond to Iran-backed militants in Iraq and Syria who fired on an American base in northern Jordan on Sunday killing three US troops<\/a>.<\/p>\n Asked if he believed Iran was responsible for the attack, the president said: \u201cI do hold them responsible in the sense that they\u2019re supplying the weapons to the people who did it.\u201d<\/p>\n Washington pledged a \u201cvery consequential\u201d response to the attacks. John Kirby, the White House\u2019s National Security spokesman, said the US had still not identified the specific group that attacked the US base, but believed the militants had Iranian backing.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re still working through the analysis, but clearly the work has all the hallmarks of groups that are backed by the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] and, and in fact by Hezbollah as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s envoy to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani warned that Tehran would swiftly respond to any attack on its territory, its interests or nationals outside its borders, state media reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Kataib Hezbollah, the group blamed for the fatal drone attack, said on Tuesday it would halt its attacks on American forces in the Middle East.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re announcing the suspension of our military and security operations against the occupying forces to avoid any embarrassment for the Iraqi government,\u201d it wrote on its website.<\/p>\nBritain set to deploy aircraft carrier to Red Sea<\/strong><\/h1>\n
Tony Driver, Danielle Sheridan \u2013 The Telegraph Jan 31, 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Cameron open to Palestinian state<\/strong><\/h2>\n