{"id":293300,"date":"2024-08-18T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T07:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=293300"},"modified":"2024-08-20T06:37:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T06:37:10","slug":"david-lammy-warns-of-rising-risk-of-full-scale-regional-war-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=293300","title":{"rendered":"David Lammy warns of rising risk of full-scale regional war in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Sabbagh \u2013 The Guardian Aug 17, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

There is a rising risk of \u201cfull-scale regional war\u201d 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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, St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9, to warn that now is a \u201cperilous moment\u201d for the region in the midst of widespread fears of escalation involving Tehran and allied militias in Lebanon<\/a>, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.<\/p>\n

In a joint article for the Observer<\/em> highlighting a growing cooperation between Britain and France, the pair state that the world is witnessing a \u201cdestructive cycle of violence\u201d that has to be averted. \u201cFighting between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah<\/a> has intensified,\u201d they write. \u201cIranian threats of further escalation mean the risks of a full-scale regional war are rising.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

The Times of Israel spells it out more clearly \u2026<\/p>\n

Israel expects UK, France to help hit Iran if Tehran attacks, Katz tells counterparts<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Times of Israel \u2013 Aug 16, 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s killings of Haniyeh<\/a> and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Katz told British Foreign Secretary David Lammy and French Foreign Minister St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9 \u201cthat 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,\u201d his office said in a Hebrew-language statement after the meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael cannot not respond strongly to attacks on it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

An English-language statement from the meeting, which was held in English, sent out by the Foreign Ministry softened Katz\u2019s message and omitted the sentence about needing to retaliate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer reportedly attended the meeting as well.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 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<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crucially, the Guardian omits to say that Britain and France have just pledged to support Israel militarily if it launches reprisal raids in the event of an Iranian strike. So Britain and France will watch Israel’s back while it commits genocide in Gaza <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293306,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293300\/revisions\/293306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}