Rishi Sunak offered Israel unequivocal support in its “defence” against the Hamas attack of October 7 – a “defence” that has already been more than three times more deadly than the attack itself, while doing nothing to end any threat Hamas poses to that country.

He said he spoke for the British people. But there is growing evidence that, once again, he is speaking only for himself.

Here’s Peter Oborne to explain some of it:

Here’s SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn to explain that, in supporting Israeli war crimes, Sunak can only be speaking for himself. At the end of the clip, Sunak rises to repeat the falsehood that Israel is only defending itself. We can see that this is not true:

It seems the people of the UK are tired of hearing that Israel has a right to defend itself when the numbers coming out of Palestine are so horrific:

We want a ceasefire and we want efforts to resolve this crisis peacefully – and it seems clear that feeling for this is growing among our politicians:

The message isn’t getting through to Israel’s representatives, though. Tzipi Hotovely, that country’s far-right-wing Ambassador to the UK, told Piers Morgan that the UK was happy to bomb civilians in order to defeat Nazis, as if that justifies her country’s actions now.

She’s wrong, by the way. The bombing of Dresden was hugely controversial at the time and became more so after World War II. And morality in the UK has changed in the decades since, to the point where we would not do such a thing again.

We, as a nation, have grown. Why has Israel not?

The apologists are still out in force, with Israel supporter Andrew Neil giving full-throated support to the latest reel of video clips to come from Tel Aviv, purportedly showing Hamas atrocities committed on October 7:

This Writer actually responded to his post, pointing out that it’s hard to believe a post like this when it starts with a lie. If these people were killed by Hamas, it wasn’t because they were Jewish but because they were Israeli settlers who had stolen Palestinian property (as that group would have seen it).

If this footage was taken on October 7, why was it not released immediately it was taken from the Hamas bodies? Israel was desperate to justify itself in the early days after the attack but resorted to lies instead. Even if it is real, the footage is hard to believe in this context.

Finally – and also on context – I asked: can we see some footage from IDF bodycams of what they’ve been doing to kill – what is it? – 250 Palestinians in the year up to October 7? Or has that all gone missing?

I wasn’t the only one asking the last question – although others were able to add more detail to it:

Here’s another response on similar lines:

We must remember, also, that Israeli propaganda about the way Hamas has treated Israeli citizens is being disproved with every hostage released by that organisation:

So we come back to the possibilities for the future. Jeremy Corbyn stood up in the House of Commons, demanded to know why the UK’s representative in the United Nations had been instructed to abstain on a call for a humanitarian ceasefire, and called for positive steps toward peace – but his words fell on deaf ears. Here are a couple of possible explanations for that:

Let us not forget that violence begets violence. What Israel is doing now will not bring an end to hostilities between that country and Palestinians – it will only make them worse. Israeli politicians know this, and are devastating the area anyway.

Meanwhile, in other countries, Israel’s aggression and accusations are more obviously untrue:

Control of the narrative is slipping away from Israel – and also from its supporters like Rishi Sunak.

If he doesn’t speak for the United Kingdom, then for whom is he speaking?

And isn’t it past time he was made to do what we want?

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