Op-Ed video: The UK's support for Zionism has caused 76 years of conflict
The United Kingdom is fully aligned with Israel, with Foreign Secretary David Cameron being far worse than US President Joe Biden when it comes to bringing about an end to the war on Gaza, says David Hearst, the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye.
In a series of interviews, Cameron has said cutting arms to Israel would strengthen Hamas and has castigated the BBC for not calling it a terrorist organisation.
He has refused to reinstate Britain's funding for Unrwa, despite the fact that an independent UN review headed by a former French foreign minister found no evidence to substantiate Israel's claims that Unrwa staff were members of terrorist groups.
And the foreign secretary has done nothing to create a Palestinian state. He gives it lip service only. In the meantime, in backing this war, he is doing his best to help Israel destroy a Palestinian state in Gaza.
"Cameron has proved to be the true heir to Lord Balfour who declared a homeland for the Jews in 1917, paving the way for 76 - more or less continuous - years of conflict," Hearst said.
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Following in Balfour's footsteps, Cameron is dooming Britain to irrelevance in the Middle East.
"The policy of supporting Israel no matter what it does and what crimes it commits is doomed, and if the west had any sense of self-preservation in a world where the centre of power is drifting away from it, they too should walk away from this policy, he said.
"The justification for the barbarities committed in this war's name are now truly running thin," he added.
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