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30 arms exports out of 350, and gives an exception for the components required for F-35Bs which were used to bomb a school the same day this was announced.
Lammy even said this will have a negligible impact on Israeli military power.
This is a clear attempt at trying to turn the public on-side whilst collaborating with Israel to ensure the bombs keep dropping more than ever. Especially suspicious is that some of the licenses being suspended appear to be for arms that are already being limited by Palestine Action's sabotage campaign.
It's still 30 less licenses than last week, but it's too little and too late. Labour has an institutional islamophobia problem and as such is not interested at all in leveraging its position to end the genocide.
New Labour politicians have a massive debt to Israeli-linked Jewish Groups in the UK for the Anti-Semitism slander campaign against Corbyn and the Labour Party during his leadership that lost Labour an election and brought him down as leader of the party to be replaced by a New Labour leader (who promptly started a pogrom against Leftwingers in the party).
Of course, as is tradition in England (and because in the recent elections they lost 10 Parliament seats to people who campaigned as independents exactly because of New Labour's pro-Zionist "No Genocide is too great" policies), they're doing a bit public opinion management with a loudly announced measure that de facto does nothing.
If there's one thing that over a decade of living in Britain has taught me was to always look behind the curtain when it comes to grand very public gestures by the local politicians, the more the noise they make about their "great measure" the more the need to dig out the part of the story they're not telling people about.
Labour has a far far less of an islamaphobia issue than the Conservatives.
Labour did previously have a antisemitism issue however, and undoubtedly they're hesitant to do anything which might be tagged antisemitic (even if it's not).
But despite that, they haven't been in power for long and have already done far more than the Tories did.
Weird deflection, because it's common knowledge that the Tories are islamophobic and evil, but the moment anyone mentions this about Labour, Starmerite sycophants like you storm in to cover it up.
Jeremy Corbyn was vindicated for his defence of Palestine, where will you be in 30 years when someone asks what you did about the genocide?
Not a "Starmerite sycophant" whatever the hell that is. I am not a fervent supporter of any political party. I simply do not believe that Labour are inherently islamophobic - I've seen nothing to suggest that. Im not trying to cover anything up or deflect by saying that the Tories are Islamophobic. It's relevant because the Tories have been in power and controlling foreign policy up until a month or so ago. If the Tories were still in charge, there would have been no change to the UK gov's position.
Not that I think that Islamaphobia is the driving factor behind support for Israel, nor do I pretend to fully understand, besides the obvious fact that they're an existing ally and were attacked by terrorism which kicked this off.
The tide is turning against the Israelian government's scorched-earth policy but it's taking too long, especially from the US side. Seemingly the Israelian people are also taking issue with their government's position which is more pressure than we can exert from our side.
Btw Jeremy Corbyn was vindicated for what, defending Hamas and Hezbollah? Plenty of people have stood up for Palestine over the years without standing up for Hamas. Palestinians deserve to be free, not controlled by Hamas terrorists.