29 January 2019 | ANALYSIS
The Shadow Foreign Secretary, Emily Thornberry, has raised serious concerns over “heavy Israeli bombardment of Iranian installations around Damascus,” in Syria. Just two days before International Holocaust Memorial Day, Thornberry sent a letter to the Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, expressing her alarm and “This is an open confrontation with Iran.”
Although Thornberry did criticise Iran for firing a missile into Israel last week, her strongest protest was was directed at Israel. The letter called for an arms embargo against the Jewish State, if Israel continues to be “breach of international law” and escalates “acts of aggression” against Iran or Iraq, where the Islamic Republic has declared it will also launch attacks into Israel.
In addition, Thornberry even asked for a withdrawal of an invitation for the Israeli Air Force to participate in joint exercises with the RAF later this year. “It would be utterly inappropriate for the RAF to be helping to train pilots who would then be using those lessons in a war of aggression against Iran, or in breach of Iraq’s sovereignty.”
Besides the fact that the RAF learn a great deal from the Israeli pilots during these exercises, questions were being asked as to whether Jeremy Corbyn had put Emily Thornberry up to this, or whether she really believed Israel is the aggressor against gigantic Iran, who use their positions in Syria to attack the Jewish State whilst threatening its destruction.
The conclusion was that Emily Thornberry has a track record of anti-Israel rhetoric and although she may not quite be in the same league as her leader Jeremy Corbyn when it comes to the hatred of Israel, her letter shows that Labour prefer to side with the murderous regime of Iran, over the democratic Jewish state of Israel.
Yet the Labour Party still wonder why they are being targeted for not doing enough about anti-Semitism within their own party. Moreover, Labour does not understand that an arms embargo against Israel is not going to halt the Iranian advancement across the Middle East and its attacks into the Jewish State.
Israel has insisted that it will not allow a build-up of Iranian troops on its borders or weapons to be used by its proxy, Hezbollah, and will do “what it has to do” to prevent this.
In the last three years Israel has admitted it does carry out air strikes against weapon installations in both Lebanon and Syria, and co-ordinates these actions with the Russians, who maintain a strong force, especially in the north east of Syria
James Marlow is a journalist and international news contributor. Follow him on Twitter @James_J_Marlow
