TO BE CLEAR. THE UK IS IN PROTEST OF THE LACK OF HUMANITARIAN INTERESTS BY ISRAEL AND IT'S AGGRESSION TO OTHER COUNTRIES.
ISRAEL'S RESPONSE IS ABOUT POWER, CONTROLLING IT AND KEEPING IT.
Israel isn't the least bit interested in why the British authorities are placing sanctions on the country and individuals responsible for expansionism and/or the killings. Israel can no longer deny the expansionism ambitions as settlers are moving citizens of other countries, including Lebanon, out of their homeland and taking it over. We have all witnessed the Israeli aggression in lands belonging to the Palestinians, but, the excuse Israel always used was a matter of self-defense. It never stops. Israel moves into lands that do not belong to it, devastates the areas only to have Israeli citizens then occupy those lands. The expansion of Israel has been an ongoing issue, but, it is out of control under Trump.
Now, Moscow might be supporting Iran in purchasing their drones and it's technology, but, it is not providing much noise about the USA chronic upheavals in the Persian Gulf.
This is sort of the way I see it.
Trump is a transactional president. He has family everywhere on this planet in positions in American embassies. He has his own listening posts and influencers in those jobs. Highly qualified people were removed from those positions for absolutely no reason, except the same old lies about how the American government does not have the interest of it's citizens at the center of its policies. That excuse has been a broken record for more than six years now since he pulled an attempted coup on January 6th.
I sincerely believe Putin and Trump have an agreement. Putin stays out of the USA aggression with Iran so long as Trump continues to degrade the USA military, it's soldiers, and it's alliances. Why would Trump make such an agreement other than hating Iran? Because he is in a pact with Netanyahu. Russia stays out of Iran and it's war with Israel and the USA for Trump's services to diminish the strength of The Free World. The Middle East is to belong to Israel as a keeper of the Holy Land.
Now I will state there is a wrinkle in that as Russia was attempting to move forces into north Africa and has been impeded by Europe. Assuming Putin was allowed to aggressively move into north Africa he could set up housekeeping that could eventually effect the war by Israel and the USA with Iran. But, that strategy is a weak and time consuming attempt. But, considering Russia's initial invasion of Ukraine it sort of fits the character of Russian leadership.
Again. There is always a lot of transactional conversations masked as peace talks that never result in anything but more war and killing.
Then there is more Trump family in Kushner. It seems obvious (exampled by Kushner and Brothers-In-Law and the Kazakhstan mining deal) Kushner seems to be interested in the ideology of economic development as a means to end conflict. That is a transaction called racketeering. Again, Kushner gets something from his international travel, the Trump sons get something out of their's, and they take their scheme to Trump to provide a ramp to success and lots of money to their own pocketbooks. I mean even Ivanka is in on it and her promotion of land use as the Trump Ideology of resorts and casinos that always fail. Trump even wants Gaza for his own purposes under the mask of economic development.
I would like to say I am very, very wrong, but, the evidence to all this Trump mess that creates false hopes and then crashes into continued war is all too obvious.
I applaud the UK for having the guts to stand up to Israel's menacing aggression. It has to end sooner or later.
8 September 2026
By Andrew Sparrow
Israel says it will close UK consulate in Jerusalem (click here) in retaliation, foreign minister Gideon Saar says
Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, has said his country will retaliate for the sanctions imposed on West Bank settlements.
He has just announced:
The UK consulate in Jerusalem will be shut.
The UK will no longer be allowed to participate in the US-led Gaza coordination mission in Israel.
Twelve Britons are being banned from entering Israel.
In a response, Saar also accused Miliband of “outrageous lies” and claimed the UK government was “systematically working against the state of Israel”.
UPDATE: There are 12 Britons being banned, not 10 as originally stated. See 4.13pm.
And Israel has also said Britain can no longer train Palestinian Authority forces in the West Bank under the “British Support Team in Ramallah”.
Israel says it will close UK consulate in Jerusalem (click here) in retaliation, foreign minister Gideon Saar says
Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Saar, has said his country will retaliate for the sanctions imposed on West Bank settlements.
He has just announced:
The UK consulate in Jerusalem will be shut.
The UK will no longer be allowed to participate in the US-led Gaza coordination mission in Israel.
Twelve Britons are being banned from entering Israel.
In a response, Saar also accused Miliband of “outrageous lies” and claimed the UK government was “systematically working against the state of Israel”.
UPDATE: There are 12 Britons being banned, not 10 as originally stated. See 4.13pm.
And Israel has also said Britain can no longer train Palestinian Authority forces in the West Bank under the “British Support Team in Ramallah”.