Will the Falklands be the defining moment for Israel to destroy Andy Burnham?
Martin Jay
Strategic Culture Foundation
Israel’s Ben Gvir just told Argentina the Falklands are theirs – while Israel quietly co-invests in Falklands oil.
Andy Burnham’s decision to supposedly sanction Israel’s goods coming from the West Bank was not a surprise to anybody, given that he had let it be known he would do it soon after entering Downing Street. What was a surprise, though, was Israel’s reaction. Obviously, this dictatorship which pretends to be a democracy had to react in a manner whereby it would appear to be responding, even if the response was petulant – and so closing down the UK consulate and barring a posy of Labor MPs seemed to do the job. Perhaps what makes the tweet even more absurd, though, is how Gvir fails to mention in his post that Israel is a joint investor with a UK company in oil exploration off the islands. Perhaps he is hoping that the British part of the venture will pack up and leave, giving the whole shop to the Israelis?
But in the same week of the news emerging, Israel went much further in demeaning relations with London by goading Argentina towards conflict with the UK over the Falkland Islands. It might seem odd to some, but Israel seems to operate in an irony-free zone. So Ben Gvir, a modern-day genocidal maniac who recently called for a minimum quota of 30 Palestinians to be slaughtered every day, and who we can safely claim has his hands more than drenched in the blood of the reported 70,000 dead Palestinians in a genocide which is still ongoing, recently had a rant on X pointing the finger at London, accusing the British of stealing oil from the Argentinians and “occupying the islands”. Given Israel’s expansion into Lebanon and its talk of “expansionism” into parts of Syria and Iraq, one would have thought the last people on the planet who would be in a position to accuse the British of imperialism would be far-right-wing Zionists. He writes: