Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he is fighting a “battle for civilisation against barbarism” and accused the United Kingdom of “rewarding” Hamas for the October 7th attack by recognising Palestine. Hamas committed the “greatest savagery against Jews since the Holocaust”, yet the British government of Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is planning to “reward” the terror group with a “de facto state” by recognising Palestine, something he wouldn’t dream of doing if the tables were turned, Netanyahu said.
Building a hypothetical attack scenario where Hamas killed a proportional part of the British population in an attack as they had in Israel, which he said is “tiny, the size of Wales”, Netanyahu asked: “Let’s imagine, what would be the response of Britain if in your case about 15,000 people, or 10,000 people would be butchered in one day. And you’d have, I don’t know, 2,500 hostages taken. You know, would you say, ‘Oh, well, we should give our attackers a state right next to London?’ Of course not.”
