https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/warplanes-middle-east-britain-sides-aggressor-again
People taking part in a demonstration organised by the Palestinian Youth Movement Britain (PYM) near the Israeli embassy in London, June 13, 2025SENDING more RAF jets to the Middle East underlines Britain’s involvement in Israel’s escalating aggression in the region.
Missile exchanges between Israel and Iran are intensifying. Chancellor Rachel Reeves insists Britain is not involved: we are sending planes as a “precaution” to protect our “assets” (our regional military bases).
But why might these be under threat? Iran says it has evidence of US involvement in Israel’s unprovoked attack on it last week. It has warned that US, British and French bases involved in Israel’s attacks could be deemed legitimate targets.
Reeves does not rule out direct engagement. On the side of the aggressor, of course: “We have, in the past, supported Israel when there have been missiles coming in. I’m not going to comment on what might happen in the future… we’re sending in assets to both protect ourselves and also potentially to support our allies.”
Dubbing the nature of such support “defensive” because it might consist of helping shoot down Iranian missiles headed for Israel makes a mockery of the term. Israel has attacked Iran, and Britain has done nothing to try to intercept its barrage of missiles in the other direction, any more than it has used its “assets” in the region to stop Israel raining death on Gaza for 20 horrendous months.
Quite the opposite. Britain’s Akrotiri base on Cyprus has been instrumental to the Gaza genocide. It has been a base for RAF surveillance flights that pass intelligence to the Israeli Defence Forces. It has been a staging post for US supplies.
Britain’s claims not to be directly involved in the war against Palestine, and even to be in favour of a ceasefire, are transparently false. So why should Iran believe that Britain is not involved in the latest attacks? Our military works hand in glove with Tel Aviv’s, is even currently training Israeli soldiers, despite the overwhelming evidence of its war crimes.
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dizzy: Israel’s Gaza genocide should not be termed a war, Gaza is virtually defenceless and there are laws which are totally ignored by Israel with complicity by UK, US and others.
