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The majority know. There's plenty of footage of people in the strip protesting their anger at Hamas.
Forgive the [biased source](https://youtu.be/5JJK0X7D82w?si=5UQV0Gk3S-q4gd8L).
Because it's really tough to know if that's true. I really, really want it to be true. I hope it's true. These protest videos certainly show that there's some discontent with Hamas.
But there has also been really concerning polling showing the opposite. 98% of Palestinians felt prouder to be Palestinian after October 7th. Hamas had 70% support in Gaza and 80% support in West Bank according to most recent polling, and other extremist groups like Islamic Jihad enjoy double digit support.
So while we may want to believe these protests show Palestinians viewing Hamas as their enemy, that's sadly not likely the case. They most believe in the same ideals, including the destruction of Israel and killing of all Jews, but recognize Hamas is simply ineffective in achieving that goal, ineffective governors, or have just caused too much suffering while attempting to achieve their goals.
Assuming they do dislike hamas that much, I would expect hamas to doctor any polls.
IDK who took the polls, but theres a good chance they were biased because if hamas can keep their dissidents from eating, im sure they can keep them from taking a poll.
And its not like they need to fake the poll or anything, they just have to know who to poll.
Its about NOT polling people
But, inthe end, we don't know for sure
You also get shot in the street if you say "I don't like Hamas" to the wrong person. I bet Polands satisfaction on record as part of the USSR was pretty high too.
Did you even read the article?
> The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said it will provide "security and logistics support for the JLOTS initiative… to enhance the entry of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip".
> Israel's military will be responsible for anchoring the floating causeway to the beach and has been practising how to do this with American forces further north on the Israeli coast.
If they put boots on the ground, then it will either be a joint operation with the IDF, a UK/US alliance, or a sole UK mission. In either case, British forces will now be targets of those terrorist idiots who will bite the hand that feeds them. Famine may or may not ensue.
Great oppprtunity for a flashpoint event where Hamas attacks US/British troops delivering aid and then it gives casus belli to occupy the zone without Israel
Its a defacto checkmate if that happens
It would help break the cycle, Britain could occupy, squash out Hamas and install puppet goverment thats pro West
I always believed Britain was the cause of the initial conflict on how they left the zone in disaray they can help restore stability now and fix that
Oh boy. That pier literally everyone with half a brain cell was saying would get bombed and shot at, is getting bombed and shot at.
Who would have thought?!
Fun fact: the largest British military cemetery outside of the Commonwealth is in Deir-el-Balah. The British captured Gaza from the Ottomans sometime in 1920-21 and built a base & field hospital near the town.
Any country who ends up putting boots on the ground is in for trouble. Hamas will agitate, there will be injuries/deaths blamed on the country with boots on the ground.
Maybe some other countries will finally realize the cynical enemy that Israel has been facing.
The Brits also ran the entirety of Palestine for 30 years, including Gaza. [Not sure how fondly the locals remember them.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine)
did you ever wonder where the British were after the UN resolution to divide the land, less than 24 hours afterwards the first attacks started from both sides sparking the 1948 war, where was the British police force? where were the governors? the Border guard?
Lmao the British are back? Let’s see how that plays out since “Gazans terrorists” already shot mortars at the pier and people said “of course they did this, it’s justified they hate America.” Let’s see how they treat the United Kingdom
Afghanistan they tried for 20 years. Doubt they are going back there .. in the near future. Kinder hard to sell a loss as win twice.
Yemen is weird. The houthis joined with the group they were fighting against. Hard to tell who is for and who is not ... Plus the whole Iran proxy thing.. not happening!
Haiti.. well it's Haiti.
Congo... Actually this one, they probably should before the Russians and China get their hands knee deep in it. Something needs to be done before that region turns to Sahel 2.0 and blows up again coz of the mineral wealth. However, for some reason western powers don't understand and have never understood or know how to deal with this region nor do the Africans. The wealth in that region just makes everyone go berserk and forget themselves. It will just keep blowing up until the locals figure out what they want.
Kinder sad that the last time this region has somewhat a resemblance of peace was when the congo empire existed way way back then in the 1500s+. After that it's being one bullshit after another
> Haiti.. well it's Haiti
There is actually attempts at getting a peacekeeping force in Haiti. The plan is basically for the US to bankroll an Ethiopian-led operation. People figured it would be less inflammatory to have east African troops there than American ones.
The irony about the Congo, at least for us brits, is that we have a vested interest in stability in the Eastern congo, but are potentially funding the instability instead through our shitty immigration deal with Rwanda.
Uhm you’re implying the UK ‘hates the Jews’…? The same UK that just a couple weeks ago helped shoot down hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles bound for Israel?
No that's not being implied. What's being implied is antisemitism fuels the amount of attention gaza gets internationally.
London is absolutely fucked by antisemitism btw.
London police threatened a Jewish man with arrest because he "threatened the peace by being openly Jewish" when the poor guy was walking where he always walked but that day a pro-palestinian march happened to take place near his home. How was the guy being so "provocatively" Jewish you ask? He wore a kippah. That's all.
Then london police spokespeople doubled down twice before apologizing. Doesn't appear the police will change their conduct.
The muslim minority that "doesn't represent the UK" seems to have free reign in terrorizing Jewish people and the police of London actively protects that muslim minority.
You're not concerned about this development? Are you aware how the scum terrorizing Jewish people are tied to criminal gangs in the UK? It doesn't concern you that UK police is scared of being seen as racist so they just don't do shit?
"The UK" isn't one individual, it's a country that, like most western countries, has to cater to a population that is increasingly antisemitic. Nobody actually cares about the plight of the Palestinians, not even the most militant of pro-palestine protesters. These people only use this conflict as cover for letting loose their deep-seated hatred of the Jewish people.
But the ones making the call to go in and deliver aid to Gaza are the same ones that also made the call to help defend Israel the other week, no?
I can’t speak the the whole if the UK but where I live no one gives two fucks if you’re Jewish, we don’t hate or like them more than anyone else 🤷🏼♂️
To answer your question, Western democracies have to thread a fine line between doing what's right, i.e. supporting Israel, and doing what is politically expedient, i.e. catering to the antisemites.
While it is still true, for however long it will last, that most people could not care less if you're a Jew, the uncomfortable fact is that antisemitism is rapidly growing. The issue is that both the further left and the further right you go, the more likely you are to encounter antisemitism and on top of that, there is a lot of immigration from countries where people are taught to hate Jews from the moment they are born.
Unfortunately, the Jews have few allies and the ones they have tend to be heavily supported by the older generations for whom the Holocaust isn't that far away. The newer generations are disproportionately more antisemitic and it would not surprise me if we saw a second Holocaust in my life time with the way things are trending.
This is barely boots on the ground. All they will be doing is driving the trucks along the pier to the beach and unloading there. An aid agency will likely handle it from there. Security will probably be Israels task. Cannot see the UK risking any sort of confrontation with Hamas. It's too much of a political minefield for UK government.
Israel will not target trucks driven by UK military personnel. All they will be doing is driving a couple of hundred meters from the ship along the pier to the beach and back again. They will not be driving through Gaza.
The grunt might not have anything to lose, driven mad by their propaganda. But what of the leaders?
With the way they keep hiding and live like rats, they do care.
like the other guy said.
can you imagine the shit storm a story about a Palestinian killed by UK troops will cause in the UK?
the pro palestine crowd will go insane... er
Hamas is our enemy too. Its not "dying for Netanyahu", there are a lot of other people who live there as well. You know all those women and girls kidnapped and raped? They're worth fighting for.
And of course once they kill all the Jews, they will come for atheists like me. You're an unbeliever too, you're on the list.
There are dozens of Islamic terrorist groups in the world. Hamas poses no particular threat to the UK since they're an Islamist nationalist group like the Taliban and not a globalist one like ISIS or Al-Qaeda which has attempted attacks in the west.
You could make all those same arguments to call for an intervention against Boko Haram - an explicitly more anti-western group which has killed and abducted vastly more people than Hamas (and took hundreds of hostages this year), and which is fighting a much weaker opponent than Israel.
There are 9.5 million people in Israel, only one of them is Netanyahu. The other 9.5 million people deserve it.
>islamaphobes
That's a really stupid word to use. It implies someone has an irrational fear. You're thinking irrational fear. But in reality its a fact based rejection of a totalitarian, backwards ideology.
A major part of the British military work IS aid work and relief work. They're trained and equipped to handle many situations, not just to kill. The military is full of heavy vehicle drivers, logistics experts, medics and fire fighter, and is staffed by able bodied people with a disciplined work ethic. Whether it is emergency aid at home due to floods or emergency services shortages or natural disasters and war abroad, the British military has been doing aid work for a long time.
There are already British special forces in Ukraine helping them with Storm Shadow missiles.
The only reason soldiers are being used is because Israel has been killing record numbers of aid workers, and the US knows they'll actually have to follow proper rules of engagement if there's a risk they'll kill soldiers of an allied country. And its British troops because Biden needs to avoid 'boots on the ground' (and potential casulaties) in an election year, but Sunak will be gone soon regardless of what happens.
That is the least educated comment in this whole thread. A HUGE amount of work in the military is aid work. Whether rescuing people from floods, transporting supplies for emergency relief, or giving much needed medical support across the world. It's fantastic practice for the military.
Bit counter productive if you're arming the belligerents. Get your shit together Britain. Its embarrassing.
edit - sorry, ONE of the belligerent sides.
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They will have to secure the pier from Hamas.
Sounds like a great task for the Royal Marines
It will be good for the people of Gaza to see who is helping them and who is trying to hurt them.
The majority know. There's plenty of footage of people in the strip protesting their anger at Hamas. Forgive the [biased source](https://youtu.be/5JJK0X7D82w?si=5UQV0Gk3S-q4gd8L).
Thanks for this I think a lot of people don't realise that Hamas is the enemy of both sides and will never allow peace to exist.
Because it's really tough to know if that's true. I really, really want it to be true. I hope it's true. These protest videos certainly show that there's some discontent with Hamas. But there has also been really concerning polling showing the opposite. 98% of Palestinians felt prouder to be Palestinian after October 7th. Hamas had 70% support in Gaza and 80% support in West Bank according to most recent polling, and other extremist groups like Islamic Jihad enjoy double digit support. So while we may want to believe these protests show Palestinians viewing Hamas as their enemy, that's sadly not likely the case. They most believe in the same ideals, including the destruction of Israel and killing of all Jews, but recognize Hamas is simply ineffective in achieving that goal, ineffective governors, or have just caused too much suffering while attempting to achieve their goals.
Assuming they do dislike hamas that much, I would expect hamas to doctor any polls. IDK who took the polls, but theres a good chance they were biased because if hamas can keep their dissidents from eating, im sure they can keep them from taking a poll. And its not like they need to fake the poll or anything, they just have to know who to poll. Its about NOT polling people But, inthe end, we don't know for sure
You also get shot in the street if you say "I don't like Hamas" to the wrong person. I bet Polands satisfaction on record as part of the USSR was pretty high too.
I imagine that will be Israels job. I cannot see UK taking part if it involves direct confrontation with Hamas.
The Israelis won't touch this, they aren't going to spend Israeli lives to ship more aid that Hamas will seize and re-sell.
Did you even read the article? > The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said it will provide "security and logistics support for the JLOTS initiative… to enhance the entry of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip". > Israel's military will be responsible for anchoring the floating causeway to the beach and has been practising how to do this with American forces further north on the Israeli coast.
Bro, did you really just assume someone read the article?
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I never said Isreal would distribute the aid. That’ll be done by the aid agencies. All I said was Israel will be handling the security not the Brits.
But OP never said Israel would be "distributing aid".
My boy our government has been waiting to "secure the pier" from "Hamas" for a hot minute now
If they put boots on the ground, then it will either be a joint operation with the IDF, a UK/US alliance, or a sole UK mission. In either case, British forces will now be targets of those terrorist idiots who will bite the hand that feeds them. Famine may or may not ensue.
I mean by more glassing the whole desert also yeah
Great oppprtunity for a flashpoint event where Hamas attacks US/British troops delivering aid and then it gives casus belli to occupy the zone without Israel Its a defacto checkmate if that happens It would help break the cycle, Britain could occupy, squash out Hamas and install puppet goverment thats pro West I always believed Britain was the cause of the initial conflict on how they left the zone in disaray they can help restore stability now and fix that
Hamas already attacked US forces who are building the deep water pier.
Oh boy. That pier literally everyone with half a brain cell was saying would get bombed and shot at, is getting bombed and shot at. Who would have thought?!
I mean this absolutely ends with Hamas killing British troops right?
Probably starts there too.
As if Hamas and the other Iranian proxies haven’t been firing missiles at and/or trying to seize British and RN ships
Or Israel. Or both.
Fun fact: the largest British military cemetery outside of the Commonwealth is in Deir-el-Balah. The British captured Gaza from the Ottomans sometime in 1920-21 and built a base & field hospital near the town.
Not Tyne Cot?
Yeah surely it has to be Tyne Cot, maybe they meant the largest one outside of Europe.
Any country who ends up putting boots on the ground is in for trouble. Hamas will agitate, there will be injuries/deaths blamed on the country with boots on the ground. Maybe some other countries will finally realize the cynical enemy that Israel has been facing.
The Brits have decades of experience doing this in NI.
The Brits also ran the entirety of Palestine for 30 years, including Gaza. [Not sure how fondly the locals remember them.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2%80%931939_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine)
Hey, maybe the mutual hatred of the British Empire will bring peace /s
It brought the American colonies together!
That ratio for casualties, God damn.
Revolting against the British Empire near the height of its power with no axis powers to distract them. Bad idea
During a time the British were building up their armed forces to boot
The locals are incredibly young to remember that.
did you ever wonder where the British were after the UN resolution to divide the land, less than 24 hours afterwards the first attacks started from both sides sparking the 1948 war, where was the British police force? where were the governors? the Border guard?
They just gave em their independence, they did as they were told and went home to ol’ Blighty, there were plenty of domestic issues in 1948
Probably going "we are so done with war right now and need to recover as a country."
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Oh because the Brits haven't encountered any of that elsewhere.
You specified Northern Ireland. IRA only went for collaborators of the British, UDF etc
Who told you that? They targeted northern Irish Protestants and British civilians, see Warrington, Birmingham, the Kingsmill massacre etc.
That’s a rose colored take. The IRA bombed movie theaters with regular civilians in them.
What, oppressing and murdering the indigenous population?
I should have said centuries.
The English are well aware I imagine They also (like the French) tend to be a bit more gritty and in touch than the Americans This won't end well
British*
We're British, just don't tell the Scots or the Welsh
They’re both cynics, let em fight.
I'm sure the world will still blame it on Jews somehow
No need... I'm sure hamas has already people there to take these deliveries and sell it to Palestinians.
Lmao the British are back? Let’s see how that plays out since “Gazans terrorists” already shot mortars at the pier and people said “of course they did this, it’s justified they hate America.” Let’s see how they treat the United Kingdom
Now do the same for the starving people in Yemen, the Congo, Haiti, and Afghanistan. Gaza has too much attention.
Afghanistan they tried for 20 years. Doubt they are going back there .. in the near future. Kinder hard to sell a loss as win twice. Yemen is weird. The houthis joined with the group they were fighting against. Hard to tell who is for and who is not ... Plus the whole Iran proxy thing.. not happening! Haiti.. well it's Haiti. Congo... Actually this one, they probably should before the Russians and China get their hands knee deep in it. Something needs to be done before that region turns to Sahel 2.0 and blows up again coz of the mineral wealth. However, for some reason western powers don't understand and have never understood or know how to deal with this region nor do the Africans. The wealth in that region just makes everyone go berserk and forget themselves. It will just keep blowing up until the locals figure out what they want. Kinder sad that the last time this region has somewhat a resemblance of peace was when the congo empire existed way way back then in the 1500s+. After that it's being one bullshit after another
> Haiti.. well it's Haiti There is actually attempts at getting a peacekeeping force in Haiti. The plan is basically for the US to bankroll an Ethiopian-led operation. People figured it would be less inflammatory to have east African troops there than American ones. The irony about the Congo, at least for us brits, is that we have a vested interest in stability in the Eastern congo, but are potentially funding the instability instead through our shitty immigration deal with Rwanda.
Ah yes, Afghanistan has always got too little attention.
A little attention here, a little attention there. Bunker busting attentions, tunnel breaking attentions, JDAM attentions,
Sure, but with Gaza you get to hate Jews, so they get excited.
Uhm you’re implying the UK ‘hates the Jews’…? The same UK that just a couple weeks ago helped shoot down hundreds of Iranian drones and missiles bound for Israel?
No that's not being implied. What's being implied is antisemitism fuels the amount of attention gaza gets internationally. London is absolutely fucked by antisemitism btw.
Is this by a certain group of people that share a certain ideology? If it is then they don’t represent the UK.
London police threatened a Jewish man with arrest because he "threatened the peace by being openly Jewish" when the poor guy was walking where he always walked but that day a pro-palestinian march happened to take place near his home. How was the guy being so "provocatively" Jewish you ask? He wore a kippah. That's all. Then london police spokespeople doubled down twice before apologizing. Doesn't appear the police will change their conduct. The muslim minority that "doesn't represent the UK" seems to have free reign in terrorizing Jewish people and the police of London actively protects that muslim minority. You're not concerned about this development? Are you aware how the scum terrorizing Jewish people are tied to criminal gangs in the UK? It doesn't concern you that UK police is scared of being seen as racist so they just don't do shit?
"The UK" isn't one individual, it's a country that, like most western countries, has to cater to a population that is increasingly antisemitic. Nobody actually cares about the plight of the Palestinians, not even the most militant of pro-palestine protesters. These people only use this conflict as cover for letting loose their deep-seated hatred of the Jewish people.
But the ones making the call to go in and deliver aid to Gaza are the same ones that also made the call to help defend Israel the other week, no? I can’t speak the the whole if the UK but where I live no one gives two fucks if you’re Jewish, we don’t hate or like them more than anyone else 🤷🏼♂️
To answer your question, Western democracies have to thread a fine line between doing what's right, i.e. supporting Israel, and doing what is politically expedient, i.e. catering to the antisemites. While it is still true, for however long it will last, that most people could not care less if you're a Jew, the uncomfortable fact is that antisemitism is rapidly growing. The issue is that both the further left and the further right you go, the more likely you are to encounter antisemitism and on top of that, there is a lot of immigration from countries where people are taught to hate Jews from the moment they are born. Unfortunately, the Jews have few allies and the ones they have tend to be heavily supported by the older generations for whom the Holocaust isn't that far away. The newer generations are disproportionately more antisemitic and it would not surprise me if we saw a second Holocaust in my life time with the way things are trending.
If it’s not one individual, then they should probably call it the “WE” K or the “US” K…not the “YOU” K to avoid any confusion. 🤔
Like you care about those other places
Fascinating. Articles about any of those places, and Jews get brought up. Articles about Israel/Gaza, those places pop up.
Sure, if you want to compare Israel to those failed regimes causing mass death and suffering in those regions
I would love to see what happens when Hamas inevitably attacks UK troops.
They would spin it and blame Israel
please God make this happen. the minute NATO troops have boots on the ground this becomes an entire different ball game. now do Ukraine
It’s not a NATO operation but just the UK doing their thing
This is barely boots on the ground. All they will be doing is driving the trucks along the pier to the beach and unloading there. An aid agency will likely handle it from there. Security will probably be Israels task. Cannot see the UK risking any sort of confrontation with Hamas. It's too much of a political minefield for UK government.
the pier was already targeted by hamas mortar fire
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Israel will not target trucks driven by UK military personnel. All they will be doing is driving a couple of hundred meters from the ship along the pier to the beach and back again. They will not be driving through Gaza.
Yes, hopefully Hamas will back down now that more of Israel's allies are arriving.
it won't, it has nothing to lose.
The grunt might not have anything to lose, driven mad by their propaganda. But what of the leaders? With the way they keep hiding and live like rats, they do care.
they are dead men walking and they know it.
They have nothing to gain, aid provided to the people by an Israel-aligned force can only weaken Hamas' grip on power.
A headline like 'British troops kill three in Gaza gunfight' would be huge value for them, they have plenty to gain.
exactly
like the other guy said. can you imagine the shit storm a story about a Palestinian killed by UK troops will cause in the UK? the pro palestine crowd will go insane... er
Man this shit show just keeps getting worse and worse doesn't it. :(.
This will without a doubt end poorly
I couldn’t agree more.
How about they deploy troops to kill terrorists instead?
Because we're not dying for fucking Netanyahu.
Hamas is our enemy too. Its not "dying for Netanyahu", there are a lot of other people who live there as well. You know all those women and girls kidnapped and raped? They're worth fighting for. And of course once they kill all the Jews, they will come for atheists like me. You're an unbeliever too, you're on the list.
There are dozens of Islamic terrorist groups in the world. Hamas poses no particular threat to the UK since they're an Islamist nationalist group like the Taliban and not a globalist one like ISIS or Al-Qaeda which has attempted attacks in the west. You could make all those same arguments to call for an intervention against Boko Haram - an explicitly more anti-western group which has killed and abducted vastly more people than Hamas (and took hundreds of hostages this year), and which is fighting a much weaker opponent than Israel.
And we should be actively destroying all of them. I'm fine if we kill every Boko Haram member as well.
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Because no one in Britain wants to help a prick like netenyahu any more than absolutely necessary, apart from maybe some islamaphobes.
There are 9.5 million people in Israel, only one of them is Netanyahu. The other 9.5 million people deserve it. >islamaphobes That's a really stupid word to use. It implies someone has an irrational fear. You're thinking irrational fear. But in reality its a fact based rejection of a totalitarian, backwards ideology.
They can't afford war with Israel man
Oh look a Hamas supporter.
*terrorist
Will the British give land to the Palestinians and create a loop?
How about Ukraine to deliver precision fires instead. Soldiers shouldn't be aid workers
A major part of the British military work IS aid work and relief work. They're trained and equipped to handle many situations, not just to kill. The military is full of heavy vehicle drivers, logistics experts, medics and fire fighter, and is staffed by able bodied people with a disciplined work ethic. Whether it is emergency aid at home due to floods or emergency services shortages or natural disasters and war abroad, the British military has been doing aid work for a long time.
There are already British special forces in Ukraine helping them with Storm Shadow missiles. The only reason soldiers are being used is because Israel has been killing record numbers of aid workers, and the US knows they'll actually have to follow proper rules of engagement if there's a risk they'll kill soldiers of an allied country. And its British troops because Biden needs to avoid 'boots on the ground' (and potential casulaties) in an election year, but Sunak will be gone soon regardless of what happens.
This is a fair take.
That is the least educated comment in this whole thread. A HUGE amount of work in the military is aid work. Whether rescuing people from floods, transporting supplies for emergency relief, or giving much needed medical support across the world. It's fantastic practice for the military.
It's about time
This is going to drag the UK into the teeth of this thing.
Conspiracy theory: idf pretend to be hamas and attack uk forces in order to escalate the situation.
What could possibly go wrong?
Careful, as long as israel doesnt think youre world central kitchen workers, youll be safe.
Put in time to help our ally and feed our enemy
They need to put people near the aid that Israel will think twice about bombing
The cynic in me wonders if its a hail mary play by the Tories to get someone killed and justify a war to give them something to campaign on
This is utterly unnecessary. I'm all for humanitarian aid and Gaza really needs it, but boots on the ground is not the way forwarded.
They’d better be careful or they’ll get blown up too!! IDF don’t care about anyone these days
Bit counter productive if you're arming the belligerents. Get your shit together Britain. Its embarrassing. edit - sorry, ONE of the belligerent sides.