Posted on 10/12/2025 8:30:47 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The US ambassador to Israel has called cabinet minister Bridget Phillipson "delusional" after she told Sky News the UK played a key role in the Gaza peace deal.
The education secretary told Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips that Sir Keir Starmer's presence at a signing ceremony for the ceasefire deal in Egypt on Monday "demonstrates the key role that we have played".
She did not say exactly what the UK's role in the ceasefire, largely attributed to Donald Trump, is or was.
But she added: "We have played a key role behind the scenes in shaping this.
"It's right that we do so because it's in all of our interest, including our own national interest, that we move to a lasting peace in the region.
"These are complex matters of diplomacy that we are involved in. But we do welcome and recognise the critical role that the American government played in moving us to this point."
However, the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, reposted the Sky News clip of Ms Phillipson's comments and said: "I assure you she's delusional.
"She can thank Donald Trump anytime just to set the record straight."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Sir Paneer Shawarma
They, along with countries like Canada, were extremely successful in delaying the peace talks through their woke extremism that demanded recognition of Hamas.
Without those imbeciles in the UK, the peace talks could have flourished earlier with a smaller loss of life.
So, yes, they plained a key role via their idiocy.
> “We have played a key role behind the scenes in shaping this.
Yes, by creating this mess in the first place, by carving up the Ottoman Empire and creating countries to give as rewards to their Arab allies in World War I.
The U.K. played an instrumental role in the Peace deal
Starmers unabashed support for Hamas and radical Islam In general in the Middle East combined with their weakness and total inability to combat the Yemeni aggression in the Red Sea convinced the Arabs that they better cut a deal with Trump and Israel before the Brits and even more corrupt and feckless EU pols got their regimes overthrown and their families killed
By its text, I suspect someone in Qatar wrote the deal up.
The Palestinians are waiting for arms shipments from the UK and France.
First, they’d like to get all their murderers back.
Lord Balfour has entered the chat to offer his recollection of events.
“UK to help bankroll £40bn Gaza rebuilding plan - but won’t seek to help govern”
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/uk-bankroll-gaza-rebuilding-plan-board-peace-3972768
That number apparently is a newspaper estimate.
“She’s delusional”
and confirmed:
“Israel’s deputy foreign affairs minister, Sharren Haskell, told Sky News the UK played “the opposite” of a key role in the peace deal after the Palestinian state declaration, which eventually happened in September. She accused the PM’s initial threat “at a very sensitive time” in July of having “pushed Hamas to embolden their position and to refuse a ceasefire two months ago”.”
I have not seen Hamas lose their role as the governing authority in Gaza.
i wonder where in heck the UK is gonna find an extra £40bn to give away?
“We will no longer tolerate being taken for granted. We are a powerful, united force of 4 million acting in unison.”
its nearly 8 pm in Israel... where are the 20 living hostages?
“i wonder where in heck the UK is gonna find an extra £40bn to give away?”
UK government guaranteed debt?
“It is Sunday, October 12, 2025, at 7:39 PM Israel Daylight Time (IDT) in Israel right now.”
they have until the end of Monday in Israel ...
Latest news/rumour was that Hamas was beginning to release the hostages tomorrow morning Israeli time.
Many have wanted and tried for Peace in the Middle East.
Why did it fail previously and seem to succeed now?
The Devil is in the details.
President Trump set the generalities of PROCESS. But Americans Rubio, Witkoff, Kushner and other Americans...and Israelis and Egyptians and Saudis and others whose names I don’t know off the top of my head ... worked out the details
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