Posted on 02/02/2024 3:44:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
Renowned surgeon Ghassan Abu Sitta has urged British Muslims not to vote for politicians from Labour or any other party who voted against a ceasefire in Gaza.
Renowned British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu Sitta has urged UK Muslims to "punish" the Labour Party for its role in perpetuating Israel's war on Gaza.
Abu Sitta, who spent over 40 days as a volunteer performing surgery in the Gaza Strip as part of a Doctors Without Borders medical team, has urged British Muslims to refrain from backing politicians who voted against a permanent ceasefire for the war-torn enclave.
In a post on X earlier this week, the doctor said: "The Labour party must be punished. Labour politicians who have the blood of children on their complicitous hands should never get the Muslim vote."
Speaking to The New Arab on Thursday, Abu Sitta said Muslims should not show their support in the polls for any politician who voted against a ceasefire for Gaza, irrespective of the party they belong to.
"I think the Muslim vote should not go to any politician, from Labour or the Conservatives, who voted against the ceasefire," Abu Sitta said.
"These politicians have the blood of Palestinian women, children and men on their hands."
"Muslims in the UK need to organise, and need to find those politicians who voted for the continuation of the war and make this a career-ending move," he urged.
"Only then in the future, politicians will think long and hard about not doing this and taking the Muslim vote for granted."
RELATED Ghassan Abu-Sittah tells of nightmare in Gaza's hospitals World Louay Faour More than 27,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched war on the Palestinian territory on 7 October.
In the almost four months since the war began, there have been widespread calls for a ceasefire in Gaza that would dramatically reduce bloodshed and allow humanitarian aid to enter the enclave and be distributed to those in need.
British MPs voted at the House of Commons in November against such a ceasefire, including a majority of MPs from the Labour Party.
Many MPs from Labour, a party that historically has a strong Muslim voter base, rebelled against its leadership in response to the vote. Some resigned from the party in protest.
Party leader Keir Starmer has also on multiple occasions insisted on Israel’s so-called right to "self-defence", despite the ever-mounting death toll and destruction in the Palestinian territory.
New parties have also emerged to challenge Labour seats in future elections.
The party appears to be reeling from the rebellion, with it reportedly polling Muslim voters as part of "damage control" amid discontent over its position on Gaza.
Abu Sitta, an award-winning surgeon with decades of experience, has spoken on several occasions of the horrors he witnessed in Gaza under Israeli bombing treating wounded Palestinians.
"The kind of pressure the vote in parliament would have put if the government and the leadership of the Labour Party had been defeated, could’ve ended the war earlier," Abu Sitta said on the vote for a ceasefire
LOL!
Decolonize England. Send Muslim invaders back to their homeland. End the genocide of British people.
much of the west has been or is being sold out
by its ruling elites
Perhaps the King should sacrifice a goat, read a few passages from the Koran, and make nice with their new captors.
I remember a tale about a briar patch..
U.S. Muslims should punish Dems here by nit voting or voting straight R ticket.
Was Mohammed the epileptic false “prophet” a “new Arab?” So what is so new about the “New Arab?” Have they rejected a false religion based on a phony prophet? Let us know when you find out.
The moslem conquest of Britain, France, and Germany was very easily accomplished...
Now that the dust & memory of the Twin Towers has dissipated and millions of islamists have taken up residence in the U.S. along with their thousands of new mosques and madrasas (used primarily for training for, and inciting to, terrorism and the deaths of all Christians), it is only a matter of a couple of decades before these rabbit-like monsters overwhelm all aspects of U.S. culture and control...
If you’re upset at the response, don’t invade!
That applies to entering the UK, as well as the Gazans for invading Israel.
A Muslim telling other Muslims who to vote for ... that ought to tell voters who not to vote for.
Good. It wont stop Labour winning but it might put a dent in the size of their majority so they can go on a total rampage.
I have to agree.
And I’ll be honest, our own side is silent on too many
issues these days.
Trump seems like the only one that openly takes the WEF
to task.
If heard a few others.
We should be resounding stating that WEF pulls no sway
here and it need to get back in its box.
Hoe exactly is the Labour Party sup[posed to produce a ceasefire? Pull it out of their collective rectum?
SECRETARY BLINKEN: — there is a gap between the intent – there is a gap between the intent and the results, and that’s the gap that we’re trying to make sure is closed. Look, this could be over tomorrow. This could be over tomorrow if Hamas got out of the way of civilians instead of hiding behind them, if it put down its weapons, if it surrendered. And what there ought to be as well is a call on part – on behalf of the entire world for Hamas to do just that. That would stop this tomorrow. But in the absence of that, Israel has to take steps not only to defend itself against the ongoing attacks from Hamas, but against Hamas’s stated intent to repeat October 7th again and again if given the opportunity.
SECRETARY BLINKEN: We have been a strong proponent of humanitarian pauses. In fact, because of our advocacy, because of the work we did, we got pauses, we got pauses on a daily basis, to make sure that people could get out of the way, that humanitarian supplies could get in. We helped negotiate the longer pause that resulted in the release of more than 110 hostages and that also allowed a doubling of humanitarian assistance that was getting into Gaza. But when it comes to a ceasefire in this moment, with Hamas still alive, still intact – and again, with the stated intent of repeating October 7th again and again and again – that would simply perpetuate the problem.
And so our focus is on trying to make sure that civilians are protected to the maximum extent possible, that humanitarian assistance gets in to the maximum extent possible. And again, if Hamas were to put down its weapons tomorrow, surrender tomorrow, this would be over tomorrow.
https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-j-blinken-with-martha-raddatz-of-abc-this-week-3/
I wonder why they suddenly want a cease fire. I thought they wanted a war; isn’t that why they cheered 10/07 in the first place? /sarc
In 1948, Great Britain abandoned the Mandate area.
Gazans have been asked repeatedly to release the hostages.
Is there a prize for being the dumbest people on Earth?
3. Known as “The Enemy Within” or the old “Fifth Column”.
Yes. But far better if they wanna “show”
Anyone anything to pack their bags and get the h3ll home back to krapistan — away from civilized society
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