"By 24% to 10%, more Brits sympathise with Palestine while the majority (66%) take neither side."
I didn't know this.
"Sunak has lit up government buildings in the colours of the Israeli flag, including the Westminster Parliament (pictured below) and 10 Downing Street"
I didn't know this either.
I am one of the "Brits" who has more sympathy with the Palestinians than the Israelis.
I don't believe Israel can defeat Palestinian terrorism simply by killing lots of individual Palestinian terrorists. Individual Palestinians become terrorists because they hate Israel. The more Israel does things that make the Palestinians hate them, the more Palestinian terrorists there will be. I don't understand why this isn't obvious to everyone.
In my opinion, step one in ensuring the safety of Israeli citizens is to dismantle the Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
"as an aside, the most important thing for Europe needs to do now has however nothing to do with Israel: it is to set up factories to mass produce weapons -- such as artillery ammunition and drones -- in vast quantities, such that Ukraine will be able to knock Russia out of the war in 2024 or 2025, and that Europe will be militarily strong, even if Trump with wins the 2024 US election, stops supporting Ukraine and leaves NATO"
I hadn't thought about this before, but that sounds very sensible.
"Britain isn't currently a member of the EU, but it is widely expected that it will rejoin"
Really? Do you have a source for that?
I can imagine the UK rejoining the Single Market, but I don't believe that the EU would accept the UK as a member state unless both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party were in favour. And I don't believe that the Conservative Party will favour rejoining the EU in the foreseeable future (the next leader of the Conservative Party will be a Brexiteer).
Actually, I don't believe the UK will rejoin the Single Market either. I think a lot of the dislike of Brexit right now comes from a general dislike of the more Brexity Conservatives and everything they stand for. But Labour will win the next general election, and once they are in government I expect many people will gradually develop a general dislike of Keir Starmer's Labour and everything THEY stand for. So by the time a Labour government is ready to negotiate rejoining the Single Market I expect voters will be less keen on the idea.
"By 24% to 10%, more Brits sympathise with Palestine while the majority (66%) take neither side."
I didn't know this.
"Sunak has lit up government buildings in the colours of the Israeli flag, including the Westminster Parliament (pictured below) and 10 Downing Street"
I didn't know this either.
I am one of the "Brits" who has more sympathy with the Palestinians than the Israelis.
I don't believe Israel can defeat Palestinian terrorism simply by killing lots of individual Palestinian terrorists. Individual Palestinians become terrorists because they hate Israel. The more Israel does things that make the Palestinians hate them, the more Palestinian terrorists there will be. I don't understand why this isn't obvious to everyone.
In my opinion, step one in ensuring the safety of Israeli citizens is to dismantle the Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
"as an aside, the most important thing for Europe needs to do now has however nothing to do with Israel: it is to set up factories to mass produce weapons -- such as artillery ammunition and drones -- in vast quantities, such that Ukraine will be able to knock Russia out of the war in 2024 or 2025, and that Europe will be militarily strong, even if Trump with wins the 2024 US election, stops supporting Ukraine and leaves NATO"
I hadn't thought about this before, but that sounds very sensible.
"Britain isn't currently a member of the EU, but it is widely expected that it will rejoin"
Really? Do you have a source for that?
I can imagine the UK rejoining the Single Market, but I don't believe that the EU would accept the UK as a member state unless both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party were in favour. And I don't believe that the Conservative Party will favour rejoining the EU in the foreseeable future (the next leader of the Conservative Party will be a Brexiteer).
Actually, I don't believe the UK will rejoin the Single Market either. I think a lot of the dislike of Brexit right now comes from a general dislike of the more Brexity Conservatives and everything they stand for. But Labour will win the next general election, and once they are in government I expect many people will gradually develop a general dislike of Keir Starmer's Labour and everything THEY stand for. So by the time a Labour government is ready to negotiate rejoining the Single Market I expect voters will be less keen on the idea.