The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has been most concerned not about the atrocities inflicted on Israeli men, women and, especially, children, but about Israel’s determination to wipe out, as it must, the terror group Hamas. “Sadiq Khan fears a ‘disproportionate’ Israeli response to Hamas’ terrorist attacks could lead to ‘inexplicable suffering’ in Gaza,” by Oliver Price, Daily Mail, October 13, 2023:
During a visit today to Islington-based charity Medical Aid For Palestinians (MAP), the Labour mayor said: ‘I’ve spoken to Londoners who lost family members in Gaza and Londoners who’ve lost family as a consequence of the Hamas terrorist attack last weekend, so we’re feeling the pain here.
Khan refers first to the Palestinians who died in Gaza (the family members “lost” by Londoners), and only after that, in a tortuous locution, he refers to “Londoners who’ve lost family as a consequence of the Hamas terrorist attack last weekend.” No. Say it straight, Sadiq: “Londoners whose family members were murdered by Hamas.”
‘But we are worried about the response of the Israeli government being disproportionate (and) leading to the sort of suffering which is inexplicable.’
Mr Khan added: ‘We’re talking about human suffering on a scale which this charity, who has worked in that area for decades, hasn’t seen.’
The “human suffering” Khan is talking about is not that of the Israelis. No, he’s talking only about the ”human suffering” in Gaza, which is a direct result of Hamas’ murders, rapes, mutilations, desecrations of the dead. Khan might better have directed his sympathy at the Israeli victims, instead of exaggerating the “suffering” of the Gazans, many of whom were celebrating the Hamas murders. And why is their “suffering” described by Khan as “inexplicable”? Israel’s response is perfectly explicable. It is what the U.K., or the U.S., or any Western state, if its people had been attacked in a manner similar to what Israel endured on Oct. 7, would do in response. The only difference is that no other country would make it a policy to warn enemy civilians away from targets, as Israel routinely does. Think of how many tens of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan were collateral damage, killed by the American army in an attempt to hunt down terrorists and their supporters.
Speaking to an ITV journalist at the same event, he added: ‘The concerns many of us have is the response from the Israeli government and its disproportionality in relation to the suffering in Gaza.
The response of the Israeli government can hardly be described as “disproportionate,” given what Israel has suffered. Despite having endured every conceivable atrocity at the hands of Hamas, the Israelis still continue their policy of warning civilians away from targeted structures, which also allows Hamas members to escape. And Israel still provides medical care, albeit in prison hospitals, to wounded members of Hamas.
According to Sadiq Khan:
‘No child has joined Hamas to my knowledge. Those people who are in hospital aren’t members of Hamas.
No child has joined Hamas, and no child in Gaza is being targeted by Israel. Some of them live in or near buildings where Hamas has weapons, or offices, or hideouts for its fighters. The IDF tries to minimize harm to these human shields held hostage by Hamas. No child is being targeted by the IDF, and Sadiq Khan knows that. As for the people in Gazan hospitals, he knows, too, that Hamas has for decades hidden weapons and fighters in and beneath hospitals (as it has, too, in schools, apartment buildings, and mosques); the IDF warns the staffs of those hospitals well in advance of targeting buildings near them, so that both the medical personnel and the patients can be moved out. And why is Sadiq Khan so sure that the people now in Gazan hospitals are not members of Hamas? I would guess that thousands of the wounded belong to Hamas.
‘Of course, Israel must go after Hamas but what’s happening in Gaza is suffering on a scale which this charity has never seen.’
Perhaps this Palestinian charity has never seen such “suffering,” but the rest of the world saw the suffering of the Israelis last week, a suffering that is incommensurable with any suffering the Gazans may have endured. Sadiq Khan seems to have forgotten all that; after all, nearly a whole week has passed. He’s forgotten what happened to the Israelis; now his attention is focused on “suffering” in Gaza that is “on a scale which this charity [Medical Aid for Palestinians] “has never seen.”
The Labour mayor urged the British Government to put pressure on Israel to practise restraint, adding: ‘I’m hoping the Israeli government will reconsider, understanding the pressure internationally, when you hear what the United Nations are saying, what the World Health Organisation are saying, and when you listen to those people on the ground.
Israel doesn’t need Sadiq Khan, or anyone else, to tell it to exercise restraint. Every time the Israelis give a warning to the inhabitants about a building about to be targeted, knowing that such a warning will also allow Hamas terrorists to escape, it exercises restraint. Every time an Israeli pilot calls off an attack because he’s detected the presence of too many civilians, he is exercising restraint. There is only one side in this war that is unrestrained in its murderous depravity — Hamas. Sadiq Khan is posting his letter to the wrong address.
‘We should use our good relationship with the Israeli government to remind them of the importance of responding proportionately, allowing food, water, and medicine to reach the people of Gaza, and explain the unreasonableness of expecting over one million people, a population the size of Birmingham, to leave their homes and go south.
Why is it unreasonable for Israel to try to minimize civilian casualties by warning Gazans that remaining in the north will be dangerous, for it is there that the war will soon explode? It is Hamas that is urging the people in the north to stay put, in order — so Hamas hopes — that many of them will be killed, thus providing a propaganda victory for the terrorist group. We have seen hundreds of thousands of Gazans have already been moving south, showing that they trust the Israeli warning, and know that in the south they will be relatively secure, while they have no faith in Hamas, that actively seeks to endanger them.
‘Speaking to people here, there’s no way for them to go south.’
That’s what Sadiq Khan said, just the day before the movement southward was underway in Gaza. Apparently the Gazans did find “a way for them to go south.” Almost half a million have now done exactly what Sadiq Khan said there is “no way” for them to do.
On Twitter, Sadiq Khan showed where his sympathies lay:
Good to spend time with Medical Aid for Palestinians who are doing essential humanitarian work supporting civilians in Gaza. The situation in Gaza was already incredibly difficult, but what Palestinians are facing now is dire.
Khan has also written to Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, calling for “humanitarian aid” for Gaza. Khan posted his letter to Cleverly on Instagram with a comment:
I’ve written to the Foreign Secretary about the situation in the Middle East, and to call for urgent action to deliver humanitarian access and support to and from Gaza, echoing the @unitednations and @who.
Why doesn’t Sadiq Khan ask for the obvious? That is, why doesn’t Egypt open up the Rafah Crossing at the Egypt-Gaza border to let some Gazans out, to live temporarily in tent cities in the Sinai, and at the same time, to let humanitarian aid flow freely into Gaza? Doesn’t Sadiq Khan realize that Egypt will as of now neither let Gazans in so that they may take refuge in their country while hostilities are ongoing, nor will Cairo allow humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza through the Rafah Crossing?
Sadiq Khan’s palpable sympathy for the Palestinians and his want of sympathy for Israel, have both been on display this week. Let us hope that despite the Muslim bloc of voters who will support him, the indigenous British, who still constitute 85% of the electorate in London, will take note of his views, and in 2024 vote him out of office. He’s been mayor since 2016; it’s long past time he was shown — unceremoniously — the door.
Eva says
I’d like to ‘respond proportionately’ to sadiq khan.
He is an abhorrent creature, who has defended moslem terrorists in court, and shared public platforms with them, which makes him a terrorist himself, in my eyes.
It would be joy to watch him get what he truly deserves, all of it.
Hoi Polloi says
One of my least favorite politicians, ever. He doesn’t even try to respond to challenges, he just throws a tantrum. I don’t think he understood that all the publicity the office brings would shine such a bright light on his inferiority to just about any other reasonable candidate for his position.
Eva says
I don’t live in London anymore, but the day he was elected, I cried.
Having a moslem (especially that terrorist supporter) in control of our greatest city was more than I could stomach.
Lisel Sipes says
I am an American but most of my ancestors are from Britain. I would also like to see that goatfckr thrown into the Thames with a boulder tied to his scrawny ass.
Eva says
Nice!!!!
Jimbo says
“the indigenous British, who still constitute 85% of the electorate in London”
Only 36% of people in London are White British. Now you see how Sadiq Khan is mayor.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Yes, you are right. What I should have said is that 54% of the population of London is white, rather than describe them as British. And I ought to have explained that the figure of 85% of the electorate being white — not just “British white” — is based on the fact that 1) a considerable number of the non-white Muslims in London are not yet citizens and able to vote and 2) fortunately, the Muslims who can vote so far do not do so in the same percentages as do non-Muslim whites.
Sadiq Khan won his mayoral race because too many non-Muslims voted for him, believing his protestations of being a “moderate” Muslim. .
Jimbo says
In 1990 87% of the population was White British. Thanks to Tony Blair London is finished.
Wellington says
Yes, Blair did great damage to the UK. Others have as well, including EVERY Prime Minister who has come after Blair (Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson and Sunak), but Blair stands above all for introducing the Islamic infestation into his country and which is now ruining his country. Arguably, Blair is the worst Prime Minister ever from Robert Walpole onwards.
bill says
There is also the problem of trun out, mant are too lazy or disinterested to vote so they got the politician they deserve. The Right wing candidate was also not appealing!
Dhimmitoo says
Would a proportionate response be Jews taking an equal amount of lives of Muslims as percentage of the population Hamas just slaughtered?
It’s funny to watch the cheering turn to wailing as these people again realize that allah ain’t insh’ing
#dhimmitoo
Westman says
Muslims in a foreign nation burn out their welcome in record time. Egypt and Jordan simply don’t want troublemakers and the jihadists with them. Hamas is indistinguishable from average Palestinians when not raping, beheading, and murdering.
First the media cry out that a hospital was bombed by the IDF, then later it’s discovered that Hamas announced the use of their largest missile toward Haifa, a poorly tested design, and a minute later it landed on the hospital. Media response – crickets.
Does anyone think that if Iran shot missiles into New York, the response would be proportional? It’s expected by Khan and other safely positioned elites, that after being attacked in a degenerate manner by Hamas, for whom the majority of Palestinians voted, that Israel’s response should be “proportional”?
What false equivalency. By Khan’s shoddy logic, Israel should do everything to Palestinians that Hamas did to them. Hamas didn’t seek out the IDF – it went beastial on Israeli citizens. Would Khan accept that raping, beheading, general killing of Palestinians, and taking hostages – truly proportionate – is really preferable to collateral damage to a population that voted for terrorist representation?
Scotsman48 says
What a horrible horrible wee man Sadass Khunt really is or as Katie Hopkins calls him the ” Nipple high Mayor of Londonstan”.
Enoch Powell is rolling over in his grave screaming… ” I told you so but you all called me a racist fool ”…
Lisel Sipes says
Agreed!
OLD GUY says
It is vary simple to understand him, He is MUSLIM.