adminThe Starmer administration has taken the first important step towards ending the Israel-Hamas war. Having provided unlimited support to Israel to date, the UK has suspended some arms sales to Israel and has decided that there is a “clear risk” that the equipment could be used to seriously violate international law.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy said that the UK will suspend 30 of the 350 arms export licenses to Israel. This is much better news than providing unlimited support to Israel. It is an important step by the government to end the war in the region. After this decision, which first banned arms sales to Israel, it has become a matter of curiosity what the US and Biden will do. We wonder how the Biden administration, which supports Israel and says the war in the region must end, will act after this decision by the Starmer administration.
This attitude by the UK was also the first attitude rising from the West. It is likely that other countries will start to follow this decision.
