Jim

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Britain has managed a piece of foreign-policy incoherence so neat it almost deserves study. In September 2025, the UK formally recognised the State of Palestine as part of its declared commitment to a two-state solution. At a time when the UK is facing a £15 billion black hole in Defence funding, the government has now announced another £23 million for UNRWA, the separate UN agency built around the category of “Palestine refugees”, which includes millions across the region and civilians in Gaza.

If Palestine is a state, why are Palestinians still administered by a permanent refugee agency rather than by the institutions of the state Britain says it recognises?

UNRWA is more than a relief mechanism. It preserves a political architecture in which refugee status is passed down the generations, with descendants of Palestine refugee males eligible for registration. That is the core absurdity: the refugee question has not been treated as a problem to be resolved through statehood, compensation, resettlement, or a final-status compromise. It has been kept alive solely as a permanent claim against Israel.

The “right of return”, when understood as mass return to Israel rather than to a future Palestinian state, is a demographic veto on Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish state. No two-state settlement can survive that demand. You cannot simultaneously claim to support two states and continue to subsidise the institutional machinery of a maximalist refugee claim that points back into one of them.

Then there is UNRWA’s record. UN Watch has documented hundreds of UNRWA employees connected to terrorism, including 12% of UNRWA’s Gaza staff who are members of Hamas or other designated terrorist organisations. In any other theatre, an agency under that kind of cloud would not be treated as the default, indispensable vehicle for British aid.

None of this requires indifference to the suffering of civilians in Gaza. Food, medicine, shelter, and clean water should reach civilians. The question is why British policy keeps choosing a channel that entrenches hereditary refugeehood, sustains the fantasy of return to Haifa and Jaffa, and has repeatedly been compromised by the very forces that made Gaza ungovernable.

Recognition of Palestine should have meant a move towards normal statehood: institutions, accountability, borders, and responsibility. Instead, Britain is funding the maintenance of exceptionalism while telling itself it is buying peace. The result is incoherent, sentimental, and shameful.

[Jim @JimmyShelb]

@KonidarisA67504 @LewisJonathanE You've obviously no idea about Judaism and have never read the Old Testament. Also the Quran is more antisemitic than Mein Kampf.

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

Should he call out the Egyptian government for not allowing Palestinian refugees in his country?

[GAZAWOOD - The Pallywood Saga - BACKUP @GAZAWOOD2]

1000 days ago, during the October 7 massacre, Hamas executed an 18-year-old girl in front of her entire family.
Then they dragged her father away, kidnapped him, and murdered him in captivity.

They filmed every second live... and proudly posted it for the world to see 💔

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

I have never ever forgotten that video.

And I never will.

[Khaled Hassan @Khaledhzakariah]

Every single thing that's happening in Britain today happened in Egypt in the 1950s.

The destruction of the economy. The socialist-Islamic alliance. Palestinianism. Anti-Western sentiments and viewing the Chinese, Russians, and other authoritarian regimes as better alternatives to the US.

It's 100% the same.

Egyptians didn't fight back. The silent majority either welcomed this nonsense or did nothing about it.

It's the same in Britain today.

Britain as we know it is drawing its last breath.

This is the end.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Based.

[Jim @JimmyShelb]

@tweeterish21 @larterlia1957 @koshercockney He perpetuates the blood libel that Israel is committing a genocide which is an antisemitic slur.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Add me to that. I completely support what happened in Gaza.

Civilian casualties is a tragic consequence of wars waged by head chopping terrorists.

I blame Hamas.

Just like I blame Nazis for WW2.

It’s really that simple.

[Jim @JimmyShelb]

@tweeterish21 @larterlia1957 @koshercockney Being against the only Jewish state defending itself from psychopathic islamists terrorists is indeed anti-Semitic.

[Moshe @IsraelIDFend]

Whoever made this deserves an AI award.
MUST WATCH‼️

[Jim @JimmyShelb]

@koshercockney Excellent points, Dawah-man.

[Jim @JimmyShelb]

@Zakzyy @hiraveil Load of nonsense.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Antizionists are just Nazis with marketing that is less 'on the nose'.

[Jim @JimmyShelb]

@_Akiyama_1 @jaynzegwu @EssexPR Those who revere Mohammed are also "paedophile defenders" yet Muslims are not vermin.

[Jim @JimmyShelb]

@iwatchworldburn @jaynzegwu @EssexPR Yes, you are every bit as bad.

[Jim @JimmyShelb]

@jaynzegwu @EssexPR "vermin"? You are guilty of exactly the same dehumanising language. Typical leftist hypocrite casually endorsing violence.

[Jim @JimmyShelb]

@Twomz86UTD @jaynzegwu @LeeHarris No.

[Jim @JimmyShelb]

@Twomz86UTD @jaynzegwu @LeeHarris You're a thug.

[Jim @JimmyShelb]

@jaynzegwu @LeeHarris That guy had every right to kick out Starmer from his own pub. Why exactly are regular punters browbeating a female civilian in such a way?