Keir Starmer has forgotten his own country’s recent history. Mike Huckabee, however, is ready to remind him. “‘Ever heard of Dresden?’: US Ambassador Huckabee slams UK PM Starmer over Gaza stance,” Jerusalem Post, August 8, 2025:
US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee bashed UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Friday statement condemning Israel’s new Gaza occupation plan.
Starmer said that the expanded operations “will do nothing to bring an end to this conflict”, adding that it would result in more bloodshed on both sides.
He continued to say that what the war needed was “a ceasefire, a surge in humanitarian aid, the release of all hostages held by Hamas and a negotiated solution.”
There has been a surge in humanitarian aid. Has Starmer not noticed that the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has already delivered 100 million meals to Gazans? Does he know about the hundreds of trucks, loaded with aid, that are now inside Gaza, but are still waiting to be delivered? As for Starmer’s calling for a “negotiated solution,” what does he think Israel has been trying to achieve these last few months, and just as it seems that a ceasefire is within reach, Hamas makes new demands? It is because of that bad-faith conduct that the Americans joined the Israelis in walking away from the negotiations that, thanks entirely to Hamas, were going nowhere.
Does Starmer not know that since May 19, when Israel renewed its aid into Gaza, and August 5, more than 2,600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed from Israel into Gaza? However, only 300 of these trucks reached their intended destinations in Gaza during that period, with some 2,309 trucks were seized and looted along their delivery routes. It is Hamas, not Israel, that has prevented so much aid from reaching their intended recipients.
Huckabee responded: “So Israel is expected to surrender to Hamas & feed them even though Israeli hostages are being starved? Did UK surrender to Nazis and drop food to them? Ever heard of Dresden, PM Starmer? That wasn’t food you dropped. If you had been PM then, the UK would be speaking German!”
No country at war is expected to make sure its enemy is suitably fed — except for Israel. In World War II, Churchill and FDR would have laughed to scorn anyone who suggested dropping aid packages to “innocent German civilians.” No Americans thought their country should be feeding the civilians, as fanatical in their faith as kamikaze pilots, of Imperial Japan.
The American ambassador was referencing the US and UK’s bombing of Dresden, during which nearly 7 km of the city was destroyed and at least 25,000 people were killed. Nazi propagandists at the time called it a mass murder.
Of course, Huckabee might also have mentioned the firebombing of many other German cities, in a relentless air campaign conducted by Air Marshal Arthur “Bomber” Harris, chief of Bomber Command. The British cabinet had ordered “area bombing” rather than “precision bombing,” and among the cities that suffered great damage were, in addition to Dresden, Cologne and Hamburg. Has Keir Starmer forgotten about “Bomber” Harris, who helped shorten the war in Europe?
Huckabee then challenged Starmer on how much food his government had sent to Gaza.
“How much food has Starmer and the UK sent to Gaza? @IsraeliPM has already sent 2 MILLION TONS into Gaza & none of it even getting to hostages. Maybe UK PM ought to sit this one out & follow Arab League who said Hamas should disarm & release ALL hostages immediately.”…
The UK has so far sent 2,000 tons of food to Gaza; Israel has sent two million tons — that is, one thousand times as much. Under the circumstances, one might have thought Starmer would hold his tongue. But like so many others, at the UN, in France, Canada, Spain, Norway, Australia, and many other countries, he has chosen to join the anti-Israel juggernaut.
Mike Huckabee is “undiplomatic.” That’s what makes him America’s best diplomat.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I get Amb Huckabee’s point, but Dresden was jointly bombed by both American and British bombers. Yeah, the US ain’t being hypocritical about expecting something more from Israel, but the UK is. Actually, scratch that: President Trump too has been haranging Israel about the need to provide “humanitarian aid”, even while he gives Netanyahu a free hand. He needs to end his obsession w/ getting the Nobel Prize
Gealea says
BS.
somehistory says
One can’t “aid” a criminal enterprise and at the same time, “end” the criminal enterprise from operating and committing crimes.
hamas is a terror org….as everyone of news-reading age knows….and it will continue to be and continue to commit acts of terror as long as any hamas member survives. Giving them ‘aid and comfort’ will just prolong the fight against them.
Common sense is not so common. Rational thinking, logic, morality and Truth are all in short supply.
OLD GUY says
You really can’t deal with a rattle snake such as Hamas, you will either have to kill the snake or it will strike you. It is time to kill the snake.
somehistory says
Very true. I saw on the news feed today an article about a man on a hike who picked up a rattlesnake, it bit him and he died.
That’s what happens to those who pick up islime when they are bitten, they die.
somehistory says
From the AP
“Israel is in talks to possibly resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan”
“TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel is in discussions with South Sudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the war-torn East African country, part of a wider effort by Israel to facilitate mass emigration from the territory left in ruins by its 22-month offensive against Hamas.”
“I think that the right thing to do, even according to the laws of war as I know them, is to allow the population to leave, and then you go in with all your might against the enemy who remains there,” Netanyahu said Tuesday in an interview with i24, and Israeli TV station. He did not make reference to South Sudan.”
Gealea says
BS. Palestimians were invented in 1964 by an Egyptian terrorist, Yassir Arafat. To get more money andvpower . Uslam UTSELF insoires terrorism.
jdow says
As a little side note, if we look back in history, we discover that “gee whiz”, all that “Palestine” territory was Christian. Yeah, before that it was Jewish. And before that – well, nobody can prove they are Canaanites or whatever. Let’s at least give it all back to Christians if we don’t give it to its rightful owners, the Jews.
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Alkflaeda says
The Canaanites were Hittites and therefore descendants of Ham. So whatever else they were, they were not Arabs. I saw an interesting article in an old Jewish Quarterly Review suggesting that the Hittites may have invaded an originally Semite Canaan, and therefore God was giving the land back to its rightful owners when He commanded Joshua to conquer it.
miknat says
Does Israel also supply Gaza with electricity and water?
gravenimage says
They did, until 10/7. And for free, since Hamas refused to pay even sporadically after they took over in 2007.
tgusa says
Save your breath Mike. There is nothing up in there but a skull full of mush.
bill says
Either Sturmer is an idiot or he does not believe what he is saying. He knows very well or should do that Hamas will never agree to the conditions he lays down and they will only hold a cease fire as long as it suits them. I think he is speaking to his Muslim voters whom he hopes will re elect him. He is also a lawyer and in my opinion the majority of lawyers abandon their moral compass when they enter law school, they become so used to lying it is a way of life for them. After all he lied his way to winning the election.