Too Little, Too Late: Starmer’s Damascene Conversion on Gaza

Look at Sir Keir Starmer now, suddenly “outraged” and “deeply concerned” as 14,000 Gazan babies face starvation. The same Keir Starmer who nodded approvingly as Israel turned off water and power to 2.3 million civilians. The same Keir Starmer who kept the weapons flowing as hospitals were bombed to dust. The same Keir Starmer who couldn’t find his spine for nearly 2 years of slaughter.

This isn’t a moral awakening. This is damage control.

With The Hague sharpening its knives for Netanyahu and his enablers, our Foreign Office has made a remarkable discovery: apparently genocide is bad for Britain’s brand. Who knew?

Let’s not forget Starmer’s actual position when this bloodbath began. When asked what a “proportionate” response might look like, he didn’t hesitate: responsibility “lies with Hamas” and Israel “has the right to defend herself.”

When Nick Ferrari directly challenged him, “A siege is appropriate? Cutting off power, cutting off water?”, Starmer’s reply was chilling in its casualness: “I think that Israel does have that right. It is an ongoing situation.”

An “ongoing situation.” How clinical. How detached. How utterly inhumane.

While children were drinking seawater and the sewage ran in the streets, Sir Keir was busy assuring us that “obviously everything should be done within international law”, while signing the export licenses that made Britain complicit in breaking that very law.

Now, with 54,000 Palestinians dead, Gaza reduced to a wasteland of concrete and corpses, and the screams of starving infants finally penetrating even Westminster’s soundproof bubble, Starmer attempts to create distance from his own complicity.

It won’t wash. It can’t be undone.

The blood has soaked too deeply into the government’s hands. The paper trail of arms deals is too long. The video evidence of Starmer’s early endorsements too damning.

History won’t record Starmer’s belated hand-wringing. It will remember his eager embrace of collective punishment. It will remember his government’s continued arms sales. It will remember his mealy-mouthed equivocations while a population was systematically destroyed.

This sudden concern for Gaza’s children isn’t about humanity, it’s about legal liability. It’s not about justice, it’s about avoiding international courts. It’s not about Palestinian lives, it’s about political careers.

Too late, Sir Keir. The receipts are in. The dead are counted. The rubble won’t be cleared by your newfound conscience.

Netanyahu may soon face The Hague, and Starmer knows it. Now he frantically tries to wash his hands in full public view, scrubbing desperately at stains that have long since set. But Lady Macbeth could tell him a thing or two about blood that won’t come clean. No amount of distance can erase his role. No ministerial statements can obscure the facts. No carefully crafted speeches can drown out his own recorded words.

When the mass graves are excavated and the evidence catalogued, when the international courts begin their proceedings and accountability comes calling, Starmer’s belated expressions of concern will count for nothing. The man who gave Israel the green light to cut off food and water cannot now pretend outrage at starvation. The politicians who supplied the means for the bombs to be dropped cannot feign horror at the craters.

History has perfect recall. And history will remember not just the monsters who gave the orders, but the enablers who nodded along and called it “self-defence” as Gaza was turned to a funeral pyre

And history will remember this darkest of chapters…

Paul Knaggs