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Yo, Starmer — the return to the void
VINCE MILLS on the yawning gulf between Labour’s position and public opinion on Gaza

THE Gazan crisis has surely exposed, if indeed it wasn’t already perfectly obvious, that Keir Starmer is prepared to brook no obstacle in his obeisance to US imperialism, even before he takes office as the British prime minister.

The title of this article refers to an infamous, patronising greeting offered to Tony Blair by George W Bush in July 2006 at the St Petersburg G8 summit. 

A few days before that summit, Hezbollah militants crossed from Lebanon into Israel and ambushed two Israeli army vehicles, killing three soldiers and capturing two others, using rockets fired on several Israeli towns as a diversion. In response Israel launched a devastating attack on Lebanon. 

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