Sunak tells Israel: ‘We want you to win’

Rishi Sunak is in Israel today for talks with the country’s leaders amid the ongoing conflict. The Prime Minister has just concluded a televised appearance with Benjamin Netanyahu, in which the Israeli Premier paid tribute to Sunak. He thanked him for his ‘strong statement of support’ and grounded Israel’s fight in the context of Britain’s own history. ‘You fought the Nazis 80 years ago,’ he said, ‘Hamas are the new Nazis.’ He framed the conflict as a fight between good and evil, modernity and barbarism, declaring that both Israel and the world were facing their ‘darkest hour’. On one side stand ‘the forces of progress and humanity’; on the other ‘an axis of evil, led by Iran through Hezbollah, Hamas and others’ who threaten ‘an age of bondage and war and slavery and annihilation’.

Sunak was resolute in his support, telling Netanyahu: ‘We will stand in solidarity, we will stand with your people.