FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL SAYS GOVERNMENT IS ‘REWARDING’ HAMAS FOR THE 7TH OCTOBER ATROCITIES’

The former Attorney General has said the government is rewarding the acts of 7th October in its statement on Palestine.

Speaking on GB News Sir Michael Ellis said:

“I think we have a Prime Minister who is inherently weak. This is not the action of a strong Prime Minister, this is being forced on him.

“After all, this is the same prime minister who was bullied by Mauritius, a country with a population of 200,000 people.

“And frankly, this is not a position of strength; this is a reward for terrorism.

“If you look at how countries have been recognised in the past, and then make this comparison, this comparison will show for the record that the pressure to recognise this entity now stems from October 7th – a murderous act where people were savagely butchered, babies put in ovens and people raped in front of their family members.

“That’s the legacy that this government will impose on history.

“But there’s another aspect to this. How can you have a one-sided set of conditions? I come from a legal background, so normally, if you are going to set a set of conditions you’ll impose conditions on both sides.

“I only hear conditions on one side: Israel must do this, Israel must do that. Israel would say, wouldn’t they, that we have said that we will abide by ceasefire, but Hamas has rejected those ceasefires. And of course, they would do that because they don’t care about their own people.

“How about imposing some conditions on Hamas to stop throwing gay people off tall buildings?

“There’s another point: The Montevideo convention of 1933. There’s a set of principles about when you recognise states. This government pretends that it is interested in international law.

“Well, under that convention, the Palestinian entity does not meet the criteria for recognition of a state. It just doesn’t, because one of the criteria is it has to have defined borders, and there isn’t a recognition of defined borders.

“It has to be a stable government, which there isn’t. So the conditions are not met under that convention.

“So for a government where they say that they want to abide by every iota of international law, this wouldn’t do that. But the main thing is, it’s a reward for terrorism.”