What Does Peace Look Like In The Middle East? | Question Time

The day when the west stops appeasing Israel and respects the "international laws" which appearntly works only against their enemies (an Iraqi here), that is the day when we will have peace in the middle east, the immoral and brutal occupation of the Palestinian lands by Israel which is fully backed by the west HAS to stop, the rules has to play on EVERYONE, only then would we have peace.

Israel has set themselves up for generations of more pain as a result of what they have done in response to Oct. 7th. This was not a smart way to go. Pay back is going to be a bitch. Karma is a real thing. It means cause and effect.

The entire notion of carving out a country from someone else's ancestral lands, where jews and palestinians have been cohabiting for millennia, was also a profoundly stupid idea.

Why isn't Campbell the war criminal in jail with the Blair creature?

We need Western Journalists to tell us what is going on in Gaza?...You just need a mobile phone...!

it's too far gone: the USA & UK will do pretty much anything for Israel and will happily cover anything they do. It's not necessarily the power of Israel more the inherent weakness of the West.

You brought up ANGELA RAYNOR, and went no further. What is happening with my favorite MP?

Thank you for a great discussion on this topic

Ultimately most major conflicts in the past 80 years, have been the product of influence by vested interests in the US electoral system by financial support and media control.

Sorry, but sighing and saying 'we get criticism from both sides when we talk about Israel and Gaza' doesn't reflect the strength and accuracy of your commentary. Real balance means to point out the facts. Hamas and others killed 1200 people on October 7th. Israel has killed at least 100,000 Gazans since then. It is not balance to say 'both sides have suffered' any more than it would be balance to say both sides have suffered in Russia's war with Ukraine. As Rory briefly mentioned, there are no red lines for Israel. They have attacked NATO soldiers. They have killed 100,000 Gazans. They are preparing to annex most or all of Gaza and are currently bombing or attacking three or four separate states. Your commentary needs to reflect this fundamental imbalance. Sighing and saying 'it's complicated' or 'we get criticism from both sides' is to bury one's head in the sand and say nothing of value.

He has not learnt that but knows. Caught saying in secret I can make the USA do anything i want..Question is Why is that?

When is the international community going to agree that Israel is now a terrorist country and stop this genocide.

Pieter Thiel is not South-African.

Kier Starmer shuffling the cabinet now to get rid of the lazy ones does no indicate failure. Margaret Thatcher did the same albeit not for a year and a bit into her first term!

To compare any support Israels pending invasion of Lebanon and the Russian invasion of Ukraine as some sort of rules based system hypocrisy, is just nonsense, after all...Ukraine was not sending missiles into Russia prior to Russia's invasion, nor was there a militant group in Ukraine that wanted to see all Russians dead, and Russia destroyed. Constant equivocation on this show that gets in the way of teasing out the core problem in that region = Islam Jihad and its aims not just in that region but world wide. The constant comparison with the North of Ireland is just naive, I know Campbell had a part in the GFA, but if he did this... all the while thinking that all Catholic Nationalists wanted to kill all loyalists he is very much mistaken. ( for this is how extreme the analogy would have to be, to be on par with how, that not just Palestinians, but all Arabs in the region feel about the Israelis and its Jews). Now for all protestant Loyalists wanting to kill all Catholics, I cant say, but I doubt it, even though they have religious values sincerely held .. reason - because they belong to Christianity and therefore they have been through the enlightenment they are persuadable out of their views.

Fuse or Fuze?

It's incredible how you the ruling class of the western world. Considers the Israelis a genocidal apartheid state uncontrollable. When it's clear the Israelis have been killing, murdering, maiming, destroying the countries all around it. The Israelis can be stopped immediately as long as you, the western elites stop immediately the flow of money and arms.? The Israelis are like a mad dog unleashed at the moment.

Here are two key questions I would love you guys to cover. They are both screaming to be developed.
1] Who is the new Alastair Campbell in Labour HQ/Downing St? Whoever they are they are doing an appalling job. Labour's interfaxcing with the public is pretty much 100% disaster. Compare this with the Blair Honeymoon?
2] Trump has been saying "I will respect the results of this [USA: 2204] election if they are fair". It's patently obvious that Labour and consequently the UK are now cannon fodder for Trump, to wield around like his rag doll. We know that Trump is a vexatious litigant and that by the time Trump characterises the narrative, the truth will be hyper-distorted. Starmer's "they were in the spare time" argument, leaks like a sieve. All that needs to happen is to find one person out of 100 so far claimed, to have sent an email about the matter whilst at work and eating a sandwich. If Trump wins the election he will be recklessly vengeful and the UK will be in his sights now. It really does not matter what can be salvaged diplomatically from this mess, as Trump will only listen to his own voice and if his coffee is not to his liking, he can rage about and through any topic. This week he talked of jailing Pelosi and Adam Schiff.
I do hope you cover these things as we need intelligent analysis. Thank you for your channel.

Campbell talking about "peace in the Middle East" is like watching Jimmy Savile talking about child safety.

These are the two least credible people on middle eastern people. It’s like calling up your accountant to give you expert advice on floral arrangements. No one should be listening and they just put it in the titles for clicks

On Lords just call them senators?!

This is heads and shoulders above any other Middle East commentary I've come across. The fact youre getting criticism from both sides simply proves it. Dont let that ever end

Haven’t they got enough money. Very grubby. Greed.

The most amazing thing is that we think Alistair Dodgy Dossier Campbell can be objective about anything

Spoill. Man. In. Labanoo. N. Keep.

Last. Momant. Keep. It. Saudhi. Man.

So long as labour carry on supporting the isreal, the Zionists fascists will carrying on with the genocide. Lets face it new labour has no red line, just hate for Palestinian people.

Mr Campbell, your ex-boss Blair did their bidding during the Iraq illegal invasion and the destruction of the Middle East. Why are you now discussing Israel as if you're neutral? You're not.

There is no debate to be had. Hezbollah and Hamas and all jihadist groups for that matter, are at their very core inhumane, vile, evil entities. Peace is the antithesis to their ENTIRE EXISTENCE. Evil is either destroyed, or it grows. That is the truth.

Americas hedgemony is the problem; been behind Israel since its inception in 1947 .Israel is Americas proxy and America wants regime change in Iran !

This will get lost, but Rory is right. People want to be a Lord the same way wealthy Americans sent their daughters to Europe 120 years ago.

Excellent conversation about Israel. You often come back to how the unconditioned support for Israel is threatening the rules backed world order. Among the areas being affected by the breach of this order by the current Israeli government and the support by the US and Britain, you regularly mention China and Taiwan. As far as I know, both the US and the UK formally subscribe to the One-China policy. Is the "One Country, Two Systems" policy a concept of international law comparable to say the integrity of existing borders between states? Is it not a "mere" political understanding? I am afraid that the Western democracies sold out Taiwan the moment they subscribed to the One China doctrine. They might have thought, "What's the big deal, Taiwan is also run dictatorially, what the heck?" I am not aware that the UK was raising hell for China violating the agreement on Hongkong. There, the democracy forces were sold out to the PCC, nobody really invoking a violation od the ruled based world order. Is there anything else to be expected on Taiwan?

Could, not any more

I get annoyed when people talk about 'The trade unions' like they aren't simply working people trying to look after themselves. It builds into the narrative about trade union barons. Also, when Rory is nervous and not sure what to say, you'll notice the hair gets played with, like a girl who has a crush and doesn't want to say the wrong thing to the person who makes their heart flutter.

A terible show. OMG

So we have a less than mediocre cabinet but total f**k wits on the other side with no hope of a competent shadow leader. But does it matter? Camerons cabinet appeared comletent but look at their legacy. And Blair's too. One example, massive PFi promotikn. Massive waste of tax payers mkney everywhere. Sorry chaps. But only total w*nkers enter politkcs

And so the antisemitic undercurrent continues.

This is one of your worst shows ever. I dont think Starmer was ever popular. Pive never heard anybody rate him. Boring. Awful hair style. Nk charisma. Just everyone hated the tories so much.

2nd comment. Can you stop giving Musk and Twitter so much promotion. I would love them to disappear as we would Mc Donalds. But neither will go. But please, stop giving them publickty

Why has the Russian Report not been published by Labour ?

So now antisemitism is not being sympathetic enough to Israel?😮

Both seemed to skirt around the skirt around the question here and not give any opinion. Rorys response being the sadest, you can voice an opinion on crimes agaisnt humanity and not have to wory about being labeled an antisemite, many semite have and do air the same opinions on the horrors that the state of Israel is unleashing

The Musk question - there seems to be a group of tech bros who are supporting Trump with the plan to use the constitution to claim he is unfit and insert Vance.

I ❤ Gaza

Anti-semitism starts to become a factor, when ignorance of the nature of Jihadism is replaced by deliberate dissonance.

IDF: "You may keep the peace in Lebanon as long as it's a peace which we define".

In the contemporary context of the Gaza war, if Rory and Campbell are being criticised by both sides of the conflict, by any judgement they must be both broadly neutral and impartial.

Credit for that.