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A cynic might suggest that he's being somewhat disingenuous, and has made up his mind, long before this latest situation, where it concerns Israel's dealings with Palestine.
I don't think that's cynical. Given the gutter Labour were in with regard to Jewish people in general and Israel in particular a few years ago, there has to be a period of correction. Is it likely that Starmer has overcorrected? Maybe. Did he handle the question about the sieges badly? Absolutely. Would it have been better for him to have openly admitted all this and made a slight change to his position to remove any doubt? 100%.
But those who have spent the last four years calling him a flip flopper, and accusing him of going back on his promises, and being someone you can't trust - well, that's also a factor here. If you don't want to accept that a leader might change their mind when the facts change, then you have to adhere to that principle consistently. His stick-up-the-arsedness about this is at least in part done to avoid such accusations. Well,those people have what they said they wanted - consistency, even if the principle is wrong.
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A cynic might suggest that he's being somewhat disingenuous, and has made up his mind, long before this latest situation, where it concerns Israel's dealings with Palestine.