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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/08/we-stand-by-like-cowards-while-israel-and-the-us-fight/
How Long Will Britain Let Israel and the U.S. Fight Our Battles for Us?
(Telegraph-UK) Col. (ret.) Richard Kemp - The recent strike on the runway at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus was delivered by an Iranian-made Shahed suicide drone. It has been assessed that it was fired from Lebanon by Hizbullah, a key Iranian proxy. RAF Akrotiri is not just another military base on foreign soil. It is British sovereign territory, one of two areas retained by the UK under the 1960 Treaty of Establishment that created the independent Republic of Cyprus. British territory had been deliberately attacked by the Iranian axis. Meanwhile, Israel is doing our fighting for us by going in against Hizbullah. Israel is defending its own citizens, of course, but its expanding assaults against the terrorists in Lebanon will also be protecting us. Can we expect to see a word of thanks to a country that is putting its own soldiers' lives on the line and has consistently supported Britain with lifesaving intelligence and defense technology over many decades? Hizbullah and Iran were directly responsible for murdering and maiming dozens of British troops in Afghanistan and Iraq during the conflicts there. And Hizbullah and Iran have been involved in at least 20 potentially lethal terrorist plots in the UK, orchestrated by Tehran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The writer, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, was chairman of the UK's national crisis management committee, COBRA.