Jeremy Bowen

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Newscast · Why Has The UK Government Changed Its Approach to Israel? · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

advisory opinion and their advisory opinions are non-binding, but they're considered to be very influential statements in terms of international law and uh are designed as such.

And it's said that not only are settlements of all sorts illegal, but the entire occupation is illegal and should end forthwith.

And that's something which Britain has chosen

not to comment about uh in any significant way since then.

And I was wondering, in fact, in speaking to, you know, people within the government of the Foreign Office, uh, I've, you know, put this question to them in recent weeks.

Uh are you going to embrace that ICJ um definition?

And they they wouldn't say.

And now it's interesting that they have done it because I think that is very it's

a very significant statement with a lot of of longer term implications.

I think also significant was the way that uh he gave his full backing to not just the ICJ but the International Criminal Court which acts against individuals, which the uh the Americans have been trying to actually destroy.

Uh Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said, quote, we're going to take it apart brick by brick.

Yeah, deliberate ambiguity, obviously, because it it it saved them having to to, you know, make difficult decisions.

But they've made those difficult decisions now and they've nailed their colours to the mast in a very s very I I I was I was really quite surprised by the tone and strength of his comments.

I was not expecting something quite like this.

And you got a sense of that too, from those people who stood up afterwards

inside the the House of Commons, uh, you know, including of course many people who've campaigned for Palestinian issues over the years, not least Jeremy Corbyn and others, but uh who uh you know a lot of them were I mean they were quite you could see they were in a in a sort of parliamentary way that they were quite cocka hoop about the way

Y y the the previously uh the government has said repeatedly that Jewish settlements are illegal under international law.

What they haven't said is whether or not the military occupation of the territories in general Irrespective of the settlement.

Irrespective of the settlements, the whole nine yards, everything, that that's illegal.

Now they what they've done and I was I was reading it this morning, the uh the ICJ, it's there.

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