Smelling Something Rotten.

I think it reasonable to suggest that the majority world opinion on the issue of Gaza is firmly behind the Palestinians. I think it also reasonable to suggest that the majority of world opinion regards Israel’s actions as being much less about a war against Hamas and much more about taking vicious reprisals against the innocent, a process in which revenge and land-grabbing is of greater value than the lives and limbs of women and children. And I further think it reasonable to suggest that Israel is currently regarded as the world’s foremost pariah state – even more than Russia because at least Ukraine is able to fight back. Even the senior politicians in Europe are vehement in their criticism of the Israeli hard liners and are planning to recognise Palestinian statehood, and this includes the UK government.

And yet hundreds of people in Britain – many of them elderly – are being arrested for holding a peaceful protest in support of the group known as Palestine Action. You may remember from an earlier post that this was the group that was proscribed under anti-terrorism legislation because a few people broke into an RAF base and sprayed some red paint on an aircraft. That, according to our addle-headed government, was an act of terrorism. (Erm… oh no it is wasn’t. Terrorism is something like the bombing of the King David hotel by Israeli hardliners in 1946 which killed 91 people and injured a further 46. That’s terrorism.)

And what I find really interesting is that the British police are constantly complaining that they have insufficient officers. They say it’s why they can’t afford to investigate minor crimes. And yet a whole army of them turn out to arrest hundreds of old folks for taking part in a peaceful demonstration.

There’s something rotten in the state of Britain these days under the apparently inept leadership of Keir Starmer. He seems to be holding the door open for a bunch of upstart wannabees calling themselves Reform UK to possibly win the next General Election. Their leader is little Nigel Farage who would become Prime Minister in that eventuality. If that happens we really will be in a Trump MkII situation. (Little Nigel even thinks he’s Trump’s best friend, God help us.)