Homeland Security Sought

Spare a thought for those listed on the website of the Euston Manifesto: Norman Geras, Damian Counsell, Alan Johnson, Shalom Lappin, Jane Ashworth, Dave Bennett, Brian Brivati, Adrian Cohen, Nick Cohen, Anthony Cox, Neil Denny, Paul Evans, Paul Gamble, Eve Garrard, Harry Hatchet, David Hirsh, Dan Johnson, Gary Kent, Jon Pike, Simon Pottinger, Andrew Regan, Alexandra Simonon, Richard Sanderson, "David T" (David Toube), Philip Spencer, Jeffrey Alexander, Paul Anderson, Joe Bailey, Ophelia Benson, Paul Berman, Pamela Bone, Robert Borsley, Michael Brennan, Chris Brown, Julie Burchill, Mitchell Cohen, Marc Cooper, Thomas Cushman, Heather Deegan, Jon Fasman, Luke Foley, Raimond Gaita, Marko Attila Hoare, Quintin Hoare, Anthony Julius, Oliver Kamm, Sunder Katwala, Jeffrey Ketland, Matthew Kramer, Mary Kreutzer, John Lloyd, Denis MacShane MP, Kanan Makiya, John Mann MP, Jim Nolan, Will Parbury, Greg Pope MP, Thomas Schmidinger, Milton Shain, Hillel Steiner, Gisela Stuart MP, George Szirtes, Michael Walzer, Bert Ward, Morton Weinfeld, Jeff Weintraub, Francis Wheen and Sami Zubaida.

Spare a thought for those listed on the website of The Henry Jackson Society: Rt. Hon. Michael Ancram QC MP, Gerard Baker, Paul Beaver, Prof. Paul Bew, Prof. Vernon Bogdanor, Nicholas Boles, Chris Bryant MP, Damian Collins MP, Colonel Tim Collins, Prof. Paul Cornish, Sir Richard Dearlove OBE, Major-General John Drewienkiewicz, Mark Etherington, Sir Philip Goodhart, Michael Gove MP, Jonny Gray, Robert Halfon, Fabian Hamilton MP, Oliver Kamm (again), Jackie Lawrence, Prof. Andrew Lever, Dr. Denis MacShane MP (again), Fionnuala Jay O'Boyle MBE, Stephen Pollard, Greg Pope MP, Lord Powell of Bayswater, Andrew Roberts, David Ruffley MP, Dr. Jamie Shea, Dr. Irwin Stelzer, Gisela Stuart MP (again), Rt. Hon. Lord Trimble, Edward Vaizey MP, David Willetts MP, Prof. Alan Lee Williams OBE, Brendan Simms, Alan Mendoza, James M. Rogers, Gideon A. Mailer and Matthew Jamison.

And spare a thought for certain others mysteriously absent from one or both of these lists, such as Douglas Murray, and indeed Tony Blair and his dwindling rump of admirers.

From the inauguration of President Barack Obama, these poor souls will have no surrogate fatherland to which to look because they hate their own so much. Or, if they happen to be American citizens, they will have no fatherland at all. Many of them went through this when the Soviet Union collapsed, and are now about to go through it all again. It would take a heart of stone not to ... well, finish off that sentence for yourself.

But I have an idea.

Very few of them are Jewish (very few neocons in general are, and most Jews are certainly not neocons). But those who are, are Ashkenazi, like the beleaguered old secular, Zionist elite in Israel, which now looks out over a land full of Arabs, Sephardim, ultra-Orthodox, and people falling into two or even all three of those categories. There is much wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

And as for the rest, they are exactly as Jewish (i.e., not at all) as the Russians who will not eat kosher food and who insist on taking their IDF oaths on the New Testament alone, the Russian Nazis, the East Africans who have invented a religion based on the Old Testament brought by Christian missionaries but who make no claim to Jewish descent, the Peruvian Indians "converted to Judaism" and put on the plane as a single act, and all the others whom that elite has shipped or flown in as part of its desperate attempt to prevent Israel from becoming a country in which the majority is formed by one or more of the Arabs, the Sephardim and the ultra-Orthodox, all of whom so very vulgarly continue to have children.

So I propose that the above-named persons, and others of like mind, be transported to Israel. In return for each one that we sent, we would receive a family of Palestinian Christians, the better to shore up, and indeed to renew, our own authentically Western identity. They know about the pseudo-West, and they know about the Dar al-Islam, having lived between the two for decades. Bring them over. Just so long as those sending them over take our pseudo-Westerners in return.