"Diplomats resigning en masse, fighter pilots defecting." I switched on the radio, and those were the words of Jim Naughtie. I was quite taken aback when he turned out to be talking about Libya. I had honestly assumed that he was talking about Britain. But no such luck.
Good luck to the brave crews of the two Iranian ships that will today sail through the Suez Canal and then parallel with the coast of Israel. That country subjects their country to the world's only stated nuclear threat by a nuclear state against a non-nuclear state. And who gets to use the Suez Canal is Israel's business how, exactly? Is this, as the Iraq War was, a restatement of the claim to all territory between the Nile and the Euphrates?
After all, Yisrael Beiteinu and Shas are both in the ruling coalition, recalling the old joke about why there could not be an alliance between the Herstigte Nasionale Party and the Conservative Party of South Africa: "The HNP wants to drive the Bantu into the sea, but the CP will not allow Bantu on the beaches." Any other state purportedly embodying Western liberal democracy would be made a pariah if it welcomed into government any party remotely resembling either of those. Notably in Austria, that has in fact happened in the fairly recent past.
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The money-grubbing Warmonger in Chief who is now the Middle East Peace Envoy sure as hell never minded the tyrant in Tripoli. It will be a miracle if you ever get a book published in what he turned into Mossad City, previously called London.
ReplyDeleteBut we assume that you are mostly looking for publication in America, as you are already mostly published in the American Conservative. There is no British Conservative.
Whatever happened to the Morning Post?
ReplyDeleteActually, the Mail on Sunday and certain columnists on the Daily Mail are not half bad.
There is a huge potential market for your brilliant writings in Britain too. The response of the Daily Telegraph showed the Zionist libertine Establishment's fear as well as vicious cowardice.
ReplyDelete"Huge"? I wouldn't say that. But that's not really the point.
ReplyDeleteYou are already read by the right people, by definition a fairly non-numerous lot, as obviously you know. But a lot of us have marvelled for years at the exclusion of anything like a classically Tory voice from supposedly Tory papers. Instead of which we get wall to wall globalisation, social liberalism and the corresponding foreign policy of Israel first, America second, Britain third of nowhere, including the disingenuous pretence that that is somehow not tied up with EU federalism. Yes, we could do with something like TAC in Britain. But we are never going to get it. Yes, we could do with full book length statements of that case. But the only voices are from within the old Labour movement: you, Neil Clark, plus the Economics is for Donkeys blog as an American equivalent. So I am delighted that you have written this book. But Anon @09:48 is right, you will never get in published in the Israeli Occupied Territory of literary/political London. America is a much better bet. I have no doubt that you already know all of this and are acting accordingly.
ReplyDeleteThe matter is in hand.
ReplyDeleteNow, bless you, but on topic, please.
All these problems in the Middle East and the Balkans. They should return back to mother Turkey and take pride in the great Ataturk's great proverb "Happy is he who says he is a Turk".
ReplyDeleteCome back Libya. You were stolen from your mother a century ago by foreign kidnappers and now you are lost. Come back to Mother and we can start to rebuild our common tri-contential family together.