Friday 25 January 2013

Warded Off

Is the Conservative Whip going to be withdrawn from the hundreds of MPs who are in fact members of a party which has moved from coalition to impending merger with Avigdor Lieberman's gutter mob, and which is moving to coalition, doubtless leading to merger, with Naftali Bennett's sewer mob? Exactly how many people would that leave in receipt of the Conservative Whip?

David Ward's main mistake has been the common one of assuming that the present State of Israel has much connection at all to the Holocaust. Not only is the population within the pre-1967 borders 20 per cent Arab and growing, but the majority of the rest is of Middle Eastern rather than European origin: dark-skinned, linguistically and culturally Arabic, and with little or (overwhelmingly) no connection to the victims of Hitler.

How come, then, that the place is run by Avigdor Lieberman, who was born in what is now Moldova, who did not move to Israel until he was 20, and who continues to sport a Slavic surname; by a white man called Bennett; and by Benjamin Mileikowsky, who affects to be called Netanyahu, a name inscribed in Ancient Hebrew on a 2800-year-old signet ring which he displays in his office? Why does this overwhelmingly brown country in the Levant have an apparently irremovable white ruling class which is basically and ultimately European or European-American?

Why, indeed?

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