How Dare The Israelis Want Peace! Who Do They Think They Are?

The Israelis themselves are on the cusp of peace both with Syria and with Hamas, basically by recognising Zionism as part of their past rather than their present. To the incandescence of the likes of Melanie Phillips and the Harry’s Place crowd. To whom I say: why aren’t you happy for them? Why do they have to organise their affairs in order to suit your prejudices? Who do you think you are?

Israel long since gave up on being a Jewish State and became just an obsessively non-Arab one which flies in all and sundry (Russians who won’t eat kosher food and insist on taking their IDF oaths on the New Testament alone, Russian Nazis, East Africans who have invented a religion based on the Old Testament brought by Christian missionaries but who make no claim to Jewish descent, Peruvian Indians “converted to Judaism” and put on the plane as a single act, all sorts) in order to preserve a non-Arab majority.

But the single most common name for newborn boys inside the pre-1967 borders is still now Muhammad. So the Jewish Establishment is Israel has decided, “Sod this. We are in the Levant, where Jews have historically done well anyway, so let’s get on with it. What have the Crown Heights and Golders Green lot ever done for us? If they’d really cared about a Jewish State, then they’d have come here and never required us to import all these funny people.”

Good for them, and I hope it pays off. I think it will. And the likes of you will just have to deal with it. People who cannot win elections in Israel, and people who will do anything for (a fantasy version of) Israel except live there, have wildly disproportionate influence in the US, in the UK, and increasingly also in France, though mercifully not in Israel.

But not for much longer in the US, thankfully. So for how much longer here or in France, either?

In Russia, on the other hand...