Racism was fundamental to all of the forces that destroyed Yugoslavia. So it is no surprise that the successor states that were founded by and for each of them are notorious for it, as manifested when the England football team plays theirs.
The Yugoslav Wars were also pivotal to the emergence of "al-Qaeda", whence came the so-called Islamic State. There is nothing odd in the fact that our own Far Right, and do not believe one word about how that is an unorganised little world of "lone wolves", is copying the means and methods of IS.
They know each other of old. They are practically family. The Islamists in Bosnia and Kosovo were among those who were noted for their black shirts in deference to their SS fathers and grandfathers, and for deploying Nazi iconography in general. There is nothing incongruous in today's Far Right support for Israel, any more than there was in Israel's support for all of that in the 1990s. Israel is arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine today.
Most Labour and practically all other MPs do not understand one word of this. Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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