Winging It

Foreign policy freelancing has not worked well for Priti Patel in the past. And what will this business about Hamas change? How will it affect Hamas in the least? Watch out for no prosecutions specifically for this, because the military wing was already banned, and why would anyone join only the political wing of Hamas?

"To drum up support for my Leadership bid, I am going to America to announce that next week, I am going to ban something that probably does not exist in Britain, anyway. See, I do do something occasionally." No, Priti, you really don't. You really do not do anything at all. 

But the Dinghy Boys are not Hamas supporters. Even in Gaza, Hamas are largely seen as old guard softies these days. No one in Britain, or coming to Britain, would even sign up for the full package anymore. Much less join the political wing alone. I mean, what?

Patel does absolutely nothing all day, every day. But she wants to be Prime Minister, so she is shoring up her base on the Israeli Far Right, which is thankfully now out of power, and among its American cheerleaders, who sadly never are. It is pure gesture politics.

Meanwhile, Tony Blair tried to bring the then leader of Hamas to London, where the Police have today concluded that no offence was committed by the demonstrators against Tzipi Hotovely. After he has apologised for his praise of Shimon Peres, who secretly supplied nuclear weapons to apartheid South Africa, then Keir Starmer can apologise to those demonstrators for his defamation of them, which put them at risk of physical violence.

If it is anti-Semitism that you want, then as Home Secretary, Patel already has the power to revoke the British citizenship of anyone whom she merely deemed might be eligible for another nationality, and she will soon be able to do so without notice and with no right of appeal. Not only does that cover everyone who was born anywhere on the island of Ireland, or who had a parent or grandparent who was, but it also covers everyone who would have been Jewish under the Nuremberg Laws, and who was therefore now Jewish under the Israeli Law of Return. Labour has no policy of repealing this provision.