Israel has just bombed the British war cemetery in Gaza. It could not possibly have been mistaken for anything else. The Palestinian family that had tended it since 1948, on behalf of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, has fled, although it is not clear as to where.
Although Stephen Yaxley-Lennon ("Tommy Robinson") had been unavailable to guard that cemetery, he is going to be at the Cenotaph on Saturday, to take a stand against a march that will begin a good mile and a half from there, and then proceed even further away.
How does he normally keep Armistice Day, or even just the Saturday of "Remembrance Weekend"? How does anyone? There must be plenty of footage of observances up to and including last year's? After all, they are by all accounts absolutely sacrosanct aspects of our national life, which cannot be "defiled" by marching for an armistice.
Marching, that is, two hours after the two minutes' silence, and two miles away from a monument at which something will be held the following day. Yet again I ask whether the Royal British Legion has raised any objection.
The Nazis and the Irgun, still as allied as ever.
ReplyDeleteI challenge Yaxley-Lennon to stand for Parliament against me.
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