Cascade Configuration

You have no right to comment on the Fall of Artsakh, or indeed on any threat to Christendom in general, unless you are doing whatever you can, at this very moment, to save the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem, which might very well have fallen by this time tomorrow. Via the Turkey that refuses to turn off the supply, the principal source of gas to Israel is Azerbaijan, which has its eyes on the gas-rich Gaza of which the SAS is preparing to install Tony Blair as Viceroy, in a deal with Benjamin Netanyahu that must have been struck long before the wildly improbable intelligence failure of 7th October.

The Armenian Quarter is 1700 years old, give or take. Intermittently, there have been 402 years of anywhere called Israel, there have been 508 of an Israel or Judah with any part of Jerusalem in it, and there have been 460 with the Old City in it, ending 2610 years ago. It has been 2953 years since the Old City, including what is now the Armenian Quarter, has been in Israel, which it only ever was for about 80 years, themselves about 2000 years after the foundation of Jerusalem. Among other sources, read the Bible.

It is Iranian nuclear weapons time again, I see. France and Germany kind of owe the United States, with Britain as ever along for the ride, because while it took the Taliban 20 years to defeat "the international community", it took the Houthis a couple of days to cause the Coalition of the Clearly Unwilling to fall apart before it had done anything at all.

The Houthis have already held out for nine years while Saudi Arabia and its little helpers have tried to install their own puppet regime in Yemen. Such a thing does technically still exist, but look who in fact controls the Red Sea. Its backers have as good as given up, even though, inter alia, the organised mass abstention in support of the Saudi genocide of Yemen was the largest Labour rebellion of the Corbyn years. In its own terms, the Labour Right needs to be challenged on its liberal credentials when it prefers the Wahhabi to the Zaydi, as it still officially prefers ISIS in Syria, even if it has mercifully never been in a position to give it the active assistance that Israel has.

Imagine how the regions on all three of the land borders of Iran would look if there really were an Iranian nuclear weapons programme. It could not be more obvious that there is none. Of course, we have been here before. 100,000 military age males had not been murdered in Kosovo. The attacks of 11th September 2001 had not come from Afghanistan; the suggestion that they had done so is the only 9/11 conspiracy theory that has ever done any active harm. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Therefore, those weapons were not capable of deployment within 45 minutes. Saddam Hussein had not been feeding people into a giant paper shredder. He had not been attempting to obtain uranium from Niger.

A genocide had not been imminent in Benghazi. Gaddafi had not been feeding Viagra to his soldiers in order to encourage mass rape. He had not intended to flee to Venezuela. It was not an undisputed fact that Assad had gassed Ghouta. Sergei and Yulia Skripal were not dead, as announced on the front page of The Times on 12th March 2018. And 40 people in Salisbury had not required treatment for nerve agent poisoning, as claimed by The Times on 14th March 2018.

In the same way, as the Israelis themselves now admit, there were not 1400 dead Israelis on 7th October, although seen from most of the world, even that would not have been awfully many, and certainly not enough to have justified subsequent and ongoing events. There was no more than one dead baby, who had been neither decapitated nor incinerated; most of the dead were military personnel. As most of the world has always simply taken as a given, it was the Israelis who bombed the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, and there were no Hamas bases under that or any other hospital, or school, or church. Just as there was no pornography in Osama bin Laden's den, so there was no Arabic translation of Mein Kampf under the bed of a murdered child in Gaza.

Believe those of us who never believed any of those lies. Believe everything that we tell you about Ukraine, which is turning out exactly as we predicted from the start. Believe everything that we tell you about Israel, Gaza, and now also the West Bank. Believe us that you should be keeping an eye on Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, and then believe what we tell you about each and all of them. Prepare to believe us about Taiwan. And believe us that there is no Iranian nuclear weapons programme.

The older and purer Tory tradition is becoming re-established at the Foreign Office, and that process will be accelerated by the Emirati acquisition of the Telegraph Group. The Daily Telegraph as we have known it is manifesting a delirious combination of demob happiness and the death rattle. Sadly, there is no sign of either on the blood-drenched Labour frontbench.

But when I tell you that there is going to be a hung Parliament, then you can take that to the bank. I spent the 2005 Parliament saying that it was psephologically impossible for the Heir to Blair's Conservative Party to win an overall majority. I predicted a hung Parliament on the day that the 2017 General Election was called, and I stuck to that, entirely alone, all the way up to the publication of the exit poll eight long weeks later. And on the day that Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, I predicted that a General Election between him and Keir Starmer would result in a hung Parliament.

To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.