UNRWA, to which please donate here, exists at all at the insistence of the Israelis. With their powerful connections in the United States, they refused to allow the nascent United Nations High Commission for Refugees to deal with the Palestinians, as that would have sullied those whom it was spirting to Israel. It was a racial purity thing.
Israel now claims that only four of more than 30,000 UNRWA employees were somehow or other involved in the attacks of 7th October. UNRWA did not sack 12 people, since of the 12 originally named, two were dead, one did not work for UNRWA, and one was unidentifiable, possibly a made up person.
So, four down from the start, and another four down today, making an overall reduction of two thirds, from 0.04 per cent of UNRWA's staff to 0.013 per cent, and that is the number of those against whom there are merely allegations. File alongside 40 beheaded babies, babies hung from washing lines, a baby baked in an oven, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and all the rest of that rubbish.
As is the manner of the Israeli settler Right, and indeed of its British supporters, Daniella Weiss is usefully coarse, not so much saying the quiet part out loud, as unaware of the existence of a quiet part. Her call for the people of Gaza to be relocated to Britain is faithful to the spirit of her Lehi parents. She cannot imagine anywhere worse in the world.
That tendency completely controls the Labour Party. It commands considerable influence in the Conservative Party, at least until we take possession of the Daily Telegraph; I now think of it as "we", and so should you. Believe the Liberal Democrats when their MPs gave a proportion of their salaries to UNRWA, and when, even in these cash-strapped times, their councils made donations to it. The Lib Dems fielded Luciana Berger as a parliamentary candidate last time.
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.
Sorry about the mixed metaphors but you've hit nail after nail on the head while doing a victory lap around the Telegraph.
ReplyDeleteI have waited just over half my adult life, and very nearly a third of my entire life, for this. I am loving every second of it.
DeleteThe UNRWA story is an utter disgrace-imagine if 10% of staff for, say, CAFOD were found to be members of a terrorist group with some actively participating in kidnappings.
ReplyDeleteOnly a terrorist supporter would continue donating to such a body.
I am no great fan of CAFOD's, but your numbers would have added up only if anyone at UNRWA had been found to be anything, and if it had had a mere 40 employees to begin with.
DeleteThe UNRWA has itself sacked some perpetrators and launched an urgent enquiry and Israel has given it the names and details of the 10% of people on its books with Hamas ties, a dossier the EU, the US and others judge to be credible.
ReplyDeleteNobody should be giving this body a penny until it’s sorted its house out.
Israel has given it the names and details of the 10% of people on its books with Hamas ties, a dossier the EU, the US and others judge to be credible.
DeleteYou honestly do not realise how funny that sounds. You sincerely have no idea how the world has changed.
You seriously don’t know how funny you sound with your nonsense about only “white” countries withdrawing funding from an organisation supporting terrorism in an incidentally non-white Israel.
ReplyDeleteJapan is an American military colony, although notice that not even South Korea has done this. And Israel's support in the West, such as it turns out to be among ordinary people, is based on the fiction of its whiteness.
Delete“Israel's support in the West, such as it turns out to be among ordinary people, is based on the fiction of its whiteness.”
ReplyDeleteNo it isn’t. That’s a mad fiction entirely of your own, and nobody serious would make that batty claim-Israel’s support in the West is based on the fact it’s the only Western ally in a region of hostile Arab states from Iran to Syria and (in the case of countries such as Germany) their profound guilt at their role in the industrialised slaughter of six million European Jews that made the creation of Israel necessary.
You’re comically stupid.
Arab states from Iran to Syria
DeleteLet's just leave that there.