High Commission?

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.