Relief and Works

The Settlers will be on BBC Two again at 11:30. There is no comparison with Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who is neither in the Cabinet, nor possessed of the hotline to the Prime Minister of which Daniella Weiss accurately boasted to Louis Theroux. Nor is there any comparison with Hamas, which Britain does not arm, still less does the RAF fly nightly reconnaissance missions for it at all, never mind free of charge.

Weiss was shown listening attentively and approvingly to a rabbi who opined, "To my mind, there was never peace with these savages. There is no peace and there never will be. All of Gaza and all of Lebanon should be cleansed of these camel-riders." On the same day as that was first broadcast, Israel launched a massive airstrike on Beirut.

The International Court of Justice is being treated to another outing for the ritual lies against UNRWA, to which please donate here, and which exists at all at the insistence of the Israelis. With their powerful connections in the United States, on display again today, 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 spiriting to Israel. It was a racial purity thing.

All of this matters a lot more than a rap group that had said nothing worse than Loyalists had said about Margaret Thatcher after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, and will say about all sorts of people in word and symbol on and about the Twelfth of July this year, as every year. A group about whom no one cared until they criticised Israel.