Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus?

The Belfast rioters should try preaching on the streets of Kiryat Arba, where Itamar Ben-Gvir lives, or of Kedumim, the home of Bezalel Smotrich. As Adnan Hussain and Iqbal Mohamad are already doing, the Union Flag and the Palestinian flag should be flown side by side. The British military veterans James Kirby, James Henderson and John Chapman were unarmed aid workers in Gaza until 1 April 2024, when the IDF bombed them three times to make sure that they were dead. 

Israel armed Argentina during the Falklands War, and the late Queen Elizabeth II, who visited almost every country in the world including Ireland, never went to Israel because of its anti-British terrorist origins. The founders of the State of Israel plotted to kill Winston Churchill, murdered Lord Moyne, sent letter-bombs to the White House of Harry S. Truman, contracted the 1933 Haavara Agreement with Nazi Germany, fought against Britain throughout the Second World War, allied with Fascist Italy, twice sought an alliance with Germany during the War on the grounds that it was a lesser evil than Britain, hanged the boobytrapped bodies of Sergeants Clifford Martin and Mervyn Paice and photographed them, and bombed the King David Hotel. By contrast, Haj Amin al-Husseini was holed up in Berlin with no practical influence in the Middle East, being instead a kind of mascot for the recruitment of Balkan, Caucasian and Central Asian Muslims into the predecessor organisations of those which now controlled Ukraine and for which the New Right campaigned during the collapse of Yugoslavia.

Accordingly, the future Unionist member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for South Down, Brigadier Ronald Broadhurst, had been Assistant Chief of Staff of the Arab Legion during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, when the Israelis had dubbed him “a soldier of fortune of British nationality”. The Chief of Staff was the inventor of the black and white keffiyeh, John Bagot Glubb, a British Lieutenant-General who was already a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, and who was subsequently also made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath after he had commanded one of the last great victories of an Imperial client princely state’s British-led Army, namely the British-funded Arab Legion’s securement of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in 1948. That securement was recognised immediately by the United Kingdom and the United States. It was the Soviet Union, and those Communist Parties loyal to it, that were strongly pro-Israeli, with Phil Piratin, and fellow-travellers such as John Platts-Mills, using Parliament to call for Glubb to be prosecuted under the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870. Of course, he never was.