Netanyahu's Great Escape

After the cold war ended there was and is no reason why America should support or subvent Israel, so the Israelis invented the threat of Iran. Be careful what you wish for because it may come true but before it did the Israelis, people of a nervous disposition, had already believed their own propaganda.

Similarly Hamas was fostered, succoured and paid by Netanyahu to ensure that a two state solution never happened. October 7 2023 was the consequence of that policy and of his gross negligence in withdrawing soldiers from the kibbutzim and ignoring warnings that Hamas was up to something.

Colonel Douglas Macgregor wonders if he knew beforehand what Hamas would do but I do not believe that.

In a normal country his career would have been over but he used Hamas to destroy the Gaza Strip and half a million of its inhabitants and he is using the putative threat from Iran to achieve, as he says, 'my dream for 40 years'.

He is as clever as Bismarck, unfortunately.

What puzzles me is that almost nobody outside Israel wanted the Americans to attack Iran but now they have murdered in cold blood the Iranian head of state and about 48 other leaders, something unprecedented but out of the Israeli playbook, most of the British conservative press and politicians not only strongly approve but suggest that those who don't are traitors: the Reform Party most of all but normally sensible people like Daniel Hannan (he approved of attacking Venezuela too), Alison Pearson, etc etc.

Traitors to England or is our scepter'd isle now considered joined at the hip with the USA and Israel?

Tony Blair is very much in favour of shedding more young men's blood. Sir K Starmer is letting England down badly by raising legal quibbles about the war being illegal or in other words mass murder.

Israelis are now saying they will kill the new leader of Iran and murder anyone involved in appointing him. One country is responsible for all the problems in the Middle East. Great Britain, my country. We created the Jewish homeland in Palestine but  this does not relieve Israel of the responsibility for incessant murders. 

Israel does not have to behave the way she does.