ISRAEL HANGS BY A THREAD

LIBERALS ARE COMPLAINING BECAUSE they do not feel free to criticise Israel without being called anti-Semitic. Well, welcome to my world and the world of those like myself who wish to voice our opposition to immigration, but have been intimidated in doing so by liberals accusing us of racism. It is not a pleasant feeling to be so accused when you know within yourself that it is all hog-wash. But the trouble is we live in a predominately (and this is a conservative estimate) liberal society where every cultural and political institution is wired to its terminal.

            Israel is surrounded on all sides by enemies. To its west, the Gaza strip, where it faces Hamas;  to its north-west, the West Bank; while to its north it is faced by Hezbollah with the possibility (if Syria has its way) of this terrorist group forming an alliance with the Lebanese army against Israel: Syria, also to its north is always stoking up trouble, coupled with the possibility of Libya, Iran and Turkey piling in should Israel, at any time, be perceived as being weak and without American support. Even the Egyptian government, should it come to it, would have to join in the melee if it wished to maintain the support of its people and the Arab world - while Jordon would also join in the celebrations should Israel suffer the misfortune of defeat.

            The state of Israel is perceived by the Left as an expansionist power hell bent on capturing every acre of the Middle East. In reality however, if an objective mind were put to use, then Israel’s position is no better than it has always been since the founding of the state. What new territory she has come by has been through wars not of her own making with the Arab world. But to the Left imperialism is like mother’s milk. It sustains them in their view of the world dominated by the West, and Israel in particular, despite their giving up of the Gaza strip.

THERE ARE JEWS who see any criticism of them as anti-Semitism. These Jews are not unlike the liberal progressive types who see any criticism of multiculturalism as being part of the same canvass as racism, and should therefore be sent on their way.

            People like myself of a Right-of-centre persuasion represent the majority as far as the popular vote is concerned; but we are in a minority as far as the establishment is concerned. Liberal sentiment today rules what Marx once referred to as the ‘superstructure’ of capitalist society.

            From the arts, the law and politics - to the education and the teaching of young minds: the liberal agenda celebrates over 40 years of power and influence upon every aspect of British society. In the 1960s true conservatism was satirised and demonstrated out of existence to be replaced by something called moral relativism; a liberal ‘progressive’ moral construct that has caused no end of harm in its brief social history.

            Israel has very few friends outside of its own faith. Thus it has always been for millennia, culminating in the Holocaust. The Jews have been the wretched of the earth; they have been satirised, criminalised, and finally driven to extinction. No wonder these people of the Dystopia sought for themselves a homeland that they could retreat to and defend in the event of persecution.

A JEWISH HOMELAND was needed after hundreds of years of being singled out for blame within the Diaspora. Compared to the Jews, the Palestinians got off lucky.

            The ancient land of Judea encompasses modern Israel. It is their ancient land which they have returned to and seek to protect. The Diaspora proved disastrous for the Jewish people. What they needed was their ancient homeland to return to and to secure their heritage. Perhaps if Nazism and the death camps had not been the final limit, then perhaps the Jewish people would have continued as they had always done for centuries within the Diaspora.

            But it was not to be, and the Jewish people once more turned toward the ancient lands of Judea, renamed by the Romans as Palestine.

            What many young people today who demonstrate against the Israeli state do not seem to realise is that the Jews were driven into the Diaspora from ancient Judea by the Romans. Thus unfolded the history of the Jewish burden, that Europe in particular took cognisance of and sought to eliminate under Nazi occupation.

            Is it any wonder that the Jewish people sought a state of their own? They sought a fortress behind which they could see off those who wished them ill. The state of Israel is the symbol of Jewish independence. It gives them a sanctuary from the persecution that has haunted them throughout their history; and if it falls then so does the West.