Milliband…a Jew without a history of his people

HAS ED MILLIBAND FINALLY GONE MAD? Today there is to be a debate in parliament carrying the motion that Palestine should be recognised; and Ed Milliband has imposed a three line whip on his backbenchers to vote in favour of the motion.

            

            First of all, where is this state of Palestine to be found in any copy of any atlas in print today? Palestine does not exist, so what is to be recognised? What Milliband is asking from his backbenches is, in effect, to vote for some kind of ghostly apparition. Where are the boundaries of this Palestine that Ed believes must exist in order to recognise it.

            

            I have a feeling that Ed is trying once more to appeal to his party's support for Hamas and the Palestinian Authority; in a vain hope of salvaging his reputation within his party - Milliband is a fool. Great intellectual capacity does not make an individual impervious to foolery and stupidity. Attending one of this country's great Oxbridge colleges, does not cocoon or obliterate a fine mind from human frailty.

            
            I WOULD LIKE to see a two state solution to the Middle East conflict. I believe that both Israel and a Palestinian state should exist side by side through negotiation – but it does not exist now. One such state is missing. But those who believe in it like those either voluntarily, or provoked into supporting this motion; have to define the boundaries of the fictitious state they are voting in support of.

            
            This whole motion conjured up by what are supposed to be the nation's most endowed political minds; serves only to demonstrate the contempt the public feels for the UK's political class. There is no consideration in this motion of the fact that the Palestinians reject the right of the state of Israel to even exist. Hamas is quite explicit as is the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank on this subject, if you read the outpouring from their websites. Neither acknowledges the right of the Jewish state of Israel to even exist; let alone to live side-by-side with it.

            

            Each seeks to end the Jewish presence in the Middle East, which is no doubt why, unlike those debating this ridicules motion today, the Israelis are sticking to their guns. Israel exists (unlike Palestine) and it is only through negotiation that a Palestinian state can relinquish the ghostly formation that this parliamentary motion is intent on preserving.

            

            The two state solution, even before it gets off the ground; needs the acceptance from the Palestinians that the Israeli state has a right to exist. This has not been forthcoming, especially from Hamas; which seeks the eradication of the Jews from Israel and the whole Middle East.

            

            Will this be part of Ed Miliband's support for the motion to be debated in Parliament today? Does this motion seek to preserve the right of Israel to exist? Will Ed Milliband, unlike Hamas and the Palestinian Authority; also seek to preserve the right of the Jewish state to exist? Will he stand full square behind the right of the Jewish state to exist and defend it, even if    such a defence puts him in bad odour with his party and the Left generally?  I doubt it. His brother would have… but not Ed.

            
            Israel is the one true democracy in the Middle East – a democracy organically grown, by people who farmed it from their experience of persecution living under democracy's various antitheses such as Nazism, Communism, and the pogroms that punctuated their  survival, particularly in Eastern Europe in the 18^th century.

            

            The Israelis like the British evolved into a democratic country with universal suffrage at its heart. Whereas, the Arab Spring turned into a very cold winter for the democracies they promised.

I FIND IT ALMOST unfathomable that Western democracies should treat the democratic state of Israel so belligerently, whilst pandering to the likes of Hamas who, they readily agree, to be a terrorist organisation. If democracy has any credibility in the West, then it cannot possibly countenance Hamas's dictatorship in Gaza, and its goading of Israel into military conflict by sending wave after wave of untargeted missiles into the Jewish state hoping to kill as many civilians as they can.

            
           The Western bien pensant liberals have seen the Palestinian cause as outweighing all other moral consideration of their acts of terrorism against Israel. To such people, there is no act taken against Israel that could possibly be described as being a terrorist act. Their yearning, almost to orgasmic levels, for the creation of a Palestinian state, leaves very little room for acknowledging the right of the Jewish state of Israel to exist at all.

            

            But the Jewish state does exist and will continue to do so irrespective of any vote in the UK parliament. No longer will the Jews go quietly into that dark goodnight as they were once forced to do by the Nazis. In future, if such a Jewish hunting party wishes to obliterate world Jewry, they know where to come. Whether their persecutors are Nazi or Palestinians. This time they will have a fight on their hands…there will be no cattle wagons this time around to ship them to the gas chambers: they will not subject themselves to such a past again without a fight.