THE FRIENDS OF HAMAS FRIENDLY JEWISH CHRONICLE

The Jewish Chronicle has been and is the British Establishment mouthpiece for British Jews. The Jewish Establishment may think that the paper is THEIR VERY OWN MOUTHPIECE! A kind of authentic Jewish voice, but it's not! It's editorial staff and financial backers sing from the same hymn sheet as the British Establishment. If they didn't they'd quickjy be put in their place. Back in their box so to speak where they could all coo together about aspiring to what for thdm is the highest and most noble form of human existence possible for any human being on Earth, namely that of an English gentleman or lady.

The history of the paper is singularly dirty. In the 1930's they urged the Jews of London's East End not to demonstrate against fascist leader Oswald Mosley or support any such demonstration. From the 1880's onwards they castigated poor Jewish immigrants from Russia and Poland as being uncouth and dirty. At the same time the paper endlessly gave their support to Jewish sweatshop employers in the garment industry against Jewish workers striking fof better pay and trades union recognition.

It's current outrage that has incensed and offended almost the entire Jewish Community in Britain has been to publish an advert by a campaigning group calling for donations for Palestinian civilians, adults and children, injured or displaced in the Gaza Strip as a consequence of the current conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist organisation, Hamas. What has offended so many Jews is that this broad campaigning group comprises a large number of organisations who are openly hostile towards the existenceof the Jewish State of Israel while these along with others areopenly supportive of one of Israel's greatest enemies, Hamas. What then is the Jewish Chronicle doing publishing an advert to collect money for Palestinians that was created and promoted by groups hostile tothe Jewish State? Organisations which, by the way, have no sympathy whatsoever towards Jewish civilians under attack by Hamas rockets. For these people that's quite okay!

The excuse for running the advert we are told by the paper's editor Stephen Pollard is that it doesn't reflect it's editorial policy towards Israel! Is that some kind of joke Mr Pollard? I mean, did someone tell you to say that or did it just come straight out of you arse? If its sentiment wasn't the paper's editorial policy it wouldn't have been published in the first place! So to the 99% of British Jews who support Israel fight to survive against a deadly fascist enemy this advert was a huge insult. A slap in the face for almost every Jew and a great betrayal of the Jewish Community in Britain.

The paper has now apologised to its readers and to the Jewish Community as a whole but it's already too late. Few people will be reading too much of your anti-Israel terrorist friendly shit anymore Mister Pollard. While Jewish soldiers have been giving their life's blood, you only want to show sympathy too other's. You may think that your sentiments are noble but because of the company your paper keeps they are actually disgusting.

Anti-Semitic Attacks on British Jews

In the month of July, at the height of the Israel-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, a poll taken of a fair sample of British Jews has revealed a staggering five fold increase in the number of anti-Semitic incidents experienced by them ranging from physical assault to serious or mild open verbal abuse. The emotions behind these attacks clearly relate to the Gaza Conflict and the identification of Britain's Jews with the Jewish State of Israel and their support for Israel's conduct. In this respect the killing of Palestinian civilians, almost entirely accidental, and incidental on Israeli attacks on Hamas military targets sited in areas of dense civilian population has clearly angered sections of the British population, particularly those initially hostile to Israel before the current conflict such as the broad spectrum of the British Left and many members of the Muslim community who were already supporters of the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas, along with many others now sensitized to the Confict and drawn towards supporting this group by the vehemently hostile anti-Israel so-called reporting by specific sections of the British media, specifically BBC and Channel 4 television along with the Guardian and Independent newspapers together with clearly remarks from Labour Party and Liberal-Democrat politicians.

When all this hostile to Israel reportage is added up and taken together it effectively provides a context. British Jews are instantly identified with a cruel and barbarous Jewish State that kills innocent civilians and children, and because the vast majority have deep sympathetic ties with Israel and give it their moral support, they are also deemed cruel and inhuman. Worthy of castigation and attack. They are attacked and abused not simply for being supporters of Israel but because they are Jews as many of the verbal remarks indicate.

Let's not try and hide the situation for what it is or cover it up under a pretext of anti-Israel, anti-Zionism or even pro-Palestinian support (even though the organisation itself is anti-Semitic). All this is simply a mask for anti-Jewish sentiment, in a phrase plain anti-Semitic racial hatred and those making these attacks are plain anti-Semites whose attacks in every aspect are no different in any way to Nazi attacks on Jews in Hitlerite Germany and elsewhere in Europe from 1933-1945. Don't kid yourselves, you people who are assaulting or abusing your fellow British citizens who happen to be Jews, your actions are no different whatsoever to the conduct of Nazis. No matter whether you call yourselves socialists or liberal democrats, you are members of the fascist left; no matter that you are Muslim you are fundamentalist bigots guided by racial hatred; no matter whether you are just plain a-politically British your attacks on Jews are guided by hatred and ignorance stirred up by the media which has provided a venomous and bigoted interpretive context fof your sentiments and filthy conduct. To all of you now attacking Jews a spade is a spade. You are behaving like Nazis and your condemnation of Israel's conduct in Gaza, however much you don't like it, is no excuse whatsoever for your filthy behaviour.

The context provided by the two television channels mentioned above is not simply dirty and provocative, it is, no matter what its news editors and editorial staff may think, by creating that context for anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic itself. You create a context for anti-Semitism and you are anti-Semitic yourself. If you do it without thinking about the monster you create then you are irresponsible and ignorant and have learned none of the lessons of history so your conduct is shameful. If you create such a context knowing its potential consequences then you are plain racists and Jew haters. Simple as that. Either way you are a disgrace and need to be shown up for the anti-Semitic bastards you are.

It's no use trying any glib rationalisation for your conduct in attacking, threatening, verbally abusing or bullying Jewish people by saying that your conduct is justified because they support Israel and therefore attacks against innocent civilizns in Gaza. It's like saying that ALL Jews are vermin, in best Nazi style. Neither can there be any excuse for the twisted, grossly distorted and unashamedly biased presentation of news stories about the Israel-Palestinian Hamas conflict in Gaza by BBC and Channel 4 Television. By your vicious and intended distortions you are creating a context for anti-Semitism and racial hatred of Jews in Britain. Your conduct is racist but please don't worry. You have nothing to fear in the way of prosecution by the police or condemnation by the British political establishment, and as for those who physically assault or verbally abuse Jews, please don't worry either. You can do it with impunity because you have nothing to fear from the police. Should any Jew complain, they'll spend ten years looking into it then find absolutely no evidence on which they can act! After all there are only 220, 000 Jews left in the UK set against a population of 5 million Muslims.

Many of those Jews questioned in the poll who'd experienced anti-Semitism recently expressed the view that they were now considering their status as British citizens. In this they may be right. Britain's Jews, now seriously under threat from the entire British Left along with large numbers of Britain's Muslim population feel themselves to be marginalised. Britain without doubt is definitely no longer a safe or happy place for Jewish people to live and those who think otherwise are only kidding themselves.

And there's the irony of it really. Between 1880 and 1910 Britain's immigrant Jews became the stalwarts of the Left, both as socialists and Labour Party activists during the first half of the 20th century. In it's second half, particularly between 1990 and 2014, they became they became the enemy of the liberalism they had helped to create. And when individual Jews and their families make the choice to live elsewhere, as so many have already done in recent decades, there will be few to raise a lament.

British Jews, your place may soon be elsewhere! But where? You are no longer welcome in Europe it seems. This will leave certain television channels and media outlets with a problem! They'll have no-one left to marginalise or contextualise anymore... But please don't worry. Poland and its Poles are still virulently anti-Semitic even though 99.9% of its Jews have been murdered, so the Jewish enemy lives on for anti-Semitic scoundrels to curse and get their teeth into, whenever and wherever.

HAMAS FRIENDLIES

The Hamas political and military movement which controls the Gaza Strip is an anti-Semitic, Islamic-Fascist organisation implacably opposed to the existence of the Jewish State of Israel and Jews everywhere. So let’s be clear. It’s fundamentalist in its Islamic outlook and fascist in its political disposition. Opposed to all forms of democracy, liberalism, socialism, trades unions, women’s rights and human rights in general. It’s views are at odds with those of many Arab States and it’s regarded as a terrorist organisation by Britain, America and all the nations of the European Community. It denies the occurrence of the Holocaust and the right of Israel to exist. Nonetheless it has its sympathizers, supporters and fellow travellers in Britain, many of whom have emerged in recent weeks to condemn Israel’s actions in Gaza while others have been busy running a hate campaign of close to the mark anti-Semitism.

These critics of Israel have not always appeared to actively support Hamas itself but if the truth be told that is what it actually amounts to. The Israelis were not in Gaza for a celebration or a party. They entered the territory to stop Hamas firing endless rockets into Israel and to destroy the vast network of tunnels dug into Israel for the purpose of infiltration, kidnap and murder. Hamas for its part has described the territory it  controls as ‘occupied’ because Israel has imposed an economic blockade to stop materials from entering the Strip used for terrorist purposes. However if that was the aim of Israel’s blockade it has clearly failed. Hamas has still been able to acquire its munitions and rockets. Almost certainly by night across the porous Egyptian border and mainly during the time its sister organisation, the Muslim Brotherhood, recently ruled Egypt.

It is a fact though that when Hamas refers to ‘occupied territory’ what it actually means is the whole of Israel, not simply the West Bank and Gaza strip, the two territories which the Palestinians control. This is something that Hamas’ British sympathizers no doubt appreciate but like all tacit enemies of the Jewish State refuse to acknowledge. In public at least! If therefore the Israelis are in Gaza to stop endless attacks on its population by Hamas Islamic Holocaust deniers, who then are those people in Britain willing to lend them an ear by vociferously condemning Israel for causing civilian casualties when attacking the Hamas tunnels, rocket launching sites and political premises, most of which are more often than not are hidden in hospitals and schools, civilian community centres and housing complexes?

The siting of such ordnance, done deliberately for achieving propaganda victories that accuse Israel of being a civilian aggressor. Something that allows BBC Television to regularly make suggestions and allegations of Israeli War Crimes! The effectiveness of such propaganda cannot be minimized as Hamas is well aware of the hostile anti-Israel disposition of these anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian sympathizers in mass media organisations like BBC and Channel 4 Television along with sections of the Press and the British political establishment. Within the latter may be counted senior figures in the Labour Party, Liberal Democrats and Tories. These Hamas ‘friendlies’ vary from those who turn a blind eye to their political and religious views and where they’re positioning their weapons to those who criticize Israel for disproportionate military action such as the Milibands along with Liberal Democrats from Ashdown and Clegg all the way down the Israel-hating spine of the Party. And now it’s the turn of those Tory Party Muslims themselves. Those who usually wear soft colors when voicing condemnation of Israel through surrogacy.

Surrogate criticism and malice towards the Jewish State has developed into a fine art in British politics. You attack Israel by criticizing others who don’t criticize or attack its conduct too much or even adopt a balanced approach when considering its actions. Thus Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and lady come lately Baroness Warsi have attacked David Cameron for not sufficiently condemning Israel’s conduct in the Gaza Strip and the Baroness very publically resigning as a Muslim Foreign Office Minister from his Government. A fact not unnoticed by Palestinians in Gaza who have applauded her support. When these people accuse Israel of using disproportionate force against civilians there’s never a mention  of the Hamas terror organization’s deliberate siting of missiles and tunnels in civilian areas. NOT A WORD OR A PEEP!

With BBC and Channel 4 Television inferring that civilian casualties are deliberate, indeed turning the accusation of malevolent intent into gospel with barely a word broadcast to counter this bigoted and thoroughly malicious anti-Israel presentation, it quite frankly takes on an anti-Semitic character. No initial condemnation of Hamas for firing its rockets and no stating the fact that Israel gave the territory to the Palestinians as a gesture of reconciliation and friendship. Instead you get an easily created dichotomy of Israeli-Jewish aggressors and poor Palestinian victims. It’s not only an easy wave for the Hamas fellow travellers to surf, it’s also an easy way for them to ride their anti-Israel, anti-Semitic emotions.

We’ve all seen Ed Miliband busy on airwaves in recent days. Proclaiming that he’s Jewish himself. Being seen in Israel laying a wreath at the Holocaust Memorial. Mouthing his friendship… etc. etc. But let’s look a bit deeper. Ed and David Miliband come from an interesting background. Their mother has been a lifelong enemy of the Jewish State, actively campaigning against it for many years with the most vicious kind of propaganda possible, opposing her Marxist academic socialist views to those of even the mildest Zionist kind. Everything about Israel to her is hateful, never mind the practical operation of socialism in Israel by the kibbutz agrarian movement. That’s the kind of background her sons grew up in. A self-hating Jewess who put her socialist ideology above everything else, never mind the fact that there have always been socialist parties in Israel, also a country with a strong labour movement. And never mind that Karl Marx’s daughter, Eleanor, no less was very proud of her own Jewish heritage.

No, like Hamas, Mrs Miliband wants to see the destruction of a Jewish State. Holocaust or no Holocaust she never had any time for the idea of Jewish people living in their own land and her son, now leading the Labour Party which, by the way, was founded by a notorious anti-Semite, keenly opposes the right of the Jewish people to defend themselves by proposing an arms export ban from Britain to Israel! Shame Ed Miliband that you’ve learned nothing from history and wind up giving moral support to a gang of Muslim fascists. With ‘friends’ like you and your brother, the State of Israel doesn’t need enemies!

The usual way for terrorist friendly fellow travellers to attack Israel is through the allegation of disproportionality. It creates a high odor factor for little expenditure. All kinds of words have been bandied about from the Secretary General of the United Nations to the American State Department and President Obama himself. Brutal… barbaric… murderous… You name it! And you’d also better say while you’re at it the care that the Israeli forces took before they bombarded civilians areas to regularly keep those civilians informed of their intentions well in advance. There were few if any purposeful and indiscriminate Israeli attacks made without warning and for the television media to suggest this through its correspondents in Gaza endlessly stating and repeating such Palestinian claims is despicable, with BBC and Channel 4 Television in on the act.

These media outlets are enemies of the Jewish State as much as Hamas and it’s time that Israel and British Jews recognised it. Both channels are allowed to broadcast from Israel. A generous gesture seeing what they’ve been doing but then Israel is a democracy, which is more than the views of its enemies are from plain downright hostile to Hamas terrorist friendlies. That’s friends of Israel hating terrorists to me and you!

TROLLS ON A ROLL: THE ANTI-ISRAEL HATE CAMPAIGN IN THE MEDIA

Whenever there’s a serious conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, especially the Hamas Islamic terrorists who control the Gaza Strip and used it to fire rockets into Israel from the moment they took over the territory, out come the Israel hating trolls of the British Left along with part of the British media, and not only in Britain but also in Europe, especially France, Scandinavia, and more recently Holland. This trolling is characterized by a ferocious vituperation, especially when United Nations backed Palestinian civilian targets such as schools and hospitals are hit. Whenever such things happen the fury of the Left and its media trolls knows no bounds and allegations of War Crimes and barbarism make the rounds like an accusatory finger pointing at the right of Israel to exist.

Such incidents and the loss of civilian lives can be looked at another way. Anyone who knows anything about the history of the Jewish people and the humanitarian ethics that guides the personal conduct of Israel’s defence forces as a whole would immediately understand and accept that Jewish people in general and the soldiers of Israel in particular bear no malice whatsoever towards Palestinian civilians, whether men, women or children, and would never countenance or support any deliberately harmful or malicious attack upon them. In other words they would appreciate and realise that such deaths in schools, hospitals or municipal centres are entirely unintentional and accidental.

The Israelis have said that that the Hamas terrorists, freedom, fighters to many on the Left, are using the civilian population of Gaza as human shields, storing large quantities of rockets and other military hardware in municipal premises which they use to attack Israel, also building tunnels to reach and enter its territory to kidnap and murder civilians. In this they are probably correct, but such allegations cut no ice whatsoever with their fervent supporters from the British Left and sympathizers in the British media, though War Crimes in themselves they may be, particularly when using Israeli army uniforms as a disguise for engaging in such infiltration. 

You don’t need to look far for this trolling. It’s not just spread across the press or television but widely all over the Internet with a small army of active anti-Semitic Israel hate trolls perennially busy on Facebook and Twitter. Taken together they’re a miasma of infantile filth that’s individually crawled up out of their toilet bowls with the aim of infecting the public mind with their virulent bigotry. And among this Internet army of hate trolls not a few Jews themselves may be included. Those of the self-hating kind along with others who kid themselves that the Palestinians are an oppressed people and therefore a worthy cause for socialists who believe in liberty and social justice. And with this in mind both they and the whole spectrum of the socialist left think it’s correct to give their support to Hamas, a Muslim group with a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. One that has no interest whatsoever in social equality, social justice and human rights… in political parties, trades unions or workers’ rights.

Indeed, Hamas has no interest whatsoever in either socialism, liberalism or democracy of any form whatsoever and the reason is simple enough. It’s an organisation rooted in religious extremism. The structure of social organisation throughout most Arab countries today is feudal. There’s no conflict between labour and capital because there’s simply no capitalism to speak of, or where it exists it’s small scale at best. Likewise there’s no large scale working class because there’s no large scale industrial production. In short the contradictions between labour and capitalism common to modern Western industrial society is unknown. Religion prevails as the dominant ideology so organizations such as Hamas can have no political agenda for social change outside the Islamic faith that might appeal in any way to Western liberals or socialists. Marxism, revolutionary socialism or even social democracy are utterly alien notions to such Islamic fundamentalists who don’t believe that women have a right to an education, support judicial practices that are barbaric and abhorrent let alone taking the view that homosexuals are animals best put to death.

There are indeed countless areas of ideological difference between the so called freedom fighters of Hamas and the British leftist trolls of the Internet along with sections of the British media and supporters of the Labour Party and Liberal Democrats. Their support for Hamas therefore cannot be based on any rational ideological confluence of views, so what then is it that draws them together in a broad church of support for an Islamic terrorist group and its armed fight against a democratic Jewish State with its wide range of political parties and trades union movement? It’s a simple question to answer. What unites them to one another is their loathing of Israel as a Jewish State. Only scratch this a little more and it’s a fundamental loathing of Jews. Many of these trolls may never have met any Jews. Just seen them in the standard televised showing wearing beards and round furry hats and found their appearance utterly alien much the same as Hitler once did of those orthodox Jews he saw in his youth. After all there aren’t many Jews around in the UK and the orthodox is used to typify them all. Indeed, their actual number is tiny so most people get what they see from the television.

But never mind that! They’re all thought to be rich! Got loads of money which they make in dubious ways and only too often ostentatiously splash it around. Others perhaps hang on to the ever popular historic accusation that they’re responsible for the death of Jesus. They murdered Jesus, I heard it said on a fairly regular basis during early morning assemblies at the Church of England School I once taught at. However never mind the reasons. One thing’s for sure. Those who are hostile to Israel and support Islamic terrorists fighting to destroy it aren’t likely to hold out a hand to any Jew anywhere!

Another set of trolls, those more ‘respectable’ than the nasties who dole out their spleen on the Internet busily stirring up hatred and condemnation of Israel, are the BBC and Channel Four Television media monkeys best typified by Jon Snow, that most regular and venomous long term critic of Israel in the entire British media. Strangely enough his hostility to the Jewish State seems to have given him a certain credibility. Not only was he recently allowed into Israel to broadcast a snide anti-Israel diatribe, he was also given the courtesy by the Israeli ambassador to Britain of a lengthy interview during which he just couldn’t hold back his bile. Alas, the man hasn’t yet realised that when his views are countered with a calm, logical and moderate response it only reveals his bias all the more. Makes his frustration in having his hostile views countered with tolerance ever more clear so that he always seems to end up nonplussed, bitter and twisted. Oh dear, oh dear, you’ve failed to ruffle their feathers and those damned moderate Jews have got the better of you on the box all over again.

Jon Snow apart, and I’ve never heard a good word about the Jewish State from him, BBC Television has its own very special kind of bigotry and hostility towards Israel. Their so called academic experts, presented as ‘independent’ are invariably pro-Hamas terrorist and hostile to Israel, slandering that country endlessly. Their journalists are based in large numbers in Gaza and specialize in presenting photo images of sick or injured Palestinian children accompanied with unanswered accounts of Israeli aggression… of allowing various United Nations Palestinian support organisation staff to give unchallenged accounts of events… of giving lengthy interviews to leading members of this internationally recognized terrorist organisations while only occasionally allowing Israeli politicians to present the viewpoint of that country. BBC Television also specializes in seeking out and interviewing Israeli anti-war soft targets for its very own pro-Hamas propaganda purposes! Naïve members of Israeli Peace Campaign groups are a special target for these highly politicized so called correspondents.

No, in most part, BBC Television is an endless snide enemy of the Jewish State while Channel Four doesn’t even bother to disguise its bigoted hostility. It’s little different in much of the press with the Guardian, Mirror and Independent leading the way. Only the Murdoch press and Sky Television is fair and moderate, a major enemy to all those on the Left. Imagine then the contradictions of being a genuine Israel supporting British socialist today! You don’t like the anti-trades union Left baiting Murdoch yet you’re grateful for his support for Israel, the Jewish State! So make up your minds, Jewish socialists… what the hell are you? Are you a Jew or are you a socialist? This seems to be a contradiction presented to the minds of so many British Jews today. It’s not enough having to deal with the bigotry of the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel trolls on the internet. They’ve got personal ideological contradictions and questions of allegiance in their heads as it is!

If the anti-Israel trolls serve any purpose it’s to deflect such Jews from the more serious issue of what they are ideologically and where they stand. And it’s an emotional issue just as much as it is intellectual. If you’re a genuine socialist then you can’t support the oppressive Israeli State… Or if you’re a dedicated supporter then you can’t be a socialist! That’s how it’s presented to so many Jews these days. You can either be one thing or another but not both.  

Quite frankly this creation of such a dilemma is fraudulent and something invented to go along with the notion of an oppressed Palestinian cause. Much of the agrarian structure of modern Israel is indeed collectivist and socialist. It’s Labour Movement has powerful historical roots. Never mind its ever demonstrative religious minority, secularism is widespread throughout Israeli society. Thus the perennial question. Is it possible to be a Jew and a Socialist at the same time? It’s a question I’d like to answer this way. In Israel it’s easier than it is today in Britain and most other countries in Europe. It’s a dilemma deliberately presented to those who are born Jews, who are often not religious in any way, who believe in a Socialist ideology but still remain Jews because it’s not something they’ll just give up and abandon. Ideological critics of Jews tell them they can’t have it both ways. No you can’t have it both ways!

It helps give Jews an easy disposition! Nobody’s going to tell me anything! And truth to tell they can be both things at the same time with a simple shrug of the shoulders! It’s another case, another example of fiddling with your intellectual and daily existence on the roof! Not a case of being absolutely one thing or another but being both at the same time and somehow dealing with it! Trolls are dogmatic and full of hate. Jews are flexible. And by Christ, they need to be in a modern world only too hostile all over again.

Yes, you can be a Jew and a Socialist at the same time. Liberal minded and secular. A man or a woman of the big world we live in and fair minded with it. Someone who cares about the rights of minorities while knowing your own history and remembering that you too are part of a historically oppressed group that’s had to find its own way to freedom over thousands of years and won’t be gulled by dogmatists and their snide hangers on who try to put you in a corner and make you feel bad about this, that or the other.

ISRAEL, THE GAZA STRIP AND THE PALESTINIANS

The first and most important thing to be understood in this Post is that Israel is a Jewish State. In fact it is the Jewish State, the historical and geopolitical State of the Jewish people even with many non-Jews living there alongside Jews who are not in any way religious! Many Jews in fact, who’d had former nationalities are now Israelis. Added to this is the key historical fact that Israel has been a Jewish State for thousands of years. Despite the brutal expulsions of the Jews from their land by the Romans, accompanied by mass murder and genocide, such attempted depopulations were never total or complete. Jews continued living there in small numbers one way or another. Furthermore, despite earlier conquests by Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians and Greeks, then Romans and Christian Crusaders, Mamalukes , Arabs, Ottoman Turks and finally the British, Jewish people have always lived there under one kind of occupation and subjugation after another.

The Jewish people of Israel, scattered to the four winds by conquest and persecution over thousands of years have always somehow returned to their historical land. Millions of Jews might have left it over time or were destroyed in it, but a handful always stayed and held onto the soil and their faith. And through all this long time the descendants of those who’d left always seemed to drift back. And to make the story even more fascinating, the Jews of the Jewish State today don’t mind sharing it with the Arab Israelis who live there, who of course have the right to vote. Something the Jews themselves never had for thousands of years until 1949 when the State of Israel was created anew by Resolution of the United Nations.

Up until 1918 the land was ruled by the Turkish Ottoman Empire until its defeat by the British in the First World War. The latter then took over a Mandate to rule the territory. During the 1930’s and up until 1945 the Jews of Europe were persecuted and mostly annihilated by Hitler’s Nazi Germany. They had very few friends. The nations of the world wrung their hands and looked away. Between 1945 and 1949 the pitiful remnants of those who’d survived the death camps along with others who’d somehow stayed alive elsewhere crawled back to British Palestine. There they were helped by those Jews and their families who’d lived there from the 1800’s, mainly immigrants from Russia and Poland working the land, and there they slowly, painfully returned to their human selves with little help from their British rulers. In fact it’s true to say that the British Labour Government of the time put every obstacle in the way of Jews who’d survived the death camps from reaching Palestine, going so far as to imprison large numbers of them in barbed wire camps on Cyprus. And this despite the fact that thousands of Jewish men from Palestine fought in British army detachments during the Second World War!

Further to the Resolution of the United Nations the British departed in 1949 but not before handing large quantities of arms to Arabs living inside the territory who immediately attacked the Jews living there supported by surrounding Arab states. This was Israel’s first modern War of Independence with its Jewish population emerging victorious. A new independent Jewish nation state had been born out of the blood of the holocaust and thousands of years of persecution along with this latest sacrifice by its soldiers. Subsequently the Jewish State was attacked by Arab armies in 1956, 1967 and 1973. In the Six Day War of 1967 Israel captured the Gaza strip of land from the Egyptians and the West Bank of the River Jordan from the Jordanians including the eastern part of Jerusalem. Both the Gaza strip and the West Bank were now militarily occupied by Israel.

Subsequent to this, under substantial political pressure from the United States, the main international supporter of Israel on the world stage, along with Britain, never really a friend, there have been substantial changes to the occupation and political character of both territories. A new national political grouping had emerged from among Arabs displaced by Israel’s initial victory of their War of Independence who called themselves Palestinians and have over the last five decades, through various terrorist campaigns and attacks on the Jewish State and on Jews and Jewish organizations internationally, gained support from the Western media and passed themselves off as representing the rights of all Arab opponents of Israel. Giving way to international pressure and receiving continued promises of support from its supposed political friends, Israeli Governments subsequently gifted control of the West Bank to Yasser Arafat’s secular Fatah terrorist movement, allowing its towns and cities to be occupied by the Palestinian Arabs while at the same time creating settlements of Jews in that territory.

It is currently the political demand of the Palestinian Government of this West Bank that such settlements be removed and control handed to the Palestinians for the creation of a purely Palestinian Arab state.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict concerning the Gaza Strip is more disturbing. It’s a problem in my view  created essentially by the Israelis, or more accurately by the staggeringly short-sighted and stupid Israeli politician, former hero-general Ariel Sharon. Having for years wanted to enter Israeli politics, this well-known military figure initially attached himself to the Likud Government of Menachem Begin. However finding little room there for his personal ambition decided to move out and form his own political party, Kadima a kind of right-centrist outfit. Jewish settlement of the captured Gaza strip had already begun prior to the time of the Begin Government but during its period in office went forward in earnest. Large numbers of orthodox and secular Jews felt inspired to move there, setting up a wide variety of agricultural settlements and enterprises along with schools, synagogues and housing.

The Gaza Strip, having formerly belonged to the Egyptians, became a place of passionate though benign Jewish settlement. Ariel Sharon however saw it as something else. A kind of stepping stone for his national and international political aspirations. In a General Election his Kadima Party emerged victorious and seeking above all to be recognised as a peacemaker after his long military career, both by an Israeli public tired of conflict and by the Americans, Sharon decided to commit himself to a peacemaking agenda with the Palestinians. His aim being to give his country what he thought would be a lasting peace. He’d fought in many wars and was now driven by the dream of peace, convinced he was the one to achieve it. To this end he’d therefore make a binding deal with the long term Palestinian enemy and to show he was in earnest, in a gesture nothing short of astounding, offered the Palestinians political and territorial control of the Gaza Strip. What followed was nasty and stupid. To back up his commitment to the Palestinians and belief that peace would come from his generosity,

HE ORDERED THE ISRAELI ARMY BACKED BY LARGE NUMBERS OF POLICE TO EVICT ALL THOSE JEWS WHO’D SETTLED THERE!

In a period that ran into months thousands of Jewish Settlers along with their wives and families were forcibly removed amid terrible scenes from their homes and agricultural settlements by Ariel Sharon’s police and soldiers, all of these being destroyed to make way for Palestinian occupation by, among others, members of former terrorist groups. Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip had already been subjected to a long campaign of hostility and hatred in the Western media often being described as extremists and fascists when the truth is that most of them were simply Jewish idealists wanting to further extend and create the land of Israel, something that infuriated the Jew-hating, Israel-hating European left with the British left and British media, BBC and Channel 4 Television standing out in particular as open enemies of the Jewish State. Their pro-Palestinian hatred of Israel only a cover for their fundamental anti-Semitism in general.

So with the Jewish Settlers of the Gaza Strip vilified as extremists and facing a hostile international climate now backed up by the United States, Ariel Sharon made his gesture of compromise and friendship and handed the territory over to the Palestinians. Within months all trace of Jewish people having lived there was obliterated and their synagogues desecrated and destroyed. Tens of thousands of Palestinians began moving in with no more Jewish presence tolerated. The secular now former terrorist movement took political control only worse was to come. Within a couple of years trouble of a far greater consequence began.

Alongside Yasser Arafat’s secular Fatah movement another terrorist grouping began to emerge. Hamas was not simply Muslim but Islamic and Fundamentalist. Entirely opposed to the very existence of the Jewish State of Israel. Since its inception it had only one political aim, the destruction and annihilation of the Jewish State. Ariel Sharon had handed control and occupation of the Gaza Strip to Fatah, all Jews forcibly removed. Now a struggle began between the military wing of Hamas and Fatah within the Gaza Strip for its control. Within weeks the secular Fatah was defeated and ousted by the Muslim fundamentalists and in 2007, Israel, a tiny country as it is, faced a new and deadly threat. From its immediate west a fanatical and well-armed Muslim terrorist group and from the north the Iranian backed Hezbollah terrorists. In short Ariel Sharon’s totally short-sighted political gesture, born of a mixture of personal ambition and political ignorance now placed Israel in serious jeopardy.

The Hamas Movement is not only anti-Israel it is also virulently anti-Semitic. It’s stated aim is to wipe out and destroy the Jewish presence in their ancient historical land and to that end has fought a relentless  terrorist campaign against the Jewish State. When it wasn’t kidnapping Israeli citizens it was manufacturing rockets and launching them into Israel, and in breaks between doing this it was digging tunnels for its terrorists to get into Israel and kill Jewish civilians. Even with the hateful holocaust denying regime of Iran dedicated to destroying the Jewish State and preparing nuclear weapons for this, the Hamas regime in Gaza is currently Israel’s prime military enemy. Since taking over the Gaza Strip in 2007 it has received the political and electoral support of Palestinians living there but done little to nothing for their welfare, preferring instead to launch endless attacks on Israel from that territory. Three serious conflicts have now been fought and many truces called, Hamas unilaterally breaking them all with kidnappings and rocket fire.

Another conflict is currently ongoing. Having recently kidnapped and murdered three Israeli youths, Hamas launched a three week rocket offensive against Israel. Their missile capability has drastically increased. The distance achieved now no longer a matter of dozens of miles but hundreds, putting many Israeli cities under threat. These have all been manufactured under previous terms of truce. So the threat to the existence and survival of the Jewish State is serious. The attack on Israel by endless rockets from an anti-Semitic Islamic Fundamentalist group will not suddenly end by fruitless negotiation however much the Americans wish it. Hamas does not recognise the right of the Jewish State of Israel to exist and will not deviate from that policy so how the Americans, the British and the rest of Europe expect Israel to offer compromises and make a truce with its deadly enemy only bent on its destruction IS A MYSTERY.

The United States is no longer Israel’s friend as it had once been. Israel is certainly no friend of Barak Obama and likewise no friend of the British Government and its Arabist Foreign Office. Right now Israeli soldiers in Gaza are bravely fighting for the life of the Jewish State and its Jewish people with their dearest blood. And right now the Governments of the West like those of Scandinavia along with France, along with the entire wretched anti-Semitic British left are rolling their eyes and shaking their hands in disgust.  So here’s a message for all you anti-Semitic hypocrites…

WHEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE PERSECUTED DOWN THE AGES AND BEING MURDERED IN MILLIONS DURING THE HOLOCAUST YOU ALL WRUNG YOUR HANDS AND CRIED OUT OH DEAR OH DEAR HOW DREADFUL… BUT ALL OF YOU DID NOTHING.

NOW THAT THE JEWS HAVE THEIR OWN STATE, ONE THEY CREATED WITH THEIR OWN SWEAT AND TOIL AND ARE AGAIN FIGHTING FOR THEIR SURVIVAL AGAINST MURDERERS YOU GET UP AND SAY,

HOW DARE YOU FIGHT BACK… YOU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES KILLING CIVILIANS! I MEAN HOW HORRID… YOU JEWS FIGHTING BACK!

Ariel Sharon gave the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians in the hope of creating a lasting peace between the Palestinian people and those of Israel. In this he was totally naïve, as are most Israeli generals turned politician. Golda Meir and David Ben Gurion would never have done such a thing. The consequences of his ridiculous gesture to those who could never understand such a thing has been a disaster. The Palestinians, fully supporting their terrorist political leaders, only saw it as an incomprehensible gift by someone who must have been stupid. You gave us territories from which we could attack you, you arsehole, so that’s what we’re doing!

UKRAINIAN NAZIS ARE AT IT AGAIN

The demise of yet another Malaysian Boeing passenger aircraft, this time over eastern Ukraine, seems on the face of it yet another mysterious tragedy. Nearly three hundred men, women and children fall out of the sky in an area officially a War Zone creating an incident highly charged with dramatic political consequences. Although the aircraft’s black boxes have both been recovered there is still nothing definitive known about the cause of the disaster. Claims and counterclaims are flying in every direction. Obama and the United States, naturally closely followed by Britain, accuse those in Eastern Ukraine rebelling against the new extreme nationalist Ukrainian Government of having shot down the aircraft with a missile and with this allegation point a finger against Russia and its President as being complicit in what the Ukraine Kiev Government is calling a terrorist attack.

The rebels on the other hand say they did not have the military capability to do such a thing and therefore were not responsible. Their claim supported by Russia.

The blame game is therefore well and truly underway with all kinds of threats being made, mainly in the direction of Russia.

To my mind there are a few simple questions that might be asked. Firstly could the destruction of this civil aircraft be the result of a terrorist incident on board? Could a bomb have blown it out of the skies? Secondly, the fact that this is the second Boeing civilian passenger plane involved in a tragedy in recent months could there be a serious flaw with the aircraft? While both are at least possible explanations for the most recent incident it is more likely perhaps that given the geographical location in which the tragedy occurred, the witches brew of war and politics is a far more likely candidate in the causation stakes.

Apart from that there is only one question to be asked. Who had the most to gain from the destruction of this aircraft flying over Eastern Ukrainian territory? Was it the Ukrainian rebels and their Russian supporters or was it the Nazi inspired Ukrainian Government engaged in fighting the rebels supported by their backers, the American State Department and President Obama?  

The question is simple enough. Who had the most to gain?

Well for one thing it certainly wasn’t the rebels and almost certainly it wasn’t the Russians. The latter are already experiencing heavy sanctions and condemnation, imposed on them by both Europe and the United States over Crimea. It’s therefore hardly likely that President Putin would deliberately seek to exacerbate this by putting Russia in the dock of universal outrage for such a dastardly deed. So was it the so-called rebels? What did they have to gain by doing this in their struggle against the Kiev Government both they and so many others regard as Nazi inspired? If you sit down and think about it the only conclusion possible is that they had nothing to gain and indeed everything to lose by doing such a thing such as support for their cause. For the rebels to shoot down the plane would have been stupid in the extreme.

So let’s look again. And by the way, who had the missile hardware that could bring down the plane? Only Russia and the Ukrainian Government. The rebels never had the capability nor the technological know-how to use it. Alternatively was its destruction by the rebels accidental as some British experts suggest? Just a mistake! Well no, if this civilian plane was brought down by a missile its destruction was quite intentional.

So let’s look again. What kind of people may have done such a thing and what would they gain? Here it must be remembered that the Kiev Government was brought to power by Nazi inspired political groups operating in the Western Ukraine who received support from the American State Department. The overall and ultimate plan was to break any ties between this former part of the Soviet Union and Russia itself, much as the Ukrainian nationalist movement had attempted to do during the Second World War. President Obama’s State Department was certainly complicit in this seizing of power by Nazi groups who had already committed major atrocities against civilians in Kiev and soon after, Odessa. And lo and behold not an hour had passed after the destruction of the Malaysian plane for the new President of the Kiev Government to appear on international television screens and blame the disaster on those now actively fighting against this new Nazi inspired rule. In other words the Kiev Government was already primed up and ready to attack their opponents as terrorists before the world’s media.

So who had the most to gain from the atrocity? The answer seems clear enough. The Kiev Government! So what kind of people are they one should ask? Well if their Nazi supporters had no problem shooting civilians in the back during the Kiev protests the answer is plain enough. The regime in Kiev is far less likely to have any scruples in organising the destruction of the aircraft. You only have to remember what kind of people they are! Their political ancestors provided the largest number of the auxiliary staff used by the Nazi SS in their extermination camps during the Second World War.

If the Kiev Government had the most to gain from the destruction of the Malaysian Boeing passenger aircraft, they’re the people most likely. The whole thing was easy enough. Simply put the blame on those fighting them in the east and point a finger at Russia in the process. With support from the politicians of the United States, Britain and Europe guaranteed they could muster up full support from their media and turn it all on their enemies!

For anyone intelligent enough in Britain to smell a genuine rat you only need tune into BBC News to grab hold of your nose and it’s the same with the press. In this connection it’s fascinating to read some of the front page headlines, led of course by the Daily Mail, one of the nation’s favourite rags. PUTIN KILLED MY SON it blares out on Saturday July 19^th next to the picture of a child in another story and without any hard factual evidence. But then this one time Hitler friendly, Nazi friendly paper with its Goebbels style red and Jew baiting mentality doesn’t need any hard factual evidence to say what it does and neither it seems do the others. But then consider this if you will. If it was the Republicans running the United States Government… like John McCain or the loonies out of the Tea Party… they’d have been bombing Moscow by now.

To sum it all up. Forget all the news revolving round in your head. Forget all the gossip, all the crap from the Jonny on the spot reporters and journalists. Forget all the experts called in to give an expert opinion joke-joke, with the backing of GCHQ and the CIA, it was the Kiev Government that did the business, possibly with a few phone calls to the American State Department beforehand to help set it up.

That’s my opinion, but it’s only an opinion. In the absence of fact, of hard no-nonsense evidence, it can’t be anything more. But if political friends of the Nazi inspired Kiev Government here in the West along with their baying for blood media are all pointing a finger in one direction, I’m only suggesting another and of course I may well be wrong. That’s where we differ. Even without any hard evidence they jump to a conclusion that leaves no room for doubt. It’s a game I prefer not to play.

GERMANY’S 2014 WORLD CUP FOOTBALL TRIUMPH

After their offensively dismal performance in the FIFA World Football Cup, England’s players returned home with their tails between their legs. The victorious German team on the other hand returned to Berlin in triumph, and what was noticeable about their celebration was the minimal news coverage given to it by the British television channels. A bit of reluctant footage here and there and not too much in the press either. It all smelt of sour grapes with a genuine injustice done to the well-deserved victory of a sparkling well organised team of highly gifted players, carefully put together over many years by a superbly competent manager. The Germans won the tournament because that was their intention. They went to Brazil to win it and that’s what they did so let’s take a look at some of the factors behind their performance, in other words what made them winners and contrast them with those of England.

The German performance was that of a highly integrated team with many individually gifted players. Right from the start it was clear that they all played together as a team. That no single player however gifted would be allowed to dominate proceedings in any game. In other words they all played for each other and used their individual gifts unselfishly in a team spirit. In this the basic philosophy of manager Joachim Loew was only too evident. Over the last decade Germany’s football performances had all too often been poor. Other nations like Spain and Italy had surpassed them and there were clearly lessons to be learned. Germany had the players, no doubt about that, only they played as individuals first and foremost. There was no-one perhaps who exemplified this more than the rugged and gifted Bastien Schweinsteiger. He played as an individual within the German team but not necessarily for the German team. In short the essence of German failing was that their players didn’t play collectively and it was this I think that Loew came to realise when he was given the task of creating a new national side.

His philosophy was simply this. That the individual gifts of the players he selected had to be harnessed for the purpose of team endeavour and that once they played as a collective entity, for each other and as a team unit, only then could their individual talents and skills be freed up to shine. Put simply, they could shine as individuals for the team purpose. Schweinsteiger is again the perfect example to come out of Germany’s victorious team. There was none of the old individualism so apparent in earlier years. In the final against Argentina, as in earlier games, he was all over the pitch, defending, attacking and helping his colleagues in a remarkably unselfish performance that quite frankly more than entitled him to win the Golden Ball Award for being the player of the tournament.

It was this collective team philosophy that Loew brought to the German national side when he took over its management. It was first introduced by him in the creation of a German Under 21 squad some years back, five of its players appearing in Germany’s 2014 team for Brazil. They were taught early on to play together for the youth team. To initially harness their talents for its collective purpose. And in the years that followed he carefully, patiently, selected talented players whose skills could be harnessed for a collective purpose. It was a long very deliberate process that went on over seven, eight years or more of building a team with a very definite end in mind by a patient, highly intelligent manager who knew exactly what he wanted and where he was going.

The highly specialized team he created is a product of his own managerial philosophy. That team football is first and foremost a collective endeavour with success best achieved through that end. All other things like individual genius come second! Take a look at how it panned out. Some of the great individual stars of the tournament made little difference to their national team’s progress through the competition. Star players like Messi and Ronaldo, Rodriguez, Robben and Van Persie shone brightly but only too briefly in individual games before being man-marked and all but snuffed out. It was collective team performance on the other hand that made its mark with those of Costa Rica, Chile, Columbia and Algeria standing out. Teams built around star players on the other hand failed dismally when they failed to perform or were injured. The most glaring example in the whole tournament in this respect was Brazil!

The German approach was the complete opposite. They played as a team, many of their players shining as individual stars, so when one of their best players, Sami Khedira, was ruled out of the final only moments before it began it made little difference. Their performance rested on their ability as a team, not on one or two gifted players as with Brazil and Argentina.

Having said this what then was the managerial philosophy of Roy Hodgson who had a much shorter time to build up a team. Two years indeed wasn’t that much but it was something! So what did Roy Hodgson do with the players he’d chosen? Well there was the problem! In two years of supposed selecting and planning he switched his national team players around with such remarkable regularity that it left most observers bewildered let alone players. It was a kind of in-out, in-out and shake-it-all-about approach to team building with no single squad of eleven ever getting much of a chance to play together. Astonishingly, even up to the time of the pre World Cup ‘friendlies’ against Ecuador and Honduras, no team appeared to be finalized with everything kind of being kept secret!

No single team finalized, let alone players having worked together for hundreds of hours, their individual personalities, skills and abilities forged into a unity. No collective purpose and enterprise worked out. No mutual understanding between players. No plan for each individual game. Was it any wonder then that each player seemed to lack any imagination in knowing what to do with the ball, and in the absence of any concerted plan kept on passing the ball back only too often from up front all the way back to the goalkeeper! This back passing was a key feature of England’s play. They just didn’t know what to do with the ball. Their players just kept walking it around as though in a daze. All of it explained by their lack of playing practice together. Its result, a shabby, totally unimaginative and shameful series of performances entirely the fault of a hapless, sterile management philosophy.

Let’s take a much deeper look while we’re here. Since Germany became a nation at the beginning of the 1870’s they’ve had an extensive experience of dominant one man rule. Bismarck first followed by Kaiser Willy who dragged them into the First World War followed by the greatest, most murderous dictator of all. Three brutal national leaders, a war against France in 1870 followed by Two World Wars in rapid succession. Result of all this splendid one man leadership effort, hundreds of millions dead and Germany reduced to ashes. From 1945 onwards, German society became an altogether more collective creation, especially in its social and economic organisation. No more single individual top down approach anymore. Economically, an entirely more collective attitude to industrial organisation and cooperation between workers and management. A steady build up and creation of a highly prosperous economy based on stability and the harmonizing of industrial relations. Much of it best summed up by the notion of a collective team approach.

For eighty years the German experience was brutal and it was only at the end of that time that they learned. By way of contrast the British experience has been so very different, but whenever its people chose leaders who came close to being dictators the result was similarly bad i.e. Margaret Thatcher, who at the end was clearly losing her marbles. There was endless chaos, endless conflict, endless social division and disharmony. All notion of community and community spirit, of a collective effort, of a harmonious society, gave way to a notion of individualism, of personalization and privatization which she encouraged. In Britain we actually stood on the brink of becoming a police state with social conflict only too often prompted by top down heavy handed political and managerial attitudes.

A top down heavy handed approach to society and its problems came to characterize the Thatcher era. It was in its way almost an extension of feudal mannerisms and attitudes. With the rapid replacement of industrial occupations and employment by those of finance and commerce the new values of a selfish individualism quickly replaced those of communality, of people selflessly helping each other and the broader spirit of social harmony and cooperation. It was out of such a time that the Premier League of English football was born. One that came to be dominated by individualists, star performers of the game often from overseas, which at the same time witnessed the evolution of football from what was once essentially a sport into a commercial endeavour dominated by a transfer fee system which brought huge financial rewards to clubs and individual players.

English football today is very different to what it had once been in the 1960’s and 70’s. In this context it should be remembered that it was in 1966 that England won the World Football Cup. It was a very different time of English football, English footballers and English footballing management skills. The England World Cup winning team was built by its manager Alf Ramsay, himself a long time professional, over a period of many years. It’s players had been trained to play together as a team and it was a team philosophy more than any other that prevailed in its creation. One that was very much part of English football for many years previously. Football as a sport. As a club game. Its First Division down teams gaining their support and finance from an audience that was solidly industrial working class. The spirit of English club game football dominated Ramsay’s creation of England’s winning World Cup team of 1966. In tournaments since then, England performances, often overseen by foreign management, have drifted into steady decline culminating in the fiasco of 2014 under a desperately rushed managerial compromise.

English football management philosophy today, particularly those operating in the Premier League where  so much is dominated by financial consideration and the use of overseas players, is imbued more with a consideration of individual performance than with the collective performance of the team. Stardom and transfer fees dominate what is now essentially a business. The patience and skill necessary for creating a national squad is something almost lost to the English game. That’s why there’s a problem.

That’s why those managing English football right at the top need to start thinking all over again. Do you actually care about the millions of people who support the English national game, or do you only care about money?

I suggest that you give some of your time to thinking why so many national teams that participated in the 2014 World Cup who built their hopes around one or two individual star players bit the dust and why others who seemed to come out of nowhere and play in a collective team spirit became the real stars of this year’s celebration of football.

Football should be a game. A game about people. Not about money.