Sometimes things ARE black and white… like backing Israel rather than the terrorists of Hamas & Hezbollah
Date: 2024-10-21
SOMETIMES it’s hard to know which side to take in a heated debate.
Whether it’s a General Election, a Âreferendum or a debate on an issue like assisted dying, I think most reasonable people can see there are strong Âarguments on both sides.
Rockets being intercepted over Jerusalem earlier in the week[/caption]
But sometimes there just isn’t any grey area.
Sometimes the dividing line is the darkest black on one side and the brightest white on the other.
That’s precisely where we are right now with the Middle East.
Everyone has to pick a side. And what has amazed me over the past year is just how many people living in Britain have chosen the WRONG side.
On Monday we will mark the first anniversary of the October 7 attack by Hamas terrorists in which 1,200 men, women and children were massacred in southern Israel and 250 hostages were seized.
It was the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust and it left the nation stunned and scared.
Yet within hours of the slaughter, Âhundreds of people were cheering and dancing on the streets of Britain to Âcelebrate the attack and, twice a month ever since, many tens of thousands have marched through our cities in what they claim is solidarity with Gaza but is now a blatantly anti-Israel protest.
Far from being on the fringes, all this time they have been buoyed up by the many left-wing politicians, social commentators and even journalists working at the BBC and other broadcasters who, in seeking to sympathise with the cause of the Palestinian people, have pushed the narrative that Israel is not the victim but the perpetrator, that they brought the attack on themselves by their own actions, and that it is THEY, not the Hamas terrorists, who are the mass Âmurderers, the perpetrators of genocide and the root of all evil.
Again, in the past week, when Israel finally retaliated against Hezbollah Âmilitants and their Iranian backers after a YEAR of daily rocket attacks from ÂLebanon into Ânorthern Israel, it was — surprise, surprise — Israel that was condemned as the aggressor.
This sick rewriting of reality is beyond belief.
Day after day, much of our mainstream and social media tell us that Israel is the oppressor while the “freedom fighters†of Hamas and Hezbollah are acting on behalf of the oppressed Palestinians.
No wonder, then, that millions of my Âfellow Brits now believe that defending anyone who attacks Israel is the only righteous and moral thing to do.
Yet they are, of course, completely and utterly wrong
Of course we should all care about the Âinnocent civilians of Gaza and Lebanon.
But Israel has gone beyond anything any other military has done to minimise casualties.
In fact, the only people who DON’T care about children being bombed are the terrorists who deliberately place them in harm’s way by building their networks of tunnels and weapons caches beneath homes, schools and hospitals.
How can anyone choose the side of Hamas and Hezbollah when they are no different to their ÂIslamist terrorist cousins in al-Qaeda and IS, whose only aim is to kill and subjugate anyone who resists the creation of a worldwide ÂIslamist caliphate?
If you think they’re the good guys, then maybe you should think again.
If you’re on the same side as those who celebrate rocket attacks on innocents, maybe you need to readjust your moral compass.
If you find yourself supporting the same cause as the Iranian mullahs, who murder women for the crime of not wearing a headscarf, perhaps you haven’t really thought things through.
Because you’re not just taking the side of the terrorists, you are taking sides against the TRUTH.
There may be two sides to every Âargument but only one side can ultimately be right. I know which side I’m on.
People take cover on the side of a road as sirens sound a warning of incoming rockets on a freeway towards Jerusalem[/caption]
It wasn’t the sight of his buttocks as he ran naked into the sea that stunned me, but his shocking lack of understanding about his fall from grace.
Philip Schofield flashes his rear on Channel 5 show Cast Away[/caption]
Schofield was sacked 16 months ago over his relationship with a much younger man working on ITV’s This Morning[/caption]
Schofield was sacked 16 months ago over his relationship with a much younger man working on ITV’s This Morning show.
Yet in Cast Away he showed not a shred of self-awareness, Âhumility or remorse – instead blaming everyone from his TV co-stars and producers to ITV bosses and even his own brother (now a convicted paedophile) for the untimely ending of his stellar career.
His cack-handed attempt at redemption and rehabilitation came far too soon and will, I fear, have done him more harm than good.
Amy’s Lame job done
LONDON’S “Night Tsar†has quit.
I know, it is Âdevastating news for all of us – well, at least for the half-dozen people who knew that job even existed in our capital city.
London’s ‘Night Tsar’ Amy Lane has quit[/caption]
Amy Lame, an LGBT campaigner and broadcaster, was appointed by her mate, ÂLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan, despite seemingly having zero qualifications for the role.
And during her eight years supposedly promoting London’s night-time economy, she oversaw a collapse in the capital’s nightlife greater than any other city in England post-lockdown.
Lame did, though, manage to find the time for 12 glamorous trips abroad on expenses while being paid a whopping £132,000 taxpayer-funded salary.
Frankly, Ms Lame, we Londoners would like our money back.
BoJo’s book squirm
THE BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg had to cancel a primetime TV interview with Boris Johnson about his new memoirs, Unleashed, after she accidentally included the man himself in a message to her producers about her planned line of questioning. Oops!
Ironically that’s precisely the sort of thing that the former PM would do himself . . . if he ever bothered to do any preparation for anything.
Boris Johnson’s memoirs are witty, engaging and chaotic[/caption]
His memoirs are just like the man himself – witty and engaging but also chaotic, frustrating and self-serving.
Most telling is what he has to say about his handling of the Covid pandemic, where he happily blames everyone else, from the scientists and civil servants to the media and trade unions, for his decisions over lockdowns.
The truth is that Boris Johnson was too lazy to do his own homework and he allowed himself to be bamboozled into damaging policies that will blight this nation for decades to come.
He forgot the crucial fact that advisers are there to advise.
The territory has been disputed for many decades amid claims they’re the last remaining “British colony in Africaâ€.
But as we all know – after a quick check on Google Maps, anyway – the Chagos Islands are slap bang in the middle of the Indian Ocean and include the strategically vital US naval base of Diego Garcia.
So why on Earth would the UK give up the islands to Mauritius, a failing and corrupt state with strong links to China, a hostile nation?
The actress accused Giovanni Pernice of “inappropriate, mean, nasty bullying†when they were partnered up for last year’s series, and says she suffered PTSD.
Amanda Abbington claims she has PTSD following the Strictly bullying scandal with Gio Pernice[/caption]
But the BBC report upheld only six of her 17 allegations, and threw out ALL of the most Âserious claims, including those of threatening behaviour and physical aggression.
Yes, he may have pushed his celeb partner beyond her abilities and there were bust-ups, but does that merit the end of his career?
Maybe some celebs just aren’t cut out for the show.
As the indomitable ex-Strictly star Ann ÂWiddecombe remarked in astonishment about Amanda’s claims: “PTSD? After a dance show?â€
Nest of wipers
FIRST we had the wrong kind of leaves on the line causing train delays, then the wrong kind of snow.
Now it’s the wrong kind of windscreen wipers.
A shiny new £1billion fleet of passenger trains has been sitting in Âstorage for years after rail unions objected to the size of the windscreen wipers.
South Western Railway bought 90 Arterio trains to replace its 40-year-old carriages but the unions said the wipers meant train Âdrivers couldn’t see Âsignals easily.
Why this couldn’t have been sorted out years ago is anyone’s guess.
But miraculously, after long-suffering commuters spent years packed into creaking Âcarriages, the unions decided the Âwipers were in fact safe – landing after a 15 per cent wage rise.
What a coincidence!
The real problem is that we have the wrong kind of train company bosses and the wrong kind of trade union chiefs.