Proud to fly the Israeli Flag!
The trouble with trying to debate the Middle East conflict is that it raises hackles of those on either side of the debate. That said despite the innate controversy of the issue there has been some unsavoury discussion of both Facebook and Twitter from mainly "left-leaning" individuals which crossed the line into Zionist World Conspiracy theories and then ended up sharing anti-Semetic tropes and links to dubious websites that even referred to Holocaust denial.
It was in this atmosphere that the Jewish community became alarmed. Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell the two leaders of the huge growth of the Labour left were well known supporters of not just the Palestine cause, but Corbyn himself was on far too friendly terms with Hamas which has a genocidal policy towards Jews and Hezbollah, a proxy for the Iranian government which also wants to wipe Israel off the map.
Corbyn of course was also someone who worked for Press TV, the station run by the Iranian clerics who oppress all and sundry in their own country and for which the comrade has never spoken out about. Press TV was of course banned for it's constant one-sidediness and use of an interview with a man under the gaze of his torturers.
Corbyn of course is supposedly a man of peace.
But where were the calls for peace and negotiation at Labour Party conference today? The mover of the motion on Palestine Colin Monehan was full of rhetoric with not a fact in sight. His bullying attitude to the (Jewish) Chair, Rhea Wolfson that he "represented the Palestinians and she would need security to remove him was both disturbing but also typical of how these anti-Israel types operate.
The waving of Palestinian flags was an unnecessary and oppressive act against Jewish members present or watching that already felt under threat from the left. A point of order raised by a delegate that there were "double standards" as he had be told in no uncertain terms not to wave a European Flag earlier was booed by sections of the audience.
The seconder of the motion Mohamed Ali started his contribution by stating he represented the area where Enoch Powell made his "rivers of blood speech" as if that had anything whatsoever to do with the matter in hand but simply to implant the falsehood of Israel being a racist state.
Emily Thornberry spoke for the leadership stating that the party opposed the "racist actions of the Netanyahu Government" without being specific and called support for the Palestinians but warned conference that there were those on the fringes who used this issue as cover for their anti-Semitism who should be expelled from the party. The cheering switched to polite clapping at this point.
She seemed to indicate that the party leadership (at least formally) did not seek the destruction of the Jewish state. Not sure of the wider membership whose acceptance of extremist propaganda seems heavily built in to their blinkered view of the world.
The Palestinians do need a state. There should be a two-state solution. However nobody on the Palestine Solidarity side seems to seek this. Just demonise Israel, spread so-called "anti-Zionism"". Why is it the left support all national aspirations except the Jewish one. Zionism is simply just Jewish nationalism no worse than the pan-Arabism that unites the world which the Palestinians come from. After all Palestinians are Arabs.
The mover of the motion, Colin Monehan bemoaned the withdrawal of aid to the Palestinians via UNWRA from the USA. A better question would have been to challenge Hamas, and the PLO/PLA about where all the aid money was going.
Over the years not only have the Palestinians been donated billions of dollars but receive more aid than any other "refugee" group in the world ever has. Where has it all gone. Why are their leaders multi-millionaires?
If the aid had been invested wisely Gaza would have been a prosperous settlement and tourist attraction. On the West Bank other Palestinians could have developed their own industries and developments. Peace and compromise could have been reached a long time ago with the Jewish state.
Why has this scenario never come to fruition? Simply because it's been useful to the Arabs and during the cold war to the Russians to keep the Palestinians as a tool in their conflicts. Even today the border with Gaza has another country sealing it.
Egypt, but you never see the left or the Palestine Solidarity Campaign or the Stop the War Campaign demonstrating outside. But then then that applies to the Syrian conflict which has cost more lives and destroyed much more than in the wars with Israel.
This is because the destruction of Israel is central to the lefts conception of the downfall of capitalism. The destruction of Israel will have a domino effect in their brain dead Marxist view.
All that would happen would be a second genocide that's what Hamas promise, that's what Hezbollah and Iran wants. These people are enemies of humanity.
The slogan NEVER AGAIN should be raised in defence of Israel.
Build a Palestinian state but not over the bodies of Jews.
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