Ok, so we’re back in the Middle East. Standing right by the Lebanese border. With our boots on… the ground. And we’re in them. Because we’re going to invade. So we need good footwear. An army ‘marches on its stomach’ but definitely needs comfortable feet. Especially when… escalating!!!!

I read the news, listen to the politicians, follow phone-ins and I’m constantly amazed and quite frankly bemused by the extent to which so many people simply have no fucking idea what is going on in the Middle East. It’s like I’m watching Spurs play Man United whilst listening to the commentary of a cricket match at Lords.

CEASEFIRE!!!! they all cry. NEGOTIATE!!! they implore. FIND A PEACEFUL SOLUTION!!! AVOID ESCALATION!!!

Of course, when they call for ceasefire, they only mean Israel. Stop firing those missiles and rockets, people are getting hurt and killed!! No mention of the daily and constant bombardment from Hezbollah into Northern Israel. Into what would be civilian areas but virtually all the civilians have been temporarily relocated.

Ok, let’s ‘negotiate’. And here’s the problem. The war is not against Lebanon, a civilised and lovely country filled with, mainly, lovely people. The war is against Hezbollah, who are lodging in Lebanon. And Syria and Iraq too. And Hezbollah are a terrorist organisation with but one purpose. The destruction of Israel and everyone in it. Including the 30% of the population who are Arab, but no one talks about them happily living there because it upsets the ‘apartheit’ narrative.

Hamas is the same. Its not a ‘nation’, its a terrorist army with the very same aim as Hezbollah. And nothing else.

Ok, there’s the first problem of ‘who do you negotiate with’ as the top 20 people in Hezbollah are currently in hell with as many virgins as they can delude themselves with, after ‘the pager incident’. But where’s the starting point in ‘negotiation’ when their very existence is to destroy Israel? What do you offer? Ok, just destroy half of Israel and kill half the people??

While Hezbollah and Hamas are active, Israel is not safe. People talk that ‘this action is not securing the north of Israel, its making it worse!!!’, but the North will never be save to live whilst Hezbollah have an army of (at least) 50,000 who have 150,000 more rockets and missiles. And while Hamas have sworn to repeat their atrocities of October 7th as often as possible, how is that going to be ‘negotiable’. Have you watched ‘We Will Dance Again’? You should. Its quite amazing, harrowing and illuminating. And may put the entire concept of these ‘negotiations’ in a different light.

I don’t want innocent Lebanese getting killed and injured. But I do want Hezbollah destroyed, preferably entirely. And then I hope they go after the Ayatollahs in Iran and sort out their mobile phones too. It would be the biggest blessing for both the Iranian people and for any chance of ‘peace in the region’.

So my message is: ‘THINK before shouting ‘ceasefire”. Because by shouting it, you’re only enabling terrorism. And hence, by extrapolation, David Lammy should just fuck off.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx