I’ve been asking myself a question, as I sit here, in the tropical sunshine, bathed in the guilt of the privileged, wallowing in the self-satisfaction of eating more curry in the last 8 days than in my previous 800 and pondering how those poor Brits are coping with all that grey, depressing coldness, ‘over there’.

And the question is this: do I need to include the almost automatic implicit or expressed apology every time I mention Israel, for the deaths of so many ‘innocent civilians and children’? And I reached a truly eureka moment of clariity and enlightenment. Possibly the one I should have reached in the yoga class which eluded my western cynicism.

Israel is NOT to blame for the crisis in Gaza. Hamas is. For ALL of the crisis, for every dead man, woman and child. And furthermore, to think otherwise, if you actually look at all the facts and even decide to question the validity of statements issued by Hamas as ‘doubtlful at best’, is either horrendously naive or is part of a left-wing inspired, media-driven narrative which stems directly from anti-semitism, lightly veiled as “anti-zionism is NOT anti-semitism”. When, you know what? it is.

And I’m inspired in this revelation, and liberated by it, due to the United Nations, the leaders of so many other whingeing hypocritical imbeciles. Who firstly have never questioned why, even though Gaza has for decades been one its major recipients of ‘aid’, the population starves and struggles for medicines and education for its young, yet builds the worlds most sophisticated tunnel systems extending over 500kms and can afford to store and fire hundreds of millions of dollars worth of rockets.

And who are those tunnels for? The tunnels which have access points and arms storage depots in hospitals and school playgrounds and residential apartment blocks? According to Hamas themselves, “the tunnels are to protect Hamas; the United Nations can protect Gazan people”.

The United Nations Women’s Group will attack any government in the world if so much as one female bum gets pinched in the metro system. And yet said nothing for 7 fucking weeks about over 500 women on October 7th being raped, tortured, murdered and kidnapped.

The day Hamas won their election in 2005, they started taking care of their political opponents. By throwing them off the roofs of high buildings. We’re not talking a mere few here, but hundreds. No trial, no appeal, nothing. Just instant death. Of, oddly ‘innocent Palestinians’.

So if you join the dots, you reach the only inevitable conclusion: Hamas has thrown the population of Palestine under the bus of its own distorted, murderous and dangerous to the world aims. And in the always inevitable fallout from October 7 it is still sacrificing as many as it can for the PR that contributes against Israel.

So ‘ceasefire’? Only on Israel’s terms. Hamas, the UN, Iran, Lebanon, UNWRA, World Health Organisation, Qatar, Jeremy Corbyn and any other misinformed slogan-yeller from Stoke-on-Trent, can all just go and FUCK OFF. The deaths are terrible, but they are not on Israel.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx