I’m not here to discuss whether there should be ‘a ceasefire’ in Gaza or not. And there’s a good reason for not discussing it. That’s because, probably, the government of Israel, heads of state and military chiefs don’t read my blog. They should do, they’d learn a lot. But I’m not sufficiently arrogant or stupid to think that even if I stated categorically and prefaced it with ‘let me make this perfectly clear’ as all politicians and other tossers invariably do, that ‘there must be a ceasefire!’, that Israel would listen or care. Israel does what Israel does and if it listened to external criticism or demands, it would have ceased to exist in 1949.

So why does Sadiq Kahn think that Israel is going to stop its existential war because the Mayor of London, a world famous trumped up little shit, thinks it should? Similarly, while we’re here, is Benjamin Netanyahu going to convene an emergency war cabinet meeting because David Beckham has asked for a ceasefire? Maybe Rhianna? Harry Styles? Ronaldinho?

How about Kier Starmer? Would his words rock the knesset into re-thinking its entire program for destroying Hamas and rescuing its 230 hostages? Can you name the leader of the opposition in Israel? How about Columbia? Germany? No. So it’s doubtful they could name him. If they could then they’d be the enlightened ones who would know what a useless person he is.

And yet, the Labour Party is in internal turmoil over Starmer’s failure to ‘demand a ceasefire’. Even though if he did, no-one who matters would hear nor care, let alone heed his words. And yet this is now an amazingly divisive thing in our opposition party.

Sir Kier entered the leadership office on a mission to ‘rid the horrible anti-semitism’ which his predecessor, Bealzibub Corbyn, had promoted, enabled and rewarded. So he is either tethered to this principle so strongly (as he should be) that he feels he has to stand 100% behind the Jewish community and Israel too, or he’s just totally fucked himself and can’t say what he’d really like to. Which is probably what the rest of the Labour stalwarts have said, that ‘there must be an immediate ceasefire’. And even if; a massively big IF, even if Israel listened to him; Hamas wouldn’t. One opposition front-bencher said yesterday that ‘there must be a ceasefire to enable aid to the people, and to allow time for a diplomatic solution from the UN’. My only question being “where the fuck has this guy been for the last 75 years????” That the ‘diplomatic solution’ which has thus far eluded, unlike the Labour party, even clever people like Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Maggie Thatcher, Winston fucking Churchill, is going to materialise in 3 days, by none other than the UN, possibly the most dim-witted, anti-zionist organisation in the world outside of Militant Islamist groups?

So good luck Kier. You’re gonna need it.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx