This is Zionism

5:24pm

Not for the first time the excellent Elder of Ziyon, aided by Stand with Us, hits the spot with this. It deserves to be distributed as widely as possible.

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Mr Cameron's human shields

10:50am

Lots of stories this morning to the effect that the price that Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is demanding of David Cameron to shore Clegg up after the LibDem humiliation in last week’s local council elections and AV referendum is the emasculation of Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s much slated NHS reform package.

This seems to me to be total garbage.

First, Clegg is surely in no position to demand anything at all from Cameron. Why on earth should he be considered to be so? He is now a proven loser. The combined effect of the LibDems’ catastrophic performance in the local council elections and the even more disastrous (from his point of view) rejection of their core goal of voting reform has sent his party to the electoral knacker’s yard.

As warned here (and elsewhere) when he first made his...

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An open letter to the Rt Hon David Cameron MP

11:57pm

Dear Prime Minister,

I was interested to read that, when you met Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, you said:

‘Britain is a good friend of Israel and our support for Israel and Israel's security is something I have described in the past, and will do so again, as unshakeable.’

I wonder, therefore, if you make a habit of threatening your friends?  For you also said that unless Israel ‘engages seriously in a meaningful peace process’ with the Palestinian Authority, the more likely it is that Britain will endorse the ‘State of Palestine’ for which the PA is expected to seek recognition at the UN in September.

This is not the behaviour of a friend so much as the kind of intimidation that is more reminiscent of a Mafia protection racket.

First of all, you have incomprehensibly decided...

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Free speech dies in Denmark

6:27pm

Another bad blow against freedom in the west. Lars Hedegaard, President of the Danish Free Press Society and The International Free Press Society, was yesterday found guilty of hate speech under the Danish penal code. His crime – as I wrote previously here,  here and here – was to draw attention to child abuse  and violence against women in Muslim culture. The day after the interview, he stressed that his opinions were about Islam and not intended to refer to all Muslims.

The trial was a show trial in which Hedegaard was unable to mount a defence, because under the Orwellian rules of the Danish legal system he was in effect convicted before his trial even took place. In the lower court, however, he was aquitted – but only on the technicality that he had not  known that...

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The Hamas/al Qaeda/Fatah axis

1:14am

One of the most significant reactions to the killing of Osama bin Laden came from the Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh. While much of the Arab world has been muted in its response or even guardedly welcomed the end of bin Laden – the Palestinian Authority spokesman, Ghassan Khatib, said for example that it was

‘good for the cause of peace worldwide’

and the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayaad called it

‘a major, mega landmark event, ending the life of a person who was involved in egregious acts of terror and destruction’ --

Haniyeh reacted quite differently, saying it was

‘...a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood...We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to

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A marriage made in hell

9:28pm

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So Molotov and Ribbentrop are alive and well and living in Gaza and Ramallah. The pact between Fatah and Hamas is of course a marriage of convenience, forged solely to help fool the world into accepting a de facto state of Palestine. If such a pact were to last, then of course it would mean the end of Mahmoud Abbas and the economic and social progress that has been made in Ramallah and environs; these would be replaced by the Iranian satrapy of Hamastan, political dissidents thrown off the tops of tall buildings and women subjected to sexual terrorism and Islamic subjugation.

The fact is that Ramallah wants Gaza to be part of ‘Palestine’ like it wants a hole in the head. The point of the exercise for...

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