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Palestine
Ha ha. Glad to see that anti-Israeli feeling is rising, including feeling against the “facilitators” and supporters of Israel in the UK.
As regular readers of the blog will know, I oppose the recognition of Palestinian statehood for reasons other than any wish to support the Jewish state (and people know that I would never do that).
For me (and this was the settled British diplomatic convention for most of the past couple of hundred years, except during WW2), governments and states are only recognized de facto, not de jure, that is to say that recognition is, or was, only granted to governments which have, or had, effective power over the defined geographical area of a state. The ideology of the government in question, its “legitimacy”, and the “rights and wrongs”, should be, and in the past usually have been, disregarded.
In the case of Palestine, the areas of the now-“recognized” “state” are not defined, and are indistinct. Also, no Palestinian entity has effective control over either of the two main components of the rump Palestinian areas (West Bank and Gaza).
The Israeli Jews (i.e. Israeli state, which itself has been recognized by the UK for a very long time), rule over most of the existing Palestinian areas, though at a remove in the West Bank.
In fact, the UK recognised Israel de facto on January 29 1949, and de jure on 28 April 1950. In other words, the UK accepted that Israel, as a state, was something real on the ground by early 1949, even though its legitimacy as a state was not recognized by the UK until well over a year later, in 1950.
What the Starmer government of the UK (until now horribly pro-Jewish lobby and pro-Israel) has done is recognize the existence of a Palestinian state purely de jure. It cannot recognize the Palestinian state de facto because the land borders are undefined, because there is no one Palestinian entity to recognize as a government in power over the area of the recognized “state”, and because the Israeli state is ruling over, effectively, all of the West Bank and all of Gaza, despite the existence of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank areas.
The two main wings of Palestinian politics have been split since 2006, Hamas ruling Gaza (at least until recently), Fatah ruling the West Bank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority. Neither party holds any sway to speak of in the other’s main area.
In other words, the UK government has recognized as a state a “Palestine” which has two notional ruling “governments”, which ruling entities are at loggerheads with each other, and neither of which exercises much power.
There is the other point, that the UK government is now in the position of declaring Palestine a state de jure when it has also declared (and has now put into law) the position that Hamas, the only Palestinian entity presently ruling over whatever is left standing in Gaza, is a “terrorist” entity. The UK government is therefore in the position of recognizing as a notional “state” a vague collection of areas half of which are ruled over by a “government” not only not recognized (either de facto or de jure) but also by a “government” now declared as “terrorist” by the UK government! Mad.
What this means, really, is that the UK government now officially recognizes, in effect, a non-existent (in reality) Palestinian “state”, and it also means (arguende) that the UK government is giving at least implied verbal support to Hamas, an entity which is officially “terrorist” in UK law, and support for which is a crime. Starmer and Lammy may have to arrest themselves!
More seriously, this is government and diplomacy by soundbite, and government lacking any clarity. I did say, on the blog, that Starmer was “slightly to my own surprise, clueless” several years ago. If I say so myself, I was right. Starmer is a disaster. Utterly lacking in ability to be a Prime Minister.
I suppose that Starmer and his “Man Friday”, Lammy (until recently, Foreign Secretary), might argue (well, Starmer might; Lammy is utterly incapable of stringing together a coherent sentence) that what they have recognized is not a state but a hope for a state (in the future). God knows what the likes of Bismarck or Metternich would have thought of that!
I have seen and heard nothing from the Labour Friends of Israel fraudster and expenses cheat now posing as UK Foreign Secretary (Yvette Cooper).
Actually, what Starmer has done is to pretend to recognize, as being a state, a word or name (Palestine), and only a word or name, because the recognized state does not exist: no government exists or is recognized, the areas of the recognized state are not defined, and the (long-recognized) state that does have effective power over all potential areas of Palestine, i.e. the Israeli state, neither recognizes a Palestinian state (on any boundaries) nor accepts the UK and other states’ recognition of Palestine as a state.
What makes this whole Starmer/Lammy nonsense even more nonsensical is that the UK government under “Starmer-stein” is engaged in practical support for Israel and, in effect, its brutal, sadistic and genocidal war in Gaza. He is a member, like most of his Cabinet, of Labour Friends of Israel, and not only is his wife Jewish but his children are being brought up as if full-Jew.
Starmer’s government continues to give intelligence help and support to Israel, promotes sales of arms and other equipment to Israel, pursues prosecution of anti-Israel protesters (and “antisemites” opposed to the Jewish lobby in the UK— I ought to know, after all!), and permits importation of Israeli goods and services into the UK.
The current UK government policies on the Israel/Palestine situation are simply not congruent.
Tweets seen
Good point. Labour has recently sunk as low as 16% in the opinion polls. If Starmer wants to limit the damage, he has to claw back some support from somewhere, whether from disaffected and pro-Palestinian former Labour voters or from equally-disaffected Muslims.
Frankly, I doubt whether it will work. No voter who is pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel, or (such as that lady tweeter, above, at top of today’s blog post) simply anti-genocide etc, will vote Labour because of this. Those who go the other way will likewise not vote Labour because of this, and may well vote against Labour because of it.
Neither side should be directly targeting civilians.
A social-national movement may have to build its new society on the bones and skulls of defeated enemies. That may be a regrettable necessity.
Mad. Or bad. The UK should declare global neutrality.
When it comes to Israel and the Jews, the Americans are the most pathetic “cuck” nation imaginable.
Interesting tweet-thread
I do not often repost anything tweeted by vituperative Jew-Zionist barrister Simon Myerson, but the following tweet-thread is interesting on the subject of the character of the person currently posing as Prime Minister:
Of course, for me, the effect of the notional “recognition” of a non-existent state of Palestine on the “Jewish community” is not relevant, not in the slightest, but I do oppose making Britain a diplomatic and geopolitical bad joke.
Incidentally, that side-point about Treasury Counsel is interesting. I myself was briefed, I think only two or three times, as ad hoc Treasury Counsel. I was never on any of the normal Treasury Counsel panels, sadly (“sadly” because it guarantees a supply of lucrative Government work and is also rather prestigious). I was instructed ad hoc because the work I did on those few occasions (as I say, pretty minor but involving official secrecy) required either normal Treasury Counsel or, if none was available, someone who could be briefed as having been approved to do that work. The instructing entity was the Ministry of Defence.
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More about the Jew Epstein, Prince Andrew, Israeli Intelligence etc
See also:
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Pro-migration invasion System propagandists are enemies of the people.
Civil war/social war/racial war/cultural war. A mixture of those. Possibly but not necessarily slow-burn.
Andrew Marr is an evil System puppet and propagandist. See below:
Marr is a creature of evil.
Only the Aryan can give life.
I have covered all this on the blog in recent years. Over 40% of eligible voters did not vote at GE 2024. Only about 20% of all eligible voters voted Labour. The non-voting 40+% represent the level of angry disenchantment with System politics in the UK. If any party could capture the majority of the disenchanted, that party would be one of the largest voting blocs, perhaps the very largest.
Having said that, and as far as Reform UK is concerned, even at present, on “only” 34%, the projection is that Reform will be able to form a government with a majority even larger than that of present Starmer-Labour.
Wouldn’t you like to know?!
Slava!
I disagree with Dan Hodges’ view that Farage’s latest policy announcement has been a mistake. I think it may have just won the next General Election for him and for Reform UK.
All the System drones are out on social media tonight, attacking bitterly the new Reform deportation policy. Conclusion: Reform and Farage have scored a direct hit on the System tank.
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