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Diary Blog, 9 July 2025

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Ha. Still, sometimes “jaw jaw is better than war war“, as Churchill (when it suited him) opined: see also

Corrupt, kleptocratic, brutal, shambolic, not really a state at all; that is Ukraine since 1991.

[“I’m being privately prosecuted by the ‘Campaign Against Antisemitism’ under the Communications Act 2003. They say some of my posts on this platform (X) were ‘menacing’ against Jews and Zionists. I had my first hearing today and I’m currently on unconditional bail until a trial that has been given a provisional start date of 15th December. We must fight against this attempted censorship. But we need a strong legal team to do it, which unfortunately has significant costs. If you can support me, please donate here: https://fightingfund.org/stopthecaa.“]

Regular readers will know that I too have been persecuted by the malicious Jews of the so-called “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA” in recent years, indeed over the past decade and more.

They persisted, as “they” notoriously do, and finally managed to persuade a few dim police woodentops and, also, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS Wessex), to contrive a case against me. The CPS claimed to to have spent a huge amount of time looking at thousands of pages from this blog (an incredible though predictable waste of resources, of course).

Out of all that effort, the CPS, with police support, managed to cobble together an “information” (magistrates’ court case) consisting of a mere five allegedly “grossly offensive” blog posts. Five, out of somewhere around fifteen hundred at the time! Of course, only brief bits even from those five blog posts formed the basis of the case against me.

That was in early 2023.

In fact, even if the number were restricted to those blog posts published in the preceding 3 years (under the “long-stop” provisions of the notorious Blair-era “bad law” Communications Act 2003, s.127 as later amended by the government of Jewish-lobby puppet Theresa May), the pool of possibility would have been somewhere around 1,000 posts, yet the police, CPS, and malicious/cowardly “CAA” could only find five blog posts which contained any (supposedly) “grossly offensive” material. A few cartoons, a few remarks. Pitiful.

I should have been acquitted by the district judge (magistrate), and I think that he would have thrown out the case at “half-time” had he been able to find a technical legal reason to do so. It was touch and go on that, but in the end the case continued (one full day) and ended with my (absurd and wrongful) conviction on all counts, thus giving the “CAA”, the “fat lady” at CPS Wessex, and the underwhelming outside Counsel instructed by the CPS, all the chance to crow a great deal at my expense.

That was in November 2023.

Sentencing was held in March 2024. The net result was that I was sentenced to a “community order” of 15 “rehabilitation days” and a financial penalty amounting to £735. Well, I am pretty poor these days, but a third of the financial penalty was crowdfunded by a small number of generous donors (on GiveSendGo), and the rest paid off over several months.

As to the “community order”, the “15 days” turned out to be about half a dozen meetings, ranging in duration from a few hours to about 20 minutes (most being 30-40 mins), with a rather pleasant and charming young lady in Southampton. I could have had the meetings transferred to an office only a mile from my home (New Forest area), but rather liked my “probation officer”, so decided not to change the meeting place.

In the end, as said, the “15 days” were reduced to 6 or 7 meetings, about one every two weeks, before the whole nonsense was abandoned in August/September 2024, about 4 or 5 months after the sentencing hearing.

Incidentally, the CPS, probably under pressure from the “CAA” Jews, made a doomed and very silly attempt to restrict me from publishing the blog. That crashed and burned, inevitably. The sentencing judge (the trial judge was not the one that sentenced me, the trial judge having been, in the interim, gazetted as a Circuit Judge) agreed with me, and dismissed the application of the CPS with scarcely-concealed contempt.

I should add that both judges/magistrates were as fair to me as they could have been in the circumstances (i.e. circumstances of political and bureaucratic pressure).

The blog continued to be published throughout. During the pre-trial period, during the trial, between trial and sentence, after sentencing, and right up to the present day. The “CAA” Jews were so shocked by what they described as the “leniency” of my sentence that it took them about two weeks to publish their predictable whining about it on their website.

And here we are. It has been nearly 2.5 years years since I was prosecuted, and well over a year since I was sentenced. Still, it may be that I remain on the CAA’s “little list” of people to be privately prosecuted (last time, the bastards got the dim/suborned police and CPS to prosecute me, so the public purse took the strain).

I doubt that the CPS will want to launch another silly and wrongheaded public prosecution, but we do not know “until the fat lady sings” at CPS Wessex. There has, so far, been no indication of a return match.

I am not quite on the same page, ideologically etc, as Professor/Dr. Miller, or that black comedian, Reginald D. Hunter, but wish them victory in the politically-motivated cases brought by the “CAA” Jew-Zionists.

Clear “abuse of process”— privately-prosecuted criminal cases brought by malicious Jew-Zionists acting in concert with Israeli state organizations, in particular the Embassy of Israel in London.

For those wanting to read more about my own matter of 2023-2024, see:

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I have always opposed the death penalty as such (while accepting that it may at times be necessary to fire upon mobs, authorize executive action etc). My perhaps idealistic point of view was informed by Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment (the idea of repentance, and then reinvention of the self), as well as the fact that most murderers, after release from prison, do not re-offend (and few murder again). However, the migration invasion and consequent waves of violent crime (whether socio-political or not), mainly by non-Europeans, have made me confront the possibility that at least some murderers should be judicially eliminated.

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Orban may be the only prominent European politician with any sense.

Look at the US Army. Much of it could be described as “black girls who had never been out of the Bronx until they joined up“.

As mentioned before on the blog, Woody Allen will have to make a film about it.

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Diary Blog, 11 October 2024

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[painting by Konstantin Korovin]

Cats with jobs

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It’s a mad mad mad mad world.

Only the most radical measures can save this country now.

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13945859/Homeless-Tube-pusher-oxford-circus-jailed-life.html

homeless man who pushed an innocent stranger onto the tracks at Oxford Circus underground station has been jailed for life.

Brwa Shorsh pushed Tadeusz Potoczek off the platform in central London on February 3 this year, seconds before a train was due to arrive at the station.

The Kurdish migrant had claimed he’d targeted the 60-year-old in ‘revenge’ after thinking Mr Potoczek had given him a ‘dirty look’.

[Daily Mail]

“Diversity” [trs. “Britain becoming a dustbin“]

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Even more “diversity”…

Wall. Squad. End.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/10/catastrophic-situation-childrens-hospital-israel-renews-gaza-attacks

The director of the only major hospital in the northern Gaza Strip now offering specialised care for children has described a “catastrophic situation” as Israeli forces launched new ground assaults and airstrikes in the north and centre of the territory.

Dr Husam Abu Safiyeh, the director of Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, said it had not been possible to comply with an Israeli army order to evacuate all patients within 24 hours.

[Guardian]

The Israelis and their worldwide web are a global menace.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13944981/Explicit-lesbian-sex-scenes-OPERA-leave-18-audience-members-requiring-medical-treatment-Graphic-features-naked-nuns-roller-skates-Christ-having-loincloth-whipped-off.html

A radical feminist opera which includes explicit lesbian sex scenes, real blood and injuries, and naked roller-skating nuns, has left 18 audience members needing medical treatment in Germany.

Sancta Susanna by composer Paul Hindemith caused a scandal back in 1921, with outraged critics labelling the one-act opera, which tells the story of a suppressed nun discovering her sexuality, too blasphemous to be shown.

Its premiere at the Stuttgart Opera was cancelled, but more than 100 years later, it has now been staged in the city for the first time – with the shock factor amped up to dizzying new heights in what its creators call a ‘radical vision of the Holy Mass’.

The ‘feminist mass’ sees the central character, a young nun called Susanna discover her sexuality, eventually pulling down Christ’s loincloth on the crucifix in the scandalous climax. At one point, the nude nun has sex with the icon.

The performance has an age restriction of 18, and incorporates sex acts, painful stunts, real and fake blood, piercings and the infliction of a wound on stage.”

[Daily Mail]

Incidentally, the poor literacy of the Daily Mail and similar comics is again apparent in that report, “suppressed” used when the scribbler obviously meant “repressed“.

The Nazis‘ relationship to Hindemith’s music was complicated. Some condemned his music as “degenerate” (largely based on his early, sexually charged operas such as Sancta Susanna).

“In December 1934, during a speech at the Berlin Sports Palace, Germany’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels publicly denounced Hindemith as an “atonal noisemaker”.[9]

The Nazis banned his music in October 1936, and he was subsequently included in the 1938 Entartete Musik (Degenerate Music) exhibition in Düsseldorf.[10]

Other officials working in Nazi Germany, though, thought that he might provide Germany with an example of a modern German composer, as, by this time, he was writing music based in tonality, with frequent references to folk music. The conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler‘s defence of Hindemith, published in 1934, takes this line.[11]

The controversy around his work continued throughout the thirties, with Hindemith falling in and out of favour with the Nazis.

[Wikipedia]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hindemith

Few people today realize quite how decadent the 1918-1933 Weimar Republic was. That was one reason why, from the spiritual-cultural point of view, National Socialism had to come to power, to rescue the future of Germany and the German people from the basest decadence.

Now, we see the same cultural sickness and death, in sometimes even worse manifestations, spreading across Europe, and across much of the world, particularly what is regarded as the civilized world.

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Washington D.C. is largely “occupied”, in the more important areas of policy. This time, one of “them” just went too far in public.

I happened to be staying for a month or so at the oasis of Siwa (Western Egypt) in 1998 when it rained (actually just a very light drizzle) for the first time in about 2 years. The drizzle lasted for several hours, during which time the locals (mostly Berbers) were literally dancing in the sandy streets.

Not that they needed the water, as such; Siwa has about 350 springs (Wikipedia says 200) fed from an aquifer deep under the Sahara. They even export bottled Siwa water to the rest of Egypt.

[Siwa Oasis, Western Egypt; Siwa Town centre]
[panorama of Siwa from Shali citadel]
[Siwa panorama]

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By the year 2036, only twelve years away, the government’s own forecast suggests another 6.6 million people will arrive in the country, equivalent to about five cities the size of Birmingham, taking the population to 74 million people. By the late 2040s, on current numbers, the population will expand by around 20 million people, equivalent to 18 cities the size of Birmingham.”

[Matt Goodwin]

Also:

Well, what we also learned this week is that more people are now dying than being born among the British population —which is the first time this has happened for half a century.

In fact, the native population declined by 16,300 people in the year ending June 2023, reflecting the ongoing fertility crisis that will now become a constant in our national life unless, again, we rapidly change course.

The ‘replacement rate’ for a country whereby it is reproducing itself over time is 2.1 but in Britain this rate has slumped from 3.0 in the 1960s, to 1.5 in 2022, is forecast to crash to 1.38 by the year 2050 and then 1.3 by 2100, making it impossible to keep the population stable.

In other words, what demographers call “natural negative change” among the native population, alongside the other key changes below, will now only accelerate in the years ahead.”

[Matt Goodwin]

Exactly what I have been saying on the blog for years.

These are facts which the System political drones actively seek not to talk about. A disaster starting to happen all around us.

Population replacement.

Talking point

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Goodwin is right on most issues, and only completely wrong on Israel.

Looks as though the Germans are getting very tired of the post-1945 (mostly post-1989) brainwashing narratives.

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[painting by Victor Ostrovsky]

Diary Blog, 30 April 2024

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[David D, Pearce, Bird Souk, Cairo. Pearce is a former U.S. Foreign Service officer who was stationed, inter alia, in Cairo: https://www.daviddpearce.com/about; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._Pearce]

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True in part, but incomplete. Slavery existed well before the 7thC in the Middle East: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Middle_East.

Incidentally, slave caravans would pass through the oasis of Siwa in Western Egypt, having travelled from Central Africa en route to the Mediterranean coast or the Nile Delta, as recently as the 1940s.

I myself spent a month in Siwa in 1998 (out of 3 months in Egypt that year). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siwa_Oasis.

[Siwa]
[Siwa]
[Siwa]
[I may have bought fruit there from time to time; a bit different to Waitrose…]

Yes. One frequently sees Jews on Twitter etc [pretending to be] upset that “their family” died, or were displaced, or inconvenienced, during the early 1940s; people that those descended from them and alive today never knew, of course.

British or German people just do not weaponize (or, indeed, monetize via books, films, “reparations”, and “restitution”) their family histories in that way.

My own maternal grandfather [b.1901] was at Dunkirk in 1940, and later in Burma. My maternal grandmother [b.1900] lost two brothers in the First World War (both, I believe, captains of the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry).

British (and German) people accept such events as historical, and do not constantly try to use them as tags on which to hang contemporary socio-political issues.

The question is, “replaced by what“?

I wonder whether he was the one who (ultimately) ran agents Epstein and [Ghislaine] “Maxwell” when they were still in play? See also https://ianrobertmillard.org/2019/08/11/the-jew-epstein-and-prince-andrew-the-british-royal-family-has-another-scandal-maybe-its-time-to-just-get-rid-of-them/.

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These people should be on our side!

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Britain 2024

Strange minor incident. Taking a nap this afternoon, after having had a very early start today, I was awoken by a knock at the door of our tiny flat (the days of country houses and Caribbean villas being now long gone). I heard my wife agreeing to donate to the county’s air ambulance charity.

I was rather suspicious about the man at the door wanting bank details “to set up a direct debit“, so intervened and told the fellow that we would give another way. He left with superficial politeness; I could see that he was unhappy at being challenged (though I am not particularly aggressive).

I was concerned, so thought to call the police on their 101 non-emergency service. It then took something like 20 minutes to get beyond the recorded messages and just to get to talk to a human being (a pleasant-sounding lady) from the police and give her the details.

I also tried, twice, to telephone the air ambulance charity people themselves but, after an initial recorded message, was informed “your call cannot be transferred” and an unobtainable signal.

I looked up what the CEO of that charity gets paid: about £119,000 a year.

That small incident was typical of the way in which everything in this country is so screwed and just does not work. For a start, the air ambulance should be an official service, not a ragbag of private charities across the UK.

Secondly, it should be illegal for fundraisers to go around knocking on doors like itinerant gypsies. The public need to be protected.

Thirdly, how is it that the CEO of such a small charity (30 employees) gets a fairly generous salary? Yet their only public telephone number is non-operational. It’s poor.

There are too many boondoggles around, to use the American phrase. The “Major Tom” nonsense, with the quasi-fraudulent daughter and son-in-law, has surely brought that to public attention.

Fourthly, the police are almost absent when you need them. At the same time, the county police have apparently spent many many hours snooping upon and “monitoring” this blog, as they do the social media posts of others. The police need to get back to doing actual, real police work.

As a matter of fact, the Police and Crime Commissioner for the county will be elected this week. At present, it is some useless and enormous woman, a Conservative Party member.

Britain 2024— terminally sick.

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Shut up and get on the train…

Bravo! End the war.

If the Kiev regime imagines that a new army of forced and unwilling recruits will save the day, it is very much mistaken.

When the weather is warmer, and the Stavka gives the order, it is likely that the Russian armies in the east will start to roll, covered by massive artillery barrages and air cover. Any new forces recruited by the Kiev regime will simply be rolled over.

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[Katyusha rockets, aka “Stalin’s organ pipes” on the Eastern Front, WW2]

Crowdfunder

My crowdfunder remains open: https://www.givesendgo.com/GC14J.

Final word

[Adolf Hitler, 20 April 1889-30 April 1945]

Diary Blog, 31 March 2023

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[painting by Bruce Liston]

On this day a year ago

On the blog 5 years ago

BBC Question Time, and Twitter

The tweets below show how far removed from both ordinary reality and political reality are both Question Time and Twitter:

A tendentious, probably brainless (and also —probably— atheistic) Church of England clergyman, and a plainly uneducated and also unintelligent fellow (or possibly someone with a mental health problem), both of whom favour migration-invasion by backward hordes into what is left of our country.

Truly, both stupidity and (in the lay sense) treason come in a variety of guises.

Beyond that, it is remarkable how little Question Time and Twitter reflect the popular mood. In fact, you could say that the popular mood in the UK is usually the precise opposite to whatever the Question Time audience and the main UK Twitter mob are saying.

My own approach would be rather different, certainly harsher, certainly more effective in destroying the migration-invasion, “but that’s just me“…

London. Zoo.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/adrian-satchwell-sentence-acton-park-rape-london-metropolitan-police-b1071159.html.

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Emily Thornberry (aka Lady Nugee) and her half-Jew husband, however, have about 7 or 8 buy-to-let and other properties. It might be said that they are profiting from the squeeze on housing.

Emily Thornberry never seems to wonder what the effect on housing availability might be of importing many millions of immigrants (mainly non-white, at that) over several decades, immigrants who have been breeding prolifically.

Yes, I am sure that Labour will, indeed, “clear the backlog” of migrant-invaders of all sorts. How? By approving almost all applications, and prioritizing the invaders above British people for housing (and all other services), then by setting up some kind of quick rubberstamp process in France, and even in the countries of origin of the invaders. That way, Britain will actually get swamped even more, but the bad public relations of the invading cross-Channel boats shown on TV and social media will be mostly avoided.

Ah, yes, those great idealists and humanitarians, Meghan Mulatta and “the Harry formerly known as Prince”…

The USA is not working for most of its people. There again, who are we in the UK to talk?…

…but only if they have the wealth, property, money etc as well

The “trans” nonsense is everywhere now, but we must be clear: it has not emerged by accident. It is one of several attacks upon white Western civilization and culture, planned and incubated by forces of Evil embedded in our society, often in leading positions.

See also my comments from 4-5 years ago: https://ianrobertmillard.org/2018/11/15/when-reality-becomes-subjective/.

Better late than never?

In the end, this can only end one way…

More from the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11920249/Look-away-vegans-Scientists-plants-produce-ALARM-SOUNDS-cut.html

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake; https://www.sheldrake.org/essays/wikipedia-under-threat; https://www.rudolfsteiner.org/.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11923459/Finlands-rock-star-PM-Sanna-Marin-looks-set-LOSE-Sundays-general-election.html.

Finnish politics could dramatically shift to the far-Right on Sunday as an anti-immigration party aims to replace Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats Party.

The ‘rock star’ prime minister, who took office in 2019 as the world’s youngest PM at 34, is Finland’s most popular leader this century, polls show.

However, latest figures put the mother-of-one’s centre-Left SDP in third place behind the anti-immigration and nationalist Finns Party and the centre-Right National Coalition Party, which held on to a thin lead.

[Daily Mail].

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanna_Marin#Early_life_and_education; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanna_Marin#Spending;

I have nothing, as such, against silly, ignorant, and/or badly-behaved, creatures of that sort; I just prefer them to stay out of politics.

Still, looking at quite a few MPs in the UK, from both main System parties, who are we to laugh at the Finns?

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I had actually not heard of Kathy Burke until today. Yesterday was better in that regard…[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Burke].

Once more, a naive “Jack Monroe” supporter who, looking at her other tweets, is obviously entirely unaware that many “recipes” of “Jack Monroe” make food containing only a few hundred calories per person (some are around 200). So not “nutritious“. As for “thrifty“, anyone can buy cheapest pasta, mix in some fish paste and/or some tinned tomato pulp, then heat it in the microwave.

Not too far removed from the Berber/Arab oasis of Siwa, where I spent a month (out of a 3-month visit to Egypt) in late 1997 and early 1998.

[the citadel of Shali, Siwa oasis, Egypt]

That should wake up at least a few of the somnolent “woke”…

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The Jews I Met At An Oasis

A random tweet seen just reminded me of when I met a group of Jews in a desert oasis. It happened like this: I was in Egypt for several months in the winter of 1997-98. I started off in charming Aswan, spent a week or two under canvas in a then-remote part of the Red Sea coast, and then a month or so in Alexandria (an experience recounted, in part, here: https://ianrmillard.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/when-i-was-not-arrested-in-egypt/).

I left Alexandria to visit the remote oasis of Siwa, in the Western Desert not very far from Libya, southwest of the Qattara Depression and only a mile or two from the first great dunes of the Great Sea of Sand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siwa_Oasis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sand_Sea

275681-Siwa_Oasis_Egypt275695-The_desert oasis of Siwa

SiwaPanoramaA VIEW OF THE OLD AND NEW CITY OF SIWA IN EGYPT'S WESTERN DESERT.

I lived for a month, maybe longer, in a kind of small concrete chalet in the garden of the very small hotel I used. The hotel garden was sand but planted with closely-situated date palms. I discovered that dry date palm fronds, fallen from the trees, burn easily. Thus I inadvertently started a “tradition” of having a fire around which people gathered and talked in the cool of the evening.

Most visitors to the oasis would arrive on the one bus (a luxury Mercedes coach) in early evening, stay only one or two nights, then return to Alexandria (an 8-hour journey via Marsa Matruh on the coast). By the time I left, I had spent at least a month there and was the longest-resident foreigner save for a Finnish person who did Tai Chi on the flat roof of the hotel (well, maybe you have to be a little unusual to stay long at Siwa!) and an Anglican nun who wanted to set up a Christian centre there (not a very good idea even if the authorities approved it, which was almost inconceivable). Turned out that she knew a man who had tried (unsuccessfully) to teach me Physics when I was at school in the early 1970s. Small world.

I met a number of mostly young people there. I myself was an arguably youthful 41. Apart from the Finn and the English nun, I recall quite a few others who stayed at the oasis for longer than average. Some were more eccentric than others.

There was an odd young man from somewhere near Lancaster. When in the UK, he lived in a caravan on a red squirrel conservancy and had inherited a small legacy (£12,000, I think) from his grandmother. He had lived for eight years on that, in India. He said that India was both cheaper and dirtier than Egypt. I found both statements hard to believe.

Another oddity, also English, was someone about 28, whom I at first took to be some sort of evangelical Christian, but who in fact was a militant atheist. Very militant. He had bicycled across vast expanses (including the Kazakh steppe), using a specially-built bicycle which had water storage inside its frame. He had cycled from Alexandria and was planning to cycle from Siwa to the next oasis, Bahariya, a journey of some 250 miles to the East, on a desert road used only by occasional Egyptian Army patrols, perhaps once weekly. Not a good place to get a flat or run out of water. I wonder whether he made it.

One young lady, a very attractive French girl from Rennes, the capital of Brittany, was rather interested in me, but had a boyfriend with her, a pleasant young fellow from Montpellier, so our animated conversations did not lead anywhere, or any further…

We temporary “local expats” would eat such as molokhiya, a rather slimy but oddly tasty soup made mainly from green vegetables (jute leaves); more often we might have falafel, and maybe drink helba, a kind of yellow-green herbal tea made from fenugreek (Siwa was dry in both senses).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulukhiyah

https://www.inside-egypt.com/health-in-a-cup.html

So what about those Jews? They were tourists from Israel, travelling in a group. Students. There seemed to be about 8 of them. None of them seemed to be overtly attached. The girls were quiet, pleasant, modest; the boys slightly less quiet. Only one was extremely unpleasant, a transplanted New York Jew aged about 25, with beard and carrying at all times a thick and obviously unread paperback about “the holocaust”. I cannot recall the exact title, something about the SS and “holocaust” anyway. This particular Jew was studying at some university at Jerusalem and within minutes had marked me as a probable enemy! My copy of Alan Clark’s Barbarossa probably triggered his interest.

The others in that Israeli group, in discussion with other tourists (including my French “girlfriend” who never became a girlfriend), seemed to be reasonable in that they were not looking for war with the Arab world, but of course the unspoken elephant in the room was the historical basis: the migration of millions of Jews to British Mandate Palestine and later Israel, which displaced the previous occupants.

Still, in that milieu, by the “camp-fire”, one could briefly believe in an Arab-Israeli concordat. Only the occasional presence of the American Jew Zionist fanatic disturbed that pacific fantasy. He personified the Zionist fanatics who never quite get around to moving permanently from New York, Los Angeles or London to “Eretz Israel”, yet they are the ones who, as much or more than the “native” Israelis, push the hardline Zionist agenda. Look at the recent film featuring the former heads of MOSSAD, Shin Beth etc. They seem, in principle, less warlike than both the American (etc) “diasporic” Jew fanatics and Israel’s own political leaders.