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Lindsey Graham is a paid puppet of Israel and the connected Israel/Jewish lobby within the USA.

No argument…but what about the far more active anti-free-speech Jewish lobby?

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Now remove the “Israelis” from Spain.

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Trump says that the American taxpayers will cover the bill for all such damage. Another “own goal”, thanks to Israel and the American Jewish lobby. Well done, idiot.

Schwerpunkt: Central Israel, especially Tel Aviv and ben-Gurion Airport. Also, in the Negev Desert in the south, the Dimona nuclear plant.

Hold them upside down until all the gold falls from their pockets.

[“Iran has more missiles than anyone thinks Iran’s missile and launcher capabilities are vastly underestimated by the West (IDF, CENTCOM, media). Iran has been building, stockpiling and mass-producing missiles and launchers for 35+ years through a huge ecosystem of state, private companies, startups, universities and research centers — far more advanced and resilient than North Korea’s smaller, fully state-owned program, says analyst Patricia Marins.

Key points:

Claims that Iran is “running out” of missiles or launchers are nonsense — they manufacture 10–12 different models capable of reaching Israel, with some in production for nearly 30 years

Only ~30 launchers have been visually confirmed destroyed so far

Iran has hundreds of hidden underground silos (mapped: ~25 bases with 4–6 silos each; real number likely 50–100 → 200–600 silos total). Many use revolver systems (rotate and reload automatically, ~8 missiles per drum)

Iran hasn’t even started massively using silos yet — deliberately avoiding exposing them to satellites. They still prefer mobile launchers while working to suppress Israeli/US drone/surveillance dominance first

The West keeps repeating the same mistake (like with Russian missiles in Ukraine) — underestimating long-term production capacity and strategic depth.”]

Interesting, if accurate.

I think it far more likely that the Solicitors Regulation Authority has (not for the first time) caught up with Lewis and so he has locked his now-quite-inactive Twitter/X account to avoid the embarrassment of random questions about that from people.

The UK Jew/Israel lobby almost succeeded, at first, in protecting Lewis from publicity (online, and in the Press etc) in 2018, when he was being prosecuted by the SRA for abusing people online. It may be that we shall discover that Lewis is again being put before another disciplinary tribunal, this time on more serious charges.

Incidentally, while Lewis had at one time a flat in Eilat, Israel, more recent information (unverified) seems to suggest that he is based, when not in the UK, in Netanya, near Tel Aviv.

That woman, Fiona-Natasha Syms, is the ex-wife of the former (until 2024) Conservative MP for Poole. Despite, in the past, having been generally pro-Israel, pro-Jew etc, she found that, when she expressed her horror at the mass slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian Arab civilians, the majority women and children, in Gaza, and the injury and mutilation of hundreds of thousands of others, her UK-resident Jewish “friends” all turned against her.

While it cannot be said for certain, it seems likely that either Israeli online hackers or other fanatically-Zionist Jews have targeted her. She, as someone who could not be, plausibly, labelled “antisemitic” (let alone “Nazi”, “neo-Nazi” etc), and as someone once well-connected in the Conservative Party, was a dangerous voice of truth and conscience about Gaza, Palestine, Israel etc on Twitter/X, and has probably been targeted by Jewish and/or Israeli elements for that reason.

[“I have talked to some Israeli officials and read a good deal of Israeli media. Here is how the war in Iran is perceived there so far:

1) On a tactical level, they believe it has gone very well and Israel has destroyed more of the Iranian military capability than expected.

2) They are disappointed that the regime has not been weakened as much as expected and that they remain in firm control. In particular the lack of a “rise up” among the population is a cause of concern.

3) They are finding Trump to be unreliable. While Israel favors a prolonged campaign to ensure total dismantlement of threats, Trump has signaled a desire to end the war “soon,” creating a potential rift in war aims.

4) Hezbollah is stronger than expected. It has hit Israel with drones and missiles and killed soldiers. They have recovered better than expected.

5) The inability of Ben-Gurion airport to withstand closing and chaos has shown fragility in Israeli social cohesion.

6) They are disappointed in the lack of support from Gulf States who want an end to the war rather than the escalation Israel wants.

7) Israel accepts that the regime in Tehran will survive and just hopes that this weakens them in preparation for the next round.

8) There is a growing fear among Israeli strategists that they are winning the war but losing the region. While military targets are being obliterated, the civilian infrastructure damage is causing a backlash.

9) The war is proving very expensive. The need to divert NIS 28 billion ($9 billion) to the military has forced the government to freeze social projects, leading to the first significant anti-government protests since the war began, specifically from the middle class bearing the tax burden.

10) They are aware that the war is very unpopular in the US and that Israel is being blamed. They are concerned about the ramifications for the alliance.

While Netanyahu is painting this as a huge success, it really doesn’t look like one to Israeli strategic planners. The public knows it as well.“]

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[“The removal of historical figures such as Winston Churchill from English banknotes may appear trivial to some.

But it isn’t.

It matters far more than many people realise.

Because what we are witnessing is not an isolated decision about banknote design.

It is part of something much larger: a slow but relentless erosion of our national culture, identity, and collective memory.

As Professor Frank Furedi has observed, we are living through what he calls “the War Against the Past.”

Across the Western world, an assortment of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion bureaucrats, radical activists, and increasingly compliant public institutions are engaged in a cultural project that seeks to delegitimise our national histories and strip away the symbols that once anchored our collective identity and memory.

The pattern is now familiar.

Statues are toppled.

Historical figures are reframed as morally suspect or “divisive”.

Public institutions rename buildings, spaces, Tube lines.

School and university reading lists are “decolonised”.

The past itself is rewritten to emphasise only its sins while ignoring its achievements.

Even the quiet symbolism of everyday life — the images on our currency, the names of our streets, the monuments in our squares — is steadily edited and sanitised.

What replaces these symbols is rarely anything meaningful.

Instead of historically significant figures who helped shape the nation, we are offered neutral, universal imagery that stands for almost nothing at all — landscapes, wildlife, abstractions.

On the surface this seems harmless.

But symbolism matters.

For centuries, historical figures served as cultural signposts, reminders of the history, struggles and achievements that shaped the nation and its people.

Remove those signposts, and something subtle but important begins to change.

The past becomes distant. Then contested. And then disposable.

Gradually, the story of a nation — its triumphs, failures, and defining moments — is hollowed out.

In its place emerges a new idea of national identity that is deliberately thin: one that defines Britain not through its history or traditions but through the abstract celebration of diversity itself.

In other words, the only thing that is meant to define us is that we have no defining identity at all.

The endpoint of this cultural project is not inclusion but historical amnesia, or cultural erasure.

A society that is detached from its past, uncertain of its traditions, and unsure of what binds it together.

This is what Sir Roger Scruton meant when he wrote: “A society that loses its memory loses its identity.”

And that loss happens gradually, through thousands of seemingly small decisions — a statue removed here, a curriculum altered there, a historical figure quietly replaced on a banknote.

Each individual change may appear insignificant.

But taken together they represent something far more profound: the slow disconnection of a people from their own history and collective memory.

A people who no longer really know who “we” are.

I doubt the bureaucrats who made this decision at the Bank of England fully grasp the cultural significance of what they are doing.

But intention is not the point. The effect is what matters.

When we remove the symbols of our past, we further weaken the very foundations of our identity.

Or Orwell warned: “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

This is what is happening and accelerating around us.

This is what Furedi meant by the “War Against Our Past”.

And this is why it really matters.

Not because of one banknote.

But because of the much larger cultural story it represents.“]

[Matt Goodwin]

While I have great hostility to what Churchill did (especially the globally-disastrous war against the German Reich), he was and is still a towering modern historical figure (though arguably not quite as “towering” as his present admirers think).

I certainly not only agree with what Goodwin and others said there but have myself blogged about all of that previously, in some cases years ago. “Mental landscape“, “societal landscape” etc.

To adapt one of Marx’s best-known aphorisms, though, the point is not only to understand what is happening, but to change the direction of travel, and that will almost certainly not be a “peaceful” process.

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The whole idea of “political appointees” to ambassadorial positions (common in the US, rare in the UK) is not a good one.

James Callaghan appointed his son-in-law, Peter Jay, as Ambassador to the US in the mid-1970s. He was a disaster, and his wife, Margaret Jay, even more so, especially when she had a flagrant affair with a Jew journalist: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Jay,_Baroness_Jay_of_Paddington#Personal_life and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jay_(journalist).

As a matter of fact, that Jew political scribbler, Bernstein [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Bernstein], I seem to recall reading somewhere, was also, at one time, I think 1980s, involved with a Czech couple involved with SovBloc espionage, and who also ran some kind of informal group-sex club in the Washington D.C. and nearby Maryland/Virginia areas.

I never met any of the above-named people, I am glad to say, but I recall that someone I knew met, separately and in the course of business, both Margaret Jay and Peter Jay in the 1980s. Margaret Jay was described to me as “a horrid media person“, while Peter Jay (described to me as “a peculiar, excited, rubber-lipped person“) was a kind of glorified receptionist and greeter (sub nom “Chief of Staff”) to the Jewish criminal, speculator, and major MOSSAD asset, Robert “Maxwell”.

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