How else to describe this puff piece about a Welsh woman who supports suicide bombings? I’ve now read the piece several times to see if there is any irony involved. There isn’t. The headline? “Welsh pensioner turns freedom fighter: Ex-bank manager defends Palestinian suicide bombers.” “Freedom-fighter”? Someone who supports people who deliberately kill innocent civilians? The hatred of Israel and of Israelis is now reaching pathological proportions on the British left. If the hysteria continues, it will be at brownshirt levels soon.
SO IN LOVE: A mildly hilarious take on a high-level British-American love affair.
FROM PROTEST TO …: I cannot be the only one disturbed by reports that the anti-war movement intends not merely to protest the war before it happens, but to actually attempt to undermine it when it starts. If they go ahead and try to impede those people in the military doing their jobs, if they launch a “stop-the-war” movement after it has begun and American and British lives are at stake, it strikes me that they will massively over-play their hand. It took a long time in the Vietnam War for people to start campaigning against an existing war; and longer still for some to withhold support from the troops facing battle. If the anti-war brigades decide to cross that line instantly, then the backlash could be enormous. And deservedly so.
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