Mick Hartley

The deepening chill towards Israel

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Mick Hartley

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ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKcpNkx2b8E”>which can be watched on YouTube – beggared belief: “So they [Israel] have gone beyond the right to defend themselves?”

Supplied with this interrogatory underarm lob, Kelin replied: “They’ve gone far beyond the right to defend themselves. Everybody, including the UK and the others are calling them to immediate cessation of fire and also proceeding to the peace plan.”…

Meanwhile, Guardian columnist Owen Jones said on Sky TV – also on Thursday – that Germany was supporting Israel because this enabled it to overcome its Holocaust guilt, and it had “decided to force the Palestinian people to pay for its own heinous crimes”. (Jones was strongly criticised for this, but insisted there “nothing offensive” about it.)

Before October 7, the kind of discourse outlined above wasn’t much in evidence, at least not on mainstream outlets, but was confined to the online chatrooms of the extreme right and left. It is now becoming normalised, and in so doing it  reflects and fosters the deepening chill towards Israel in the chancelleries of the democratic West.

The past week has arguably been Israel’s worst since this conflict started. My fear is that the outlook is still more bleak.

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  1. Graham Avatar
    Graham

    msn.com/en-us/news/world/only-one-in-four-british-muslims-believe-hamas-committed-murder-and-rape-in-israel-report-reveals/ar-BB1lbvTO” rel=”nofollow ugc”>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/only-one-in-four-british-muslims-believe-hamas-committed-murder-and-rape-in-israel-report-reveals/ar-BB1lbvTO

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  2. Alan Avatar
    Alan

    Are you surprised!!!! However barbaric and evil the October 7th attack, the great majority of civilised people are horrified at what is happening to the million plus Gazan inhabitants, the deaths (even if it is significantly less than 33,000) and the destruction of their homes and livelihoods.
    The October attack is being “exploited” by Jewish extremists who want all the Arabs out of the West Bank and even Gaza and to include those regions in the State Of Israel!

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  3. Mick H Avatar
    Mick H

    Oh come on. There are no doubt Jewish extremists who’d like Arabs out, but that’s not what’s driving Israel’s war in Gaza – or the anti-Israel animus in the media.

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  4. Alan Avatar
    Alan

    (1) Those Jewish extremists are in control of the present Israeli government. A simple fact!
    (2) What is driving Israel’s war in Gaza??
    (3) I don’t think there is “anti-Israel animus in the media”. People are simply horrified by what is happening to the Gazan people!

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  5. Mick H Avatar
    Mick H

    Ah well. Perhaps you didn’t read David Rose’s article.

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  6. Alan Avatar
    Alan

    I read your extract, which I take to cover the essential points.

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  7. Graham Avatar
    Graham

    Yes, it should be surprising and shocking that 3 out of 4 British Muslims and 4 out of 10 Britons in general say they don’t believe the evidence that the genocidal islamists themselves broadcast, of their orgy of rape, torture and slaughter on 7 October. I suspect that a significant number of those who say they don’t believe it actually do but think it’s justified because they sympathise with the terrorists.
    The fact that a very large number of people really don’t care that the IDF go to extraordinary lengths to avoid civilian casualties and that compared to every other conflict in recent history achieve a very small percentage of civilian fatalities is very troubling and is hard to understand as anything other than a manifestation of latent antisemitism.
    The role of the media and NGOs as IRGC / Hamas propaganda channels is despicable and contributes to the continuation of the islamist war on Israel and every resulting death.

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  8. Mick H Avatar
    Mick H

    Well said. Will post this morning on that survey.

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