4:27pm
Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Ron Prosor, has written an absolutely blistering attack on the Guardian for publishing its so-called ‘Palestine Papers’, previously discussed
here and
here. Prosor states flatly that, with this coverage, the Guardian has now established itself beyond doubt as the mouthpiece for Hamas – and he furthermore accuses columnist Seumas Milne (although not by name) of effectively endorsing terrorist mass murder:
For one newspaper, the Palestinian leadership is not Palestinian enough. From his London salon one senior columnist bemoanedthe ‘decay of what in Yasser Arafat's heyday was an authentic national liberation movement.’ For him, it seems, Palestinian authenticity can only be achieved through the massacre of athletes at the Munich Olympics, the hijacking of planes or the suicide bombing of civilians in shopping malls and pizza parlors. In his eyes,
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3:18pm
Last night I appeared on BBC1’s
Question Time, which you can watch
here, and on Wednesday night I was in my regular slot on BBC Radio Four’s
The Moral Maze, which you can listen to
here.
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5:28pm
Remember the Big Society, the Cameroons’ signature wheeze for creating a renaissance of communal and national
corps d’esprit, volunteering and
selfless giving to replace Britain’s ‘me first’ culture? Well, it appears there’s a Big Society ‘Tsar’, Lord Wei of Shoreditch, who was given a Tory peerage last year and a desk in the Cabinet Office to help nurse it along (who knew?) Part of his task was to work out how people could make time away from their paid employment to do more voluntary work and help their communities. But now the
Guardian reports:
Wei has told friends he is cutting his hours to allow him to earn more money and ‘have more of a life’. He originally worked three full days a week and will now work two days, with the hours split
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8:54pm
It is still possible that the military will stabilise the situation in Egypt and defuse the revolt, keeping the Muslim Brotherhood out of office. Whether or not that happens, the astonishing fact is that the Obama administration has
said it will accept the Brotherhood in Egypt’s government. Rub your eyes. The Brotherhood is at war with America – and is furthermore, through Hamas, in something resembling a kind of Molotov/Ribbentrop-style alliance with Iran (even though they also hate Iran), which is at war with America.
The Obamites are in effect offering up America’s throat to be cut – cheered on, of course, by the western left, who are representing the Brotherhood as the poster-boys of Middle East democracy. But if the Brothers do gain power in Egypt, freedom will take a huge stride even further backwards. As in Iran...
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11:17pm
Political commentators in Israel have
apparently expressed shock at how the United States as well as its major European allies appear to be ready to dump Egypt’s President Mubarak, the west’s principal strategic ally of three decades in the Middle East. This is indeed astounding. Sure, Mubarak is a tyrant – but if anyone thinks that the current upheavals will lead to a kinder, gentler, freer Egypt they must be out to lunch. Just because the demonstrators on the streets of Cairo are young and are on Twitter and Facebook is no guarantee that this upheaval will result in greater freedom for anyone.
The alternative to Mubarak is the Muslim Brotherhood. If Mubarak’s regime goes down, the Brothers take over. Doubtless the Brothers are also signed up to Twitter. The Brothers’ goal is to Islamise the world. They are...
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