Andrew L. Urban
The left in the Anglosphere, rather feral these days, has gone full Monty. In the UK, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced that in compliance with the rogue ICC’s illegitimate, unlawful, evidence-free arrest warrant, he would arrest Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited Britain. He’s a war criminal, Starmer believes. As does Canada’s Justin Trudeau.
In Australia, the Albanese government suggests it would follow the court’s rulings as “a point of principle”. As Mark Twain observed, “We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.”
(According to Politico, the one country that would definitely not arrest the Israelis is Hungary. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban invited Netanyahu to Hungary, assuring him he would face no risk if he did. Some countries are ambivalent, but some say they will make the arrests.)
Of course the naked aggression from Starmer & Co would only be possible if Netanyahu was granted a visa in the first place – as if he would now apply. This is a clear case of grandstanding, a signal to the feral left that UK Labour is also anti-Israel. It confirms how the UK has joined Australia in the cold war against Israel. Both stand naked, having abandoned the morality and decency that once gave them respectability. Australia has now denied a visa to former Israel justice minister Ayelet Shaked for fear of her potential to ‘incite discord’…because she doesn’t support the attempt to force a two-state solution on the middle east. Which Palestinians don’t want, seeking instead the destruction of Israel
Both the British and the Australian Prime Ministers have unspooled the long standing policies of support for Israel – but not the long standing public support for those policies. Australia’s Anthony Albanese evidently can’t connect with the public; note how he defies the majority by allowing the incremental infusion of elements of the defeated voice referendum. Likewise the majority sentiment on Israel. It’s hardly surprising that the reasonable and rational public majority support for the democratic sovereign country against the forces of terrorism in the form of Hamas and Hezbollah. Not Labor, though. Democratic principles seem an optional extra for these politicians.
They are not alone. In America, some Democrat Governors – not least California’s Gavin Newsome – have also gone full Monty, revealing their ugly anti-democratic political genitals by reasserting their intention to make their sanctuary states ‘Trump safe’. Safe, that is, from the proposed efforts to deport criminals who are in America illegally. No, really.
They have not articulated any rational basis for this stance so we have to conclude that it is predicated on and driven by hatred of Trump. Yes, really.
Hatred of Trump, the man voted President overwhelmingly by some 75 million Americans, approving his announced policies … including the mass deportations of illegal immigrants (illigrants I like to call them).
Keeping their residents safe, they claim to be their rationale, in a perversion of the meaning of ‘safe’. What, I wonder, do the citizens and legal residents think, at risk from harm as illegal migrants rape and murder Americans – as quite a few have been infamously doing in 16 states – and consume mountains of resources meant for Americans? These knuckleheads want to keep the criminals in their midst safe … from the law.
An American citizen in prison might be forgiven for writing this letter To Whomever It May Concern:
I am a convicted felon in a US prison. I write as an American citizen on behalf of my fellow inmates seeking equal rights with criminals who are illegal immigrants. We ask that we are released and given the protection of sanctuary states, accommodated in good hotels as long as we need, provided with meals, mobile phones, at least $1,000 in cash and transport to anywhere we want in the USA. If required, we are prepared to attack police and rob stores to obtain eligibility.