PIRACY IN THE MED

The news today is dominated by the shameful and illegal attack on aid ships in international waters by Israeli forces. More than 10 deaths were caused. The Israeli government says their forces were attacked by people with knives and iron bars. Of course they were. This was an act of piracy and they were defending their ship against attack.

Now I am no friend of the muslim religion and the sight of people in muslim dress in my country offends me.
BUT I sympathise with the people of Gaza and the Palestinian cause.
As a nationalist I believe everybody has a right to run their own country as they wish. I believe the state of Israel was a mistake we have to accept, but not their expansion into the West Bank and Gaza.
If I had had my land confiscated by a foreign power, my children driven into exile in a ghetto like Gaza I would never forgive the perpetrator.


The presence of Israel and its military expansion has been a cause of conflict for the last 50 years. The 9/11 outrage was a result and the radicalisation of muslims worldwide was a result of the West's perceived support for Israeli aggression.
The Iraq war was started because America believed Saddam threatened Israel. The excuse that he had not obeyed United Nations directives does not hold water as Israel has flouted these with impunity many times.
Afganistan is another conflict directly related to Israeli aggression and now Iran is threatened.
Yes, Iran threatens Israel but one can understand why. Muslims stand together (as do Jews).

There will be no peace in the Middle East until Israel is cut down to size and becomes more cooperative, and that is difficult with the large pro Israel lobby in the USA. However the USA is not the power it was and Israel as a Jewish state (now that's an interesting concept when an English nationality is considered racist) will be increasingly isolated in an ever more dangerous world.
The appointment of Tony Blair as a "peace envoy" shows how out of touch these people are. Blair was the man who appointed Lord Levy, a friend of Israel as his peace envoy, hardly likely to demonstrate impartiality to the dispossessed muslims.


Gaza costs us £millions in aid when the situation was caused by Israel and that country even prevents cement being imported into Gaza. Israel should pay for reconstruction, why should we pay for their actions? They really did pick up many ideas of brutality from Hitler but then like Hitler they believe in their superority over others (gentiles) and are just as deluded and no better.

Britain should keep out of any conflict this outrage causes apart from in my opinion a blockade of Israel to see how they like it. It might bring them to the table with a real intent on meaningful negotiations which could hopefully prevent the seemingly inevitable nuclear holocaust which their intransience will cause.

UNFREE FREE TRADE

I read in Saturday's Daily Mail that Land Rover and Jaguar cars are to be built in China.
So what's new you may ask?

This move is because of the high tariffs imposed on goods imported from Britain by China, in order to protect the home industry and labour force from cars made here. So we are not so uncompetitive after all otherwise why have these tarriffs against our goods?
Our government preaches free trade and allows tarriff free goods into Britain which decimates our industry and results in much of it being sold off to China of all places but accepts discrimination against British products ( a bit like the discrimination against British people)
I am a bit wary of naked protectionism believing it can provoke retaliation which may not be in our interests but it seems other countries arew quite prepared to use this tactic and get away with it.

I believe WE should retaliate with import duties on Chinese goods or those from any country which discriminates against ours. Of course this would reduce the profits of the big business on which the political parties depend, but it would be a step in the struggle to save our manufacturing jobs.

This is not a request for preference, JUST FAIRNESS, but I doubt if we will get it.