IT WAS a day many of us feared would never come.
Yet as the world waits with bated breath for the final 48 Israeli hostages held by Hamas to come home, there is real hope for the first time that the war in Gaza could finally be brought to an end.
Pacific Coast NewsAfter two long and tragic years, both Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and an exchange of all the hostages – but don’t expect the protests to stop[/caption]
Pacific Coast NewsThe rent-a-mob who march through London every other week aren’t pro-Palestinian. They aren’t ‘pro’ anything, they are just anti-Israel, anti-Jew and anti the West[/caption]
After two long and tragic years, both Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza and an exchange of all the hostages — only 20 are thought to still be alive — in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
So you’d think that all the pro-Palestinian activists marching on our streets for the past 24 months demanding peace, would be happy now, wouldn’t you?
You’d think they’d call an end to their marches, right?
Lasting peace
You’d expect those masked, flag-waving mobs demanding “ceasefire NOW” would instead be too busy dancing with joy, while the Free Palestine social media warriors would be posting on X and Facebook about their delight that innocent Gazan children would no longer wake up to rocket attacks.
You might also think they’d call a halt to their vile attacks on Brit Jews, accusing them of being responsible for a “genocide” in a far-flung country.
It is ALMOST as if it wasn’t the Palestinian people they cared about after all
Julia
But I’m afraid you’d be sorely wrong. Because the pro-Palestinian crowd have been strangely quiet in the past couple of days.
While the hostages’ loved ones have rejoiced in Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square, the pro-Pally activists back here in Britain seem to be curiously gloomy and, if anything, even MORE angry than they were before Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan was announced.
It is ALMOST as if it wasn’t the Palestinian people they cared about after all.
Of course, we mustn’t get ahead of ourselves.
While Israel has signed up to the entirety of the US President’s peace plan, Hamas have only agreed to Phase One, which is the easy bit.
But it is the start of a comprehensive plan to end the war, see IDF soldiers leave Gaza and bring about the two-state solution we’ve heard so much about.
Yet, even if Trump’s plan does manage to deliver a genuine and lasting peace for Gaza and Israel, even if a moderate Palestinian leadership was elected to power, even if the Gaza Strip was rebuilt as a luxury holiday destination bringing jobs and prosperity to the Palestinian people, do you think the hate protests in Britain would come to an end?
Of course not!
This was never about their concern for innocent men, women and children in Gaza
Julia
Because the rent-a-mob who march through London every other week aren’t pro-Palestinian.
They aren’t “pro” anything, they are just anti-Israel, anti-Jew and anti the West.
The flag-waving, keffiyeh-wearing activists who hound Jewish students on our university campuses and rip down yellow ribbons for the hostages don’t care two hoots about the plight of the Palestinian people.
This was never about their concern for innocent men, women and children in Gaza.
It was always about their HATE for Israel. They care even less about the Hamas hostages and their families who have been through a living hell since October 7.
They turn their backs on people like Herut Nimrodi, the mother of Tamir, taken hostage by Hamas in his pyjamas at the age of 18. His abduction filmed and posted on social media by the terrorists.
I spoke with her this week and, two years on, she still does not know if he is dead or alive and is waiting to find out if her son will be returned to her, starved and beaten, from the Gaza tunnels, or in a coffin.
GettyThe Palestine Solidarity Campaign cautiously welcomed the ceasefire deal on Thursday, but still insist on going ahead with this Saturday’s march[/caption]
How could any mother wake up every day to that?
But that doesn’t matter to the pro-Palestinian activists who turn London into a sea of green, red and black flags every other weekend.
When they shout “From the river to the sea” on our streets, they know that isn’t a call for a Palestinian homeland, it’s the slogan of the Hamas terrorists whose sole purpose is to destroy Israel and kill every Jew in the Middle East.
When they call to “Globalise the intifada”, they know that’s a demand for the mass slaughter of Jews across the world.
The Palestinian leaders have previously turned down offers of a two-state solution. Because they want a one-state solution. And that state is NOT Israel.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign cautiously welcomed the ceasefire deal on Thursday, but still insist on going ahead with this Saturday’s march.
Why shouldn’t Trump get the Peace Prize? Hell, they can give him the Nobel Prize in Physics too if it helps end this conflict!
Julia
Just like British Rail’s infamous “wrong kind of leaves on the line” justification for trains being brought to a standstill every autumn, the pro-Pally mob see this as the wrong kind of peace deal.
Even the churlish response from the BBC has been revealing, with much mockery of Trump’s eagerness to win a Nobel Peace Prize, when the exact same deal struck by Obama or Biden would have been praised to the skies.
And why shouldn’t Trump get the Peace Prize? Hell, they can give him the Nobel Prize in Physics too if it helps end this conflict!
He deserves it because, if this plan works, he will have defied every law of physics in the Middle East.
Right to exist
The truth is that all the usual suspects attacking Israel as warmongers don’t want peace.
What they really want is a stick to beat Israel with.
They hate Israel because it is the world’s only Jewish state.
PAKeir Starmer’s desperate efforts to appease that hatred among his own MPs and voters by recognising a Palestinian state won’t be enough[/caption]
And they hate Britain and the West for supporting the right of that state to exist.
And, no, Keir Starmer’s desperate efforts to appease that hatred among his own MPs and voters by recognising a Palestinian state won’t be enough.
They don’t want a ceasefire, they want victory for Hamas
Julia
It will never be enough. Their hatred of Jews, of Israel and of the West is too ingrained for them to stop now.
Whatever happens in Gaza in the coming months and years, the pro-Palestinian lobby will never end their demands.
They don’t want a ceasefire, they want victory for Hamas.
They don’t want a two-state solution, they want the destruction of Israel.
And they won’t welcome Trump’s peace plan because peace wasn’t part of their plan.
Kemi saved Tories… for now
IT was make or break for Kemi Badenoch at this week’s Tory party conference.
There were rumours of a planned Shadow Cabinet coup in a bid to save the Conservatives from a wipeout in next May’s local elections.
But, after a year of dithering while Reform romped ahead in the polls, the Tory leader did not disappoint.
She delivered a barn-storming, policy-heavy speech including leaving the ECHR, major welfare reforms, scrapping business rates for the high street, and the final rabbit plucked from the hat of abolishing stamp duty.
Will that be enough to save Kemi’s leadership? Yes, for now, anyway.
Will it be enough to save the Conservatives at the next general election?
The jury is still out.
Some wavering Tories may choose to come back to the fold after five years of Labour.
But if it’s Reform’s policies that voters want, they’ll probably prefer the full-fat version rather than the Tories’ recipe for Reform Lite.
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