system11 wrote:Antisemitism binds the elements of Labour who are in control, together.
Israel is a real country that exists. Not an imaginary world of perfect elves who frolic in the woods - just fallible human beings. Here are the objective political positions in the real world on the Israel-Palestine conflict:
Far Left: Emigrate all Israeli citizens who wish to, to a place like Montana or Utah. Give the Palestinians (formerly known as Philistines) their country back.
Left: Encourage Israel to stop annexing land and abide to even one territorial treaty. Even if a new one needs to be drafted. Actually enforce it.
Right: Allow Israel to assume complete ownership of the remaining small regions of the west bank and gaza strip that are outside their control. Another forty to seventy years should be enough.
Far Right: Manifest destiny the entire middle east. Have Israel administer it as a proxy state.
The "far" positions as you see, are what one would call "unrealistic" to "insane". Note how I use the word "far" with an objective definition that means something, and isn't just a snarl word?
The "Right" position is the current policy our coalition has - a one state solution where only Israel remains. You could be disingenuous and say "You're full of it, the guys on the TV tell me we have a two-state position!"
Which is false.
Step one to a two state solution is to acknowledge that there are two states.
They're the first party to get hit with a full EHRC investigation since the BNP
Ok. That sounds totally different than the TRUMP IS A RUSSIAN STOOOOOGE probe we had here. I am totally sure we'll hear about this again.
Horrific transgressions against humanity that'll completely dwarf the stuff that's done in the open and already known, like the Iraq war and our torture+rape dungeons.
Or the forces that are currently angling for another regime change in Iran. Which is still the underlying terminal goal of this engineered distract-and-smear strategy.
You know what would be a lot easier? If invading Iran were the moral and correct thing to do. Just like Medicare For All, you could just say the thing you want to do honestly and out loud. All the time on repeat like a broken record. And people would build a movement to make it happen.
That's the difference between corporate politics and popular politics.
I see a lot of US folk equate Labour to the Democrats and Conservatives to Republicans, but that's a whole spectrum shift.
The Tories are the same as Richard Nixon - to the right of Voldemort. But shackled by opposing forces that still have some power left.
Your communists made a few more gains in the past that ours were able to. Just because it's impossible to roll back nationalized health care or the minimum wage, doesn't mean that the donors don't have wet dreams of getting rid of that stuff.
the left of Blair, who was a centrist through and through
There is no such thing as a "centrist" or a "moderate". It's pablum - a meme to pretend to not have an active position on something when they very much do have a position on something. "Decorum poisoning", leftists call it. (Which is much more polite than the term the right wing uses... but seriously, how fucked up is it for it be considered
rude to admit to having actual goals and opinions?)
You're either for or against something. Or agnostic, which is active support to the status quo.
Everything is political and ideological - even retreating from reality is itself an act that cedes power to another.