The big movie in the UK is The Odyssey, the 8th century story by Homer telling of the journey of Odysseus from the 10 year battle at Troy to rescue Helen.
It tells of the ancient Greek heroes, Achilles, Ajax the Great, Agamemnon, Menelaus and Diomedes fighting on the Greek side and Hector and Aeneas fighting for Troy.
Their bravery and courage are central to the story, aided and abetted by the Greek Gods.
So we see everyone loves a hero, and their stories have shaped legend and literature, and we still use many of their names today.
In the modern western society, which has been mostly war free for over 80 years, young people can only dream of being heroes, and are now adopting causes that feed into the desire for humans to feel good and righteous about themselves.
Anti-semitism has always run deep in both Christian and Islamic belief. The ancient blood libels like the Trojan legends do not need to be true to sit in the consciousness of people. The Jews have been accused of killing Jesus, of baking matzo with the blood of Christian children and poisoning wells and planning to destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
If you follow the dots you can easily see, how a rabid anti semitic BBC, Sky News and social media managed so quickly to convince the young that it was heroic, brave and right to accuse Israel of all manner of heinous crimes and brand around words like famine and genocide.
It has become a fashionable position to be anti Israel. The London and New York Mayors openly speak out against Israel, these young people cannot believe for one minute that they have got it wrong . The first speech from the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, said they got it wrong on Gaza, meaning they hadn’t been anti Israel enough and hadn’t show enough support for the terrorists !
The news repeats and edits these grotesque stories, and even when they admit the films were doctored, and the reports are quietly withdrawn the viewers continue to feel good about themselves, defending the victims, who are in fact the perpetrators, and making Israel into a pariah state full of murderous Jews. They are part of the club that has spread across liberal thinkers and the young. Hate of Israel dominates their minds to such a degree, they cannot see past the headlines and have no interest in challenging the propaganda.
Murder at a Manchester Synagogue doesn’t even register, so how can they start to see through the lies.
They have become incapable of looking at their beliefs let alone challenging them.
The Greek word Amathia, means more than ignorance, it means refusing to learn, not wanting to understand and this is what these young people now suffer from, as no evidence, however compelling, will even get them to listen.
They turn a blind eye to all the terror attacks that emanate from Islamic extremism. They do not want to hear about the horrors of October 7th and they certainly have no knowledge of the thousands of attacks Israel has suffered at the hands of Palestinian extremists and the thousands of rockets that rained down on the south of Israel for over a decade before October 7th.
Journalism in the UK is very poor bordering on shameless, lies with half truths peddled out daily. Ignorance and misinformation has turned a lot of the media toxic and we know very well this type of propaganda eventually leads to murder.
Gays for Palestine continue in their warped support for a society that would throw them from the roof tops and the silence after the Berlin Gay Pride attack is deafening. The authorities were aware the attacker was an ISIS supporter , but still he roamed free to maim and kill.
Trump stands alone against Iran, with the Europeans backing away while their countries are being over run with illegals who do not want to integrate or assimilate, but to bring their alien culture into Europe and change the face of the countries .
How scary Manchester must have been last week, with an Islamic march on horseback , men dressed in black going through the streets and no one even thinks this is not ok. That is how far things have gone in the UK.
Israel has little interest in the Straits of Hormuz, but has a huge interest in Iran being prevented from gaining a nuclear bomb. Iran’s behaviour towards their innocent neighbours shows clearly they will not hesitate to use such a weapon.
Israel has once again opened her air raid shelters, like this is normal behaviour getting readying to run for your lives when a despotic mad regime decides to bomb you indiscriminately.
Iran has drones, short and long range missiles at the ready, but the armchair critics who spend all their waking hours criticising Israel have not a word to say.
Israel is shooting down drones that are being fired on Jordan. As most of the people in Jordan are Palestinians (as Jordan was part of the British Mandate of Palestine), it doesn’t support the genocide argument very well.
The IRGC has prepared the Houthi in Yemen to choke off the Red Sea and attack vessels in the Bab al-Mandeb straits. This will likely bring Israel into the war.
Israel has started to withdraw from parts of southern Lebanon to give the Lebanese army a chance to clear out the Hezbollah. Iran are still shipping weapons to them via Syria, but Israel has managed to intercept a large shipment of over 100 explosive drones and other equipment. It is suspected during the ceasefire that Hezbollah amassed plenty more weapons, so they are not a beaten force by a long shot.
Violence has broken out in Judea and Samaria ,with both Israelis and Palestinians having lost their lives. The IDF have arrested over 700 connected to killings and the homes of the terrorists are due to be demolished. Settlers have been taking revenge for the attack against the hikers. This is apartheid: Palestinian administered areas where Jews are attacked if they dare to enter.
Elections are looming in Israel. Bibi has tried to pass a really cynical law exempting the Haredim from jail , if they refuse army service, but this is just a desperate political move and the country, let alone the High Court, are not going to stand for it.
We cannot have two tier society, mandating some to service without any choice while others are exempt to sit studying all day. Nice work if you can get it !
The whole system needs a rapid overhaul, so that everyone shares the burden. The IDF is sorely short of man power, so these Yeshiva bochurs should enjoy their last few months of skiving their civil duty, as it looks pretty certain that they will be drafted and made to serve. I think this move has done Bibi more harm that he can imagine.
In Gaza, the IDF are finding and dismantling large tunnels and locating weapons that no one could not imagine could still be in the hands of Hamas. Weapons are still being discovered in Mosques. You cannot claim protection for a holy place if it is used to store weapons.
Now the world waits to see what will happen next. Israel is mostly not involved in this last spat of fighting between the US and Iran , but that could change at any moment, depending on what Trump decides to do next. He may have now woken up to the fact, that Iran have found a very lucrative weapon in their hands (the Straits of Hormuz) that is doing the world more harm than they could have imagined, and the effect is reaching everywhere, placing the power into their hands .
Naturally, they now have little interest in the elusive deal that Trump so desperately wants and they hope that his supporters will soon put their pockets before the world’s safety and they will emerge victorious. Sadly for Trump, Iran is holding the Trump card and he needs to change tactics quickly.
Israel’s interest are not totally aligned with the rest of the world as they stand in the front line for annihilation. Boy George has released a lovely song telling the truth, so maybe music will have some effect.