John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY MARK STEEL IN THE INDEPENDENT
“The Islamic fundamentalist Jeremy Corbyn should be ashamed of himself – if only he'd behaved more like Margaret Thatcher
“Corbyn supported every gay rights campaign at a time when it was considered extremist to do so. And the way he managed to be an extremist Islamic fundamentalist and an extremist gay rights fanatic at the same time only shows how dangerous he is”
Well done.
But Netanyahu's butting-in raises a huge issue in all this ugly McCarthyite campaign against Corbyn.
A foreign head of state is trying to tell people in Britain about a British leader.
Does any thinking person regard that as fitting?
Of course, Netanyahu even had his facts wrong, as he so often does.
But the very idea that he thinks he can make public charges against a leader in another country is completely out of line.
Earlier the leader of Israel’s Labour Party did the same thing.
Talk about Putin, who, by the way, never engages in such behavior.
And the leader he attacks, moreover, was cleanly elected to his office twice. Netanyahu has always been a minority politician.
You know, just for perspective, I think of the time of the Charlie Hebdo march in Paris.
The French government did not want Netanyahu to come, actually asking him to stay away.
He came anyway and elbowed his way to the front of the parade. Afterward, he went around trying to convince some French citizens to leave France to live in Israel.
Netanyahu almost makes Trump look moderate, yet this godawful man is almost never criticized and is busy making a hell of the Middle East
