Tory Party ironies from London to Poland
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
David Rosenberg comments on the irony of the British government, condemning supposed antisemitism at the LSE earlier in the week (actually a protest at the racist Israeli ambassador), but running to lend support to the openly antisemitic, xenophobic, homophobic and misogynist government of Poland.
His commentary is followed by a report on the “Death to Jews” march in Kalisz.
This article was originally published by Davesrebellion on Sat 13 Nov 2021. Read the original here.
Tory Party ironies from London to Poland
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Even the Groaniad (Sat 13 Nov p 42) admits that “it is not clear why ‘Poland’ (that is, the Polish government – brc) feels it needs British engineering assistance given its sizeable existing presence of troops on its eastern border” and proceeds to speculate that both countries have quarrels with the EU. Grasping at straws, since their target is the government of Belarus, which certainly has issues with the EU! A bare section (ten REME squaddies) are to be hostages in a wider geopolitical “Drang nach Osten”. Their immediate recall would be a service to world peace.
The answer lies in broader geopolitics: The leitmotiv of Western ‘democratic’ foreign policy has been demonizing
Russia, ever since NATO swindled Gorbachev into believing that NATO would extend no further east than the INNER German frontier (that between the then FDR and the DDR). AS soon as the Western puppet Yeltsin was replaced by the nationalist Putin, this demonizing has gone in to overdrive. The US orders Germany to to obey Russian ‘orders’ truly a democratic demarche. A show of arms against Lukashenka is plainly designed to counter Putin’s overtures to Minsk. Poles may remember the inertia of the UK when Hitler invaded Poland – it is understandable that the extreme nationalists in the Polish government look for a pretext for threatening Belarus – most of which had been seized by Poland in 1918-21.
We in the UK must recognise that we have elected a far-right government. This kind of behaviour is inevitable. Sadly, we have a Labour opposition that does not do its job of opposing the Tories nor of presenting a viable alternative.
I’m trying to decide if it’s ‘ironic’ that The Jewish Chronicle refers to Kristallnacht, in their article condemning the LSE protest against the Israeli Ambassador, in London, and – almost, simultaneously – a Pole references Kristallnacht, in condemning the symbolic burning of a historic document, written to protect the autonomy and safety of Jews, in Poland.
Surely, both can’t be right?
For now, I shall, just, have to content myself with being saddened, at the need to reference Kristallnacht, in relation to either.