Sultana and Corbyn's new left party has to deliver

Had Israel been nearly any other country on the face of planet earth — particularly a predominantly Muslim nation — a global task force, led by the United States, France, and little Britain, would bomb the country back into the Middle Ages with zero fucks given for international approval.

Israel’s disgusting actions in Gaza over the past week have been a bloody and disturbing continuation of a brutal and morally indefensible campaign of death, destruction and ethnic cleaning stretching back to the 1940’s.

This didn’t start on October 7th, 2023.

The Israeli murderers’ relentless airstrikes and ground operations, which have indiscriminately killed hundreds of innocent, desperate Palestinians, including children — and targeted civilian infrastructure like hospitals and aid distribution points — are not just entirely disproportionate but a deliberate escalation of extreme violence against an already devastated population.

Israel’s callous, criminal collective punishment must not go unanswered. Words are no longer sufficient. The world must act, with or without the approval of the satsuma-faced-fascist that had a small part in Home Alone 2, Wrestlemania, and the Epstein files. Allegedly.

Israel can be stopped – but who will?

Writers with far greater skill than I will ever possess will undoubtedly bring you captivating and euphonious ways to describe the genocidal madness of the Israeli state, and I stand in awe of the power and purpose of their craft.

They’ll talk of sanctions, how terrible Israel is behaving, and they’ll want to give Binbag Netanyahu a sharp slap on the wrist for vaporising the children of Gaza and using the besieged enclave and its battered population as a testing ground for the United States’ latest weaponry.

Me? I hate war. I hate fighting. Whether it’s your next door neighbour or an American colonial outpost such as Israel, peace is the only way to get through life.

An eye for an eye may well leave the whole world blind, eventually, but if anyone deserves a swift index finger to the pupil, it’s Tel Aviv.

How do we deal with Israel? I’m not sure we can deal with the Zionist ideology, now it’s cancerous roots have spread throughout the corridors of power around the world.

But we can do the following.

End it now

Stop the flow of Israeli cash that is so blatantly prevalent in our political parties. The Israel lobby has funded one in four MPs. Why does any British political party or politician need to take these hefty paydays from a foreign donor? The only conceivable answers are access and influence. This has to stop.

Recognise the state of Palestine. British politicians voted to do so, eleven years ago. France is about to do so.

Who are we, of all people, to deny the Palestinian people their absolute right to statehood? Stop this fucking disgusting behaviour.

End ALL arms sales to Israel and reduce trade with any nation that refuses to comply with the will of the world’s people. Germany’s historic guilt complex is not our responsibility.

There are 100,000 personnel serving the United Nations peacekeeping forces. Why not deploy a number of them to Palestine, not just to protect the Palestinian people from the Butcher of Gaza, but to ensure international law is enforced?

It’s all very well the United Nations — who have witnessed their own staff being murdered by Israel — routinely complaining about Israel’s campaign of mass starvation through various press releases, but it is the United Nations that possess the only possible solution to end the bloodshed and criminality that is being live-streamed to an aghast global audience.

Hope is on the horizon

Of course, you need a government that is willing and able to take the necessary measures to prevent the suffering and brutality that we have witnessed in Gaza and across the occupied territories, and that government isn’t the one that is currently falling apart, thanks to its ideological assault on poor and disabled people in our communities.

But… hope isn’t just on the horizon, it’s finally landed in your living room, and the utter carnage that it is causing amongst Labour ranks is nothing short of astonishingly delicious.

“You will split the left vote”, is a particular favourite. Red Tory tears do have a certain comforting effect.

Chucking three billion quid a year to the Ukrainian regime, and the 21st century Nazi’s that occupy it, isn’t particularly left-wing.

Targeting sick, poor, disabled, and vulnerable people with perpetual austerity isn’t particularly left-wing.

You know the charge sheet by now. Barely a day goes by without the Labour government effortlessly managing to disgrace itself. The bottom of each and every barrel hasn’t just been scraped, but ploughed through by an appallingly dishonest prime minister and the Blairite tribute band that he has assembled in the background.

Britain needs hope, not hate. And I’m not talking about that overtly mainstream ‘anti-racism’ organisation that aligns itself with establishment institutions and was entirely complicit in the establishment’s efforts to discredit Jeremy Corbyn (and Zarah Sultana) and the slightest sniff of a socialist policy.

Sultana and Corbyn must deliver

Is a new left-wing party likely to please everyone on the left? No, probably not. But we’re now at the critical point where slight ideological differences need to be put to one side for the greater good. Anything less would be an unforgivable abandonment of our responsibilities as decent, compassionate people.

The last time I checked, around a half a million people had signed up for the fight of their lives, and this number is only set to grow as the party carves out their own identity within the political arena.

It has been a delight to see so much genuine hope in the hearts of so many good people.

So now it is time for Jeremy, Zarah and the future leaders to deliver, because it may well be our very last chance to bring together anywhere near the sort of numbers we need to keep the frog-faced fash, Farage, as far away from power as possible.

Featured image via Rachael Swindon