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BLT butty aside, though, I have delayed sending my invitation to Mr Ed because since then, our man has got something else between his teeth: Israel. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse. Just when the anti-Semitism in France, Denmark, Norway, Hungary is mounting savagely, just when our cemeteries and synagogues and shops are once again under threat. Just when the virulence against a country defending itself, against 4,000 rockets and 32 tunnels inside its borders, as it has every right to do under the Geneva Convention, had been swept aside by the real pestilence of IS, in steps Mr Miliband to demand that the government recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel. 

Cue wild applause from the unions, smiles of approbation from the far Left — and shock horror from the Jewish Board of Deputies. Why would he do this? And why now? Many people on the Left and the Right would like to see a two-state solution if it means peace and mutual respect. I am one of them. Any future Palestinian state will be entirely free of Jews, of course. Yet the Jewish state is labelled "apartheid" with 1.7 million Arabs in residence and represented in parliament.

(1) It is a historical fact that the Arab states refused such an offer in 1937, 1948, 2000 and 2008. They have yet to accept Israel's right to exist and their constitutions and broadcasts to this day extol its destruction. 

(2) How can you recognise a state until its borders are decided?

(3) If you recognise a state you can officially arm that state. Already billions of pounds have been allotted to rebuild Gaza. Ha! Rebuild the tunnels and reequip the arsenal. Oh, how the propaganda has worked on these clever, concerned people again and again and again. If Hamas and Fatah cared one iota for the Palestinians, might they not have built schools and hospitals and streets for their people the first time the billions poured in and were converted into weaponry and hotel suites in Paris and citizens were used as human shields?

I'm an actress, Ed, and I am often commended for my timing. Frankly, my dear, yours sucks. The world is exploding around us. Isis is beheading our civilians while raping and pillaging across Syria and Iraq. Presidents Putin and Assad are playing such heavy-handed games that we don't know which rebel group to support. Hong Kong may be about to see a replay of Tiananmen. Islamist terrorism in every spot on the globe — and if one Jew had been responsible for any of those bombings, there would, I am afraid to say, have been another Kristallnacht. At this point in our history you choose to back these footling backbenchers in this ludicrous piece of propaganda?

And tell me this, Mr Miliband, sir, where are the pictures of the civilian dead from the allied bombings over Iraq? On which front pages can I see them? The daily count of dead and maimed babies? The howling mothers and screaming old women we saw every day, five times a day, from Gaza? May I remind you that no one is tunnelling into Dover or sending rockets into Coventry, yet we seem to have every right to bomb the living daylights out of Iraq. Again. Conclusion: one law for the Israelis, another law for the rest of the world. Plus ça change.

So, come election day, I shall give my vote to another party. Almost any other party. Until my party is once more led by mensches.

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Philip
October 29th, 2014
7:10 PM
Well, we might still have to put up with your Zionist claptrap on Broadcasting House on Sunday mornings, but at least Ed Miliband won't have to put up with you, so I guess he's delighted..

HYUFD
October 29th, 2014
7:10 PM
So is that a LD or Tory vote Maureen? I assume you will not be voting Green?

Anonymous
October 29th, 2014
6:10 PM
To be fair to ed being critiqued by an jewish actress whos best known for playing a jewish mother in a series of Tv ads(yeah you really stretched yourself for your art didnt you maureen?) Aint the end of the world ,anyone who doe not like bacon sarnies has got to be a bit ffy.

Anonymous
October 29th, 2014
5:10 PM
Good riddance, Maureen. I meant to your vote. What a one-sided view ignoring history and blaming everything on the Palestinians. Yes, they are to blame, but so is Israel.

Peter Lewis
October 29th, 2014
5:10 PM
I'm really not clear, is she against Ed Miliband (i) because he's got a useless team or (ii) because he shafted his brother or (iii) because he ate bacon or (iv) because he's not Zionist?

sackcloth and ashes
October 29th, 2014
4:10 PM
'I'm wondering about this. are you a Jew first, Labour supporter second and then British? Is this the way of your world?' Ah, the dual loyalty insult. One of the standard responses of the anti-Semite. The thing is I can't tell if you're a Labour voter or one of the BNP crowd.

Anonymous
October 29th, 2014
4:10 PM
Hear hear. The labour leadership needs to be ditched wholesale.

Anonymous
October 29th, 2014
4:10 PM
Right.... so she admires Blair but calls hersbelf a socialist? Sorry. Maureen.. Im caling "bollocks" on that. Youre just another North London metropolitan champagne socialist. The kind that has ruined the party. Its not about socialism at all, is it? Its about power.... come on, admit it.

David Malone
October 29th, 2014
4:10 PM
Dear Maureen, I am not of the amma kadishe elyonim, but a goy, politically engaged and a Protestant goy to boot. However, I applaud wholeheartedly your principled decision which has only served to make me admire you all the more. Regards, David

steve lindsey
October 29th, 2014
3:10 PM
Great post, nailed it.

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