The day of the rebels

Subject: FW: The day of the rebels.

 

 

And so after their day in the limelight the MPs who left their respective parties to sit obscurely on the opposition back benches face a new day today, outside the consideration of their respective parties. Viewed by some as traitors, by others as simply disloyal their act of defiance seems disjointed and without a banner, other than rebellion against their leaders and it seems to me their relevance is greatly lessened.
One listened when, in the Tories case, the MPs questioned the Prime Minister over her direction of travel in the Brexit negotiations but it was because they were speaking from the Tory benches that they carried weight. They reflected the fact that the Tory party was not at one and one admired their pluck at going against the whip. Now they sit in a bland hotch potch, a rag tag bag of dissent flanked by the SNP, the Liberals and those strange bedfellows the Irish gang, who's sectarian voice only displays the gulf which lies between us and the Emerald Isle.
The labour dissent focuses on their dislike of Jeremy Corbyn and their Jewish affiliation which has attracted a great deal of outrage in their defense of Israel over the rights of people in Palestine. Corbyn, something of a political dinosaur is still fighting the old causes which the socialist amongst us remember before the marketeers of Blairism  air brushed them out of existence with that new product, 'Tory Lite'. It was a sticking plaster over the true evils in this country, a glossy ad mans attempt to hide the disconcerting fact that we have in essence a broken society. 

The likes of Chuka Umunna, Chris Lesley, Mike Gapes, Ann Coffey, Angela Smith and Luciana Burger, all strong supporters  of the 'Friends of Israel' group, are active in their defense of Israel. There is no reason why they shouldn't be but it's a toxic mix to marry their ideas of what is happening between Palestine and Israel.
Corbyn has long held the view that the Israelites have committed acts of genocide towards the Palestinians and that the right wing government of Netanyahu has blood on its hands.

There has been a left wing bias against Israel ever since the State of Israel came into being in 1948 when part of the mandated Palestinian territory was handed to the Israelis by the Brits. As with so much in the relatively recent history of the Middle East, the arbitrary division of land into territory which suited Whitehall, rather than the people on the ground, severing centuries old tribal affiliations and marrying hated enemies, igniting violent feuds  all at the stroke of a line in the sand.
These decisions linger on to this day and surface in anti semitism.