The usual suspects reacted to last week’s UN address by President Trump in a manner almost comically predictable. Shock! Horror! Trump has made the United States into a global laughingstock! He has thrown away America’s moral authority! Plus, he’s a shameless liar and a monster of evil! Etc., etc., etc.
Oh, please.
Let it first be stipulated that what Trump had to say about the United Nations was a target hit. The UN is a snake pit of incompetence, corruption and antisemitic hate. The President made his case with characteristic vulgarity and intemperance, but what he said was no more than the truth. All but openly, the UN is on the side of the world’s most oppressive regimes, many of which are also terrorist states. Worse yet, the UN has actively colluded with Hamas, a genocidal death cult, against Israel.
The claim that America has been rendered a global laughingstock seems particularly ill timed. It comes at a moment when the governments of Australia, Canada, France, the United Kingdom and other countries have beclowned themselves by recognizing that which does not exist: “Palestine.” How could anyone not bewitched by visions of genocidal Palestinian nationalism wallow in such drivel?
Where France and Britain are concerned, the answer is obvious: Years and decades of uncontrolled immigration have saddled those countries with large Muslim minorities, largely unassimilated, who have nothing but scorn and hatred for their adopted countries and for Western civilization in the large. And, of course, they’re virulently antisemitic, staunch supporters of Islamofascist death cults like Hamas, partisans of genocide.
The situation in Britain is particularly gruesome. There, about 6.5%—some four million people—of the population is of Muslim origin. Though the current Labour government of Britain won a landslide victory in the 2024 General Election, thanks the peculiarities of the British electoral system its large parliamentary majority is based on no great popular majority. To win 63.2% of seats in the current Parliament, Labour pulled in just 33.7% of the popular vote. The Muslim vote, which went heavily for Labour, was key to the party’s victory.
But since becoming prime minister, Labour leader Sir Kier Starmer has presided over a precipitous collapse of his and his party’s popularity. The British economy is stagnant, industrial production and worker productivity are in decline, unemployment is 4% and rising, inflation is 3.3% and rising, energy prices are spiking, GDP growth lags behind both the Eurozone and the United States—in the latter case 13% behind. Added to this is an upsurge of popular discontent over immigration and related social/cultural issues, fueled by such scandals as the “grooming gangs”: groups of Muslim men sexually preying on white girls and women.
The Labour Party has reacted to this popular discontent by demonizing native British people and placating Muslims. In Britain today, displays of the Palestinian flag are ubiquitous, while displays of the English flag, the Cross of St. George, are denounced as racist incitement—all this accompanied by a wave of antisemitism that the government studiously overlooks. That’s the background to the Starmer government’s ludicrous decision to recognize a literal nonentity: “Palestine.”
It was not so long ago that the prevalence of antisemitism in the ranks of the Labour Party under the leadership of the egregious Jeremy Corbyn blew up into a major political scandal. Not without difficulty he was removed from his leadership role and finally expelled from the party. The man who replaced him was Kier Starmer, who obviously has learned nothing since then. For the Labour Party is right back where it was in 2020, deeply implicated in the rise of antisemitism in Britain.
It seems reasonable to conclude that Starmer’s recognition of a fantasy-land Palestinian state is (1) a lame attempt to curry favor with British Muslims and (2) a bid to distract attention from the economic and social problems that have made him the most unpopular prime minister of modern times. And the same is probably true of the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, who has similar problems.
But if they thought that their recognition of “Palestine” would make a big splash and lead to some grand resolution of the Mideast crisis, Starmer and Macron were deceiving themselves. Israel, whose agreement is the sine qua non to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, has decisively rejected the idea. So has Donald Trump, whose support of the Jewish state has been one of the few constants of his erratic presidency. Indeed, the 170-odd countries that recognize “Palestine” have no means of implementing their bombastic declarations—as in an odd way was shown by the Spanish prime minister’s lament that his country possesses no nuclear weapons that could be used against Israel.
Straining to clothe the British recognition of “Palestine” in some semblance of reality, the BBC talked up the supposedly profound importance of the gesture. But it had to admit that:
Given its status as a kind of quasi-state, recognition is inevitably somewhat symbolic. It will represent a strong moral and political statement but change little on the ground. (Emphasis added)
There’s a term for a strong moral and political statement that changes little on the ground: empty gesture.
The BBC also noted that with the British and French declarations, four of the five members of the UN Security Council now recognize “Palestine.” The other two are Putinist Russia and the Chinese People’s Republic. They say you’re known by the company you keep—a truism which applied in this case reflects poorly on Kier Starmer and Emmanuel Macron.
And the final touch of absurdity? Everybody knows that the two-state solution is as dead as a doornail. It was killed on October 7, 2023, in the course of the Hamas pogrom in Israel that also killed 1,200 people, mostly Jews, and wounded thousands more. This atrocity proved, if proof was needed, that Palestinian nationalism is genocidal in root and branch. The Palestinians themselves reject the two-state solution that the so-called world community purports to champion. Their conception of a Palestinian state is one built on blood-soaked ground, over the bones and ruins of the Jewish state. Sir Kier Starmer may not be the brightest bulb in the Westminster chandelier, but he knows this. So does Emmanuel Macron. So does every single solitary “anti-Zionist” who runs around masked with a keffiyeh, waving the Palestinian flag.
That so much of the world has received 10/7/2023 as the signal for a powerful upsurge of Jew hatred is too horrific merely to be called an irony of our time. It’s barbaric, monstrous, evil. And the United Nations is the epicenter of that evil, its world headquarters.
Say what you will about Donald Trump, but he has the UN’s number.
Bullseye.
Aside from the stupidity of recognizing Palestine, something our US leftists would also do if they could, is there anything else that British Labour does that makes them the stupid cousin of American Democrats? The UK is a country that cannot defend itself by itself, just like the rest of Europe, yet they continue to crow as if they still had the empire. They don't. Never will again.
And if they don't solve their Muslim immigration problem, England and Great Britain will cease to exist.
The article mentions there are 170 countries that recognize Palestine that don't have the power to implement or support their recognition. Palestine is and will remain unrecognized as long as Israel and the US say it will. It's time for a reality check. Without US aid and military support, the large majority of Europe ceases to exist. Countries in Southeast Asia cease to exist.
The US is the world hegemon, and that's just the truth. The fact is before Trump the US was a good team player (read Biden sold us to the highest bidder), and we weren't a threat to the rest of the world.
That's changed. Trump is flexing US muscle, and anyone who doubts our resolve is in for a rude awakening. If that's what the rest of the world is asking for, who are we to deny them?