My BLOG of 28th January was partly inspired by “Drawing Conclusions” a cartoon history of Anglo-Irish Relations 1798-1998 showing that English cartoonists depicted
us as brute beasts and Frankenstein monsters, Irish cartoonists depicted the English
as human beings even when they were behaving with the greatest brutality. Nineteen
years after the Good Friday Agreement, the Prizewinning TIMES cartoonist Peter Brookes depicted Martin McGuinness and his pall-bearers as monsters on the day following Bill Clinton’s superb tribute to him at his Requiem Mass.
I met Martin once, in Portcullis House, part of the Palace at Westminster, and I was impressed by his modest, courteous demeanour. He shook my hand. which I took as a great privilege.
Martin had bestowed the same privilege on Britain’s monarch a day earlier. I do hope Her Majesty was equally chuffed.
A couple of days ago I saw on television the unnecessarily violent ejection of a Palestinian man, whose family had just been snuffed out by the Israeli “Defence” Forces in Gaza, from a British Labour Party Labour meeting in Stockport. The ejection was carried out by a burly Policeman, apparently with the approval of Senior Party members present
The British Labour Party Leader, Keir Starmer appears hand-in-glove with the Israeli
Prime Minister, whilst Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy gives the impression of having been scouted and groomed when at Harvard by the State Department and the CIA.
The physical annihilation of the indigenous people of Palestine by famine, disease,
together with other presents bestowed on them the Zionist Regime and its Western backers looks imminent. It could never have happened had that people’s humanity, and the rights
that go with it had been universally recognised.
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