"stupid is as stupid does"

random thoughts on everything

London simmers in the upper 20s and rage boils on the streets.

This week the deluded pro Palestinian mob have new flags to wave, new rhymes to shout. We, the Jewish community watch in confusion as the Iranian colours are held aloft, misappropriated by ignorant, virtue-signalling protestors as their new cause celebre. Their self-serving cosplay and fake indignation at the destruction of Iran’s nuclear program is … as always … aimed at clicks on social media. Yet another means of further inflaming hatred of Jews and Israel. When news teams turn away from Gaza, their cameras ignore the braying mob who feel diminished, their sense of importance gone, idiocy exposed in their unseemly rush to support Iran’s evil IRGC.

These protestors are so deeply stupid, they apparently have no clue that the majority of Iranians either stand with Israel, or will happily take the benefit of their military success. Proving support in large numbers, the Iranians have marched in solidarity with Jews and Israelis since October 7. They turn up to every bring them home, Stop the Hate, pro-peace rally, shouting out against antisemitism, Iranian sponsored terror, and hostage taking.

Most British protestors, so used to the liberal freedoms of the West, understand nothing of life in Iran. Too busy videoing their self importance, and laundering Iranian hatred, they cannot imagine the oppression of living under the rule of a fundamentalist Islamic State. They wrongly equate Iranians … who are mostly Shi’a Muslims, not of Arab descent … with Palestinians … who are mostly Sunni Muslim, and Arab. Spoiler alert; the Iranian people care little to nothing about the Palestinians. They are merely another reason to loath their government for stealing the country’s money to fund worldwide terror via the IRGC, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthi death cults. Leaders of these organisations live in penthouse luxury whilst the people are mired in poverty.

It takes bravery to shout anti-government chants nightly from dark Tehran rooftops. But knowing they are not Israel’s target, this is how many Iranian people have celebrated the IDF offensive. Above the streets, out of sight from the feared secret police, who would torture and execute them in a cruel heartbeat for voicing treachery against the hated Ayatollah. A kind and religious man? Misunderstood? Saintly? He has announced, that any Israeli spy caught will be strapped to a ballistic missile and launched back to Tel Aviv.

I believe him.

Much like French mobs did during their revolution, I expect crowds of the deluded would gather to cheer in delight at such a dreadful spectacle. Hyde park might construct large screens and picnic tables. Massive Attack would provide live entertainment, so excited to get a performative second chance to sing before their video of terror chief Yahya Sinwar strolling through a Gazan horror tunnel. Our British police would offer the usual ‘nothing to see here mate’ … shrug and turn away. The BBC would justify the Ayatollah’s actions. School children would have the day off. Our pitiful Parliament would wring their hands, speak words of appeasement and link arms with the Canadians to sing Bob Dylan songs. A tuneless Blowin in the wind, with no sense of irony that Dylan’s a Jew.

Meanwhile, out on our streets the British idiots are funded via mosques, charities and institutions linked to Tehran, proxies of the foul Iranian regime, and not only does our government turn a blind eye it fails to proscribe the IRGC as an organisation of terror. Kier Starmer’s constant pink flush should be one of shame as he allows protestors to blatantly serve the propaganda machine of Hamas, Hezbollah and the opportunist Houthis. This terrifying new religion worships hatred whilst pretending to ‘free Palestine.’

Returning to the French … little Macron may have Napolean syndrome, but he lacks that man’s bravery and strategic skill. Macron’s backdoor ban on Israeli companies who were legitimately showing their wares at the French arms fair was pathetic. But of course, when your capital city has been beset with rioting it’s best to leave the bravery to Napoleon. I imagine the exhibiting Chinese, and the Turks, had knitted their latest weapons of destruction in brightly coloured wool. On their stands they played soothing lullabies to roaming kittens and puppies. All eyes on lucrative contracts from the world’s visiting despots.

I suggest, Macron picked the moment for his selective bullshit with a commercial twist. The French were competing beside the Israelis and felt inferior. Macron’s sudden sensitivity about whose designer armaments should be allowed to kill whom, wrongly imply that he might do the right thing and seriously consider banning French Arms sales altogether. War is never kind, so maybe he should ditch the Rafale fighter jet for a heart balloon, then follow his principles and never again hold an Arms Fair on French soil.

Shhhh! Don’t mention the embarrassing fact that … had it not been for the French government, who welcomed Ayatollah Khomeini (slung out from Iran, Turkey and Iraq) to live comfortably in exile near Paris in 1978, his revolution might never have happened … and our world today might have been a safer place.

I leave you, as I began, with the wise words of Forrest Gump, “stupid is as stupid does.”