Tales from the asylum

It has been a week of absurdities, outrages, and absolute madness in the world of international politics on Israel.

I need stronger painkillers.

My head hurts. I have taken paracetamol, ibuprofen, and am now on codeine, but nothing helps. I may need a pethidine drip. The problem is just when I think I am getting better, some new outrage against Israel hits me like a hammer.

Even by the asylum-worthy standards of international diplomacy against Israel - where up is down and down is up and reality has no place - it has been a week of madness.

Surely, we have reached peak absurdity when the slave-owning terror-sponsoring State of Qatar is lecturing the democratic state of Israel on morality. It is like a black comedy.

Qatari Prime Minister (and Foreign Minister) Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said Israel’s blocking of aid to Gaza to pressure Hamas into releasing the remaining 59 Israeli hostages it has held for 20 months in inhuman conditions was a “stain on the conscience of the entire world.”

As is often the case with antisemites, he is projecting. He might need a sit-down with Freud. Qatar’s moral credibility is lower than a snake’s belly.

Despite its vast gas wealth, the country puts tens of thousands of sub-continental and other workers into indentured labor every year.¹ Along with the Islamic Republic of Iran, Qatar is a major sponsor of Jihadist terror. It funds the banned Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and increasingly in Judea and Samaria, too.

It has funneled millions of dollars to US universities, turning them into Jihadist anti-Western breeding grounds as part of the wider Islamist aim of destroying nation states and imposing - not building - a Caliphate.