Read this column and see how familiar it sounds. Thank goodness America's not quite this bad...yet. But if the Democrats win the White House in 2028, things will get very bad very quickly.
---------------------------------------------------
Why the nation of Churchill is no more. A former diplomat blows the whistle on anti-Israel bias and Islamist entryism
Melanie Phillips, Mar 18, 2026
"The “special relationship” between Britain and America is currently on life support. US President Donald Trump is furious with the British Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, for refusing to join the US and Israel in the war against Iran.
"He is furious with others in the west too for similarly refusing even to help defend the Straits of Hormuz, the “chokehold” waterway which the Iranian regime is currently threatening to attack. As a result, traffic through the Straits has dwindled to a handful of tankers and the price of oil has soared.
"As Trump has pointed out, the refusal of Britain, Europe and others to help defend the Straits is particularly egregious since they are vastly more dependent on the oil coming through there than is America.
"They are refusing not just because they are pusillanimous appeasers who will never themselves lift a finger to confront tyranny and are all too happy to rely parasitically on the US to defend their interests.
"That behaviour is disgraceful enough. Far worse is their objection to the war itself, taking refuge behind a perverse denial of the 47-year war waged by Iran against America, Israel and the west to declare falsely that the current war is an illegal act of aggression under international law.
"And behind that bubbles an unsavoury stew of disgust and fear of Trump’s moral clarity over Iran (yes, you read that right); venomous hostility to Israel founded in the destruction of their own moral compass; and the disintegration of their sense of national identity and purpose and ability to acknowledge, let alone defend themselves against, predatory foes both from within and without and who need to be fought.
"This is the context within which to understand the pathetic spectacle of Starmer shaming and betraying his country. He has totally collapsed the Labour party’s last vestige of its historic claim — which Starmer himself made, when he was purporting to fight the party’s exploding Jew-hatred under the previous leadership of Jeremy Corbyn — that “the Labour party is a moral project or it is nothing”.
"Well, now we can see it is indeed nothing. Starmer and his party have refused to take part in the heroic, desperate and courageous attempt finally to rid the world of a very great evil, the Islamic regime of Iran.
"Those fanatics are up to their necks in the blood of their own people as well as that of American and British soldiers in Iraq and elsewhere. Through their proxies, they’ve made countless innocents into victims of the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism, and have slaughtered equally countless Israelis and Jews who they intend to wipe off the map altogether.
"This terrible regime has not only destabilised other countries in the region; it has not only presided over a global drugs trade that has funded its genocidal murder machine by turning untold numbers in the west into lethally addicted zombies; but it also squats at the centre of the global axis of evil comprising Russia, China and North Korea which it has provided with fuel, armaments and a centre of economic and geopolitical gravity.
"If the civilised world is ever to be freed from this lethal constriction that has been relentlessly suffocating the life out of it, the head of the snake must be severed. Yet Britain, the once lion-hearted nation that under Winston Churchill saved the free world and whose greatest exports have been political freedom, military excellence and cricket, has turned its back on this vital and desperate endeavour.
"It has also demonised and punished Israel for defending itself against the regime’s murderous attacks — through promoting the exterminatory Palestinian cause, pushing Hamas propaganda lies, and supporting lawfare witch-hunts and military boycotts against the Jewish state — while fawning over the tyrants of Tehran.
"Shortly before the war, just weeks after the Iranian regime massacred thousands of its own people protesting at its tyranny — with the streets of Tehran reportedly running red with the blood of those who were ruthlessly gunned down by the regime’s security goons — staff of Britain’s Foreign Office actually attended a party at the Iranian embassy in London to celebrate the revolution that had brought these monsters to power in 1979.
"The Telegraph reported:
"As smartly dressed guests, including UK civil servants, gathered at the London event, embassy officials hailed Iran’s “remarkable accomplishments” in spite of “unjust” Western sanctions. Video footage shows attendees standing in silence for a rendition of Iran’s national anthem…
"Seyed Ali Mousavi, Iran’s ambassador to the UK, gave a speech praising the Iranian regime and attacking Western sanctions on Tehran. “For nearly half a century, Iran has faced relentless pressure; from the eight-year imposed war and severe sanctions to acts of sabotage and terrorism,” he said.“Nevertheless, by relying on domestic capabilities, national cohesion and empowered human resources, it has achieved significant progress.” …
"A large banner can be seen adorned with pictures of Ali Khamenei, the former Iranian supreme leader who was later killed by US-Israeli strikes, and Ruhollah Khomeini, his predecessor…The attendance of Foreign Office staff at the embassy event, as well as unnamed “representatives” from the UK Parliament, was hailed by Iranian state media. It is not known how many government officials took part.
"That nauseating spectacle has prompted a rare whistle-blowing moment from within the circles of Britain’s foreign policy establishment. In an article for the Telegraph yesterday, Edmund Fitton-Brown, a former UK ambassador to Yemen and who was a British diplomat from 1984 to 2017, identified a disastrous absence of moral clarity, “systematic bias” against Israel and Islamist entryism. He wrote:
"That officials thought it appropriate to celebrate the Iranian Islamic revolution speaks volumes about the strange topsy-turvy morality of the Foreign Office, an institution increasingly unsure who Britain’s friends and enemies actually are…
"Israel is treated with a forensic level of scrutiny that few other states receive, while the behaviour of its adversaries is frequently contextualised, rationalised, excused or ignored. Take the long list of recently retired senior Foreign Office signatories to a letter last year, calling for the immediate recognition of a Palestinian state, in the face of strenuous US objections. Or the official advice blowing hot and cold over Britain’s involvement in the current conflict with Iran…
"Two decades on from Blair/Bush, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that another factor has grown in importance: Islamist entryism not just in the Foreign Office but also throughout the Civil Service and a range of other professions. We have seen a steady reframing of debates, including in the sphere of national security. Allies portrayed as the problem, adversaries become misunderstood actors with legitimate grievances. Hate marches for Hamas and the Houthis show that inversion in society and the Civil Service reflects society. Over time, that inversion produces exactly the kind of misjudgment we saw this week.
"The Islamic Republic has been waging undeclared war on the West for nearly 47 years, promoting a “Death to America” message that applies equally to the Little Satan, the UK. Iran still refuses to withdraw the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, issued by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 and reaffirmed repeatedly since. That decree called for the murder of a British citizen for the crime of writing a novel – and very nearly killed him in 2022. Until it is formally rescinded, the idea that relations with Tehran can ever be described as friendly is fanciful. A government that still sanctions the killing of writers should not expect to party with British officials…
"It is mystifying that Sir Keir Starmer, having promised in opposition to proscribe the IRGC, still hasn’t done it, even after the EU has. We have had many recent terror plots in the UK, often against Jewish targets, and often sponsored by Iran. Who exactly needs to get killed before we take decisive action?
"Foreign policy begins with moral clarity. If we cannot even decide whether celebrating the birth of the Islamic Republic is appropriate for British officials, then it is little wonder that our position in the Middle East increasingly resembles that of a country sitting nervously on the fence, hoping the conflict will pass us by while our influence quietly ebbs away.
"This rare lifting of the curtain to reveal the moral squalor of Britain’s foreign policy establishment, civil service and wider society that is destroying the UK’s position in the world makes Fitton-Brown’s article exceptionally important. Apart from an item on GB News, however, no other media outlet has yet seen fit even to mention it.
"Says it all, doesn’t it."
.jpg)
No comments:
Post a Comment