Good old Zack Polanski spent the night before the local elections pontificating once again on – you guessed it – Palestine. The searing insight Britain’s own former breast-enhancing hypnotist offered this time was that Israel does not have a right to exist. This, the philosophising Green leader proclaimed, is because no country should enjoy such a privilege.
Polanski was invited to indulge the nation with his thoughts during an appearance on ITV’s Peston programme. Pressed on whether the tiny Middle Eastern state ought to be granted permission to continue existing, the newly anointed vanguard of Woke Britain declared:
I don’t believe any country has a right to exist. People have a right to exist, the Israelis have a right to exist, the Palestinians have a right to exist.
Polanski went on to pontificate: ‘I always think these semantics about whether a country has a right to exist actually just ends up in gatekeeping, which is partly how we ended up in this mess in the first place with the Balfour declaration.’
His comments, of course, came days after a spate of alleged Islamist-inspired attacks on British Jews. Assaults so grim that some affected families are now reportedly considering packing their bags and departing for the Holy Land. It is a bleak state of affairs when a faraway warzone is judged safer for Jews than beloved Blighty.
Going by Polanski’s logic, it would seem Palestine has no right to exist either. Still, the people of Gaza can rest easy knowing the Greens have ensured their coastal enclave is ‘on the ballot’ today. Mr S is sure they will be comforted to learn that, by tomorrow, London may boast an exciting new crop of low-traffic neighbourhoods.
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