Careless Talk Costs Little

Although ethnic cleansing, collective punishment, induced starvation and deprivation of aid to the Palestinian Untermenschen remain perfectly acceptable to His Majesty's Government, two far-right ministers in the otherwise moderate and sensible Netanyahoo administration have been indiscreet enough to incite such measures rather than merely having them carried out. Sanctions have therefore been imposed by five countries including the UK, though only upon the ministers as individuals and not by any means in their capacity as actual war criminals. Such daring diplomacy is consistent with Team Starmer's policy towards Britain's domestic far right, which consists of tutting along sympathetically with the general attitude while affecting pearl-clutching moral horror at some of the further reaches of rhetoric; and thus far it does not appear that the Righteous State will be significantly more grateful than the Farage Falange for this demonstration of tolerance and restraint.