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Much as the old adage about putting the shovel down, the way to quit getting smacked in the face by rakes is to stop trudging forward in the same direction.

Never that quick on the uptake, the gelatin-spined leaders of many European Union top-tier countries are experiencing difficulties figuring that out, particularly when it comes to enacting punitive measures against Israel that they think will earn them kudos from the Hamas supporter class.





The question is, why do they want a pat on the head from such revolting creatures to begin with?

Nevertheless, out they trot, each in his own fashion, to virtue-signal against whatever the chanted phrase of the moment is. Right now, ‘genocide’ seems to have given way to ‘recognition.’

In Germany, Das Limpet, Herr Chancellor Friedrich Merz, is discovering that his deal with the devil to attain power could also cost him what he sold the little soul he had to achieve.

In mid-July, Merz torqued off his already hostile Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners by flubbing a reporter’s gotcha abortion question (which is illegal in Germany) over the SPD’s nomination of two uber-radical judges to their Federal Constitutional Court. Nominations in the toilet after the public uproar, the SPD has vowed vengeance, and, sadly for the miserable Merz, he has to suck up to them otherwise he has no coalition and no chancellor’s gig.

It didn’t take the radicals at SPD very long to find an issue to hold Merz’s feet to the fire over, something which (yet again) directly contravened Merz’s campaign promises.

Friedrich Merz finds his chancellorship in crisis following his announcement of an arms embargo on Israel

…The SPD, it was always clear, would extract a price from the Union for the failed confirmation of their candidates, and last Friday – when the Israeli security cabinet announced their plans to take over Gaza City (if not the whole Gaza Strip) as part of their broader strategy to stamp out Hamas – they had their opportunity. The German left are increasingly critical of Israel, while support remains high within the centre-right Union parties. The Social Democrats, it seems likely, leaned on Merz for a favour, in full or partial payment for his failure to clothe the dreadful schoolmarm Brosius-Gersdorf in the red robes. Hours after the Israeli cabinet made their plans known, Merz suddenly announced a partial arms embargo on Israel, affecting all military equipment “that may be utilised in the Gaza Strip.” It was a sudden turnabout for a Chancellor who had made support for Israel a talking point in his campaign and who in June weathered sharp cricitism for defending Israel’s attack on Iran as necessary “dirty work” undertaken on behalf of the entire West.





The blowback for Merz’s announcement of the arms embargo against Israel was immediate and astonishing, and has left the man with few supporters.

…The reaction from within the Union parties, and particularly the Bavarian CSU, was immediate and unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Internal disputes within the CDU and the CSU are generally kept quiet; the party strives to present a uniform public facade. Not in this case. The backlash has been an order of magnitude greater than the rumblings of the Merkelian left-leaning Unioners in January, when Merz flirted with tearing down the firewall against Alternative für Deutschland.

Apparently, Merz had consulted basically nobody within his own party in advance of announcing the embargo. This particularly outraged the Bavarian CSU. Party chairman (and Bavarian Minister President) Markus Söder has said the Christian Social Union will not accept the embargo. His predecessor Horst Seehofer has called the decision “a mistake” and “a foreign policy error,” and CSU General Secretary Stephan Mayer has derided the embargo as “highly symbolic and emotionally-driven politics.” Things are hardly better in the CDU. Johannes Winkel of the CDU youth wing, crazy CDU warhawk Roderich Kiesewetter, CDU Minister President of Hesse Boris Rhein and even Merz’s own cabinet minister Karin Prien have condemned the decision (in Prien’s case, obliquely). As the avalanche poured down upon his Chancellor, a clearly shocked Union foreign policy spokesman Jürgen Hardt gave an interview in which he expressed surprise at the hostile headlines and the sharp criticism, which he said the government had not reckoned with. The subtext is clear: Merz, a political dolt the likes of which we have never experienced before in such high office, thought his concession to the SPD would go unnoticed in the sleepy summer news cycle.





Already weakened by his previous Old Magoos with discarded campaign promises, Merz has been reeling politically.

Others have stepped forward in support of the Palestinian cause and found rakes.

Elfen abused child groom Emmanuel Macron unilaterally decided he would recognize a Palestinian state, announcing it proudly as if his saying it would solve everything.

All Macron managed to do, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio – at that time knee-deep in negotiations – was collapse the talks and probably condemn what hostages are still breathing to dying in those tunnels.

I have to applaud these Trump cabinet members and their unfiltered assessments of why things go south and exactly who did it. I love it. Blame where blame is due.

Despiably but predictably, Macron’s was no gesture made in the name of noble humanitarian pursuits. It was nakedly political, and a desperate sop to appease the Islamists threatening to tear France apart.

…The hostages who would have been released during that cease-fire may not survive to the next, and Macron (and to some extent other European leaders, including Starmer) may have abetted their murder. So why did he do it? Reports the Times:

“Mr. Macron told [German Chancellor Friedrich] Merz that he was under immense pressure at home and would most likely recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations in late September.… The next day, without telling the Germans, Mr. Macron announced his decision publicly.”

Behind the scenes, Merz was playing a delicate role. He has far more affection for the Jewish state and the wider Jewish world than either Macron or Starmer or nearly any other Western leader save Donald Trump. Alone among the three, Merz has a genuine desire to see the state of Israel survive. But he is also quite critical of Israeli policy of late and suspended some weapons sales after Israel’s announcement that it would pursue Hamas into Gaza City.

Macron acted out of panic and fear. He is not the only world leader under pressure to throw Israel under the bus, but he is a uniquely weak-willed one.





If Macron’s diminutive stature, slapped face, and the open scorn on Meloni’s hadn’t already shown the world what a non-entity he was, this last public gambit has the big dog openly mocking him as a nobody who doesn’t matter.

Mrs Macron is welcome to clock him again.

No one is fooled or moved by the nobodies of no integrity, no moral compass, and nothing they won’t do to hold fast to power.

In Australia, watching a Jewish hostage skeleton dig its own grave in Hamas propaganda footage bothered soulless Prime Minister Albanese not a whit.

GIVE THOSE FELLAS A STATE!

He seems nice.

The patently obvious pro-Palestinian ploys aren’t working. 

Not in the UK.





Not across Europe. And it’s not that voters are ‘swinging right.’ 

…The establishment is finally reaping what it sowed.

They’re trying to right the ship. 

Bring it back to upright after years of being dangerously keeled over.

Before they all drown or wash overboard.


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