Gordon Brown's appointment tightens Zionist noose round No.10

Keir Starmer appoints Gordon Brown, from Wikipedia

Desperate Keir Starmer has now brought in former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown as special envoy on global finance, especially defence and security-related investment. Focus will be on developing new international finance partnerships.

Splendid choice, you might think. After all, James Gordon Brown is a son of the manse, which means he was raised in the household of a church minister. Big on Christian principles, then.

Think again. This is the same Gordon Brown who voted enthusiastically for the Iraq war.

The Son of the Manse who consistently supported Zionism

This is the same Gordon Brown who declared himself a Zionist and told the Knesset that Britain will always stand firmly by Israel’s side despite the crimes and unspeakable horrors it continued to inflict on its Palestinian neighbours. He spoke of an unbreakable partnership with Israel based on shared values of liberty, democracy and justice, when it was obvious to anyone paying attention that none of those values is practised by that regime.

When petitioned for a complete arms embargo against Israel, Brown replied: We do not believe that the current situation in the Middle East would be improved by imposing an arms embargo....  Israel has the right to defend itself and faces real security threats. He clearly didn’t feel the same concern for Palestinian rights and security, and pledged Royal Navy help to stop the so-called smuggling of arms to the Palestinian Resistance while happy for the savage occupier to acquire all the death-dealing technology it wished.

Haaretz and Tehran Times reported in April 2009 that Brown was willing to talk to Netanyahu and called on him to engage constructively towards a two-state solution building on the Arab Peace Initiative. But he knew perfectly well that the Israeli PM – and his Likud party – had no intention of doing so. You only had to read Likud’s vile racist manifesto. 

Unwilling to talk to Palestine's elected representatives

He’d talk to Palestinian collaborators like Abbas but not to democratically-elected Hamas, who already said they'd commit to a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders and subject to the right of return of refugees Israel expelled, in accordance with international law.

In 2017 when Hamas revised their Charter, they reaffirmed that their struggle was not against the Jews because they are Jewish but against the Zionists who occupy Palestine; and repeated that they consider the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, to be a formula of national consensus.

And Brown’s eagerness to become a patron of the Jewish National Fund made it all too clear where his sympathies lay. The position linked him firmly with Israel’s land-grab policy.

So the son of the manse has in the past given uncritical support to a foreign government that practises apartheid and is a wholesale thief, plunderer and wrecker of other people's lands, carelessly slaughters children and inflicts slow genocide on defenceless civilians, sends snatch squads to break your door down in the middle of the night and manhandle your family, demolish your home and imprison you indefinitely without charge or trial, subjects its enemies' to torture and assassination, ceaselessly breaches the rules of civilised conduct, and shows utmost contempt for international law. 

Furthermore, that evil regime terrorises the Holy Land’s Christian communities along with their Muslim brothers and sisters, and uses pernicious administrative controls to disrupt the life and work of the Church. 

In a speech to Labour Friends of Israel he said: 

Many of you know my interest in Israel and in the Jewish community has been long-standing... My father was the chairman of the Church of Scotland's Israel Committee. Not only... did he make visits on almost two occasions a year for 20 years to Israel – but because of that, although Fife, where I grew up, was a long way from Israel with no TV pictures to link us together – I had a very clear view from household slides and projectors about the history of Israel, about the trials and tribulations of the Jewish people, about the enormous suffering and loss during the Holocaust, as well as the extraordinary struggle that he described to me of people to create this magnificent homeland.

In reality the extraordinary struggle he referred to had been a 60-year crime spree - a programme of unrelenting terror to seize the Palestinians’ homeland and force them to flee.

All in all, the poor chap appears very confused. It's a puzzle why any true Christian would wish to embrace Zionism. Don’t they understand the nature of the project and the injustice to others? Since 1948 it has been abundantly clear that the 57% of the territory generously handed out by the UN wasn’t enough, they want it all - and there’ll be no peace until they've created as many irreversible facts on the ground as necessary to ensure Israel’s occupation of Palestine is permanent, especially where it encompasses prime lands, key water resources and Palestine's marine oil and gas.

Amazingly, given his infatuation with Israel, on 3 March 2009 the Appeal of Conscience Foundation named Brown World Statesman of the Year, citing his:

compassionate leadership in dealing with the challenging issues facing humanity, his commitment to freedom, human dignity and the environment.

Even if Starmer's premiership comes to a sudden halt, as now seems likely, his successor will almost certainly be groomed, funded and politically aligned by the same foreign influence, and Brown will no doubt continue as the new PM's useful financial stooge on the international stage.

Forced to live the life of dogs

Two-thirds of the 1.5 million Gazans had been refugee families dispossessed and driven from their towns and villages in the West Bank. The Gaza siege is a story of courageous resistance by already impoverished and devastated people against a brutal invader and its conniving allies among the Western powers. Their crime? They took exception to being under unlawful, cruel and lethal occupation; they wanted freedom from oppression, self-determination and the return of their lands; and in 2006 they democratically elected a government that didn’t happen to suit the crazed ambitions of Israel and its backer, the US.

Two years into that siege, in 2008, I wrote asking: 

As one of those connivers, Mr Brown, can you explain what exactly you have against Gaza? Is it a threat to our national security? Are Gazans children of a lesser God in your eyes? What of the Christian community that is also made to suffer? What is it that justifies such evil meddling and cowardly collective punishment?

I reminded him that in a recent Parliamentary debate on Gaza his ministers dismissed democratically-elected Hamas as a rejectionist Palestinian group and tried to equate Gaza's garden-shed rocket launchings with Israel’s high-tech military onslaughts and crippling blockade. And that they voiced no outright condemnation of the cruel siege. I went on to say:

Your foreign secretary David Miliband now speaks of a ‘moral impulse’ to promote and foster democracy especially in the Middle East. But faced with a perfectly good Palestinian democracy you and your friends couldn’t wait to tear it down.

You won’t talk to Hamas because warmongers in the White House branded them ‘terrorists’. What does that make Israel? The state of Israel was founded by terror groups like the one that blew up the King David Hotel killing over 90 in a vicious attack on the British mandate government.

As Norman Finkelstein remarked in an interview with Al Jazeera in February 2008:

it is more than a rogue state. It is a lunatic state… The whole world is yearning for peace, and Israel is constantly yearning for war.  And the Israeli government itself is aptly described by one of your own MPs as a 'gang of amoral thugs'.

That MP by the way was Gerald Kaufman, a true Jewish gentleman.

Fr Manuel Musallam with Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas prime minister, during my visit to Gaza late 2007. 

I ended by saying: 

Mr Brown, I leave you to mull over the words of another Christian – Gaza’s priest, Father Manuel Musallam: 'Palestinian Christians are not a religious community set apart in some corner. We are part of the Palestinian people. Our relationship with Hamas is as people of one nation. Hamas doesn’t fight religious groups. Its fight is against the Israeli occupation.'

When asked about Western media reports that Islamic oppression was forcing Gaza’s Christians to consider emigrating, Father Manuel said that if Christians emigrate it’s because of the Israeli siege, not the Muslims. 'We seek a life of freedom—a life different from the life of dogs we are currently forced to live'.

Gordon Brown seems a perfect addition to Starmer's gruesome gang of pro-Israel pimps and spivs. Past performance suggests we need to watch closely to see if this special envoy on global finance eventually has British taxpayers picking up the eye-watering tab for reparations in rebuilding Gaza's infrastructure and restoring its social and welfare apparatus while costing Israel not a penny.

Will we really continue subsidising the Zionist destructive takeover after what the world has just witnessed?