July 25, 2005

Met police build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land

[Hat-tip Eurosabra]
Lenin (of the Tomb) carries the story of how the British Metropolitan police have been trained in Israel.
The only significance of this fact as far as I can see is that it is one more way in which practises which have been common in Israel for years under a legal 'state of emergency' are now becoming normal in liberal democracies . Surely the next step is to build a big wall around those parts of the Middle East that we want to nick and leave the remaining vassalage to sweat it under watchtowers, the occasional helicopter attack and the regular traffic of bulldozers.
This reminds me of how for many decades (even centuries) the demand of Britain by Irish nationalists was for "Brtiish standards of justice" in British ruled Ireland. What we got was British justice falling to the level it inflicted on the colonies.

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