One might think that someone who wishes to be Britain’s next prime minister wouldn’t openly support terrorists.
Not Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. In an interview on Tuesday, Corbyn doubled down on his defense of attending a memorial ceremony for the Black September terrorists who killed Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Reporting on Corbyn’s attendance at that ceremony has earned him new pressure alongside his ongoing anti-Semitism crisis.
Still, Corbyn is a fantastically idiotic man who loves socialism, sucks up to Russian President Vladimir Putin, hates the United States, and truly despises Israel. So while it’s not surprising that Corbyn is proud of his terrorist sympathies, his latest words do deserve our attention. Because they show how deep Corbyn’s sympathies truly run.
The most telling moment of the Tuesday interview came when the Channel 4 News interviewer asked Corbyn: “That wreath appears to have been laid by the graves of the Black September attackers. So, did you lay that wreath by those graves or on those graves?”
Corbyn’s response left no doubt of his views: “The Black September attackers, as you refer to them, some of those who were accused of that were actually killed in Paris, and some of those were killed in Beirut by Israeli agents. There were people there who were not involved in anything to do with that whatsoever, and indeed, it was Yasser Arafat’s number two who was actually killed during that raid. And I, along with other colleagues who were delegates to the conference, laid a wreath in memory of all those that have died in the hope that we have a peace process and peace in the future so those raids are never repeated.”
In the same interview, when asked how he would respond to a Labour parliamentarian’s call on him to apologize, Corbyn declared proudly, “I’m not apologizing for being there at all.”
There’s quite a bit to digest here, but let’s give it a go.
For a start, while Corbyn references the Israeli operations in Paris and Beirut as implicitly unjust due to the locations and the targeting of Arafat’s “number two,” the opposite is actually true. In all of those operations, the Israeli Mossad teams were conducting covert actions and would have been imprisoned for many years (or in the case of Beirut, tortured and executed) if caught. Correspondingly, those targeted were assessed with very high confidence to be involved in the Munich attack.
Second, the Arafat “number two” Corbyn speaks of was actually Kamal Adwan. And while Adwan was a senior figure in the Palestinian Liberation Organization, that makes no difference to his culpability. Corbyn would have us believe that Adwan was a civilian, but in fact, he was involved in Black September. And Black September was a thinly veiled front for the PLO!
This matters because with few exceptions, assessed in consideration of their scale and ambition, Israeli covert actions inflict very few civilian casualties. Those killed in Israel’s response to the Munich attack deserved to be targeted.
Of course, Corbyn sees things differently. Indeed, far from offering any condemnation of groups like Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Labour leader spent the rest of his Channel 4 News interview blaming Israel for all the ills of the conflict.
Don’t get me wrong; this is not to say that Israel is perfect. I have criticized Israeli settlement policy and the approach of some Israeli political parties towards the peace process. Yet, that’s not what’s at stake here. What’s at stake is Corbyn’s attempt to draw Palestinian terrorists in positive moral contrast with Israel. And that must not stand unchallenged. Where the former groups use civilian blood as tools of a fanatical political agenda, Israel defends civilian blood and democratic sovereignty.
Jeremy Corbyn is an idiot. If you don’t believe me, watch the interview below and make your own mind up.
