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You'd think the Jewish Chronicle whose articles for no apparent reason wander across my feeds would be just a little bit pleased that a Jewish person had made it to one of the great three offices of state.  I mean, there haven't been many.  But no it's whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge whinge ....

Actually I think Dominic Raab had a Jewish father and of course there was David Miliband .... but anyway they've attempted a proper hatchet job on Ed instead... he apparently is the most destructive politician of our lifetime... His crime?  Not bombing Syria.

"Miliband’s time as Labour leader coincided with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad using Sarin gas to butcher 1,400 people – thus crossing the supposed “red line” which President Obama had set against the use of chemical weapons. In response, Obama planned a military strike with the UK and France. The then PM, David Cameron, promised that the Commons would be able to vote on such operations – and Miliband, in the single most shameful decision taken by any mainstream politician of my lifetime, whipped Labour MPs to oppose action against Assad’s chemical weapons. With some Conservative and Lib Dem MPs also voting against, the motion was defeated and action was vetoed. That in turn led Obama to take fright, lest he suffer a similar fate in Congress."

So apparently despite being Leader of the Opposition with only 258 seats Ed is single handedly responsible for us not bombing Syria which probably wouldn't have helped anyone much as was the argument in Congress at the time which, again, Ed would have had limited involvement with.  Now to be fair there is an argument for intervention where WMD are deployed but Congress wasn't in a rush to get bogged down in another war in the middle east.  And didn't the Assad regime collapse anyway?

Anyway not content with blaming Ed for Assad's continuing use of Chemical weapons he's apparently responsible for the invasion of Crimea as well...

"A clear message was sent to Assad that he was free to carry on using chemical weapons, which he did. A similar message of Western pusillanimity was also heard by Vladimir Putin, who invaded the Crimea the following year."

Other appauling crimes Ed committed were opening up the Labour Party leadership election to non-members on payment of £3 which resulted in Jeremy Corybn becoming leader... ah the good old days when they asked the members who should be leader... and his ideologically-driven pursuit of Net Zero.

"We are now to be represented globally by the man who gave Assad the green light to murder his own people with chemical weapons."

Chinny rub

"Even before becoming PM, last week Andy Burnham singled out Israel for special, extra opprobrium." 

Well, actually he was talking about the Labour Party's reaction to Gaza without using the "g" word... so hardly very hurty words...