Dear faithful reader/s the only thing that keeps me blogging is the notion that someone at least is reading this rubbish. I discern this from the monthly stats that Word Press send to me.

Once again I have milled around confusedly simply finding a place to begin. There are endless ‘help’ features but not a single one that answers the question ‘How to I get to my start page?’. This is worrying, as it implies that nobody else has this problem. And I simply can’t imagine why it has been made so obscure. The site used to open with the last post displayed and the options for starting a new one – and publishing it when it was complete – obvious. Now I see the previous post but have to blunder about trying to find my ‘dashboard’ before I can start a new one. Well at least the ‘publish’ button has finally appeared.

By now I have forgotten what I was going to write anyway.

Oh yes.Two things. One was to reformat all that stuff describing the extraordinary level of fiddling and fraud among those responsible for the great Klimit Change pantomime, so that you can read it more easily. I must admit I found it a bit of a struggle when I read through it again. Well of course you can’t now simply run down the page through your previous blogs. You can get them listed by the ‘archive’ command but clicking on an entry in the list does nothing. And I can’t find it stored anywhere else on my PC so it will have to wait.

I can, however, write a bit about my other topic – Gaza.

Now if you are old like me – unlikely – or even half my age, you may recall that ‘The Gaza Strip’ was an empty bit of land supposed to give Israel a bit of a separation from people determined to destroy their State before they could even begin to build it.

Of course they were immediately and repeatedly invaded across it, until they got fed up and started to build on it themselves.

Now I have not kept up with all of the subsequent attempts to destroy Israel but I do recall that when I was in Port Said a week after what was known as the ‘Six day war’ I had a young American crew man on my boat who wished to leave and go to Israel. The Egyptian police were, understandably, a bit concerned about his motives and asked me if I could enlighten them: ‘Why does he want to go there’ they asked me. ‘Oh’, I replied, ‘he’s chasing after some girl there’.

‘Oh a girlfriend’ they responded, laughing. ‘Of course he can go to Israel, tell him to come in and pick up his passport.’ ‘Well I don’t know how he’s going to get there’ I said. ‘Oh easy’ they replied, ‘he can get the bus from the square in the morning’. The bus! A week after the war! It was an education for me.

So, Gaza was an empty space and it mostly still was when I visited Israel a few years later. Now, no longer a ‘strip’, it has apparently become the ancestral home of countless generations of ‘Palestinians’ – who are alternately referred to as ‘Gazans’. Am I living in some sort of Time Warp? However bizarre Trump’s suggestion of turning it into a development site, it pales into insignificance compared with this curious historical phenomenon.

Oh, and just as a tailpiece, I have observed that whenever the Israelis are in deep shit they elect Benjamin Netanyahu to get them out of it. Which he does. Then they promptly discard him until the next crisis. Just what they will do when he’s had enough of that treatment is hard to imagine.

In my next blog I must discourse upon the disgusting behaviour of ‘the media’ in taking every opportunity to broadcast the fancy name of the murderous thugs responsible for this latest attack on Israel. This is clearly a case of giving ‘aid and comfort’ and certainly encouragement, to an enemy of all decent people. I am much against censorship – indeed if such broadcasting identifies the supporters of these louts it is in a way a good thing. As long as the broadcasters then receive the social opprobrium that they richly deserve.

This behaviour by the ‘media’ – and the lack of any appropriate response to it – supports and encourages the sort of trash who are now defacing and damaging Jewish property and planning attacks on Jewish people. Perhaps a nice, fat fine for broadcasting the thug organisation’s name could be spent on making good some of the damage done by its supporters.