In the politically correct world, the riots are being blamed on economic hardship. Nonsense. Dirt-poor Jews in Eastern Europe did not riot in the nineteenth century. Poor Jews in present-day Israel do not set up tent camps—but relatively affluent leftists do.

Which answers the question of what caused the British riots. The immigrants are suddenly affluent compared to their previous standard of living. They do not have to work for living, but are content with subsidies. They have plenty of leisure time. Combine that with youthful radicalism and the lack of liberal traditions in their ethnic and religious cultures, which creates a feeling of impunity—and you have riots.

But instead of admitting that those immigrants are a culturally foreign element, that they are economic spongers who have to be repressed or evicted, the government contemplates more subsidies for them—which will only whet their appetites.

Israeli media attended his press conference and duly reported his statement that the British government considers Israeli villages to be occupying Arab land. As if we should care what the British occupiers of the Falklands and invaders of Afghanistan think or say.

In Israel, his freedom of speech is unencumbered.

A lack of will to fight, poor training, and severe budget constraints have transformed the British and French armies into welfare outlets, no different from other state enterprises. That process began during WWII, and the result is that Europe is now incapable of defending itself.

British diplomats had the audacity to tell Israel that she must investigate these allegations, as if we had not already done so. The British, of course, plan no such investigation into their own killing of civilians in Libya and Afghanistan.

The British Ambassador to Lebanon praised him even more profusely, but he remains at his job.

To sweeten the pill, the program calls for a “secure and universally recognized Israel,” though Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon cannot be expected to recognize the Jewish state anytime soon.

It is a pleasure to see the UK, which so recently fought in Belize and the Falklands over its imperial ambitions, so concerned about the human rights of Arabs.

Turkish PM Erekat, a personal friend of Olmert, complained that Israel flaunts Obama’s peace efforts. Yeah, bad Jews don’t want to be trapped in the “Auschwitz borders.”

IDF Chief of Staff Ashkenazi described the Gaza clashes that left two Jewish soldiers dead as “the high price of Israeli freedom.” Nonsense. The soldiers died not for freedom, but because the Israeli government lacks any strategic vision about Gaza and IDF made the tactical error of sending infantry instead of helicopters into the fighting.

The expulsion is judicially unwarranted: there was no trial and the Brits were unable to assemble any evidence confirming Israeli involvement. The expulsion therefore effectively names Mossad’s chief as a criminal responsible for passport forgery and subject to arrest.

Let’s see if Israel would have the guts to expel a British Embassy official in retaliation, which is standard diplomatic procedure for self-respecting states.