British author, think-tanker, and generally indispensable agitator Douglas Murray gives a rather brilliant interview to Ilan Evyatar in today’s Jerusalem Post. Here’s Murray on England’s leadership and Israel’s right to exist:

They consistently speak about such a right in theory, but whenever in practice, whether it’s Gaza or the flotilla, they don’t, and they condemn Israel on it. I hate reverting to 1930s quotes, because I don’t think history is an endless lesson of repeating the 1930s, but you know [Winston] Churchill’s famous description of an appeaser as someone who feeds the crocodile and hopes it will eat him last. Some major leader has to explain in relation to Israel and Britain that this crocodile would eat us next, not last. Therefore it would be a very very stupid thing, for your own security, as well as your own sense of what’s morally right, to keep sacrificing Israel in this way.

Murray is just as eloquent on university education, immigration, and welfare. The interview is, in its entirety, a must-read.