…On Saturday night, ISIS demons in Libya cut the heads off 21 Copts in the country just looking for work, though I doubt Tony Blair appreciates that this kind of savagery is recorded in every generation of Islam. The rivalry between HAMAS and Fatah here is standard operating procedure in Araby and reconciliation is literally impossible for it suggests returning to a previous state of harmony, amity, peace and equilibrium when there never was such a thing.

In Saudi Arabia, on the Persian Gulf coast when Saudi oil is extracted, the laborers are natives of the country but Shiites and therefore denied citizenship. Can you imagine a Western country these days dominated by, say, Catholics who deny citizenship to Protestants or vice versa?

In Blair’s wishful thinking utterly detached from history, I hear a man who knows nothing of Araby, a true friend of Israel, for which he was driven from office, but he still doesn’t know what he is talking about…