It didn't take a genius to work out how long it would be before the right wing press got their teeth into Jeremy Corbyn. The answer is, of course, they've already started. Their first assault is on his stance on the Israel/Palestine issue. And because he expressed his disapproval of the way the Zionist regime in Tel Aviv deals with its neighbours in the occupied territories, he has been labelled a Jew baiter. Not surprisingly he has reacted with rage at this calumny. He does not, he says, support the extremists in Hamas and Hisbollah, but he has said that they will have to be included in any talks regarding a solution to the problems in that embattled region, in just the same way the IRA had to be included in talks regarding the future of northern Ireland. It's called political expediency, and most politicians of any calibre have had to use it in order to settle otherwise intractable problems.
One day, however unpalatable we may find the prospect, we may even find ourselves having to talk to IS. I have just been watching channel 4 news in which a clip filmed last year of JC speaking on Russian TV was shown. In it, Corbyn admits the atrocities perpetrated by IS in Iraq are terrible, but then reminded his audience that what the Americans did there, in Fallujah, for example, was equally heinous. This "inconvenient truth" was interpreted by commentators as him saying America is as bad as IS. Of course he was saying nothing of the kind, but never let the truth get in the way of trashing the rep of someone you don't like.
Get used to it, Jeremy. If you become leader of the Labour party, you can be sure of more of the same. A lot more.
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