One searches for the words to characterize the current leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and Canada who have voiced support for a Palestinian state to award the genocidal maniacs responsible for Israel’s ordeal since 10/7. After struggling to articulate my own thoughts yesterday, it occurred to me…
Speaking in Parliament in January 1931 Winston Churchill brutally disparaged the Labour Prime Minister as “a boneless wonder.” From chapter 3 (“Churchillisms”) of Richard Langworth’s scrupulously documented and annotated Churchill Himself, here we have it:
I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum’s circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as “The Boneless Wonder.” My parents judged that that spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see the Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.
Who was that prime minister and was that unparliamentary language? Langworth tells all.
I met Khaled Abu Toameh in Jerusalem in 2007. He is the opposite of a boneless wonder. He must be the bravest reporter I ever met. In his Gatestone column today he authoritatively explains “How Hamas Sees the West’s Recognition of ‘Palestine.’” At the Free Beacon Matthew Xiao reports “‘The Fruits of October 7’: Hamas Leader Praises European, Canadian Calls for Palestinian Statehood.”
