Extremes Join

David Aaronovitch editorializes in Times Online How did the far Left manage to slip into bed with the Jew-hating Right?

When I was young, smug centrists used to tell me that the extremes of Right and Left would, extended far enough, meet somewhere round the back. And I never quite believed it. But here’s a story that seems to suggest that it really can happen. Indulge me . . . First a recapitulation. The Respect Party of George Galloway famously turned in the best performance by a far-Left party since the Communists won two seats in 1945. Respect itself is mostly — though not entirely — a front for the semi-Trotskyist organisation called the Socialist Workers’ Party, or SWP. SWP members made up just under half of Respect’s candidates, SWP activists form the party’s main cadre and it is the SWP that drives the strategy, tactics and political platform of Respect.

I am not familiar with British politics, and what constitutes the Far Left and the Far Right, but in the US, Evangelical Christians are usually considered to be the Far Right, and Evangelical Christians are some of the best supporters Israel ever had, because they see indications that the End Time is near, and believe that Christ will soon return.