THE BEE'S KNEES

It’s the apoidea’s hinge joint, the moggy’s night ware, the feline’s face fungus or the canine’s scrotum. There are different idioms to describe how good someone or something can be. As I pondered whether these idioms could be translated, I wondered whether google translate would use straight word for word translations or be sophisticated enough to translate the meaning of the idiom. For Italian and Latin it would appear word for word. For the French, it would seem the bee’s knees had been given an anglo-french version “le top du top”. As for the German, there was a variety of translations, although the bee’s knees did cause differences depending on where it came in the list.

My fanciful foray into idioms has been interrupted by an act of piracy in the Mediterranean. The Israeli Military forcibly took control of a British Flagged Yacht, the Madleen, in international waters, making its way to Gaza to deliver much needed aid. This action was in complete violation of international law. The Israeli Government has long ago ceased to understand the rule of law. Under its current leadership there is no respect for laws of any kind. The country is beyond any semblance of a civilised society. It has lost all sense of its own traditions and any claim that it adheres to the Jewish faith and beliefs has been eradicated in the bloody violence it now seems to embrace. There is no faith of any kind left in Israel. It has built new idols in the shape of tanks and other military hardware. That is their new golden calf. What was once a nation dedicated to education, civilised society and a firm grasp of the rule if law, has abandoned all its principles and become a savage rigid and intractable brute. A nation that prided itself on turning desert into gardens of green shoots and fruitful cultivation has turned the land  into such devastation that even the word desert is insufficient to describe it. What has become of that promised land? 

The other disturbance is the complete nazification of the United States in allowing the President of the United to deploy a National Guard unit on the streets of Los Angeles, in a sovereign state, usurping the power of the legal authority in California, with the addition of the threat of federal marine military units being deployed as well. A federal defence force being used to quell legitimate demonstrators exercising their constitutional rights. If that is not the Geheime Staatspolizei in action, what is? Respect for the rule of law seems to have dwindled across the globe. Piracy and violent dictatorship abound. What was the United Nations created for? 

Not only is Trump being allowed to flout the constitution with impunity, he has effectively walked away from any attempt at bringing an end to the fighting in the Ukraine as well as in Gaza. How can any right minded, clear thinking individual have anything to do with this man? He his considered a dolt and a swindler by almost every leader across the globe, or more probably the greatest blowhard ever elected President of the United States, subject to easy flattery to be pulled by the nose by those he professes to admire. When will the American people wake up and get rid of him and his cohorts? Surely there is a constitutional mechanism which can accomplish the necessary steps to be taken. I can only call on the constitutional lawyers of America to unite and find a solution. Please get it together now. If you do, you would become, without question, “Le top du top”.