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If the US Congress Says So, It Must Be Right

Look out ... I've got a shocking hangover from too much bubbly and am in even less of a mood than usual to be nice to dickheads.

The champers was due to our excellent win in the cricket Test over Pakistan and then it continued through the night as I was watching Spider-Man. (I think I'm in love with Kirsten Dunst!)

Anyway, my formerly good mood has been soured somewhat by the utter arrogance of the US Congress in ruling that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

Overnight these Congressmen have once again decided that they know best for the world and although 9 out of 10 of them wouldn't know where Jerusalem was - let alone any history of the place - they have decided to give it to Israel.

Now, I know it has been under Israeli control since the 1967 War, but it has not been recognised as being officially part of Israel by the United Nations. At last look, Washington hadn't yet replaced the UN as the ruler of the world - or have I missed something?

It seems to me that the US Government has got a bad case of we-know-everything-better-than-absolutely-everybody-else disease and that can be very dangerous in the world's most powerful nation. It is also excessively dangerous when you consider the Seppos have very little idea about the world outside their borders.

A classic example has to be the US tourists visiting the place in Britain where the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. "Oh dear," old duffer one said while looking at his watch "it's 12.30 - we've just missed it!"

Yup, the old Seppo Government is, unfortunately, getting a little too big for its spur-bedecked boots.

And answer me this - just who the **** is Washington to give away cities of historical, cultural and religious importance to more people than Americans and Israelis?

If we leave the current co-inhabitants - the Palestinians - out of the picture (and why not, as everyone seems to) then it should be pointed out to the drongo congressmen that Jerusalem also happens to be a Christian city.

That's right boys, while you are there with your noses up Israel's Girlie-Name Sharon's bottom you should remember that all Christians (well, maybe not the Pope's mob) have a claim on our Holy City as well. So do the orthodox Russians.

So just because you happen to run America, don't get it into your wooly heads that you are important enough to override the will of the world.

Next you'll be suggesting that the true world sport is grid iron, Abe Lincoln was the greatest leader the world has ever seen, and that cricket is slowly being phased out and replaced by baseball.

Now where's that other bottle, I think I've got the last two sessions of play on tape ...

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