So the deed is done. All the pressure has produced this. Malta has formally recognised the yet inexistent Palestinian state.

With no prior negotiation, no conditions imposed or accepted.

Not even the freeing of the hostages who are still alive. Nor any at least tentative negotiations with Israel to open the frontier, stop the bombing, and allow food in.

Along with nine other states, some big, many small. Coming all together as if they were afraid of doing it on their own. Stage-managed by Hamas, the perpetrators of the 7 October massacre of non-combatant women, children and babies. Instead of punishing them the free world has been made to give them this reward on the argument that the thousands killed in the Israeli bombings merit this step.

The free world has been taken over by the relentless Hamas propaganda which tells us every day that so many people have been killed, so many children face starvation and people are despairing.

And these reports may be right for all we know for Israel has banned all foreign media from Gaza. The attempts by the Israeli media to correct the stories have been ineffective and openly challenged all over the world.

Meanwhile the onward advance by the Israeli army goes on, buildings are blown up and these recognitions of the two states seem to give fresh impetus to the operation. The hundreds of thousands who have been once again forced to move South are suffering hellish conditions and have no option, nothing to look forward to.

There have been similar tragedies in the past and in some of them the Israelis were those who were persecuted. Now the boot is on the other leg and it's creating havoc to how the Israeli people looks at itself.

For all that Europe boasts it is united, the past months have shown it is deeply divided. Now that even Britain waited till President Trump was back in the US to defy him and join Macron, Sanchez and the minnows to recognise a state that doesn't exist, it's clear the rot is deeper.

You look further and find out that no less than nine mayors in Britain are Muslim - starting with London, then Birmingham, Leeds, Blackburn, Sheffield, Oxford, Luton, Oldham and Rochdale.

So too France and Belgium where for years now the most popular name given to babies has been Mohammed. So too Spain, reverting the Reconquista.

As for the other states, Italy is holding on, just, despite the self-defeating vandalism at the Milan train station and the Palestinian flags on every stop of the Giro d'Italia. Nevertheless, Meloni might go under.

So far Germany is holding on, a strange reversal of the WW2 Holocaust. And Hungary and Poland. Together, they don't make up Europe. 

Besides, all Europe except the bits in the South and South-East like Cyprus and Malta is at present deeply concerned about what is happening in Ukraine and Russia's systematic. teasing of its air defences.

And here in Malta? The shockwave at the government announcement of the recognition of the Palestinian state was tidal but muffled by a repression that kept most comments on the social media out of sight.

In this case the Opposition agreed with the government on this, starting with Bernard Grech who unilaterally and without any mandate that I can remember started the proPal move within the party. And Net skewing foreign news in a proPal way. 

This development is very serious - the cohort that disagrees with the Two States idea and Palestinian recognition has nowhere to go but out of the two parties scheme. In many cases that means going for a third alternative. We'll see.

As happened in other countries an entire political system can begin to unravel.

That happens when the normal procedures of a democracy are not observed - proposal - debate - vote. This hurried and forced tidal wave which led to the document signed in New York is not a fruit of the procedures of the West as we know it but of the historical East. As East as Muslim.

Watch now as the leaders who led this forced march - Starmer, Macron, Abela - get swept out of office and become mere footnotes in history while the Muslim tidal wave sweeps on.

I am writing this at around 5pm on 24 September. For weeks now the Christian fundamentalists' American networks have been foretelling cataclysmic events - 100 shofars being sounded in Jerusalem on 24 September and broadcast worldwide, a sign denoting the beginning of the end of times. All very apocalyptic.

As I write I am seeing Jerusalem''s Wailing Wall and everything is perfectly normal and peaceful.

All those torrents of words and dire predictions gone to waste. It can't be that these 10 countries being panicked into recognising a country that doesn't exist are a sign of the end of times.

I also happened to stumble on a rather old video from Bill Clinton's time when there was even an airport in Gaza and even Palestinian Airways.

Obviously, nothing remains today when all the surrounding countries have airlines and airports. Is this the Israelis' doing or are we to conclude the so-called Palestinians are good only to rape women and children and produce rockets? And our politicians so demented as to surrender to them?

In reality, all that the Palestinians have to do to get their own state is book a flight to the US and sign the papers that have been waiting for them since 1947. For since that day the United Nations have recognised the partition of the land into two states, a Jewish and an Arab one. The reason why this never happened is simply put: the Jews recognised partition, likewise the international community. But the Arabs rejected it.

History note 

Excavations at Tas-Silg

Anthony Frendo reports on the 1996-1998 campaigns by the Department of Classics and Archaeology of the University of Malta.

The area known as Tas-Silg refers to the small church dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows where the narrow road from Zejtun forks out in two directions - to Delimara and Xrobb il-Ghagin in one direction and to Marsaxlokk village on the other.

There is no doubt that the topography of the site must have been a determining factor in its choice for the establishment of a religious centre in the Temple period of Maltese prehistory (3000 - 2500 BC) though close by there are three other prehistoric temple sites

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