What happens when your own XL Bully turns on you?

In a move designed to protect the public from aggressive dogs, the UK has proudly rolled out new legislation targeting XL Bully breeds. Owners must now muzzle their pets, keep them on a tight leash, and—if necessary—put them down. All sensible precautions, of course. But as the government congratulates itself on taming four-legged threats, one question snarls in the corner of the room:

What happens when your own XL Bully turns on you?

Benjamin Netanyahu—Israel’s dog, endlessly defiant, heavily armed political pit bull. For years, Britain helped breed this beast. It funded, armed, diplomatically shielded, and lovingly scratched behind the ears of Israeli impunity. It wagged its tail at every war crime, tossed its treaties to shred, and turned a blind eye as it sank its teeth into international law.

But now? Now the XL Bully is growling at the hand that fed it.

Netanyahu has turned on Keir Starmer—the same Labour leader who purged his party of anyone who dared say “Palestine” above a whisper, and who has twisted himself into knots to prove loyalty to Tel Aviv. Starmer criminalised dissent, endorsed arms exports, smeared pro-Palestinian voices, and was rewarded with… accusations of betrayal. According to Bibi, Starmer just isn’t sufficiently enthusiastic about Gaza’s flattening. No amount of grovelling will do when your creation sees blood and wants more.

But Britain should hardly be surprised.

After all, it started over a century ago with the Balfour Declaration—a 67-word imperial scribble that handed away a land Britain didn’t own, to a people who didn’t live there, at the expense of those who did. In true colonial fashion, Britain created the problem and then walked away like someone who unleashed a dangerous dog in a playground, only to vanish as it mauled children with Down syndrome.

Since then, it’s armed the occupier, demonised the occupied, and treated Palestinian rights like an inconvenient detail on the path to strategic partnership.

Britain didn’t just train this XL Bully. It bred it.

It fed it with weapons, walked it around the UN Security Council like a show dog, and muzzled any critics at home with accusations of antisemitism. And now, when the leash slips just a little, and the dog snarls at its master? Shock. Outrage. Hurt feelings.

Spare us.

You cracked down on dangerous dogs. Maybe it’s time to take a closer look at the one barking from Tel Aviv.

Because when you raise a bully on a diet of impunity, don’t act surprised when it turns around and mauls your conscience, what little remains of it.