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Israel Asks London: What Would You do if You Were Under Attack?
Metro UK ^ | Monday 21 Jul 2014

Posted on 07/21/2014 4:26:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Israel’s armed forces have distributed an image of London’s Houses of Parliament under missile attack, posing the question: ‘What would you do?’

The military’s bid to justify its actions comes on the day five patients were killed in their beds as Israeli bombs hit a hospital in Gaza.

The strike on the Al Aqsa Hospital, in the town of Deir el-Balah, was the fourth attack by Israeli forces on a medical facility this month.

The Israel army did not comment on the incident but has previously accused militants of firing rockets from locations close to schools and hospitals.

There were renewed international efforts to broker a ceasefire, with UN chief Ban Ki-moon and US secretary of state John Kerry flying to Cairo for talks.


TOPICS: Extended News; Israel; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: gaza; israel; london; palestinians
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1 posted on 07/21/2014 4:26:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SJackson

Ping


2 posted on 07/21/2014 4:26:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Well if it was 1940, we know the Brits would fight back. Flash foreword 74 years, not so much for no other reason than the millions of hordes they have willingly allowed to pollute that once great country.


3 posted on 07/21/2014 4:33:27 PM PDT by DAC21
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Seems as though London has forgotten an incident that happened say oh, about 70 or so years ago.


4 posted on 07/21/2014 4:34:05 PM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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no need to speculate: When Germany attacked London during WWII

“The destruction of German cities, the killing of German workers, and the disruption of civilized community life throughout Germany [is the goal]. ... It should be emphasized that the destruction of houses, public utilities, transport and lives; the creation of a refugee problem on an unprecedented scale; and the breakdown of morale both at home and at the battle fronts by fear of extended and intensified bombing are accepted and intended aims of our bombing policy. They are not by-products of attempts to hit factories.” — “Air Marshal Arthur Harris to Sir Arthur Street, Under Secretary of State, Air Ministry, October 25, 1943” quoted in Tami Biddle, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914-1945 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002), p. 220.


5 posted on 07/21/2014 4:35:36 PM PDT by The Bat Ladys Husband (Restore the Texas Republic)
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To: nickcarraway

Love it. “Back at ya!”

Really like Canada’s PM.


6 posted on 07/21/2014 4:36:16 PM PDT by huldah1776
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No kidding.


7 posted on 07/21/2014 4:36:17 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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Wouldn't look to the White House this time round.

8 posted on 07/21/2014 4:36:55 PM PDT by SJackson (government tampers with a freedom so fundamental, one shudders to think what lies ahead. Card Dolan)
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9 posted on 07/21/2014 4:39:12 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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Gaza should be treated no differently than Dresden, Hamburg and Berlin.


10 posted on 07/21/2014 4:40:00 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (We need to fundamentally transform RATs lives for their lies.)
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11 posted on 07/21/2014 4:40:26 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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What would they do? What DID they do when London was under attack by German V1s and V2s?

Fight like WWII, end like WWII.

12 posted on 07/21/2014 4:40:32 PM PDT by omega4412
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My only objection is how Israel always seems to pull back before the job is done, much like not completing a full regimen of antibiotics which allows the surviving nasties to come back more virulent than ever.


13 posted on 07/21/2014 4:41:24 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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14 posted on 07/21/2014 4:41:48 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: DAC21

Churchill was honored right after the war with removal from office.


15 posted on 07/21/2014 4:42:33 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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We already know what they did. They fire-bombed entire cities at night while they were sleeping.


16 posted on 07/21/2014 4:44:31 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (Up yours IRS!)
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17 posted on 07/21/2014 4:44:43 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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Israel should just carpet bomb Gaza like England carpet bombed Germany.


18 posted on 07/21/2014 4:56:27 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: The Bat Ladys Husband
Had Germany won WWII, Bomber Harris would have been convicted of war crimes and hanged by the neck. Inadvertent civilian casualties are a sad reality of war, but the intentional targeting of civilians is a damnable atrocity.

The contrast in the Middle East could not be more stark. Israeli soldiers stand in front of Israeli citizens, while the brave Muslims fight behind their own women and children. And where Israel targets only combatants and checks its fire when noncombatants are spotted too close, Muslims lob unguided rockets into Israeli cities. It is shameful how the growing Jew-hatred throughout the UK and Europe has clouded the memories of WWII's horrors. Israel is showing far more restraint than we would display in similar circumstances.

19 posted on 07/21/2014 4:59:53 PM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: nickcarraway
What if...


20 posted on 07/21/2014 5:01:51 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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