Posted on 08/12/2014 8:27:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Last week, British police reported a disturbing and significant rise in anti-Semitic attacks on local Jews since the start of the latest conflict in Gaza.
“Figures seen by the BBC show recorded hate crimes against Jewish people living in London have doubled compared with the same period last year, while police in Manchester said they had seen an increase in anti-Semitic crime over the last month,” the BBC reported.
In totally unrelated news, the British government revealed on Tuesday that they are suffering from a terminal case of moral equivalency and are prepared to cut off military aid to Israel if “significant hostilities” resume in Gaza.
Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, and Skills and Liberal Democrat MP Vince Cable announced this week that the United Kingdom would suspend the export licenses of 12 British firms which send Israel arms like radar systems, aircraft, and tanks if any new hostilities in Gaza restart.
The Huffington Post U.K. reported that the British left is incensed by how “weak” this move is against Israel. Presumably, they would prefer that the government retroactively suspend arms trades to Israel and request that Israel send back any arms which they have acquired from British firms.
Fellow Lib Dem and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg recently expressed his support for an anti-Israel arms embargo saying that the Jewish state had “overstepped the mark” in its prosecution of the conflict with Hamas in Gaza.
Here is a brief review of the extensive lengths to which the IDF goes to avoid civilian casualties – rule of engagement to which neither the British nor the American armed forces would agree to be bound.
Hostilities have resumed on several occasions in Gaza after reports indicated that Hamas militants violated the terms of a number of temporary ceasefire agreements. On August 8, Hamas rocket fire into Israel shattered a tense peace. Another 72-hour cease fire which went into effect on August 1 lasted just 90 minutes before Hamas militants killed three IDF soldiers who were clearing and dismantling a tunnel network (as per the terms of that ceasefire).
None of this matter much, however, when your position is not logical but guided by emotion and reflex. And the reflex in Europe, it seems, is to lurch toward the abhorrent anti-Semitism which characterized the mid-20th Century.
If there was ever a sound argument against the necessity of a free and viable Jewish state, Europe is refuting it on a daily basis.
“Actually neither the British nor Nazis would have been able to defeat each other. Stalemate.”
Nice to have a civil discussion with you. I’m also making my comment in all of the non-combat and military aid we gave Britain. Take that away, it would have been game over on the islands.
You DO realise that Canada, Australia, and the whole Empire kept us going with immense amounts of supplies?. Britain relied primarily on itself for survival. Then the Empire. Then America.
Whilst we thank you for what you gave us, its foolish to think the British relied on America to survive.
Yes, its nice to have an intelligent, even if argumentative, discussion, esp after the rantings and igmorance of another poster who ‘discussed’ ww2 earlier.
Just a recent fact, people:
The ADL reckons that Britain is the 6th LEAST anti-Semitic country on the planet.
America the 7th least.
Sorry, I was talking generally re alleged UK antisemitism.
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