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Britain: If hostilities break out in Gaza again, we’re cutting Israel off
Hot Air ^ | August 12, 2014 | Noah Rothman

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; armsdealers; britain; england; gaza; hamas; israel; unitedkingdom
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

So many things I never expected to see in my lifetime, and now they just keep coming faster.


61 posted on 08/13/2014 12:39:27 AM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

England and France are now muslim countries, we should quit dealing with them.

For that matter the European Union needs to be destroyed!


62 posted on 08/13/2014 12:56:35 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
UK is toast. They are apologizing to muslims for forcing them to commit terrorist attacks on the Brits while collecting welfare.

200 yrs ago they were the baddest SOBs on the planet and now...?

63 posted on 08/13/2014 1:27:19 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: realcleanguy
“Britain: If hostilities break out in Gaza again, we’re cutting Israel off”.......

Cut ISRAEL OFF? Are the out of the minds? Who has been and continues to keep sending rockets INTO Israel, certainly it is NOT the Israeli's. Guess the Brits are now supporting HAMAS themselves. Nothing like telling HAMAS what their next steps should be.

64 posted on 08/13/2014 3:07:23 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I sometimes wonder if it would have been better to simply leave Europe alone during WW2, and let the IDIOCY of the Britain result in their enslavement.


65 posted on 08/13/2014 3:32:23 AM PDT by BobL
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s very sad that the land of Balfour has been so anti-Semitic since immediately after that declaration. Ask the Irgun or Hagganah (predecessors to the IDF) what they thought of the British... They deserved to be rocketed by Hitler.


66 posted on 08/13/2014 5:12:38 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: faithhopecharity

Antisemitism is NOT ‘traditional’ in Britain.

England and Britain have never been countries with high levels of anti-Semitism.

Quite the opposite. Open anti-Semitism, like that espoused by Oswald Mosley and his British Blackshirts, was in fact famously opposed and physically defeated by antifascist groups in London in 1936, in rather famous pitched battles caught on film.

The British people in that era also completely failed to support his party in elections, and utterly rejected anti-Semitic groups and fascist groups. What support there was for that ideology was confined mainly to the upper classes (the Cliveden Set) or knuckle dragging morons.

And what exists NOW is confined to the same white BNP racist types OR of course extreme UK Muslims.

Also, that horrible anti-Semitic UK is the same Britain that took in tens of thousands of Jewish refugees from Hitler’s Germany and Austria, and liberated Belsen.

The Jewish population of Great Britain lives without any major anti-semitism. What exists IS disgusting, but despite the rise, it remains at a very low level.

In fact, Judaism is openly celebrated as a long standing and vibrant part of British culture. British TV ran Jewish documentaries across all five of its network channels last year. Did America?.

British Jewish entertainers, writers, politicians and businesspeople openly celebrate their Jewishness. The London East End Jew, with his sharp wit and mouth is as well loved and known a cultural icon as the Glaswegian or the Cockney.

The current British Prime Minister is part Jewish. As is the deputy PM. As is the leader of the opposition party(Labour). So you have Jewish-descended people in the three most important political positions in the UK.

Are Obama, Biden and Romney Jewish?......

The British people are no more antisemitic than their American cousins. To suggest that the British people are en masse antisemitic OR that the jews of Britain are victims of mass cultural or physical antisemitism is a downright and disgusting lie.


67 posted on 08/13/2014 5:49:50 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Scotland will overwhelmingly vote NO in Sept.


68 posted on 08/13/2014 5:50:13 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: Iron Munro

Actually, it wouldn’t have. Germany couldn’t conquer Britain, albeit we couldn’t conquer Germany and W Europe/Europe without American, Canadian and Empire help and resources.

No America 1941-45 would have meant a stalemate.


69 posted on 08/13/2014 5:51:35 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Translate from Newspeak:

"If HAMAS attacks Israel again, we will join in the attack with economic warfare".

That's what they're really saying.

They have gone mad.

70 posted on 08/13/2014 5:52:48 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Lets be clear here.

Britain IS still supplying Israel with military supplies, as confirmed last night on Sky News and the BBC, BUT almost all supplies actually happen to be military supplies NOT actually being used by Israel in the Gaza operations.

Also Vince Cable (who is IMO a blowhard and overrated politician) is NOT the PM. David Cameron makes the final decision, and Cameron and the Govt supports and will support Israel.


71 posted on 08/13/2014 5:54:23 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: F15Eagle

In 1948, the only Western nation to actually physically help Israel, was BRITAIN.

The RAF attacked Arab troops and defended Israeli troops and aeroplanes at Ramat David airfield.


72 posted on 08/13/2014 5:55:58 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: doc1019

Lindsey was a huckster who kept changing the dates of his accuracies.


73 posted on 08/13/2014 5:56:43 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: cpdiii

As I said to 2ndDiv, we are supplying Israel with supplies as confirmed last night by Sky News and the BBC.


74 posted on 08/13/2014 5:57:35 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: MasterGunner01

An utter and disgusting lie. The Jewish population of Great Britain lives happily without any major anti-semitism. Even the depressing rise still means that levels are low.

In fact, Judaism is openly celebrated as a long standing and vibrant part of British culture. British TV ran Jewish documentaries across all five of its network channels last year. Did America?.

British Jewish entertainers, writers, politicians and businesspeople openly celebrate their Jewishness. The London East End Jew, with his sharp wit and mouth is as well loved and known a cultural icon as the Glaswegian or the Cockney.

The current British Prime Minister is part Jewish. As is the deputy PM. As is the leader of the opposition party(Labour). So you have Jewish-descended people in the three most important political positions in the UK.

Are Obama, Biden and Romney Jewish?......

The comments about Britain are simply obnoxious. They are a disgusting slander on the vast, vast majority of the British people. Who are no more antisemitic than their American cousins.

Oh, and in 1948 the only western nation to actually fight alongside Israel WAS Britain. RAF planes supported Israelis and attacked Arab troops at Ramat David airfield. Didnt see any Americans doing the same.

The UK is the nation that rejected the naked antisemitism of the 1930’s Fascists, and continues to reject the antisemitism of the BNP and other fringe neo-nazi parties and groups. The nation that stood alone against Hitler, while America and others stood by. And the nation that liberated Belsen and saved Jewish lives.

To suggest that the British people are antisemitic OR that the jews of Britain are victims of mass cultural or physical antisemitism is a downright and disgusting lie.


75 posted on 08/13/2014 6:02:09 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

No, anti-Semitism is NOT the UK’s true colours. Scotland, NI and Wales have never had any anti-Semitism, and England was and remains the least anti-Semitic major nation in Europe.

In fact Britain has always REJECTED anti-Semitism.

The Jewish population of Great Britain lives happily without any major anti-semitism. Judaism is openly celebrated as a long standing and vibrant part of British culture. British TV ran Jewish documentaries across all five of its network channels last year.

Did America?.

British Jewish entertainers, writers, politicians and businesspeople openly celebrate their Jewishness. The London East End Jew, with his sharp wit and mouth is as well loved and known a cultural icon as the Glaswegian or the Cockney.

The current British Prime Minister is part Jewish. As is the deputy PM. As is the leader of the opposition party(Labour). So you have Jewish-descended people in the three most important political positions in the UK.

Are Obama, Biden and Romney Jewish?......

The comments about Britain are simply obnoxious. They are a disgusting slander on the vast, vast majority of the British people. Who are no more antisemitic than their American cousins.

The UK is the nation that rejected the naked antisemitism of the 1930’s Fascists, and continues to reject the antisemitism of the BNP and other fringe neo-nazi parties and groups. The nation that stood alone against Hitler, while America and others stood by. And the nation that liberated Belsen and saved Jewish lives.

To suggest that the British people are antisemitic OR that the jews of Britain are victims of mass cultural or physical antisemitism is a downright and disgusting lie.


76 posted on 08/13/2014 6:04:41 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: the scotsman

Such idiots. How about “cutting off” hamas and the gazanians??????


77 posted on 08/13/2014 6:05:36 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: dalereed

The UK is 95.4% NON Muslim.

Muslims hold NO major political or social power.

Three parts (Scotland, NI and Wales) have Muslim pops of under 1%.

Muslim?. I don’t think so.

Too PC?. Yes.
Dhimmi state?. No.


78 posted on 08/13/2014 6:06:02 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: Eagles6

We have been ‘toast’ for 200 yrs. Supposedly.


79 posted on 08/13/2014 6:06:33 AM PDT by the scotsman (UK)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, if bombs start landing in London we should all condemn the UK if they fight back? I guess our actions in WWII supporting them was wrong. We should have told them to stop resisting Germany.


80 posted on 08/13/2014 6:09:49 AM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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