Re: Not Good News From Israel
> >> This was Littlejohn's piece in Friday's Daily Mail and is a very courageous
> >> and accurate assessment. If you want to pass comments or thank him,
> >> his
> >> email is
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Richard Littlejohn
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The civilian casualties are awful but Israel is fighting for its
> >> existence
> >>
> >>
> >> 09:22am 4th August 2006
> >>
> >> There's no doubt Israel is losing the propaganda war. You don't have
> >> to be a
> >> paid-up peacenik to find some of the pictures coming out of the
> >> Middle East
> >> distressing.
> >>
> >> No one with an iota of humanity wants to see the corpses of women and
> >> children caught up in the conflict.
> >>
> >> But you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist, either, to wonder how
> >> many
> >> of the male "civilians" killed by the Israelis are actually Hezbollah
> >> terrorists or whether everything we're being shown from Lebanon is
> >> for real.
> >>
> >>
> >> Islamonazis are sophisticated propagandists and they know they'll
> >> find a
> >> gullible audience in the civilised world for their carefully-strewn
> >> teddy
> >> bears, strategically-placed "Baby Milk Factory" signs (in English) and
> >> wailing widows from central casting.
> >>
> >> Have you ever noticed how every time a coalition air strike goes
> >> astray in
> >> Iraq, it always manages to hit a "wedding party"?
> >>
> >> Why is there only ever one child's shoe in the rubble, never a pair?
> >> There
> >> always seems to be a broken medicine box, too, with a handy red cross
> >> -
> >> never a red crescent, mind you - on the lid, just in case we haven't
> >> got the
> >> message.
> >>
> >> Credulous CNN correspondents and hand-wringing BBC reporters fall over
> >> themselves to sign up for the Hezbollah guided tour of the ruins.
> >>
> >> I use a rough rule of thumb whenever I watch television coverage of
> >> the
> >> Middle East. Anyone who pronounces Hezbollah as 'Hiz-bull-arrrgh' and
> >> Israeli as 'Izza-ra-ay-lee' is almost certainly telling lies.
> >>
> >> Disproportionate
> >>
> >> The bien-pensant buzzword used to describe Israel's bombing is
> >> "disproportionate". But what's "proportionate"? Are the thousands of
> >> rockets
> >> fired at genuine civilian targets in Israel "proportionate"?
> >>
> >> It is only because Israelis are hunkered down in underground shelters
> >> built
> >> out of necessity and bitter experience, or have fled out of range of
> >> Hezbollah's salvoes, that there haven't been piles of bodies on their
> >> side
> >> of the border.
> >>
> >> What would "world opinion" consider an acceptable death toll before
> >> acknowledging Israel's right to retaliation and self-defence - 1,000?
> >> 10,000? 100,000? 1,000,000?
> >>
> >> Hezbollah has started a war it knows it can't win in the certain
> >> knowledge
> >> that there will be civilian casualties. Its stated aim is to kill as
> >> many
> >> Israelis as possible and if innocent Lebanese get caught in the
> >> crossfire,
> >> tough.
> >>
> >> These fanatics have little or no regard for human life. Their tactic
> >> is to
> >> hide among civilians; to use terrified women and children as human
> >> shields;
> >> to deploy school playgrounds as rocket launch sites; hotels and
> >> apartment
> >> blocks as command centres; homes as weapons dumps; mosques as air-raid
> >> shelters.
> >>
> >> I've heard reporters referring to Hezbollah as a "resistance"
> >> movement. They
> >> love it, don't they? Just as they insist on calling terrorist
> >> murderers
> >> "radicals" or "militants" - as if there's no difference between Al
> >> Qaeda and
> >> Aslef train drivers on unofficial strike.
> >>
> >> What they never point out is that if Hezbollah didn't exist, there
> >> would be
> >> nothing to resist. Israel is the Tony Martin of the Middle East,
> >> lashing out
> >> in fear and frustration after enduring years of provocation.
> >>
> >> Just as Tony Martin was abandoned by the police to endure burglary
> >> after
> >> burglary at his remote farmhouse, so the "international community"
> >> has done
> >> nothing to disarm and disband Hezbollah or prevent it and Hamas
> >> repeatedly
> >> attacking Israel.
> >>
> >> The United Nations hasn't lifted a finger to stop Iran and Syria
> >> supporting
> >> and supplying a standing terrorist army in Lebanon.
> >>
> >> There are no sanctions against the barking mad president of Iran when
> >> he
> >> constantly threatens to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and is
> >> hell-bent on obtaining nuclear weapons.
> >>
> >> Iran has put Lebanese civilians in the front line of its lunatic war
> >> against
> >> Israel and the U. S. in particular and Western civilisation in
> >> general. So
> >> where's the international condemnation?
> >>
> >> Hezbollah is the provisional wing of Iran. Would it be
> >> "proportionate" if
> >> Israel attacked the paymasters and ringleaders of Hezbollah in Tehran?
> >>
> >> Security
> >>
> >> It may yet come to that. But first Israel has to remove the immediate
> >> threat
> >> to its security.
> >>
> >> The United Nations isn't going to do that. The UN is a busted flush,
> >> led by
> >> the laughable Kofi Annan - the Chauncey Gardiner of world diplomacy.
> >> When it
> >> left the U.S.-led coalition to go it alone in Iraq, it sent a clear
> >> message
> >> to other tyrants and rogue states that they had nothing to fear from
> >> the UN.
> >>
> >>
> >> Listening to "world opinion" has got Israel nowhere. It was told it
> >> should
> >> trade land for peace. So it did. It got war. Israel pulled out of
> >> southern
> >> Lebanon six years ago.
> >>
> >> Hezbollah boasts that it has spent that time preparing for this fresh
> >> assault, building tunnels and bunkers and stockpiling a deadly
> >> arsenal of
> >> 13,000 weapons, which it is now raining down on Israeli civilians.
> >>
> >> There are hourly calls for a ceasefire, but when Tel Aviv suspended
> >> bombing
> >> for 48 hours the response was a record number of Katyusha rockets
> >> fired into
> >> Israel in return.
> >>
> >> I saw a BBC reporter standing on a hillside trying to convince us that
> >> because missiles were still being fired from Lebanon despite three
> >> weeks of
> >> fighting, it was evidence that Israel's tactics weren't working and it
> >> couldn't win.
> >>
> >> Hezbollah has spent six years building up its arsenal in preparation
> >> for
> >> this war. Who said an Israeli victory would only take three weeks?
> >>
> >> If there is a ceasefire, Hezbollah will simply regroup. There's talk
> >> of a
> >> negotiated settlement, but how do you cut a deal when one side says
> >> it will
> >> not be satisfied until the other is totally eradicated?
> >>
> >> Lasting peace has only ever followed total victory in war. Even if
> >> Israel
> >> and Hezbollah/ Iran agree to walk away tomorrow, we'll be back here
> >> again in
> >> a few years.
> >>
> >> Then there's the Palestinian question. Again, even though Israel ceded
> >> territory in pursuit of peace, terror attacks and kidnappings on
> >> Israeli
> >> soil have continued.
> >>
> >> There's talk about dusting off the old "road map". Israel accepts
> >> there will
> >> have to be a two-state solution, but the only "road map" of the
> >> Middle East
> >> its enemies will accept is one without Israel on it at all.
> >>
> >> Carnage
> >>
> >> Meanwhile, spare a thought for the Jewish community in Britain.
> >> They're as
> >> distressed by the carnage as the rest of us and there are divisions
> >> over
> >> Israel's actions. No one wallows in the death of innocents - except,
> >> of
> >> course, Hezbollah and its Iranian puppet-masters.
> >>
> >> At this time of year, there are 15,000 British Jewish teenagers in
> >> Israel on
> >> the traditional summer rite of passage. And there are 30,000 British
> >> passport holders living in Israel.
> >>
> >> Although we had wall-to-wall coverage of grumbling British passport
> >> holders
> >> being evacuated from Beirut, there doesn't seem to have been equal
> >> concern
> >> about our fellow citizens under bombardment on the other side of the
> >> border.
> >>
> >>
> >> What struck me about the recent pro-Israel demonstration in London
> >> was the
> >> number of Union flags in the crowd. These are our people.
> >>
> >> I didn't notice any Union flags at the Stop The War rally, though
> >> there were
> >> plenty of "We Are All Hezbollah Now" banners. It doesn't seem to dawn
> >> on
> >> them that if you want to stop the war you've got to stop Hezbollah.
> >>
> >> But what drives most of these "peace campaigners" is not so much a
> >> desire
> >> for peace as a hatred of Israel.
> >>
> >> Every time something goes off in Iraq we're told it will radicalise
> >> young
> >> Muslims back in Britain. We hear that Tony Blair's failure to call
> >> for an
> >> immediate halt to the Israeli offensive has put us at imminent risk of
> >> another Islamist homicide attack on our streets.
> >>
> >> Despite the Hezbollah war on Israel and the mounting casualties - and
> >> the
> >> widespread condemnation of Israel in this country - I've yet to hear
> >> anyone
> >> warn that young British Jews are queueing to blow up themselves and
> >> hundreds
> >> of others at Brent Cross shopping centre.
> >>
> >> I repeat, this war is awful. The civilian deaths are a tragedy.
> >>
> >> But there won't be peace in the Middle East until the likes of Iran,
> >> Hezbollah and Hamas recognise Israel's right to exist.
> >>
> >> And, I'm afraid, this side of kingdom come, that just ain't gonna
> >> happen.
> >>
> >> Israel may be losing the propaganda war, but it isn't fighting a
> >> propaganda
> >> war - it's fighting a real war for its very existence.
As said previously, in human history, the only long term peace comes with the total annihilation of your opposition.
