Having stopped for gasoline Saturday evening (after taking out another mortgage to finance the fuel and groceries), while paying I heard a female BBC newsperson battering an Israeli official of some sort about the deaths of some "Palestinians" in Gaza. The poor fellow was sputtering, backing up, straining for justifications without straying from the corral of leftist, "peace process" categories of thought and slogans that sandbag Israel every time. He painted himself into a corner.
As I listened to the nasty and predictable exchange I thought, rubbish and damnation! No need to apologize to anyone, least of all a Brit when discussing collateral damage during war – and war is what jihadists have been doing to Jews for six years, shooting rockets within the borders of pre-1967 Israel.
(Actually, the war – jihad – is approaching 14 centuries, but let's stick to the narrow definition for now.)
No need to review the evidence that the so-called "Palestinians" are a hostile population that plots to murder Jews in Israel (and elsewhere) and frequently asserts its intention of annihilating it. These all are declarations of war, and during war a hostile population is subject to attack; their death, whether unintended or even targeted, is legal part of the rules.
If you don't want to get killed, don't war on other people. Don't shoot rockets across the border into their towns; don't kidnap and murder their children; don't send homicide bombers into their eating places and busses. Even Jews eventually strike back and defend themselves, although the "world community," cloistered in Manhattan, frequently considers "motions" to withdraw from them this "right."
If they were a little less eager to exterminate Jews, the regime in Jerusalem might work with them to make it a virtual reality. But the bloodlust of the jihadists and Western diplomats makes them stumble over their shoes, repeatedly.
Given the restrictions under which the entire IDF operates when striking back against Arabs (thanks to eight decades of Labor "Zionism" and their suicidal principle of havlaga, Jewish self-restraint), and given initial studies from the field, those much-ballyhooed deaths on July 8 were not the result of IAF weaponry. Too bad; and this is what anyone should tell the BBC or any other regurgitator of official "truth."
Just say "Dresden." It's March 1945 and Dresden is a scarcely fortified city in east central Germany a few weeks before the end of the war in Europe. The British decided it was time for payback for the blitz of 1940. So they fire-bombed Dresden and basically melted it, slaughtering about 200,000 civilians. Marshal of the RAF at that time, Sir Arthur T. "Bomber" Harris was an unremitting exponent of "strategic area bombing" (including mass civilian deaths) to defeat an enemy. The British idea of an apology for this tactic was to build a statue to Harris in 1992 on the centenary of his birth. When German politicians whined criticisms, the British told them to stuff it.
End of story.
The British government and its institutions were major accomplices of the Germans in effecting the "final solution" to the Jewish problem. From 1920-1948, the dominant groups in the British Foreign Office and eventually the media and military totally perverted their League of Nations Mandate to re-establish the Jewish national home and facilitate Jewish immigration into it. Instead, with the war looming and abundant testimony, inter alia, from the Peel Commission about the slaughter impending for the Jews, by 1939 the British finished re-defining Jewish immigration to Eretz Israel as "illegal" while facilitating immigration of the Arabs that by the 1960s began to be called the "Palestinians." British institutions, including the BBC, still want to "solve" the New World Order's "Jewish problem."
While the British were facilitating in many ways the German mass murder of Jews of Europe, they also, in tandem with the U.S., spent the last two-plus years of the war bombing Germany 24/7, nonstop. About the only site they failed to bomb was the extermination centers and crematoria like those at Auschwitz, even though they bombed extensively in Silesia including within the boundaries of Auschwitz itself. So the British bombed civilian populations daily for years during World War II, even though the Germans had no intentions of exterminating the British as the Muslims have for exterminating the Jews – read it in their sermons, speeches or the Quran.
So, the British are on very thin ice when criticizing Israel for any attack of any magnitude retaliating for Arab assaults on Jews. It's calculated hypocrisy that distracts from the historical record of British complicity in the Shoah.
The best answer to all such criticism from the "world community" is to unleash the IAF, protect the lives of Jewish soldiers and to obliterate the hostile population in Gaza and in their terror-haven cities in Judea and Samaria. This would bring peace, about the last thing the silk hats or jihadists want.
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Eugene Narrett is professor and director of the BA in Multidisciplinary Studies at Cambridge College in Massachusetts. He has written extensively on American politics and culture and on Israel and the Middle East. His books include "Gathered Against Jerusalem" (Writers Club Press), "Israel Awakened" (AuthorHouse) and "Israel and the Endtimes."