well over 6,000 descendants of the Palestinians from Huj — now Sederot — live in the squalor of Gaza, among the “terrorists” Israel is claiming to destroy and who are shooting at what was Huj. Interesting story. And same again for Israel’s right to self-defence. We heard it again this week. What if the people of London were being rocketed like the people of Israel? Wouldn’t they strike back? Well yes, but we Brits don’t have more than a million former inhabitants of the UK cooped up in refugee camps over a few square miles around Hastings. The last time this specious argument was used was in 2008, when Israel invaded Gaza and killed 1,100 Palestinians (exchange rate: 1,100 to 13). What if Dublin was under rocket attack, the Israeli ambassador asked then? But the UK town of Crossmaglen, in Northern Ireland, was under rocket attack from the Irish Republic in the 1970s - yet the RAF didn’t bomb Dublin in retaliation, killing Irish women and children. In Canada in 2008, Israel’s supporters were making the same fraudulent point. What if the people of Vancouver or Toronto or Montreal were being rocket-attacked from the suburbs of their own cities? How would they feel? But the Canadians haven’t pushed the original inhabitants of Canadian territory into refugee camps.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:34:31 +0000
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