Built in response to the Palestinian intifada which claimed more than 900 lives since September 2000, the fence has dramatically halted the number of terrorist attacks inside the country. Excuse the pun -- but from the wall-to-wall coverage it received you could be mistaken for thinking that Israel's decision to defend itself in this was unprecedented. Yet, not only is this wrong but, ironically, a lot of the physical barriers currently in place are located in the ‘Muslim This seizure was of considerable significance. It demonstrated that Iran is arming terrorists in Lebanon (where Hezbollah is now ‘sharing power’ in – ie, exercising power over -- the government). It showed how Iran is busting the UN arms embargo. It exposed the extent of Syria’s collusion with Iran. And it showed the extent of the threat to Israel from Iran in Lebanon working through...
Wednesday, 11th November 2009
Spot the difference
5:10pm
Shiraz Maher is a courageous British Muslim of moral integrity who supports Israel’s right to defend itself against annihilation. In Standpoint magazine’s blog, he writes an extremely sharp article -- marking the fall of the Berlin wall -- which lists the many ‘security walls’ in the Muslim world but which are totally ignored in the frenzy over Israel’s separation fence:
...Iran caught red-handed, Britain yawns
3:47pm
Last week, Israeli naval commandos seized a huge haul of armaments shipped from Iran and destined for Syria and thence, Israel says, for Hezbollah in Lebanon. The haul, seized from a cargo ship flying the flag of Antigua, south of Cyprus, contained thirty-six shipping containers with 500 tons of weaponry -- about 9,000 mortar bombs, 3,000 Katyusha artillery rockets, 3,000 recoilless gun shells, 20,000 grenades and over a half million rounds of small arms ammunition.
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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