Wintonsweek Liam Fox Tells Some Home Truths About Lebanon Action Much Of Britain, Blair Excluded, Fails To Understand Threat To Israel You Can’t Negotiate With Hezbollah; Removal The Only Option Lebanon’s Craven Weakness Led To Israel’s Action Will Fox Survive This Vigorous Defence of Israel? “destroy all the missiles and don’t stop until you’ve done it” After the unrelenting negative reporting on Israel provided by the BBC – when the lachrymose Fergal Keane starts “reporting” from Lebanon, you know what the state-controlled monster is up to – hearing Conservative Liam Fox’s wise and brave words on the nature of the threat from Hezbollah came as a breath of fresh air. Shadow Defence spokesman Fox, in a TV interview, reminded us about the threat that Israel faces. Since pulling out of southern Lebanon six years ago, Hezbollah, with help mainly from Syria and Iran, has been steadily and relentless building up its terrorist network and its stocks of rockets. But under United Nations resolution 1559, Lebanon had been expected to force the withdrawal of foreign forces from it southern territory. It has singularly failed to do this. It is hardly surprising that Israel viewed the killing of 8 of its soldiers and the kidnap of two others, as the final straw which not only required action, but a decisive move to finally rid the area of the Hezbollah pox. No state can stand idly by and allow its citizens to be threatened by a random wave of rocket fire, which Hezbollah freely admits have only one purpose – to kill Israeli civilians, and to bring forward the day when Israel ceases to exist. Mad Mahmoud Afterdinnerjacket, Iran’s President, has made clear that he wants the death of Israel. Almost demanding that civilians are hit BBC TV 24 interviewed a Lebanese minister on Sunday morning, a transport minister called Mohammed Somebodyorother, who while lambasting Israel’s action in which more than 50 innocents were killed, said that his government was doing all it could to end the problem with Hezbollah forces “by integrating them into the government”. The Lebanese government believes it can solve the bestial problem of Hezbollah fanatics by asking them nicely to join the government. This is the real reason for the tragedy in Lebanon. A weak government cannot or will not do the job of pacifying its southern border area with Israel. So finally, Israel has to do its job for it. British media wrong A week later on the same programme, Nicholas (The Key) Soames, former Tory shadow Defence minister who you might think would know better, was outrageous, calling Israel’s action “grotesque barbarity”, and saying the British government was dilatory in not calling for an early cease fire. Again, Soames’ wrong-headed and hurtful comments drew no rebuke from the Dimbleby. You do have to wonder how people like Soames would react if England was being threatened by rockets fired indiscriminately at its cities. Would he call for a “proportionate” response? Or would he tell the British army to “destroy all the missiles and don’t stop until you’ve done it”? The idea that a cease-fire, where Hezbollah could regroup and resupply, is just silly. Only someone who held views that sympathised with the enemies of Israel would call for a quick cease-fire. Even William Hague’s at it I wonder if these mealy-mouthed apologists have any real idea about the threat Israel faces. I regularly read the output of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) which translates the output of Arab media broadcast in the local language. This can be very revealing. Yasser Arafat used to sound quite reasonable when being interviewed in English by the world’s media. But when he then spoke Arabic to his domestic audience, the peace-maker often became a rabid Jew-hater, employing quiet disgusting and childish theories about Jews. Western journalists rarely bothered to translate these bulletins which reveal the true agenda of Islamofascism. "The descendents of apes and pigs" "The Koran used terms that are closer to animals than to humans only with regard to those people (the Jews). Look at the bestiality they demonstrate in the destruction of the Arab, Lebanese, and Palestinian people. This is why the people who were given the Torah were likened to a donkey carrying books. They were also likened to apes and pigs, and they are, indeed, the descendants of apes and pigs, as the Koran teaches us." This is a government minister speaking. This kind of abuse is common in the Middle East, and in a country peopled by the well educated, probably would be harmless. But in countries where the people are simple and easily led, this poison is taken seriously. Grandsons of Nazi killers This kind of bile is routine, and carried in the mainstream media. Liam Fox backed up the position taken by Prime Minister Tony Blair, as he in turn supports President Bush’s stance that Israel must be allowed to stop these wanton, random killers called terrorists. Unfortunately for those of us in Britain who still support Israel and understand that its Islamofascist threat is ours too, the most likely scenario is that this might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back of Tony Blair’s leadership, and knowing the supine, principle-free new Conservative party, is likely to lead to the demise of Liam Fox too for daring to speak the truth. I would normally be gloating with glee if Blair finally got his come-uppance; but not over this issue. And looking at the modern Conservative party led by Call Me Dave, I don’t think Liam Fox is likely to be around much longer. If that happens, the Tories will have to do some serious thinking about their direction, and their leadership. Neil Winton – July 31, 2006
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