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David Vance is the editor of , an online Unionist newsletter that seeks to help maintain Northern Ireland as an integral part of the United Kingdom.
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By David Vance
September 3, 2006
It's not just Ehud Olmert whose political prospects have been dimmed following the failed war against the Islamofascists in south Lebanon. It now seems that Hezbollah may have also finished off Tony Blair?s political career.
UK media reports indicate that UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will be served notice to quit Downing Street at a meeting of the Cabinet next week when senior ministers confront him over his refusal to commit to a departure timetable. Apparently the bridge too far was Mr. Blair's handling of the Lebanon conflict which led to near-mutiny within his Party ranks.
The pro-Arab zealots in the governing British Labour Party were outraged that Blair did not immediately join in the siren calls emanating from the European left demanding that Israel immediately cease using "disproportionate" force against the Hezbollah Jihadists. In this case "disproportionate" means any form of military force!
The former British Foreign Secretary and former staunch Blair ally Jack Straw was one of those who vocally demanded that Israel stop making a bad situation worse by defending itself! Mr. Straw said: "One of many serious concerns I have is that the continuation of such tactics by the Israelis could further destabilise the already fragile Lebanese nation. If you want to go for Hezbollah, go for Hezbollah, not the whole Lebanese nation."
This grotesque falsehood that Israel was randomly attacking the entire Lebanese nation is all part of the big lie assiduously propagated as an article of faith by the British Left.
Straw made this calumny in an address to an audience of influential local Muslim "community leaders", providing us with an insight into the deplorable dhimmi mindset that drives so much of British political opinion on Israel.
It seems that the overwhelming majority of the British political establishment has little or no sympathy with Israel. Their lack of moral clarity is manifest in the fact that most them could not distinguish between the cowardly actions of Nasrallah?s Jihad brigade and the bravery of the Israeli armed forces.
Therefore, when Hezbollah rained thousands of Katyusha rockets on innocent men women and children in northern Israel, British political leaders immediately blamed Israel for provoking such a response. The victims somehow became the guilty when viewed through the prism of seething anti-Semitism which sadly now characterizes much of British political thinking. It's akin to suggesting that those who perished in the Concentration Camps were as guilty as those who slaughtered them. It's moral depravity at its very worst.
After the farcical UN resolution 1701, British charities have now dedicated their fundraising energies to generating millions of dollars for all those poor Hezbollah supporters in south Lebanon -- whilst giving nothing to the people of Israel.
UK Media coverage has played in crucial role in contorting the realities of the war with the BBC leading the way as the de facto propaganda arm for Hezbollah. Notoriously prejudiced reporters such as Orla Guerin filed reports virtually suggesting that Israel had tuned south Lebanon into a Hiroshima style wasteland. All the talk was focused on dead Lebanese "civilians" -- Hezbollah terrorists entirely disappeared off the media radar during the war, only re-appearing afterwards when they bearing bundles of cash for their supporters. For the first time in modern history a war was fought against an invisible enemy -- were one so foolish as to believe the coverage presented on British TV screens.
Tony Blair, like President Bush, was correct to stand firmly with Israel in those first crucial weeks of the fighting. He was undermined by his own party colleagues and the mainstream media for doing so. But Olmert fumbled and failed to prosecute the necessary rapid blitzkrieg against Nasrallah's savages and so the pressure on Blair to follow the Euro-flock and bleat for an "immediate cease-fire" became unbearable. And so he has become the lamb led to the slaughter.
It's not just Israeli fortunes that Olmert has compromised. His folly of indecision may also cost Israel the support of at least one ally in Britain. Baaaa!
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