Nick Clegg's 'Gratuitous Bashing' of Israel
written by British Israel Group
Israel has rightly accused UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg of "gratuitous bashing" after he said the country was doing "immense damage" to the Middle East peace process by continuing with "illegal" settlement-building which he said amounted to "an act of deliberate vandalism" that threatened a two-state solution.
This statement made with no reference to the long list of actions taken by the Palestinians that don't so much threaten the peace process as make the very idea of such a process into a joke. Their oft spoken intention of totally destroying the 'Zionist Entity', the constant barrage of rockets and mortar shells being fired into civilian communities, (680 mortars and Grad missiles in 2011), and worst of all, the educating of their children to hate Israel, to think of Jews as pigs and monkeys and instilling them with the desire to become suicide bombers and martyr themselves in the pursuit of spilling Jewish blood.
Such actions, in the eyes of British politicians, are presumably not a stumbling block in the effort to bring the two sides together in harmony while building homes is seen as rendering it impossible. Strange thinking which is repeated in the latest statement issued by Israel's British Embassy and so presumably also the thinking of the British Ambassador, Matthew Gould.
Among the many complaints contained in the Embassy's Human Rights Quarterly Update a great deal is written about what is seen as Israeli mistreatment of Arabs, regardless of whether many of the complaints have to do with protecting the Israeli population, again, absolutely no mention is made of Israeli civilian populations being targeted by rockets and mortar bombs from the Gaza Strip or terrorist attacks. Attempted or otherwise.
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