Robin Shepherd
robinshepherdonline.com
27 July '10
Britain’s new Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, is being quoted on Tuesday as employing the kind of deeply hostile rhetoric against Israel that is more usually associated with the extremist and activist community or with well known detractors of the Jewish state in the British media.
Cameron is quoted on the Conservative Home website — a popular site for grassroots supporters which is close to the party but which is not formally affiliated to it — as calling Gaza a “prison camp” in a speech he made while on a visit to Turkey. This sort of language lies at the softer end of an extreme form of discourse which routinely describes Gaza as an “open air prison”, or even a “concentration camp” and which always airbrushes Hamas anti-Semitism and its annihilationist ambitions against Israel and the Jews out of the equation.
Cameron employed precisely such a strategy in his speech, where he — or his speechwriter — even blundered into territory which could be construed as making him look soft on terrorism.
“…the situation in Gaza has to change,” he said. “Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp”.
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The point at issue here comes in the words “humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions”. The first part is a classic red-herring since genuine humanitarian aid already flows into Gaza. But what precisely does a British prime minister think he is doing suggesting that Israel should free up its borders with a zone packed full of would-be suicide bombers?
The kindest explanation is that he is simply being careless and on reflection would probably have wanted to add that Israel is of course entitled to be careful about which Gazans it lets into Israel. But careless talk costs lives and Cameron or his advisers should be aware that it is precisely because they want the option of sending waves of suicide bombers into Israel that Hamas has been so vocal in calling for its people to be allowed into Israel without restriction.
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Israel is not going to open its borders for terrorists to cross freely into Israel and slaughter its people.
ReplyDeleteYosef, you might want to remind the British that if they talk about a prison camp, remind them of the prison camps they set up for the Jews on Cyprus and where they held them hostage against their will to prevent them from immigrating to Eretz Israel.
In short, David Cameron is guilty of outrageous chutzpah to lecture Israel in such a manner. And then there is his call to admit Turkey to the EU. Christian Europe is cold to the idea of Islamist Turkey joining its club. That has as much chance of happening as Israel has of accommodating Hamas with open borders.
In a word Mr. Cameron, those things will happen when pigs fly!
Norman, you are 100% on target as usual. What's a bit puzzling is what Cameron expects to get from this position. With the PA you can play make-believe, but with the Hamas collection it's really much harder to cover over their basic terrorist approach.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you expect from the leader of the British government? Perhaps things have come full circle from the British governments who actively tried to stop the Jewish people from returning to their homeland.
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn't he lead by example and open Britain's borders to ALL non Eu immigrants without restriction?