12 June '13..
News item:
A British MP who was caught on camera branding an Israeli soldier a “bloody Jew” has apologized for his remark, the British-based Jewish News reports. …
Describing an encounter with a soldier while trying to enter an “intelligence establishment” during a recent visit to the Jewish state, he was reported during last Thursday’s program as saying, “An 18-year-old girl wearing a uniform, but with her sort of hair in plaits, and crazy jeweler [sic] and open-toed sandals, with a rifle up my nose. Who the f*** are you, you know? ‘Well I’m a soldier.’ Are you? You don’t look like a soldier to me. You look like a bloody Jew. And I’ve no doubt that if I’d come up with the wrong answer, I’d have had my head blown off.”
[MP Patrick] Mercer, who served as shadow homeland security minister under Michael Howard and Iain Duncan Smith, has told the Jewish News, “I’d like to apologies [sic] unreservedly for any offence I’ve caused to all my friends in the Jewish community.”
A pity he didn’t get his arrogant Jew-hating head blown off, in my opinion. And he doesn’t need to apologize to “all [his] friends in the Jewish community,” assuming that he still has any. He has to apologize to that young woman who, while doing her duty, taught this worthless prick an important lesson: that there is one place in the world where Jews don’t have to take crap from such as him.
MP Mercer expressed the thought held more quietly by so many, especially in Europe and the UK: they believe that it’s just not proper for there to be Jewish soldiers, a Jewish army, a Jewish air force, Jewish nuclear weapons, or a Jewish state. In their minds, Jews exist to be insulted, to be victimized in various ways, maybe to be pitied but never to be respected.
But those days ended in May, 1948, when MP Mercer’s own regiment, the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters, along with the rest of the British forces in Palestine, slunk back to England with its tail between its legs, after getting its ass kicked by Jewish soldiers like the young woman he insulted!
There. Now I feel better.
Link: http://fresnozionism.org/2013/06/british-mp-still-angry-about-1948/
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ReplyDeleteThis is very true. Being kicked out of Palestine was a greater blow to British pride than was the evacuation from India. You can see this by perusing the writings of such British historians as Jan Morris ("Farewell the Trumpets") and Paul Johnson ("Modern Times").Think about it! The British had some 10,000 soldiers in ALL India but (in 1946 and 1947) some 103,000 police and army in Palestine: or roughly one British soldier or policeman for every six Jewih men, women, and children. Their running away as they did was deeply mortifying to all the "imperial" types. And deep down it still rankles. Another excellent book is "Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine" by Dr, A. J. Sherman. This book is based on letters written by British officials, high and low, who served in Palestine.
ReplyDeleteThe fall of the British Empire during and after WWII left the British feeling bereft. For at least twenty years after the fall, ignominious nobody's who thought they were somebody's cluttered the seedier parts of London. Areas like Earls Court, Mansion Flats set out complete with servant's room. The trouble with these awful people was most of them were employed pushing the 'natives' around and shuffling paperwork. Army people to young to serve in WWII simply couldn't let go. Then there was the Suez crisis which cost Britain her regular soldiers. I'm quite sure Mercer is the son of this type of background. Utterly stuck up and loud mouthed and totally lacking in tact.
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