Prime Minister Blair, I watched your performance at Camp David with incredulity. The emotion you showed to announce that two British soldiers had been executed by Iraqi troops, saying it was further evidence of the depravity of Saddam Hussein's regime, was beyond belief. Subsequent newspaper reports, The Times page 8, Saturday 29 March, 2003, clearly indicate that your officials had to admit they had no concrete evidence on how these two Royal Engineers had been killed and had based their judgement on the footage of al-Jazeera.
I have to question how, in all honesty, you have the temerity to use the term ?depravity? for this incident whilst at the same time you refer positively to the early publication/implementation of the ?Roadmap?. It is clear that both you and the Foreign Secretary Straw appear to sink into oblivion when it comes to the depravity exhibited by the Palestinians in Ramallah in October 2000. May I take the liberty of reminding you that two Israeli reservists took a wrong turn and found themselves in Ramallah. The so-called Palestinian police arrested them and held them in a Ramallah police station, whereupon a barbaric mob descended upon that building and lynched the two Israelis. Where was the Geneva Convention then? Not satisfied with having barbarically killed them, the mob attached their bodies to the rear of cars and drove them ?round the streets of Ramallah. Of course, the Palestinian authority did their utmost to cover this up, taking away film and video footage from correspondents in the vicinity, but one film unit was able to smuggle out the material, for the barbaric acts to be shown around the world. This is called depravity and these are the same people that you, together with your Foreign Secretary, have the audacity to suggest have their own state, imposed upon the state of Israel on the Biblical Land of Israel. Furthermore, during the wars that were launched by the Arab countries against Israel, this level of depravity was exhibited by the Syrian and Egyptian regimes, including mutilating the bodies in typical Arab fashion. Today's suicide bombers are just following in their tradition.
No Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, let alone the Foreign Secretary, has the right to impose any solution with regard to the Land of Israel. After all, the UK breached its terms of the UN Mandate in the 1920's by creating a puppet emirate of Trans-Jordan. Not satisfied with that, the UK endorsed the occupation by the Jordanians of Judea, Samaria and, above all, Jerusalem in 1948.
Turning to Abu Mazen, the proposed PLO prime minister. How is it that Her Majesty?s Government can exhibit a degree of myopia that is beyond all recognition? Abu Mazen has been the Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization's Executive Committee, which made him a deputy to Yasser Arafat. He has denied the Holocaust; in his PhD thesis he compared Israel to a Nazi state; and expressed, last month in an interview with the London-based Arabic newspaper A-Sharq al-Aussat, public support for terrorism against the Jewish inhabitants of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. He went further by stating that the murder of Jewish residents is not terrorism, but rather, ?legitimate resistance to the occupation?. This is the man who the UK government considers an acceptable person to lead to the creation of yet another Arab state in the Middle East, this time on Jewish land.
Her Majesty?s Government has obviously been given the wrong advice by its advisors. There is no difference in the attitude towards the Jewish people of Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat or Abu Mazen. Irrespective of what the current government of the State of Israel considers acceptable, there is a clear moral case, just as you tried to advise UK citizens regarding Saddam Hussein, to be made against Abu Mazen, Arafat and their ilk.
I am given to understand that contained in the Dispatch Box in the House of Commons is a book - the King James edition of the Bible. Perhaps, instead of pontificating at the Dispatch Box about what the State of Israel should or should not be doing, you could consult the Bible, which clearly lays down in the Old Testament the rights of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. It is not the prerogative of your government to seek to violate these rights.
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Dr. Colin. L. Leci, C. Eng., writes from London.
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I have to question how, in all honesty, you have the temerity to use the term ?depravity? for this incident whilst at the same time you refer positively to the early publication/implementation of the ?Roadmap?. It is clear that both you and the Foreign Secretary Straw appear to sink into oblivion when it comes to the depravity exhibited by the Palestinians in Ramallah in October 2000. May I take the liberty of reminding you that two Israeli reservists took a wrong turn and found themselves in Ramallah. The so-called Palestinian police arrested them and held them in a Ramallah police station, whereupon a barbaric mob descended upon that building and lynched the two Israelis. Where was the Geneva Convention then? Not satisfied with having barbarically killed them, the mob attached their bodies to the rear of cars and drove them ?round the streets of Ramallah. Of course, the Palestinian authority did their utmost to cover this up, taking away film and video footage from correspondents in the vicinity, but one film unit was able to smuggle out the material, for the barbaric acts to be shown around the world. This is called depravity and these are the same people that you, together with your Foreign Secretary, have the audacity to suggest have their own state, imposed upon the state of Israel on the Biblical Land of Israel. Furthermore, during the wars that were launched by the Arab countries against Israel, this level of depravity was exhibited by the Syrian and Egyptian regimes, including mutilating the bodies in typical Arab fashion. Today's suicide bombers are just following in their tradition.
No Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, let alone the Foreign Secretary, has the right to impose any solution with regard to the Land of Israel. After all, the UK breached its terms of the UN Mandate in the 1920's by creating a puppet emirate of Trans-Jordan. Not satisfied with that, the UK endorsed the occupation by the Jordanians of Judea, Samaria and, above all, Jerusalem in 1948.
Turning to Abu Mazen, the proposed PLO prime minister. How is it that Her Majesty?s Government can exhibit a degree of myopia that is beyond all recognition? Abu Mazen has been the Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization's Executive Committee, which made him a deputy to Yasser Arafat. He has denied the Holocaust; in his PhD thesis he compared Israel to a Nazi state; and expressed, last month in an interview with the London-based Arabic newspaper A-Sharq al-Aussat, public support for terrorism against the Jewish inhabitants of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. He went further by stating that the murder of Jewish residents is not terrorism, but rather, ?legitimate resistance to the occupation?. This is the man who the UK government considers an acceptable person to lead to the creation of yet another Arab state in the Middle East, this time on Jewish land.
Her Majesty?s Government has obviously been given the wrong advice by its advisors. There is no difference in the attitude towards the Jewish people of Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat or Abu Mazen. Irrespective of what the current government of the State of Israel considers acceptable, there is a clear moral case, just as you tried to advise UK citizens regarding Saddam Hussein, to be made against Abu Mazen, Arafat and their ilk.
I am given to understand that contained in the Dispatch Box in the House of Commons is a book - the King James edition of the Bible. Perhaps, instead of pontificating at the Dispatch Box about what the State of Israel should or should not be doing, you could consult the Bible, which clearly lays down in the Old Testament the rights of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel. It is not the prerogative of your government to seek to violate these rights.
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Dr. Colin. L. Leci, C. Eng., writes from London.
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Spend Passover with Arutz Sheva at a resort in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv or Kfar Pines (near Hadera). Click here for info.