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Terror Strikes London, UK

It was only a matter of time, wasn’t it???

Just a matter of time…

Hamas

Allah is WHAT???

While UK Jews are Cowering, Many North American Jews Will Be Smiling

A record number of Jews from North America will be arriving as new immigrants to Israel next week…

We’re waiting…

America’s enemies win, while her closest friends lose…

New Show/Podcast!!!

Obama's Zero Sum Foreign Policy

Reaching out to America’s enemies has become the keystone of the Obama presidency, most strongly towards the Muslim nations. Apparently, the US President feels that the only way he can improve relations with America’s enemies is by destroying relations with her historic and present closest allies, specifically, Israel and Great Britain. Insult follows insult, both to the leaders and people of Israel and Great Britain. Nevertheless. American Jews, in spite of their president’s hostility towards Israel, continue to support Obama at levels greater than the American population at large…

Obama in England

Reprinted from The Telegraph Nile Gardiner…Click to read article

Reprinted from The Telegraph Nile Gardiner…Click to read article

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Who would have thought? Researchers in both Israel and the UK have determined that the sudden exposure at night by flicking on a light just to go to the bathroom can cause changes that might well lead to cancer.

Apparently you’d be better off stubbing your toe on the way to the john, or even widdling just a wee bit on your bare toes, rather than turning on the light to avoid such unpleasant mishaps.

You makes your choices and you takes your chances…

Israel/UK Research says Switching off lights can avoid cancer

Switching off lights can avoid cancer

Simply turning on a light at night for a few seconds to go to the toilet can cause changes that might lead to cancer, scientists claim.

Reprinted from The Times of India

Researchers in the UK and Israel found that when a light is turned on at night, it triggers an “over-expression” of cells linked to the formation of cancer.

The tests were carried out on mice at Leicester University by geneticist Professor Charalambos Kyriacou. During the trial, a group of mice were exposed to a light for one hour. When compared with mice, who had been kept in the dark, changes were found in cells in the brain responsible for the circadian clock which controls body function.

“We believe that any turning on of artificial light in the night has an impact on the body clock. It’s a very sensitive mechanism. If you want to get up to go to the toilet, you should avoid reaching for the light switch. There are some plug-in lights that just glow, that are safe and you could use them as an alternative,” Rachel Ben-Shlomo, of the University of Haifa, was quoted as saying.

As General elections are called in Great Britain, is this just one more instance of anti-Israel fervor being stirred up by British parliamentarians presumably looking to win the significant Muslim vote?…or maybe they just really don’t like Israel…
Doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense to sell weapons to your ally and then specify that these weapons NOT be used in defending your allied country’s citizens…Or maybe Great Britain does not consider stopping eight years of daily rocket, missile and mortar attacks on Israel’s civilian population a valid expression of Israel’s right to self-defense???
I always DID have a bit of a problem with British logic, being American and all…

Gaza War

Ensure Israel arms curbs, say MPs


The UK government must ensure that military equipment sold to Israel is not used in the occupied territories, MPs have said.

Reprinted from BBC News

Ministers must learn “broader lessons” about ensuring the ban on the trade in such products for use in Gaza and the West Bank is enforced, a report adds.

The MPs said it was “regrettable” that UK arms sold to Israel were “almost certainly” used in Gaza in 2008.

However, they said the UK provided less than 1% of arms exported to Israel.

Rocket attacks

The Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls – made up of members of other select committees – questioned ministers on the state of the military equipment trade.

It heard that arms deals with Israel had been looked at on a “case-by-case basis”, rather than the UK government imposing an embargo.

Five licences had been revoked since Operation Cast Lead, launched by Israel in December 2008.

The Israeli armed forces launched a 22-day offensive in the Gaza Strip, bombing Palestinian cities before sending in ground troops – in response, Israel said, to Hamas rocket attacks on southern Israel.

After this, Hamas launched its rockets in increased numbers at Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip, before agreeing to a ceasefire.

Palestinians and rights groups say more than 1,400 Gazans died in the conflict but Israel puts the figure at 1,166. Thirteen Israelis, including three civilians, were killed.

A report issued in September 2009 by the UN Human Rights Commission found that Israel and Hamas, the militant group that runs Gaza, had committed war crimes during the conflict.

In their report, the MPs said: “We repeat our conclusion that it is regrettable that arms exports to Israel were almost certainly used in Operation Cast Lead.

“This is in direct contravention to the UK government’s policy that UK arms exports to Israel should not be used in the occupied territories.

“We further conclude that the revoking of five UK arms exports licences to Israel since Cast Lead is welcome, but that broader lessons must be learned from the post-conflict review to ensure that UK arms exports to Israel are not used in the occupied territories in future.

“We recommend that the government, in its response to this report, set out clearly the longer term lessons learnt post-Operation Cast Lead and how they will impact in practice on the issuing of future licences for arms exports to Israel.”

‘Take Gaza into account’

In evidence to the MPs in April last year, Bill Rammell, then a Foreign Office minister, said the government had not authorised any exports relating to F-16 jets, helicopters or armoured personnel carriers for Israel since the conflict in Lebanon in 2006.

He also said that “all of these export decisions were in accordance with the criteria on that information that we had available at the time”.

But Foreign Secretary David Miliband made a statement on 21 April last year, in which he said the F-16s and Apache helicopters used by Israeli forces during Operation Cast Lead had “almost certainly” contained British-supplied components.

In their report, the MPs said: “The government stated it would take the conflict in Gaza into account in assessing all future licence applications.”

They added: “The government wrote to the committees in July 2009 with an update on the review of 182 extant licences to Israel.

“It decided to revoke five licences for equipment to the Israeli Navy. It stated that there was no evidence that the decision to revoke those licences has had any impact on the UK’s defence relationship with either the USA or Israel.”

The Campaign Against the Arms Trade, which also gave evidence to the MPs, said it was “virtually impossible to guarantee that any military equipment supplied to the Israeli government will not be used in the occupied territories”.

It called for an embargo on arms and components going to Israel, both directly and through use in weapons produced in other countries and then sold on to Israel.

The campaign said the government had licensed arms exports worth between £10m and £30m a year for export directly to Israel over the past few years.

During 2008, licences for goods worth more than £27.5m had been approved, it added, while the UK had sold components used in weapons exported to Israel by US suppliers.

In evidence in January this year, Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis said there would “not be any arms embargo against Israel” as the government was “firmly of the view that Israel faces real threats”.

Israeli tanks advanced briefly into the Gaza Strip at the weekend, following clashes in which two Israeli soldiers and two Palestinian militants died.

It is the first time Israeli soldiers have died in Gaza since Operation Cast Lead.

This is another example of the “New Anti-Semitism”…That is, good old-fashioned Jew-hating clothed in the mantle of “anti-Zionism”. “I don’t hate Jews, just the Zionist ones. It’s about Israel, not Judaism, they say.” “The persecution of the poor palestinians.” Boloney, BS, cockey, poo….The same old anti-Semitism in it’s modern, politically- correct form. They’ve found a way for their bigotry and hatred to become acceptable, once again, in the parlors of high society…

Just like it was in the 1930′s and 1940′s…before the Holocaust…


The UK and Israel have rarely had an easy relationship

UK officer says views of Israeli forces ‘anti-Semitic’

A former senior British army officer has said international media including the BBC are being exploited by “dark forces” who want to harm Israel.

By John McManus
BBC News

Col Richard Kemp, who was a commander in Afghanistan, said some international criticism of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) was motivated by anti-Semitism.

He was speaking at a dinner in London hosted by a pro-Israel lobby group.

Col Kemp had defended the actions of the IDF at the UN Goldstone Hearings into the Gaza incursion of 2008.

The Israeli minister for Information and the Diaspora, Yuli Edelstein, was also present at the dinner hosted by the Zionist Federation.

He refused to comment on rumours that the Israeli secret service Mossad had fraudulently used the passports of British citizens during an operation to kill the Hamas boss Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

Col Kemp, who is now retired from the Army and makes a living from writing, said the advice he received from the Israeli armed forces on how to tackle Afghan suicide bombers had been invaluable, and formed the basis of official army guidelines used by soldiers on the ground there.

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