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While Michael's claims about Israel are disconcerting, perhaps his own country will understand Israel's less than perfect "human rights" record once England has to put up with this (also from the State Department report): "Terrorist organizations such as the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, attacked Israelis in Israel. According to government statistics, during the year terrorist attacks killed 29 Israeli civilians and an IDF soldier within the country. Terrorist attacks injured over 430 civilians and over 200 security force personnel during the year."

And, that could be sooner than England and the UK think with the two million Muslims currently living in their country, their multi-culti silliness rather than assimilating same Muslims, and the ever-expanding home-grown Islamic jihad within their own second generation of Muslim immigrants. Once you've lived with hundreds of 7/7 attacks over 30 years, then perhaps you'll be more understanding of Israel. I can only hope that yesterday's near major terrorist attack on airline passengers between London and the U.S., conducted by your Muslim citizens, will wake up more of your people. So, please take the plank out of your own eye before complaining about the speck in Israel's.

And, since Israel is in an existential war (look it up, it means fighting for their very existence), they would be crazy not to do some kind of flyover with a huge Hezbollah fighting force on their border, apparently hiding weapons and bombs readying their attack on Israel. Do you think the UK did flyovers of Germany during World War II, invading German sovereignty? Or does it mean that when a country is at war, those niceties must go by the wayside? Did "shepherds" kill and kidnap Israeli soldiers and lob bombs into Israel? If true, that just proves that Hezbollah poses as civilians as they do their dirty deeds. Get real. Stop reading the left-wing, anti-Semitic press and get the truth.

I'll end with a quote from Melanie Phillips, author of Londonistan and educated at Oxford. "The west is under threat from an enemy which has shrewdly observed the decadence and disarray in Europe where western civilization first began. And the greatest disarray of all is in Britain, the very cradle of western liberty and democracy, but whose cultural confusion is now plain for all to see in Londonistan. The Islamists chose well. Britain is not what it once was. Whether it will finally pull itself together and stop sleepwalking into cultural oblivion is a question on which the future of the West may now depend."
-- Deborah Durkee
Marietta, Georgia

Mr. Lee states that "the Lebanese deaths of 1,000 in percentage terms is the same as 6.75 million Americans being killed." Hmm, let's see. Lebanon has a population of about 3.5 million. One thousand Lebanese equal .03 percent of the population. A .03 percent slice of the U.S. population of 300 million is roughly 90,000. So Mr. Lee's figure is only wrong by a factor of 75. Just like the rest of his letter.

Don't you hate it when that happens?
-- Paul Curley
Hong Kong, China

SOLID BEN STEIN
As concise and forthright as one can be,
Ben Stein lays out the possibility

Of annihilation of the civilized world
As the forces of evil are once again hurled

At freedom, knowing in this modern day
Appeasers might once again have their way.

With eyes wide open will our leaders elect
To embrace being weak and politically correct?

Not when patriots like Ben Stein call them out
And with a mighty pen expose what they're about.

A fight for our survival he wages
He's solid as a rock of ages.
-- Mimi Evans Winship

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