DAVID CAMERON, ON A VISIT TO TURKEY to tout for business and kow-tow to Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, has compared Gaza to a prison camp, adding that Israel’s attack on the Gaza flotilla: ‘… was completely unacceptable and I have told prime minister Netanyahu we will expect the Israeli inquiry to be swift, transparent and rigorous.’
First of all, Gaza is indeed a prison camp - but one of Hamas’ own making. Gaza suffers an embargo because Israel is trying to combat the missiles that Hamas feel at liberty to target Israel with without any formal condemnation from Cameron. The wall erected by Israel to further isolate Gaza was as a result of Hamas’ suicide bombers entering Israel and butchering civilians.
Every overt military action taken by Israel has been a defensive action; a reply rather than an assertive need to wipe out the Palestinians, as many on the Left want to believe.
On the West Bank, the Palestinian economy is booming and the people feel a degree of contentment with their lot for the first time in their post war history. This does not mean that they no longer want or seek a Palestinian State, but that they prefer the road of prosperity and negotiation to that of Hamas’ terrorism.
Gaza is on a war footing with Israel, and Israel is forced onto a similar footing with Gaza. The Israelis have not sent troops and Apache helicopters into the West Bank, because they do not see the West Bank Palestinians as any kind of military threat to their existence.
As for the flotilla sent to break Israel’s embargo; Cameron should be ashamed of himself. The Turkish vessel, the Mavi Mamara was allowed to set sail in the first place because Turkey, frustrated at being locked out of the European Union, decided to send out a warning. The so-called peace activists aboard the one ship that the Israelis encountered resistance from, were no more peace activists than Margaret Thatcher was a socialist.
Now Cameron has taken Turkey’s bait, to the detriment of our relationship with Israel. History will prove that Israel would have proved a better ally than Turkey.
At the age of 60, I voted last May for a Conservative government, after a life-time of voting Labour. Until that final moment when postal ballots reached their deadline, I was determined not to vote at all for the first time in my life. But I decided to do the unforgivable for life-long Labour supporter; I voted Tory.
Now, and not for the first time in my life, I have lived to regret a decision, that I believed was of major significance.
DAVID CAMERON MAY THINK HE IS adjusting the country to a new ‘reality’ by courting Turkey. But the majority of people (excluding of course our businessmen) do not believe in that reality.
The continent of Europe harbours some 15 million Muslims. We can see the problems such a constituency represents. In France we have had the banning of the Burka; in Britain we have had the Archbishop of Canterbury finding a berth in English law for the sharia variety.
Our politicians have done everything in their power not to upset the Islamic community in this country. Cameron has ruled out banning the Burka. Or politicians have never given to the British public the numbers of Taliban deaths – only our own.
The 1.5 million Muslims living amongst us have been sheltered from the numbers of Muslims killed by our armed forces in Afghanistan - just as our own people have.
THE TROUBLE WITH MULTICULTURALISM for a British prime minister, is not his or her’s intellectual qualities, but rather their juggling skills.
For instance. After David Cameron moved on from Turkey to India where the current obstacle to trade is limited immigration to Britain. Cameron wants to cap levels of immigration, partly because, this island nation cannot absorb unlimited numbers from entering our country.
Personally, the Indian people are far closer to the Protestant work ethic than are the Muslim, or any other Southern European community. And I would therefore be on Cameron’s side regarding the Indian community.
But multiculturalism should never be tolerated. For such a construct is unworkable. We can all live in a multi-racial society providing the host culture continues to lay down the conventions. It is not a matter of race but culture. In Britain we have a our own culture that has evolved over 2000 years. On this island it can never be equal to any other culture. If people from other cultures wish to live among us then they must live by this cultures edicts. If not, then they must return to their own cultures where their practices will be accepted.
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