Shoot me first

Rev Dr Peter Mullen asks:

The world wants Israel to show restraint. But why should it place its life in the hands of foreign bureaucrats?

Pre-emptive military action in self-defence may be the only realistic hope for Israel’s survival. The “international community” urges upon Israel prudence and restraint. But where’s the prudence in a man’s saying, “I’ll tell you what: you shoot me first and then, when I’m dead, I’ll shoot you.”

Of course the subtext to all this is the near universal hatred of Israel, and by the British Foreign Office in particular which has always been rampantly pro-Arab. The “international community” declares itself vastly in favour of democracy and human rights. But human rights and democracy – equality before the law, religious freedom and women’s emancipation for example – are virtually unknown in Arab countries. It is the despised Israel which alone practises democracy in the whole of the Middle East.

Read full article: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/petermullen/100185123/the-world-wants-israel-to-show-restraint-but-why-should-it-place-its-life-in-the-hands-of-foreign-bureaucrats/