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by Douglas Murray
• October 16, 2014 at 5:00 am
The
House of Commons is filled with people who would like to flaunt their
anti-racist credentials… and show they are tough on terrorists. Yet here
they were trying to will into existence a state which in the words of
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, speaking last year,
"would not see the presence of a single Israeli -- civilian or
soldier -- on our lands." It is a pre-Mandela apartheid they are
willing into existence.
"Our
enterprise extends far beyond Palestine: Palestine in its entirety, the
Arab Nation in its entirety, and the entire world." -- Mahmoud
al-Zahar, speech, 2010. It is what the proxies and officials of
al-Qaeda and Iran have said in European capitals for years and what they
say every day.
All
efforts to stop the mad rush to declare Palestine a state, without the
Israel's agreement as assured under international law, are dismissed as
"Israeli propaganda." The idea that sensible people can
sensibly object is washed away.
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The United Kingdom Parliament in London. (Image
source: Wikimedia Commons)
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On Monday night British Members of Parliament passed a motion by 274
to 12 saying, "That this House believes that the Government should
recognize the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel as a
contribution to securing a negotiated two-state solution." It comes
only weeks after the Swedish Parliament passed a similar unilateral
motion.
Before coming to the alarming parts of this, let me break the good
news. The motion is non-binding, having been proposed not by the
government but by backbench MPs. Secondly the coalition government
officially made it a "matter of conscience" vote, though behind
the scenes advised its own MPs to stay away and so abstain from the vote.
Thirdly the UK government announced in advance of the vote that if the
result of the vote was a passing of the motion then the UK government
would not accept the vote as in any way binding.
by Burak Bekdil
• October 16, 2014 at 4:00 am
Bashar
al-Assad's departure from power would illustrate to all countries in the
world that that a regime unwanted by Turkey would not survive.
Both
of Prime Minister Davutoglu's references to Muslim prayers seem to
symbolize his strong, inner desire for "conquest:" the
"conquest" of Jerusalem by the Palestinians, and the downfall
of al-Assad and the establishment of a Sunni, pro-Turkey regime there.
The
Turkish interior minister was right when he said that legitimate states
have a right to use proportionate violence when they face violence. But he
is wrong to think that this right can only be enjoyed by his own country.
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Best friends no more. The Erdogans and al-Assads
sharing a moment in better times.
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At the end of 1998, Turkey threatened to take military action
against President Hafez al-Assad's regime in Syria unless Damascus
immediately stopped harboring Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the violent
Kurdish separatist group, PKK. Al-Assad decided not to take the risk. And
the Turks, in cooperation with the U.S., finally captured their public
enemy No. #1 in Kenya, brought him to court and sentenced him to life. In
a war-torn region, a war had been averted.
A decade or so later, the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan (now president) and his foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu (now
prime minister), declared al-Assad Jr., Bashar, and heir to the elder
al-Assad's throne, their country's best regional ally.
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