The British government is paying for someone to sue the British government to stop arms sales to Israel. That, brothers and sisters, is some solid work right there. If you click through, make sure you find the place where being “oppressed” has become an actionable legal category within British jurisprudence. Insipid multicultural convergence.
Anyway, this “regional tensions” thing is not just an excuse, it’s an excuse that’s so transparently false that you begin to suspect that Britain wants people to know that it’s intentionally setting itself in opposition to Israel. No one really knows anything for sure about Middle East military dynamics, except this one single thing: every time that a hostile Arab state reaches military parity with Israel, they take it as an invitation to start a war. Say what you will about the grand contours about deterrence theory. Say what you will about who starts wars and which side is right. But as a matter of undeniable historical fact, military parity between Israel and its Arab enemies is correlated with acts of war against Israel by its Arab enemies (closing the Straits, crossborder attacks, invasions, etc). To intentionally undermine Israeli conventional superiority in the name of ensuring regional stability – listen, this is so laughable that it’s not even worth going on a tirade about how this only makes sense if you assume that Israel is actually militarily adventurous, which only makes sense if you’ve let vicious hatred take you far, far afield from reality.
The other neat thing about weakening Israel’s conventional arsenal? It forces them to rely more heavily on nuclear weapons, both in terms of actual warfighting (if they get overrun) and in terms of the threshold for the weapons’ use (to prevent same). Well played, Britain, well played.
Anyway, here’s today’s British sharia update. We’re going to miss Westminster Abbey.
References:
* UK blocks Israel arms deals [JPost]
* NHS staff told to eat away from desks for Ramadan [Scotsman]
Previously:
* We’re Going To Miss Westminster Abbey – Sharia Courts Established In Britain
* War On Britain’s Jews [Video]
* Bibi: "This Is Not One Of Britain’s Finest Hours" [Video]
Cross-posted to:
* The Astute Bloggers
