Today’s online edition of the Jerusalem Post is running a Sun style readers poll. The question is: How should Israel respond to an attack from Iraq during hostilities launched by the Bush administration?

13% voted for no response in accordance with US wishes.
57% opted for launching Scuds with conventional warheads.
30% want reprisal using non-conventional weapons.

Let us hope that none of those 30% have their finger on Israel’s nuclear trigger!!

Similar polls have shown that 46% expect increased hostilities against the Palestinians with 26% wanting major air strikes against same.

British Ambassador to Israel, Sherard Cowper-Coles, had described the Palestinian territories as the world’s biggest detention camp. His comments are noticeably absent from the pages of the Jerusalem Post. Given that Palestine was wrested from it’s rightful owners following a series of major Zionist terrorist attacks in the 1940’s and Western guilt over what they let Hitler do to the European Jews, is it little wonder that the Palestinians hope to regain what was stolen from them using the tactics of terrorism? They did, after all, learn by demonstration. While terrorism, in any form, is abhorrent and cannot be condoned, the Israelis protest rather too loudly when the Palestinians retaliate. An outsized illustration of the pot calling the kettle black methinks.

Britain voted against the creation of a State of Israel. The US voted for it. Consequently, since 1948, Israel has been a thorn in the side of the Arab countries in the Middle East and feels no compunction about digging that thorn in deeper with every available opportunity. They would not have been able to do this without US support. Islamic fundamentalism has spiralled rapidly over the last few decades, even in Muslim countries that are considered to be liberal. Maybe Bush feels that the US needs to curb Islamic fundamentalism because it was his f*cking country that created it in the first place.