Berlusconi was a better friend than Blair
Published by Avi Green on Sunday, September 17, 2006 at 11:49 AM.
I know that Nidra Poller may not be counting her chickens before they hatch when it comes to the lawsuit filed by France 2 against three media watchdogs who dared question the validity of the al-Dura footage that France 2 broadcast back in 2000. But until the outcome of that trial can be figured out, while Caroline Glick does make some good points about British prime minister Tony Blair's bad stance on Israel in her latest column, I must still take issue with her overestimating his understanding of the threat of global jihad. As she says here:
And while we're at it, this may be a good time to point to where Blair really screws up: as told in this article from the UK Guardian (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ), Blair may be willing to recognize the Hamas as legitimate:
In fact, she doesn't even mention how Nicholas Sarkozy, as interior minister of France, has, however slowly, due to the upper bureacracy's (Chirac, Villepin and their goons) efforts to undermine him, been making things safer for Jews and women in France. As she tells here:
I realize I can't expect too much from even one of the better columnists like Glick - of course there are times when I disagree with even those I like - but even so, I think that Glick could do better.
...for all this, Tony Blair is Israel's best friend in Europe today. He is Israel's best friend because, as opposed to all his colleagues in both Britain and the EU, Blair at least recognizes that the global jihad is a threat to the free world and that the cost of not fighting the forces of jihad will be the loss of our freedom.Let me make things clear here. Given that, over the years of his premiership, he failed to crack down on crime in Britain, and the news report spoken about in this topic only compounds that even more (for more, read here, here and here), and pretty much allowed terror gangs to operate in Britain as well, and that his speech decrying anti-Americanism (but probably not anti-Israelism) was probably...just that, this is exactly why I'll shed no tears over his departure.
Soon Israel's closest European friend will exit the world stage after being effectively sacked by his own Labor party last week. British political commentators say that chances are slim that Blair will manage to hold the reins of power as a lame duck for the next twelve months as he pledged. More likely, he will leave 10 Downing Street in a matter of months.
And while we're at it, this may be a good time to point to where Blair really screws up: as told in this article from the UK Guardian (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ), Blair may be willing to recognize the Hamas as legitimate:
Tony Blair yesterday offered a spur to the deadlocked Middle East peace process by offering to recognise a future Palestinian power-sharing government, even if it includes ministers from Hamas.Is this the kind of politician whom Glick thinks is the best friend even America and the advocates of fighting terrorism have in Europe? I don't think so. If you ask me, Silvio Berlusconi, the former premier of Italy, was far better a friend than Blair ever was, yet she doesn't even mention him here.
Speaking after a meeting with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, Mr Blair said the international community should support a government of national unity agreed between Hamas and Mr Abbas's more dovish Fatah party. This was conditional on the government as a whole recognising Israel, renouncing violence and accepting past interim peace deals.
"If such a government is formed, I believe it is right that the international community deal with such a government," Mr Blair said, on the second day of a three-day visit to the Middle East.
In fact, she doesn't even mention how Nicholas Sarkozy, as interior minister of France, has, however slowly, due to the upper bureacracy's (Chirac, Villepin and their goons) efforts to undermine him, been making things safer for Jews and women in France. As she tells here:
Writing in Frontpage magazine this week, Islamic expert Andrew Bostom reported that in November 2005, Stephen Steinlight, the former director of education at the US Holocaust Memorial Council told a conference in Washington that on average, Muslim attacks against Jews in Paris occur twelve times a day. According to Steinlight, with this frequency of attacks, French anti-Semitic violence is approaching the level of anti-Semitic violence in Germany during the days of the Weimar Republic.While this was certainly so in the pre-Sarkozy days, which were most definitely horrible, things have certainly improved there since he took over. Sarkozy, who paid a visit to the Jewish community in Paris following the murder of Ilan Halimi, and the dreadful spectacle of having the Tribu-Ka march through there with their vile prejudice, has certainly improved law enforcement there. That doesn't mean there isn't still rabid Muslim violence against Jews there. There is, but it's not on the same level it was 6 years ago. You could say that Sarkozy is the friend you don't hear about, partly due to the fact that the MSM in France has been trying to keep mum about some of the good things he does. You'd think that Glick would at least give him the credit the MSM won't, but she's not proving much better this way, and certainly not if she downplays the fact that Tony Blair is worthless as a leader.
I realize I can't expect too much from even one of the better columnists like Glick - of course there are times when I disagree with even those I like - but even so, I think that Glick could do better.
