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England: You could be next

?Iran already has the missiles to reach London? - Netanyahu


By Stan Goodenough
August 04, 2006

Former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned the people of England Thursday that they, too, are in the firing line for missiles out of the Islamic Middle East.

In an interview in the London studios of Sky News television, Netanyahu ? who heads the opposition Likud Party ? explained to skeptical presenter Mark Longhurst why Israel has no choice but to seriously degrade, and in fact defeat, the Hizb?allah.

That Islamist terror group was fighting a proxy war on behalf of both Syria and Iran, especially Iran, the Israeli said. Removing this Hizb?allah threat ? as Israel is trying to do ? was only ?part of the problem.?

?The big problem, the mother of all problems is Iran [and] the fact that if it arms itself with nuclear weapons it already has the missiles to reach London and soon it will have the missiles to reach the United States.

?They?re developing those missiles, not because they want to target Israel, they already can, but because they want to target you.?

Netanyahu said the Islamic world ? Shiite and Sunni, representatives of whom are currently tearing each other apart in Iraq ? believes that ?fighting with and defeating each other is a prelude to fighting and defeating the west.?

And Israel just ?happens to be the first western country in the way.?

Already today, before Israel is even defeated, Islamic eyes are turning greedily towards Europe.

?So unless the West wakes up and realizes that there is a new fascism here, a new Islamic-Hitlerism that threatens the West, it will not wake up in time.?

In an attempt to reason with his British viewers, Netanyahu questioned their widespread condemnation of Israel?s actions in Lebanon.

Seventy-seven percent of Britons polled believe Israel is acting disproportionately in its fight against the Hizb?allah.

?What would you be saying today, what would you ask Tony Blair, the prime minister of Britain, to do today if London was being hit by hundreds and indeed thousands of rockets?

?You would be screaming your head off, saying ?Get rid of the source of that fire!??

England?s capital knows (or once knew) what it feels like to have its civilians targeted by flying bombs. In World War II, 2,400 V-1 rockets, (the Vengeance Weapon-1, also known as the ?doodle bug? and the ?buzz bomb?) were fired into London by the Germans.

Said Netanyahu:

?When London was rocketed, [Prime Minister Winston] Churchill?s response was to flatten German cities. Dresden was wiped out completely.

?And I do not criticize Churchill?s government for doing that because it was in fact a time of great urgency.?

Hizb?allah has fired 2,400 Katyusha, Fajr-1 and Khaider-1 rockets into northern Israel since July 12, intentionally killing and maiming Jewish civilians.

Israel?s response, which Britain and virtually all mankind has slammed as ?disproportionate,? has been to avoid in every way possible in the midst of a war situation the targeting of civilian Lebanese life, even when this has meant risking ? and paying with ? the lives of its own soldiers.

The V-1 may have carried a greater payload than do the rockets Hizb?allah has thus far drafted from its arsenal. But for more than a decade, Iran has been developing its Shahab-5 and Shahab-6 rockets, whose range brings almost all of Europe within striking distance. The utility of these rockets has been described as ?attacking population centers or spreading radiation rather than hitting military targets.?

That Iran is feverishly and deceptively working on its nuclear program too is a reality that has alarmed western states.

Jerusalem Newswire believes that the stubborn and pride-driven insistence of politically-correct, and in many cases anti-Semitic, British journalists and politicians to criticize and condemn Israel for trying to crush Hizb?allah will ultimately help pave the way for a devastating rocket strike on the UK.

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