Am inequitak

Doug
Collins

STRANGE THAT the
House of Commons
should sanction a
minute’s silence for
those killed in Israel
by the bombs of
Islamic fanatics.

T too deplore those
deaths. But the double stan-
dard is flying again.

. The Israelis are them-
selves no strangers to the
practice of terrorism, begin-
ning with the British
Mandate in Palestine. And
men who have headed the
Jewish state have been its
most expert practitioners.

In 1946 the King David
Hotel was blown up and 95

. people were killed. Most of
the victims were British and
Arab, but a dozen Jews who

‘happened to be in the wrong
place also died.

‘The organizer of that
atrocity was Menachem
Begin of the terrorist Irgun
gang. He Jater became prime
minister.

Two years later he
ordered thie attack on Deir:
Yassin, a small village near
Jerusalem in which 254:
defenceless old men, women
and children were killed and
thrown into a well, a crime
that compares with the Nazi

- murder of Czechs at Lidice
— except that the children

of Lidice were spared.

' - The purpose was to terri-

_ fy Arabs into leaving their
land. Jewish author Alfred
‘Lilienthal has described how
loudspeaker vans cruised
Jerusalem informing Arabs
that unless they left, “the

. fate of Deir Yassin will be

. your fate."):.

“o")In'his book The Zionist

Coniection’ Lilienthal states: :

“A concentration of -
bomb outrages in which
many. were killed or wound-

‘ed and all communications

in Palestine came to a halt .

was carried out throughout
the mandate territory by
3,000 Jews under the com-
bined operations of the
Irgun, the Stern Gang and
the Haganah.”

‘Count Bernadotte,
nephew of the King of

- Sweden, was assassinated in’

1948, He was a UN media-
tor.of whose views Stern &
Co. did not approve,

Yitzhak Shamir, who also
became a prime minister,
planned the murder of Lord
Moyne. in 1944, when the
British were fighting Hitler.
',, Another Yitzhak —
Rabin — sanctified last year
by the West after his murder
by a Jew, was a general in
the Israeli Defence Force
when 700,000 Arabs were
turfed out of their home-
land. And he was probably
responsible for the attack on
the unarmed USS Liberty i in
1967 that killed 34
American sailors and
wounded 171.

Sorry about that, said the
Israclis. The matter was
quickly hushed up.

And US. aid to Israel
went on as if nothing had
happened.

“'In the end Rabin recog-
nized that brute force was
not going to defeat the
Palestinians’ demands for a
homeland. Hence the peace
process. But that was after
years of brute force had

on the

other hand

been used against the
Intifada — the revolt by
Arab kids who were armed
only with stones.

Israeli response to the
Islamic terrorists is natural,
but worthy of note: the
security forces have been
given a free hand to destroy
them.

Can you imagine what
the reaction would be if the
British gave the SAS a free
hand to destroy the IRA?

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_/ Trial Lawyer

Ottawa would be the first to
cry foul.

Foreign Minister Lloyd
Axworthy promised before
the minute's silence that ter-
rorists would find no place
here. Even as he was speak-
ing, a former IRA man con-
victed of trying to assassi-
nate a Belfast policeman
was working as a stonema-
son on the parliamentary
Peace Tower, no less. The
RCMP had given him clear-
ance and he is fighting
deportation on “humanitari-
an” grounds.

Even more grotesque was
that in the 1970s Begin
made a fundraising tour
here. And he toured the U.S.
as if he owned it.

The Palestinian case is
not often told. But after
Rabin’s death the Sydney
Morning Herald ran an arti-

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cle in which a Palestinian
Official stated:

“Jewish settlers and
extremists are responsible
for the killing of hundreds
of Palestinian civilians and
have committed a number of
massacres [such as; the Al-
Aqsa mosque massacre in
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take their crimes and the
danger they posed seriously,
nor disarm them.”

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tioned the wholesale bomb-
ing of refugee camps sus-
pected of hiding terrorists.

Yes, terrorism is wrong.
But terror breeds terror. And
if our politicians were even-
handed, their minute of
silence would last for a long
time.

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