A British MP who experienced a kassam rocket attack first-hand took away a lesson that makes me wonder if his wife dons leather boots and whips:
An MP who last month came under Kassam rocket fire has said he believes the Israeli government needs such attacks on its citizens in order to justify its “ruthless†retaliation on Palestinian territories.
Tom Levitt, Labour MP for High Peak, was on a fact-finding mission to Israel and the Palestinian territories, organised by Caabu, the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding, when a rocket landed around 50 metres away from him and three other MPs.
[…] “The experience has given me some idea of how people feel when they come under rocket attack.
“I now know the moment of horror when you hear that sound and the emotion that that brings,†Mr Levitt said. “But there is a great deal of difference between the pathetic and amateur way in which certain individuals lob Kassams over the border into Israel, and the ruthless disregard for human life in how Israel retaliates.
“I got the impression that Israel needs these mortar bombs to fall on it, in order to be able to retaliate.â€
Get it? Israel is being bombarded by “pathetic and amateur” terrorists on a near-daily basis, but really, it’s Israel’s fault because Israel wants to then go out and retaliate for rockets murdering its people and terrorizing its border towns.
That’s how warped the thinking has become. The victim wants to be the victim, so it can then go out and murder civilians with impunity. That’s some twisted logic, Mr. Levitt. But wait: He has the answer to ending the rocket attacks.
He said that if Israel spent “a fraction of the money†currently being spent on the border crossing, on humanitarian issues instead, “there would not be the level of conflict that there is nowâ€.
It all comes down to feeding the poor. Uh-huh. Not an army of terrorists who work every day towards Israel’s destruction, and openly say so, time and time again. The Palestinians are poor, therefore they send rockets into Israel. (No mention of how poor people keep managing to afford all these weapons if they’re so poor, but then, don’t confuse the issue with all those pesky facts.)
Disgusting man. I don’t know squat about where he’s from, but really—disgusting man.
“Man” is rather a term of endearing in this case. Hmm… but I’ll mind the language restrictions. Let’s agree on “worm”, OK?
It’s tough to spend money on humanitarian issues when the beneficiaries of your largesse murder the aid workers you send to help them, demolish the aid projects you build for them, and blow up the depots you use to deliver the aid.
What a moron.
Classic case of projection. Politically correct white males spend their entire lives desperately searching for some tiny scrap of victimhood to escape the very bottom of the left-wing pecking order, and eventually begin to believe all other victims must be doing the same.
“Tom Levitt, Labour MP for High Peak, was on a fact-finding mission to Israel…”
Doesn’t sound like he was searching very hard for the facts. He’s not making a lame moral equivalency argument, he’s claiming that Israel’s supposed “ruthless disregard for human life” actually makes Israel _worse_ than Hamas.
“Tom Levitt, Labour MP for High Peak, was on a fact-finding mission to Israel…”
Doesn’t sound like he was searching too hard for the facts. He’s not making a lame moral equivalency argument, he’s claiming that Israel’s supposed “ruthless disregard for human life” actually makes Israel _worse_ than Hamas.