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Britain
Israel's Gaza response 'collective punishment': British Deputy PM
2014-07-18
[Al Ahram] Israel's retaliatory air strikes on Gazoo have been "deliberately disproportionate" and amount to "collective punishment", Britannia's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Thursday, in unusually robust criticism of a close British ally.
*sigh* Not unusually robust for Britain, no. Sorry.
Clegg made his comments on the tenth day of fighting between Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, during a five-hour humanitarian truce which prompted a temporary halt to Israel's and Hamas' air strikes.

"I really do think now the Israeli response appears to be deliberately disproportionate, it is amounting now to a disproportionate form of collective punishment," Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, the junior partner in the country's coalition, told Britannia's LBC radio station.

"I really would now call on the Israel Government to stop. They've proved their point," he said. He said he respected Israel's right to defend itself.
"Just don't defend yourselves too robustly, lads. One doesn't, nowadays."
Posted by:Fred

#8  Nick, suh, this not dueling, but rather war for Israel's survival. Maybe you should go back and read Churchill's "history of the Second World War" and see how real men protected their homeland.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2014-07-18 23:07  

#7  A precisely proportional response would be to fire a few hundred artillery rockets into Gaza.

As for Either grow a pair of Thatchers, or go cry into your scented pillow for another half century., that's the snarkiest thing I've seen all day! Well said, sir!
Posted by: SteveS   2014-07-18 18:45  

#6  and those rockets are collective anti-civilian aggression nick...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-07-18 17:42  

#5  they elected Hamas. Their duly elected government is committing war crimes. Any thoughts on that, Nick, you POS?
Posted by: Frank G   2014-07-18 17:20  

#4  So what are you going to do you pansies? Either grow a pair of Thatchers, or go cry into your scented pillow for another half century.
Posted by: regular joe   2014-07-18 14:52  

#3  Well, Nick it's the way they mistreat their sexual minorities that forces us to exercise our responsibility to protect.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-07-18 13:54  

#2  If the Israelis were truly interested in collective punishment, the entire Gaza strip would be a pile of smoking rubble. Instead, they have been careful to notify targets so that civilians can evacuate. As P2K pointed out, Dresden worked.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2014-07-18 09:40  

#1  Wasn't the RAF's response, to indiscriminate German bombing just, payback indiscriminate bombing of Germany? See-Hamburg, Dresden. How militaristic are the Germans today?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-07-18 08:49  

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