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The French Attack Dover With Rockets

Imagine that thousands of Frenchmen, with German, Dutch, Irish and Italian colleagues, decided that they hated Britain so much that they would fire rockets at it.  Imagine, then, that dozens of launchers started lobbing these rockets at Dover and Ramsgate, occasionally even Canterbury. Every day, a few British men, women and children would die in these attacks, and the force - let's call them le Parti de Dieu - would assert that they wouldn't stop until every British person was dead or had moved to America.  In this thought experiment, the French government steers clear of the whole thing, and moves its own troops south, away from the English Channel, leaving le Parti de Dieu in charge of a trip of northern France.  This goes on for years. Some cross-channel raids snatch a couple of young soldiers, who will probably be tortured to death on camera.

In this situation, we in Britain would react.  We might try the security council, and they might pass a resolution saying le Parti de Dieu had to disarm and leave the border areas in French control.  But they would ignore this reolution.  They might be getting funding, training and weapons from the Serbs and Montenegrans, who use them to divert attention from their quest for nuclear weapons capability.  Let's say that they have 15,000 missiles left, the capability to kill thousands more civilians, and the expressed desire never to stop until Britain no longer exists.

I dare say that Britain might retaliate.  I would suggest that it would take a lot less than six years of this provocation before we did.  And when we started to do so, we wouldn't stop while le Parti de Dieu was still firing rockets and calling for our destruction.  Not while they made statements like "today soldiers of the 2nd Brigade launched eleven rockets at the British tyrants, sending many of them for judgement before God.  Thus we move towards the destruction of the British state and the final annihilation of the British race.  We also demand that they cease their reckless aggression and agree to immediately stop firing at us."

As I said before: everyone with an interest in the middle east outside of the terrorist-funding states of Syria and Iran knows that Israel must be given time to deal with Hezbollah.  This is why the Saudis are not demanding a ceasefire or threatening oil supplies.  This is why the Jordanians and Egyptians, the Yemenis and Algerians, the Morrocans and Tunisians, the Pakistanis and Indonesians and even the Palestinians are all so remarkably quiet.  This is why the Lebanese Prime Minister is "refusing to negotiate" until Israel stops unilaterally: he wants rid of Hezbollah more than Israel does.  This is why the Qataris, a security council member this year, have not proposed any embarassing resolutions forcing anyone to veto an immediate ceasefire.  And every civilian who has been forced to stay in the Lebanese south, and dies under (worryingly reckless) Israeli attacks, can look to Iran and Syria for the reasons why it happened.