Neptunus Lex - A Match Made in Heaven?

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Wed - July 27, 2005

The self-loathing of the anti-Western, Western left and the outraged contempt of the anti-assimilationist, eastern Islamist.
	London mayor "Red" Ken Livingston said all the right things in the immediate aftermath to 7/7. But now he's starting to hedge, discerning a distinction between the killing of Israeli children on buses, and the killing of Britons. One should be seen as terrorism you see, while the other can be described as merely "fighting back:" Why, (Livingston) wondered, was it legitimate for "a young Jewish boy in this country" to join the Israeli army "and end up killing many Palestinians" while a "young Muslim boy in this country" who wants to defend his "Palestinian brothers and sisters ... is branded as a terrorist"? The Guardian's Jonathan Freedland, to his credit, calls him on it: Imagine these cases for a moment. A British man emigrates to Israel; a few years later he might get called up for military service; he might even end up in an operation that results in the killing of civilians. And then there is another British man who arrives in Israel for the sole purpose of staging a suicide bombing. (This latter case is not hypothetical: Britons Asif Mohammed Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif did exactly that in 2003.) Is there not a moral difference between these two actions? Why does Livingstone say they are equivalent? - There's a great deal more there besides. Read the whole thing , as they say. (H/T to Harry )

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