Murder in Bulgaria

  

A tragic day in Bulgaria, as a bomb attack on an Israeli Tourist Bus, led to the death of six Israeli teenagers.  The attack bears all the hallmarks of Iranian backed Hezbollah, an extreme Islamist Terrorist network. Hezbollah has carried out terror attacks around the world, and eighteen years ago, bombed a jewish community centre in Argentina.

If Hezbollah is responsible, relations between Israel and Iran will reach a particular nadir. The Iranian President has already talked of wiping Israel off the map, and is close to having nuclear weapons.  Israel - and much of the Middle East cannot tolerate a nuclear-weaponed Iran.  Israel's retaliation will be determined.

This atrocity against Israelis, is all the more poignant, given that it was Bulgaria that did more to save her own Jews from Hitler, than virtually any other nation under Nazi rule.  Almost every one of the 50,000 Jews in Bulgaria during the Second World War, survived because of the King's refusal to allow the Nazis to send them to the Concentration Camps.   Modern Bulgaria won't tolerate being used as a terrorist base against Israel.

by Robert Halfon MP - Working Hard for Harlow.

The cultural vandals at the Proms

As you will see from this Video I found from YouTube, last night, the Proms were disrupted by protesters. The reason was simple: the BBC had dared to invite the renowned conductor Zubin Mehta and the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra to perform at the Royal Albert Hall.

Hard-line pro-Palestinian activists started shouting at the Israelis on stage. It is both sad and fascinating that they saw this act of cultural vandalism as a way of making their opposition to all things Israeli, all too clear. What was heartening was the response of most of the audience, who booed the protesters and shouted 'out, out, out', until they were eventually removed by security.

Cultural vandalism can be quite chilling. Its most extreme proponent in the last Century was Goebbels, who burnt any books with a Jewish association, whether it was the authors or in the writings. Its most stupid is Dunbartonshire Council which has sought to ban Israeli books from its Libraries.

Nevertheless, the fundamentals are the same: an attempt to shut down Jewish culture.

A couple of other points are worth noting: First, Zubin Mehta and the IPO have made great strides in building better relations between Jews and Arabs. Mr Mehta has started a special education project for this purpose - a fact wilfully ignored by the activists. Second, is it not astonishing that whilst President Assad has been murdering his way through Syria, there has been barely a peep of protest from these kind of people. It is just Israel - the only democracy in the Middle East -that is the focus of their hate.

P.S. Apparently, the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign called for the Concert to be boycotted. If you want to understand the motivations of the PSC, have a look at this post from the left wing blog 'Harry's Place', here. 

This makes interesting reading as well.


by Robert Halfon - www.roberthalfon.blogspot.com

A Passover Amendment

I am reliably informed by Cllr. Andrew Johnson - who is an archaeologist, amongst many other attributes - that the Passover dinner commemorates the Jews fleeing from bondage in Egypt, 3,500 years ago, rather than the 3,000 that I had written in my previous posting last night.

According to Andrew, most scholars date the Exodus to about mid-15th Century BCE.

The Jerusalem Post newspaper, has a fascinating article on this HERE.

I have never been good at Maths!!