http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080504/od_afp/britainhistorysecurityfoodoffbeat;_ylt=AjXRvqzoMUMkdc0EoK1GUDQuQE4F

The fence is working along with good intelligence on the ground. It will never be perfect, but it is certainly an improvement.

As an aside, fences/walls continue to be built in N. Ireland 10 years later (except for a couple of neighborhoods).

MIKE:

Long ago I dismissed anything the Brits had to say concerning Jews in Britain, Jews in Israel and pretty much everywhere. Look how long it took them to send Ken Livingstone packing.

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Would the Holocaust have happened if there had been no war or if the western democracies had acted against Nazi Germany earlier? We can never know - though it is likely that, if Britain had made peace in 1940 after the fall of France, the Jews would have been sent to Madagascar. What is certain is that the war prevented any concerted attempt at rescue.

Resources used to help Jews would be diverted from the war. Any mass movement of refugees ran the risk of the Germans planting agents among them. Oil supplies were too vital to Britain to risk upsetting Arabs by evacuating them to Palestine. Any of the suggested swaps - Jews for German PoWs, for example - might suggest allied weakness. Besides, why should the allies assist Hitler to rid Europe of Jewry? The best we could do, as Anthony Eden, the British foreign secretary, observed in 1944, was to “hope that the German government will refrain from exterminating these unfortunate people”.
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Now, let’s all get this straight. A requote:
“Would the Holocaust have happened if there had been no war or if the western democracies had acted against Nazi Germany earlier [...] the Jews would have been sent to Madagascar.”

Is this even worth further commentary?

Well, I guess, solely because the left has become mind-bogglingly STUPID!

Sheee-it, I suppose I could say the following: During the American slavery of Negroes, had the blacks been just a bit nicer, the South would have set up institutes of higher learning, and sent all their negroes to those institutes, to ensure the best of all educational possibilities.

The insanity of people sometimes just boggles, boggles, boggles the mind. I cannot comprehend.

Madagascar! Hitler… sends his venemously, genocidally hated Jews… to Madagascar! The mind boggles.

Seems to me there’s been no political progress between 2002 and 2007. In fact, with Hamas’ ascension to control over Gaza, and control over all the media outlets in Gaza, the political situation for a two-state solution has gotten far, far worse.

I don’t think political progress between 2002 and 2007 accounts for the decrease in suicide bombings.

So, my goodness me, my goodness me, what could it be? What could it be?

Perhaps the security FENCE, physical, not virtual, has a leeetle leeetle leeelte bit to do with it. Methinks.