(Sunday Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - Israel is only ever permitted to die. That has been the position of the diplomatic elites, intelligentsia and much of the media for the past 14 months. Every action that would save Israeli lives has been opposed by somebody and some have been opposed by everybody. With its actions to destroy Syria's MiG warplanes, attack helicopters, surface-to-surface missile batteries and cruise missiles, not to mention chemical weapons, Israel may have done more for regional counter-proliferation in a single week than the UN has achieved in eight decades. The loudest howls came when Israel temporarily seized a buffer zone along the frontier to prevent jihadi infiltration of its territory. While critics accused Israel of occupying "a chunk of Syria," Turkey has occupied 5,500 square miles of northwest Syria for years. March through London anybody? The writer is editor of the Jewish Chronicle-UK.
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