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Tony Blair Gets It
(Jerusalem Post) Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom - I was in London last week for meetings with Prime Minister Tony Blair and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. There is an almost crazed drive in some parts of the British media and politics to blame the British government itself for the terrorist attacks in London, rather than the terrorists and their mentors. At Blair's press conference last Tuesday, question after question sought his acknowledgement that responsibility for the attacks in London lay with Britain's alliance with the U.S. and its actions in Iraq. Israel has encountered this kind of sophistry for many years. How often have we been told that it is the "occupation" that brings suicide terrorism to our streets rather than the choices made by terrorist organizations and their operatives? Terrorists are defined by what they do, not by what they claim they are doing it for. Their excuses and justifications are not the point; it is their actions that are the issue.