Ismail Hernia, a leading Hamas official has declared to the media that the £19 million will be invested in bringing Japanese Sumo wrestling coaches to the Gaza Strip. Puzzled journalists were told that ten of the top Sumo experts from Japan will be invited over as well as the purchasing of thousands of Sumo loincloths which will be converted to bomb belts.

Middle East and Hamas experts are predicting a new intifada in the coming months, probably in parallel with an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear plants. The investment in Sumo coaching is believed to be a new offensive element in the Palestinian’s plans to wipe out the state of Israel. Thousands of Gazan men will be fattened up with the excess food delivered weekly to the Strip and trained in the art of wrestling their opponents to the ground. The martyrs would aim to sit on and suffocate as many of the enemy as possible before blowing themselves up.

The brains behind the latest Hamas initiative is Sheik Yunus al-Wacky who came up with the idea when watching Hamas senior members dining at the exclusive Gaza City hotel. Britain has yet to respond to the decision but it’s expected they will offer cautionary advice to both sides to avoid violence, confrontation and anything which could put a heavy burden on the Middle East peace process.

Israel has refused to comment on the possibility of hundreds of half-naked and obese Arabs running over the border. They are however making contingency plans to strengthen bomb shelters and buildings for fear the act of shiko (the traditional sumo leg stomping) could weaken walls and foundations.

I believe Israel is at the very centre of the global battle of values and civilisations. Whilst people often cast off the Israel/Palestine conflict as a regional war that should be left to its own devices, I see this chronic friction as the epicentre of a battle that could well consume our own society and way of life within a century or indeed, within just a few decades. The battle I talk about is the conflict between Islam and Western Civilisation.

Israel embodies the values that Europe and North America possess and must protect but which are not regarded with the worth they merit. If Israel falls, it will be the largest single victory for the retrograde forces of fundamentalist Islam for the last few centuries. I use the word ‘fundamentalist’ purposefully. When Islam is followed rigidly as proscribed in the Koran and Ahadith, the only outcome is violence and the loss of liberty. This has been proven again and again throughout the last 1300 years.

Another reason I support Israel is for the protection of the Jews. If there’s one thing I’ve come to realise over the last few months, is the scale of anti-Semitism that exists in the world today. This time last year, I would still have stuck to the line I held when I wrote the essay linked to above. That line being that anti-Semitism is not widespread in Britain and that only the Muslim immigrants and a minority of bigots on the fringes held this loathsome quality. The events of the recent Gaza flotilla incident has blown this belief out of the water (excuse the pun).

Over the next few weeks and months I will elaborate further on the points above as well as ‘blog for Israel’ as I can best describe it. To say the events of the Gaza Flotilla and the resulting fall-out in the International media and social networks has shocked me to the core, is an understatement. A fellow blogger with similar views to mine regarding Israel best sums up my reaction in his post found here: The Flotilla: Israel’s History in Microcosm.

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