Originally Posted by
IshbelRobertson
Whilst in no way denigrating the long and ongoing threat to the people of Israel, we in the UK are no strangers to terrorist attacks.
I lived in London when the IRA bombings was at its height. I sat in London pubs in Camden and Kentish Town (particularly Irish areas of the city) when young sympathisers, male and female came in dressed in black jackets, trousers and berets as well as dark sunglasses (in London at night!) shaking collection tins in your face saying 'Donations for the Bhoys'? I had rellies serving in N Ireland, I wasn't about to give donations to let them purchase guns, often courtesy of NORAID in the States.
All this from the early 1970s. In the UK we dealt with Hitler's bombs, the IRA and now Islamist terrorists, many of them, sadly, home-grown. We just keep our stiff upper lip. Perhaps you need to buy a poster the the British WWII slogan 'Keep calm and carry on'?