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ACCORDING TO REMARKS attributed in the past few days to security sources, no fewer than 1,200 Islamist terrorists are biding their time within British suburbs. Yet does Britain even now fully understand the nature of the threat it is facing, let alone have the will to deal with it?

The recent report by the Commons Intelligence Committee on last July?s London bombings barely scratched the surface of the failure by the security establishment.

This intelligence debacle, however, was only the tip of the iceberg. Among Britain?s governing class ? its intelligentsia, its media, its politicians, its judiciary, its Church and even its police ? a broader and deeper cultural pathology persists to this day. Londonistan is more than the physical presence of Islamist extremists. It is also a state of mind. To a dismaying extent, the British have signed up to the false narrative of those who are laying siege to their society.

Some 56 percent of Israelis oppose Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's convergence plan, according to a new Haaretz-Dialog poll. The poll results were released as Olmert was meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan, who also reportedly opposes the plan.