Posted on 05/05/2008 3:22:12 PM PDT by forkinsocket
I was driving in Sderot early in the day. A rocket alert was sounded. I felt that I do not wish to stop, so I kept on driving. I then heard an explosion not too far away. I looked in my rearview mirror, and saw a cloud of smoke rising from the area I left behind. I kept driving.
Another rocket alert was sounded. I was in an open area between neighborhoods and saw a frightened woman standing at the side of the road. I stopped, she entered the vehicle, and I drove her to the nearest rocket shelter, where she got off. This is the routine here.
Jerusalem, this is Sderot, can you hear me? Tel Aviv, this is the Gaza-region, can you hear? Yet nobody answers.
How indifferent can we be? How much apathy to the suffering and destruction in Sderot and its vicinity can we display? True, other countries press for restraint in our response, but what about the domestic pressure? After all, we are not talking about the suffering of citizens in some distant land. Those are citizens who have the right to enjoy the same level of security enjoyed by residents of upscale neighborhoods in Jerusalem or upscale residential towers in Tel Aviv.
There are steps that the government has not been adopting against the Gaza terror by choice. Israel, for example, does not target senior Hamas members, even though it is known that such strikes have a great effect on their policy. After all, they are the ones responsible for terror, through direct activity, assistance, financing, incitement, legitimization, and authorization.
Israel, despite its own decisions, continues to supply the Strip with electricity, fuel, and other goods. Israel illogically insists on being responsible, in its own eyes, for the prevention of a humanitarian disaster, which the Gazans bring upon themselves with determination and insistence.
Imagine Mexican attack on Texas The government and the man who heads it are strong when it comes to the weak. Those leaders cannot find the strength to face the international pressure and say: If the fire from Gaza does not end, the Strip will turn into ruins. In practice, they prefer that Sderot and other communities in the region continue to bleed, and that mothers continue to lose their minds worrying about their children on the way home from school and kindergarten (the hours that see intensified rocket fire, due to the intention to hurt children.)
We’re already fed up with hearing the hollow declarations: “Hamas is responsible and it will pay the price,” “we will be able to find the answer,” “we will cut off the hand,” “we will hit terror,” etc. When will you understand already that this cannot go on; that it must not go on.
Start with targeting senior leaders, supplies, and infrastructure, and if this is not enough, we should escalate our response to the end of the scale: Evacuating civilians in Gaza and erasing neighborhoods used to fire at us.
Any normal country would act that way. Imagine fire from Mexico directed at Texas; imagine fire from Ireland directed at England; an attack on France by Andorra; rockets launched by Finland at Russia. Not only would we not see supplies being provided to the attackers, not one house would remain standing there.
Independence Day is in two days: Let’s be a little normal.
Start with targeting senior leaders, supplies, and infrastructure, and if this is not enough, we should escalate our response to the end of the scale: Evacuating civilians in Gaza and erasing neighborhoods used to fire at us.
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Independence Day is in two days: Let’s be a little normal.
Damn straight.
I must agree. It seems the lessons of WWII have been forgotten. Fight to Victory. Whatever it takes and it aint pretty. It’s the only way to a lasting peace.
2. Get rid of Olmert
Mark
This whole road-map nonsense should come to an end. Israel should simply provide 30 days for Hamas, it’s democratically elected government to fully recognize Israel in front of international cameras. If they do not, Israel should act in the manner it chooses to eliminate the problem.
Israel is acting like our primary ally and it’s leaders are weak and spineless like ours in the USA are. Both liberal nations are being stupid, waiting to be on defense, waiting for the first Iranian chemical or nuclear weapon attack.
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The problem is that this is the excuse used by terrorirists to attack Israeli civilians. In fact they also throw in Israel’s draft policy to state that all young civilians are soldiers or soon will be. A bombing of a night club thus becomes a targeted military operation.
They are right. Israel is the one who is being foolish. This is a war, not a police action. In police actions, you arrest the criminals responsible & the rest go in peace. In a war, you beat the enemy into submission.
And unfortunately the Israelis (or at least the Kenesset) has "chosen badly" as well. There is going to come a time when the Israeli people and government are going to have to come to terms with the fact that they've got savages living on their borders, and the only reason that the Israeli's haven't been murdered down to every man, woman, and child is simply because these savages haven't yet had the opportunity or ability. But they are working towards acquiring what they need to do so.
The only way to deal with them was tried once before, rather successfully, if only temporarily, by Jordan. You can look up the term "Black September" for details. I'm afraid that it's going to eventually come down to it: A simple equation: them or "us".
Mark
Exactly right!
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