[SJackson]

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[sitetest]

“Also noteworthy is that Israel not only fully withdrew from the territory but left behind assets that could have contributed to Gaza establishing itself on a sound economic foundation. With the extensive financial support poured into Gaza by the international community, it could have become a Middle East Hong Kong or Singapore.”

No, it couldn’t have. Hong Kong and Singapore have Hong Kongese and Singaporean people. Gaza and Samaria and Judea have Arab Muslims. Folks from Hong Kong and Singapore, on average, have triple-digit IQs. Arab Muslims, on average, do not.

[Maceman]

Funny how leftists never complain, or even talks about, Bill Clinton's war crime against the civilians of Belgrade back in 1999.

During Bill Clinton’s 1999 NATO-led war in Kosovo – which according to some estimates cost as much as $75 billion – we bombed Belgrade for 78 days, killed almost 3,000 civilians, and shredded the civilian infrastructure (including every bridge across the Danube.)

We devastated the environment, bombed the Chinese embassy, came very close to engaging in armed combat against Russian forces, and in general, pursued a horrific and inhumane strategy to rain misery on the civilian population of Belgrade in order to pressure Milosevic into surrendering.

Why did we do all that? The US did not even have an arguable interest in the Balkans, and no one ever tried to claim that Serbia represented any kind of threat to our nation or our interests.

But for months the Clinton administration had told us that Milosevic was waging a vicious genocide against Albanian Muslims, and needed to be stopped. The New York Times called it a “humanitarian war.” In March 1999 – the same month that the bombing started – Clinton’s State Department publicly suggested that as many as 500,000 Albanian Kosovars had been murdered by Milosevic’s regime. In May of that year, as the bombing campaign was drawing to a close, Secretary of Defense William Cohen lowered that estimate 100,000.

Five years after the bombing, after all the forensic investigations had been completed, the prosecutors at Milosevic’s “War Crimes” trial in the Hague were barely been able to document a questionable figure of perhaps 5,000 “bodies and body parts.” During the war, the American people were told that Kosovo was full of mass graves filled with the bodies of murdered Albanian Muslims. But none were ever found.

[Little Ray]

Force should ALWAYS be disproportionate. You should ALWAYS hit back as hard as you possibly can.

[MarkL]

This reminds me of that booger eating media moron who asked General Schwartzkoff about a "fair fight," and the General replied, "I hope not!" These idiots try to remove themselves from the fact that they really DO have a horse in this race, and that's something that REALLY pisses me off about the media!

Mark

[publius911]

Israel had for a time, in the wake of earlier hostilities with Hamas, withheld deliveries of cement out of concern that it would be used to build underground military installations rather than houses and public facilities such as schools and hospitals. It subsequently bowed to international pressure and allowed extensive transfer of cement and related construction materials from Israel to Gaza, and its worst fears proved prescient.

Israel, at too high a price has established that regardless of "international pressure," it will never again yield to providing the terrorists with building material for their own destruction. No matter how loud the "international pressure."

In the future, Israel owes no one, anywhere, an explanation for its policy of self-preservation; by whatever means are necessary.