Posted on 06/26/2006 6:07:37 PM PDT by Sabramerican
In the old days, when Israel stood on two legs, this would have been the signal today to attack Gaza immediately.
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Jun. 26, 2006 23:11 | Updated Jun. 27, 2006 2:57
Kassam hits Sderot; four wounded by shrapnel
By JOSH BRANNON AND JPOST STAFF
Even as IDF forces were massing in large numbers on Gaza's border for a possible ground incursion to rescue kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, three Kassam rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel Monday evening.
Two landed in open areas in the western Negev, but the third struck a power pole in Sderot.
As a result of the hit, four people were lightly injured from shrapnel, and were taken to Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital. Sderot Spokesman Yossi Cohen said that in the course of the evening, a total of 11 people had been treated for shock. At least one person also suffered from cardiological distress as a result of the latest Kassam barrage.
The rocket caused damage to the electrical lines causing a power outage throughout the city, according to the report.
Sharon did the right thing to leave Gaza Strip. Now it must be destroyed.
Pat Robertson is seldom tactful, but I'm afraid he was right when he said that Ariel Sharon bears a huge burden of responsibility for creating this situation. He was the man who played upon his reputation to bring in Kadima and give Olmert an aura of respectability.
Once Sharon was a hero. But his last term in office was a disgrace. It will tarnish his legacy forever.
Bibi would have destroyed 'em.
Where's Moses when you need him? All seven plagues at once upon the entire moslem world would do the rest of us an incredible favor.......
Its embarrassing to pretend that the arab leadership has any interest in peace. They have no interest even in governing, let alone peace. Thats not why they are there, and thats not what their puppeteers expect from them.
They are there to wage war, nothing less and nothing more.
The worst thing you can do is to pretend that your killers yearn to find an excuse to stop killing you. They are not firing missiles at military bases, they are lobbing them into neighborhoods, they send their hit squads to attack housewives shopping; they are not out to achieve some political end, they are intent upon murdering Israelis.
It doesn't matter what you give them, it doesn't matter what you promise them. It has nothing to do with anything, because they don't want anything you have, other than the opportunity to kill you.
We all imagine the mythical arab living in the west bank, and imagine that he must want peace just as we do. The problem with that is that our peace-loving arab is irrelevant. He does not figure into the equation at all. If he speaks up for peace he will be dead before the day is out.
Israel makes a fatal mistake in negotiating with these people. They are firing missiles at your wives and children. Peace is not on their agenda.
Occupation didn't work. Ending the occupation is not working. The third choice is expulsion. I can understand why that wouldn't be anyones first choice, but we are running out of alternatives. Loss of territory is the only language that will register. Nothing else will.
In the old days Gaza would be a wasteland now.
Maybe the poison gas Hamas plans to lob into Israel by rocket will change a few minds. WMD's, anyone?
Yes, it is long past time to take extreme measures. The world will get over it. In fact, much of the world secretly respects it, and that includes the people who'll be on the receiving end.
"In the old days Gaza would be a wasteland now."
In the days of old Gaza would still be land inside the borders of Israel. Forcing out those living in Gaza and giving it to mad Pallies was a big mistake.
Israel is like the canary in the mineshaft. What happens there is a signal to the West as a whole and to the United States in particular. Israel is on the front line of the War of Civilizations and every success by terrorists there will embolden terrorists everywhere.
Pat Robertson came in for much criticism for his remarks and not just by Israel's enemies, too. But I thought he was right and I still think so today.
This is Sharon's mistake. If he had not ceded Gaza, this would never have happened.
I have made this argument for years, but war-weary Israelis are still hiding in denial. As increasingly hostile Arabs continue to outbreed Jewish Israelis in their own land, the inevitability of forced expulsion will become undeniable.
The same will be true of Western Europe, if it chooses to survive.
I think Sharon pulled out of Gaza because the prosecutor would then give him a break on his Greek Island swindle. His son Omri got a sweetheart deal out of his mild prosecution also after Sharon kicked those good people out of Gaza.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
There a step in between, and it is ugly but not as ugly. It means killing a lot of people, perhaps thousands, the members of Hamas hierarchy and those who have been involved in terror. Then, expulsion of the PLO.
The middle step is to undo all the mistakes of the last 14 years, to erase everything created out of Oslo, by eliminating those with blood on their hands and exiling the political honchos and their bodyguards.
Yep. Oslo is an experiment that failed badly. Its time to unwind it.
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