And what have we seen? The Palestinians are virtually given Gaza. What do they do? They elect an outright terrorist organization, Hamas, as their government and use this new autonomy as a base to launch attacks against Israel. As I heard Victor Davis Hansen say last night, they want cell phones, the internet, dialysis, and MRIs, but they cannot get past their hatred of the Jews, and will not accept freedom of speech, gender equity, and a host of other freedoms that we take for granted. To hell with them!
Israel against the rest of the middle east?? once Israel unleashes their military, it's all over in days..
Can we join in on this one? We can take Syria while Israel takes Lebanon and the Palis.
PLEASE, President Bush?
Let it ride.
yah. There's little doubt as to who will win another go-round with the Israelis. They won't hesitate to go all out when the time is right, especially if it is a state-sponsored attack against them.
The question remains how long it will be before Iran becomes involved in directly engaging the Israelis. What I mean is while they have been supporting the Palestinian groups behind the scenes with money, arms, IEDs, and tossing out a lot of inflammatory rhetoric, Iran has not taken direct military action against Israel like Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, et al, have. I wonder if the Mullahs have the stones to come out and publically declare War on Israel.
I think we can all agree that Hamas wouldn't last long if Iran wasn't supporting them. Ditto for the militant Shiites in Sadr City, Hezbollah, most of the Syrian army, name your favorite Islamic fringe terrorist group. The Israelis know that, and would love to take out the source of most of their national security problems...
The biggest problem here is how to keep it from going nuclear, and despite the rhetoric from some quarters about what a great idea that might be, nuclear war is nothing to wish for. If Israel gets pushed into a corner by being mobbed from different directions (like what is going on right now) things could get out of control very fast. I fear Israel may get pushed to the brink (again) while the US dicks around with the UN Security Council.
I can forsee the debate at the UNSC being suddenly interrupted by the news of simultaneous thermonuclear detonations over Qom, Tehran, Damascus, and southern Lebanon...
Serious business...
All these skirmishes are choreographed by Tehran to take attention away from their spinning centrifuges. Israel is now pre-occupied with fires all around, and if they succeed at putting them all out while the centrifuges have not produced enough material, then Tehran will light more fires.
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A deal with the devil IMHO.
Iran is the wild card.
BUMP
The Arabs as a whole are insane.
Proof of it is in this statement.
If you continue to do what you've always done, you will continue to get what you always got. But if you continue to do what you've always done expecting a different outcome. You're 3 fries short of a happy meal.
No way, Arabs are content to "tolerate" their "foaming at the mouth" extremists banding in groups to attack Israel and the "Evil West". Gives these useless POS an outlet for their energies and death wishes. It is only when such groups cause domestic problems that they get squashed by their Arab brothers!
In the meantime, the cover of "Plausible Deniability" (hey, we're not responsible and we can't control these groups) allows Arab states to appeal to the MSM (and UN) sypathetically!
I think we would kick some ass, and we wouldn't wait for years to do so. Go Israel. Push em back, push em waaay back.
ditto.
Allah, back when he had the "Allah ain't in the house" blog, had a shirt that said it best: The Star of David with the phrase, "Six Days, Bitch" - you could get it in any language, including hebrew and arabic.
A sentiment, btw, with which I agree with wholeheartedly...