Posted on 07/14/2006 8:36:39 AM PDT by IrishMike
What must Hamas leaders have been thinking? Last month they sent guerrillas through a secret tunnel from Gaza into Israel where they launched an attack, killing two Israeli soldiers and kidnapping a third, 19-year-old Cpl. Gilad Shalit. Since no civilians were targeted, this was not an act of terrorism. It was an act of war. Perhaps they had come to believe their own spin, their boast that it was “armed resistance” that had caused then–prime minister Ariel Sharon to withdraw Israeli soldiers and settlers from Gaza. Maybe they believed that more violence would lead to more Israeli concessions — especially now that Israel is led by a center-left coalition, the hard-line Likud party having split and then collapsed over the wisdom of the Gaza withdrawal.
So far, at least, Israel’s new prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has proven Hamas wrong. He has responded to Hamas’s military attack with a military counterattack. He returned Israeli forces to Gaza, ordering them to search for Shalit, and also to stop the missiles — hundreds of them — that have rained down on Israeli cities and towns virtually every day since the Israelis left Gaza.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Is this writer that dumb? They don't want peace. They want world war. And it's not just Hamas/Hizbollah. It's ragheads everywhere.
Rabid animals don't think. They just need to be put down.
Perhaps they believe that they've caught the West with its moral pants down.
He's no dummy.
— Clifford D. May, is the president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism.
Hizbolla is firing off everything they have as if missiles are going out of style. They will lose but they don't care. They have a bad case of heretical zionism.
I don't know about dumb, but apparently clueless and certainly naive.
ditto - don't now and never have wanted peace
just want to kill joooooz
"Born near Binyamina in the British Mandate of Palestine, Ehud Olmert is a graduate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with degrees in psychology, philosophy and law."
That's pretty impressive.
Hamas and Hezballah don't lose if they keep the kidnapped soldiers and Israel gets pressured by the US to avoid a "disproportionate response" and curtails its efforts against Hamas and Hezballah before they are destroyed.
So he's just pretending to be dumb??
I don't get why you think he's dumb. What specifically is dumb about his article?
You are right, of course. And I don't think we should wait for them to make the first move against us. Iran needs to be taught a lesson about modern warfare, U.S style.
Trouble is, they are drawing on the Jimmy Carter experience. They truly believe that their bellicosity will scare us off.
When is the world going to wake up to the reality that THEY DON'T WANT PEACE! They want a fight to the death. Period. End of story.
It must be asymmetrical warfare by Israel, too.
Cliff May is a bright guy but he seems to be superimposing his rationality on moon worshipping lunatic hamites.
No, they're just encouraged by all the foolish moves by the Israeli government to relinquish important territories.
We will soon see:
Hamas (shelled and bulldozed)... AND
Hezzybollah (bombed back to the stone age)..IN OTHER WORDS
"...Removed from the face of the earth..."
Then Israel will trace their puppet strings back to Damascus and Teheran -- and summarily deal with their masters -- post-haste
Just-a humble opine...
The subtitle.
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