We hate to tell you so

Gamla (Israel) ^ | July 17, 2006 | Shlomo Engel

[tessalu]

Now is the time, when the tanks are still booming and half the country is living in bomb shelters, to shout at the top of our lungs: We told you so, we told you so, we told you so!!!

We take no joy in this, but we hope that now that the foolishness of your policies are clear to everyone, we can bring the country back to some sort of responsible strategy – now, before the various spin masters return to play their games with Israeli society.

We must deal only with strategic alternatives to the current chaos. The question of what to do tomorrow, like the question of how to bring our kidnapped soldiers back home, is not as fateful as the real question: Towards what strategic goal should we be progressing?

Told you so

We told you the only way to defend the home front is to concern ourselves with creating a security zone in southern Lebanon and Gaza, and to fight the enemy in those areas over the long term.

War means losses and injuries, but better to lose soldiers on the battle front than grandmothers and grandkids sitting together for a Shabbat meal, and for 2 million civilians trying to squeeze into the tiny Hadera-Gadera-Jerusalem triangle. But you let those rags from the Four Mothers group set the country's security policy. That's why we look like this today.

Restraint = weakness

We told you that restraint is weakness, silence is sludge, that failing to respond would invite more, more painful, attacks and that we must deal with the State of Hizbullah and its missiles before they start falling on our heads.

But no, you wanted to wait, to show restraint, to close our collective eyes and hope everything would be alright. Of course, nothing is "alright," nor is it going to be.

Six years of relative quiet in Lebanon allowed our enemies to develop their military and to accurately aim their missiles at our cities and towns in the north. You did nothing to stop this.

Empty threats

We told you the world respects the strong and turns its back on the weak and pathetic. Therefore, we said, it was important for the world to respect us rather to have pity on us. Even the events at Kerem Shalom could have been prevented with a real show of strength, if only you hadn't been so worried about "what the world would say."

As we know, Syria extradited the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocelan after the Turks explicitly threatened war over the matter. On the other hand, Israel – in exactly the same position with regard to Khaled Mashaal, who is directly responsible for the attack at Kerem Shalom – threw around empty threats, and essentially did nothing at all.

Fighting the enemy?

We told you that peace treaties are made with friends and war is made with enemies, but you stubbornly insisted that peace is made with enemies and war is made on settlers.

We told you that the Arab problem has nothing to do with a Palestinian state (or lack thereof), but rather with the existence of Israel. But you continued to heap scorn and to blame our troubles on the occupation.

You turned Yitzhak Shamir's famous saying, "The Arabs are the same Arabs, the sea is the same sea" into a shameful slogan, because you wanted to believe the Arabs wanted compromise and a normal life. Therefore, you argued, we must give them more and more and more – without receiving anything in return, of course.

Self-pride, self-confidence

And mainly, we told you that it is impossible to beat an enemy with power alone. To win a war one must believe that right is with him. Education about history, about proud, unapologetic nationalism are immediately necessary and the first strategy for any nation fighting for its life.

The fundamental moral distinction between the Jewish people, the only owners of the Land of Israel, and those who seek to steal it from us, are far more important than fighter pilots and tank divisions commanded by officers who aren't so sure about this distinction.

But you occupy yourselves with self-accusation, to the point of self-hatred, for the suffering the Palestinians have brought upon themselves. Even now, when the blood of our fallen soldiers has yet to dry and the bombs are still falling, Yigal Sarena ran to blame Israel and its army for the current war, despite facts apparent to the naked eye.

Defeating Beilinism

For all these long years, from the Olso Accords to the present time, Israeli policy has been a singular, monolithic line, best represented by Yossi Beilin. This line continued, even through supposedly right-wing governments, because the left-wing media, state prosecutor and Supreme Court continued to set the country's strategic agenda.

Benny Begin represented a real alternative to Beilinism. He saw immediately what was being created by the Oslo Accord, but his voice was silenced and he disappeared from Israeli politics.

Nowadays, Benny Begin's strategic alternative has been proven correct in the human laboratory dripping with blood called Israel – at a terrible, terrible price.

[tessalu]

Yes, some of you did give us a warning.

[Perseverando]

(Christian Friends of Israel) Bump!!

[ECM]

Oh God, how about this: utterly crushing your enemy in a series of lightning strikes instead of creating "security zones" and getting into it for the long haul? When did fighting wars become so...pedantic?

[ken5050]

Can you, or anyone, please explain the "those rags from the Four Mothers group" comment?

Is that the Israeli left equivalent of the 9/11 Jersey Girls...recently dissed by our own Ann Coulter?

[pankot]

Oslo Accords=another legacy of the Clintoon era.

[twigs]

But I think it was the right thing to do. Now, the world can see--at least those with eyes to see and ears to hear--pretty well that gaining control of the land they claim is theirs is not the issue. It never was. That is an argument that should permanently go off the table. I've been pleasantly surprised how world leaders have pretty much condemned Hezbollah.

[tflabo]

We told you that restraint is weakness, silence is sludge, that failing to respond would invite more, more painful, attacks and that we must deal with the State of Hizbullah and its missiles before they start falling on our heads

Can we make this the motto for the US State Dept. concerning both Iran and North Korea?

[SerpentDove]

I'm still not convinced Robertson was wrong about Ariel Sharon.

[Paperdoll]

Go the limit swiftly. Diplomacy is not in Hezzbullah's vocabulary. Promises mean nothing to them and never will.
God go with you!

[Realism]

If the Israelis play their cards right, they'll be able to ride this wave for a long, long, time.

[tessalu]

I pray that we all can be a blessing in God's sight.

Genesis 12
"2": And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

"3": And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

[kruelio]

From Wikipedia:

In February 1997 two Israeli military helicopters ferrying troops into the Security Zone collided, killing over 70 soldiers on board. The event sparked days of national mourning. Out of this trauma, a number of women living on the northern border with sons serving in Lebanon came together and drafted an open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling on him to bring the boys home. The women's letter would, over the coming weeks, evolve into The Four Mothers Movement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Security_Zone

[Convert from ECUSA]

Ping!

[Salem]

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Zec 12:6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.





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[Toby06]

recently dissed by our own Ann Coulter?

Whose own? Has Free Republic chosen her to officially represent us?

[NRA2BFree]

Now is the time, when the tanks are still booming and half the country is living in bomb shelters, to shout at the top of our lungs: We told you so, we told you so, we told you so!!!

I agree, but there's a universal hatred of Israel, and the world will only blame Israel. For some reason, unknown to me, they can't see the terrorists, and their desire to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews.

[MrEdd]

Whose own? Has Free Republic chosen her to officially represent us?

America's own Ann Coulter, as opposed to France's Ann Coulter and Equedore's Ann Coulter.