Israel's strategy must be working simply because the rabid anti-Israel-Left is demanding that Israel do something else.
Won't happen.
Posted on 07/17/2006 10:42:10 PM PDT by Scarchin
The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I guess I can't condemn anything really evil because...well...what's the point? /sarc What a jackass! As I predicted earlier, this guy's going to be doing some serious back-pedaling - just watch!
He's wrong. It was a tragic mistake to abandon the south Lebanon buffer zone, and it was shameful to abandon Israel's Christian allies there to their fate. Its a mistake that must be reversed, if for no other purpose than to remind the arabs that attacks cost them land. The land-for-peace one-way-ratchet has to be reversed, and Israel must charge a toll in land for every rocket that crosses the border. The difference is that this time there must be no "occupation", Israel must not return to the business of trying to govern arabs. Instead, a strip of land must be annexed as the penalty, its populace must be compensated and expelled.
The same must happen in the Gaza. A strip of territory must be annexed as the penalty, its arab populace compensated and pushed through to the arab side of the fence. The message must be loud and clear that another annexation will always result every time a rocket, a mortar shell, or a deluded teenager with a dynamite vest manages to cross the fence into Israeli territory.
This is separate from the issue of killing the attackers, which is necessary but ultimately insufficient, since the arabs have an inexhaustible supply of losers ready to blow themselves to bits rather than face life as a muslim, and who can blame them. Their arab brothers won't miss them, the only thing that will register with them is the loss of land, so that has to be the toll. Every time.
I read the entire column and the guy backtracks "a little."
Nonetheless, here is his e-mail addy:
cohenr@washpost.com
I'd say that whether or not he is Jewish is irrelevant. He is from Maine so his brain is mush and he doesn't know what he is or where he is.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)
I think Viera has mentioned that her husband is Jewish. He wouldn't be the first anti-Israel Jew. That gay guy who wrote Munich--can't think of his name right now--said Israel has no right to exist. Tony Kushner. Despicable human being.
Richard Cohen is such a *&^$#%$%^&&&^%#$@!!
Ooooops! My bad. I thought this was ~William~ Cohen.
...but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now.
No, neither the idea nor the fact of Israel's creation caused war and terrorism. All could have ended peacefully for anyone actually wanting peace.
The smart choice is to pull back to defensible -- but hardly impervious -- borders. That includes getting out of most of the West Bank -- and waiting (and hoping) that history will get distracted and move on to something else.
How can something this idiotic get printed? Israel, hunker down and wait. We can solve your little problem after you cease to exist. Give up some more land and sit in those bomb shelters. Don't fight. It's the only solution.
/self-hating Jewish liberal intellectualism
No, that is NOT true at all.
Israel's strategy must be working simply because the rabid anti-Israel-Left is demanding that Israel do something else.
Won't happen.
This isn't Viera's husband.
He's probably Jewish unless his mother is not.
Well, damn. I've labored under that delusion for a long time now.
That's the "smart" choice? And in the meantime what, precisely, will Iran and Hezbollah be doing?
This column is absolutely stupefying. I am truly at a loss for words. I refuse to believe that Cohen was sober and sane when he wrote it.
That's the apparent truth that scares the American left -- the Israelis pulled out from Gaza only to get rockets fired at them shortly thereafter. They withdrew from south Lebanon years ago only to see an immediate buildup of mines fronting more rockets. With each passing day we see rockets extending their reach further, into missiles that can reach Tel Aviv. The only solution is to create more of a buffer zone, for the sake of safety. If Israel can effectively do that, the immediate threat of longer missiles is eliminated, and the ability of the US to complete its task in Iraq without being drawn into conflict elsewhere, and Israel to defend itself, both improve.
In all seriousness, I'm having a hard time believing that he was in full possession of his wits when he submitted this. I don't doubt that he believes it 100%, but the sh*tstorm is going to be a sight to behold.
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