Posted on 01/05/2009 7:09:25 PM PST by Kaslin
The Israelis just struck back hard at Hamas in Gaza. In response, the United Nations, the European Union and the Arab world (at least publicly) expressed their anger at the killing of hundreds of Palestinians, most of whom were terrorists and Hamas officials.
For several prior weeks, Hamas terrorists had been daily launching rockets into Israeli towns that border Gaza. The recent volleys of missiles had insidiously become more frequent — up to 80 a day — and the payloads larger. Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists were reportedly supplying their own training and expertise.
These terrorists point to the Lebanon war of 2006 as the proper template for provoking an Israeli counterresponse that will bog down the Israeli Defense Forces in the streets of urban Gaza and ensure that Palestinian civilians are harmed on global television.
Watching both this war and the world's predictable reaction to it, we can recall the Gaza rules. Most are reflections of our postmodern age, and completely at odds with the past protocols of war.
First is the now-familiar Middle East doctrine of proportionality. Legitimate military action is strangely defined by the relative strength of the combatants. World opinion more vehemently condemns Israel's countermeasures, apparently because its rockets are far more accurate and deadly than previous Hamas barrages that are poorly targeted and thus not so lethal.
If America had accepted such rules in, say, World War II, then by late 1944 we, not the Axis, would have been the culpable party, since by then once-aggressive German, Italian and Japanese forces were on the defensive and far less lethal than the Allies.
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where is that green helmut man?
The whole concept of proportionality is nonsense.
and then there was the Taliban who complained; it's not right, the US aircraft fly too fast and too high, we can not shoot them down...
Propotionality only helps evil,
Proportionality prevents deterrent level response.
If a man shoots at me with a .22, I will not run home to retrieve a .22, I will instead return fire with my 45 ACP.
It's not my problem that he attacked the wrong man.
Proportionality is a word that was never be heard when millions of arabs attacked thousands of Jews in 1948.
The sheetheads are just POed that the Israelis are better shots..
“Proportionality is a word that was never be heard when millions of arabs attacked thousands of Jews in 1948.”
Sure you have the right conflict?
Yes.
Bump bump bump a thousand times bump
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