Israel's Response Is Disproportionate

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[ventanax5]

I condemn Israel's disproportionate attack on Hamas because, so far, it has only lasted four days and I would like to see a proportionate response that terrifies Hamas for seven years, the years that have filled Sderot and neighboring towns with nightmares, death, amputations and trauma coming from rockets and mortars fired from Gaza.

Perhaps a proportionate response would have Gaza's leaders fearful of being killed every day for the next two years, as Gilad Shalit has been terrified of torture and death every day for the last two years in his solitary Gaza dungeon.

A proportionate response would have Hamas mothers and fathers as fearful for their children's lives as Shalit's mother and father have been fearful for Gilad's life.

A proportionate response would have Gaza's children crying for their mommies and daddies, the way at a Hamas pageant earlier in December a Palestinian actor dressed as Shalit got down on his knees, mock-begging in Hebrew for his Ima and Abba while the Gaza crowds laughed.

A proportionate response would so intimidate Hamas that they will grovel and, as a "gesture," send cocoa and jam into Sderot, the way Israel has groveled in response to rockets from Hamas, sending cocoa and jam into Gaza. Imagine Churchill sending cocoa and jam into Berlin as a humanitarian gesture after - during - the bombing of London.

[antiRepublicrat]

Okay, I agree, go proportionate.

Lob several rockets per day into Gaza for the next several years. The UN will look the other way. I promise. They did it for Hamas.

[HusbandMan]

One who pokes a sleeping lion with a stick should not expect the lion to simply poke back with a stick should he wake up.

And yet that is the way Hamas wants Israel to react. I believe that the Irsraeli government has a moral obligation to protect its citizenry. And the only way to do that, where Hamas is concerned, is to completely destroy the threat. Not wound or severely cripple the Hamas orginization, but completely destroy it. Make sure, to the best of their ability, that Hamas is never seen on the face of this earth again.

I like your sleeping lion/stick analogy.

[MeanWestTexan]

This is so stupid.

Any good war plan is “disproportional.”

7 to 1 is the only thing I remember from stupid-leutenant-school.

[bethybabes69]

Absolutely correct.

[bethybabes69]

Really important point, EVERYONE in the Western World needs to be on their toes in a public place, these maniancs, and their Lkiberal sympathisers will undoubtedly seek reprisals for the actions in Gaza.

[Larousse2]

[CharacterCounts]

I disagree with the author.

I think they should have a massively disproportionate response for at least seven years. I don't want Hamas equally terrified. I want them to assume room temperature.