[Israel on...] High security alert along Green Line

The Jerusalem Post ^ | 3-24-02

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Security forces along the Green Line bordering Palestinian Authority areas and in the Galilee Triangle are on high alert at this hour due to urgent intelligence warnings about impending terror attacks within Israel.

Police and Border Police units have stepped up security at roadblocks and other positions throughout the two regions, according to Army Radio.

Meanwhile, numerous IDF units are searching the area at the junction of Israel's border with Jordan and Syria for several possible infiltrators at this hour.

The forces were placed on high alert after unconfirmed Jordanian reports that Jordanian military forces shot and killed two individuals within Israeli territory shortly before 7:00 a.m.

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[Kerberos]

Just more of the same, or as they say SSDD.

Why we are bothering to try and broker any peace deal in this region is beyond me. The only peace that will come to this area is when one side beats the other side down to the point where they no longer have the capacity or will to fight.

Then there will be peace.

[American in Israel]

I think we are bothering because it makes a lot of difference which side wins to us. Do we want another Terrorist Dictator Nation with Hamas and Hizbulla as his cabinet or a free Democracy in the Middle East. We have one loyal friend there. Perhaps we should be a loyal friend back? You know, Truth, Justice and the American way? Or is it now lies, deals and the Almighty Dollar?

[Kerberos]

"I think we are bothering because it makes a lot of difference which side wins to us."

Then if that is true, why don't we just back the side that we want to win, and get this thing over with.

[American in Israel]

So after a week of cease-fire by Israel, with daily attacks by the Islamics, what part of treatys and promises by Islamic's are worthless do we not understand
As we try to build a coalition with them with treaties and promises...

[Oldeconomybuyer]

It's pretty clear to me that both sides are losing today. I believe (hope) both sides are tiring of this war, and that a peace agreement will be reached soon.

[American in Israel]

What worries me is why we need to think which side to pick? Have we forgotten who killed Robert Kennedy? Who tried to bomb the WTC last time? Who kidnapped our diplomats and executed them? Hint, they all came from Palestine and were not the Israeli's.

[American in Israel]

It takes two to make a peace agreement. Arafat wants war, he is an Egyptian, and the Palestinians are just his willing pawns. Arafats top cabinet are all Arab League nation Arabs, not Palestinians. The Palestinians are just his cannon fodder. Like his ancestors who convinced Hitler to kill the Jews instead of exporting them, Arafat is just a Genocidal maniac. One with a nobel prize for peace, and 19 Billion American Taxpayer dollars in his personal checking account. Now that is an account of a known terrorist that should be frozen. One would have to fight off the long line of Eee Uuu ass kissers to get to Arafat though.

To show you the power of Greed, Arafat has no oil, but the Eeee Uuuu sends 50 million a month to him "to help his people". All the oily shieks have to do is point to who to kiss and Europe falls over itself to prostrate. Sickening...

[American in Israel]

Well in the last 15 minutes a lot of military transport helos have been landing at the Kenneset building in Jerusalem. That usualy means that the Military commanders are being advised of the Kenneset rulings on a major problem. Looks like something big is up. I about a half an hour those transports will move the local commanders back to the front lines and all hell will break loose. Should make for an interesting day.

[Kerberos]

"What worries me is why we need to think which side to pick? "

Oh I think we have already picked our side. It's just that for some reason we are only half-stepping with them.

Which I don't really understand why, but then again maybe I don't understand the full context here. The point I am trying to make is that the whole situation has gone way beyond a diplomatic solution, and to think it can be settled diplomatically is just a delusion.

[American in Israel]

and to think it can be settled diplomatically is just a delusion.

Bump to that! The point I am trying to make is that this situation is very instructive on America’s dealings with the other Islamic Nations. We need to learn well from the years of leftist "diplomatic solutions" tested in Israel. They do not work. I maintain that all treaties with Islamic’s need to be printed on toilet paper to have any value in a practical sense. To try to make treaties with Islamic’s is a waste of time. You do not survive a snake pit you fall into by trying to make friends with some of the rattlers as you kill the others, you just kill the biggest and closest snake one at a time till the other snakes flee, or there are no surviving snakes. To spend time petting snakes instead of fighting them may be fatal.

[Kerberos]

"The point I am trying to make is that this situation is very instructive on America’s dealings with the other Islamic Nations. We need to learn well from the years of leftist "diplomatic solutions" tested in Israel. They do not work."

Then I believe we are in agreement. OK, I admit that I was trying to frame my response outside of the context of who's right and who's wrong. Mainly because I think the issue is academic at this point.

[Willie Green]

I think we are bothering because it makes a lot of difference which side wins to us.

No it doesn't. If it wasn't for the oil in the region, we'd neglect the Arab/Israeli conflict the same as the Tutsi and Hutu. The nomadic tribes of the Middle East have been feuding since the dawn of recorded history. We'd be better off stopping all foreign aid to the region and applying the funds toward developing our own energy resources.

[oceanperch]

Bump. Alaska says OPEN

[American in Israel]

Well since America sends a lot more foreign aid to the Islamic nations vs. the one Democratic one I would agree. The cancer that is eating us, we made.

Perhaps the deployment of the Arrow anti-missile systems and the THEL laser system on American planes for anti-missile usage will make you feel better about your investment in Israel. After all Israel helped develop them. What pray-tell has Islam exported besides hand woven rugs and international terrorism? Bad investment there.

I agree, open American oil fields and let the Arabs go back to drinking theirs.

[American in Israel]

You know, the thought just occured to me, World War III may just be a by product of the Ecologists strive for a human free world. If they had not shut down our oil production...

[Willie Green]

Perhaps the deployment of the Arrow anti-missile systems and the THEL laser system on American planes for anti-missile usage will make you feel better about your investment in Israel.

No, that's a breach of national security.
Development of American advanced defense technology should remain strictly within our own borders.

[American in Israel]

It was the Israeli's that developed key parts of the system. Their missile technology is ahead of ours thanks to Clintoon halting all our R&D on his watch. The Israeli's have produced a missile that is a close cousin to our sparrow, 90 mile launch and leave vs 125 mile for ours. Except theirs is small enough to arm F16's our sparrow is so large only F15's can carry it. We need that missile ASAP. The question is, why are we not buying it. We are forcing our guys to fight with second rate systems.

[Willie Green]

The Israeli's have produced a missile that is a close cousin to our sparrow, 90 mile launch and leave vs 125 mile for ours. Except theirs is small enough to arm F16's our sparrow is so large only F15's can carry it. We need that missile ASAP. The question is, why are we not buying it. We are forcing our guys to fight with second rate systems.

Until such time that we advance our own technology, I'm quite confident in our military's capability of fending off an Israeli attack, or any American enemy the Israelis would sell this technolgy to.