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Is Israel on the offensive? Take this poll
news opinion central ^ | 04-02-02 | sparklit

Posted on 04/02/2002 9:04:20 PM PST by jwalburg

News sources continue to call the action in Israel an "Israeli offensive."
Do you feel Israel's actions are chiefly defensive or offensive?

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: defensive; israel; offensive; poll

1 posted on 04/02/2002 9:04:20 PM PST by jwalburg
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To: jwalburg
Strategically defensive, at the moment tactically offensive. But then the best defense has alway been a good offense.
2 posted on 04/02/2002 9:08:16 PM PST by El Gato
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To: jwalburg
BTTT
3 posted on 04/02/2002 9:48:44 PM PST by brat
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To: jwalburg
I don't understand. They're attacking for defensive reasons, but it's still an offensive. Both answers are equally correct.
4 posted on 04/02/2002 9:57:17 PM PST by xm177e2
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To: xm177e2
Please have a thought to the context this is asked in.

I think it's crazy it has to be asked in the first place. Israel has been on the DEFENSIVE since 1948 when God made it a nation again IN A DAY exactly as predicted in the Old Testament. . . with the miracle of the Soviet Union agreeing.

Tiny, besieged, beleagured, with bombs going of in it's bossom relentlessly--DEFENSIVE is too mild a word.

I understand how you mean there appears to be an offensive at present. . . but to suddenly decide to quit shaking hands with and go for the eyes and nuts of the one determined to obliterate all evidence of your existence off the face of the planet--certainly qualifies as DEFENSIVE to me.

Perhaps as important, the dorks with brain fade about the realities of Israel's existence need to be reminded that it is DEFENSIVE. If Arafat et al weren't trying to annialate them, Israel would not be trying to take out their weapons.

PLEASE
MAIL THE POLL
TO PRESIDENT
BUSH

Let the terrorists know we as a populace have their number and stand united against them all--especially guard humping, pathological liar, power grubbing, land stealing Arafat.

5 posted on 04/02/2002 10:06:25 PM PST by Quix
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