[Paul_B]

His prescription is completely flakey because there are lower-level solutions he skips over - namely, dealing more definitively with the Pals themselves. It's irresponsible and immoral to drag in other nations unless necessary. By doing so, Israel would lose the moral high ground, and world opinion with it. Even her friends, few as they are, would be hard-pressed to defend her actions. Much ground would be lost.

[hrhdave]

>>It's irresponsible and immoral to drag in other nations unless necessary. <<

Those other nationas are the suppliers, moneybags, aiders and abettors of the bus-bombers. Time to strike them--hard.

It's imperative that Israel not let the "moral high ground" you speak seve as a graveyard. You don't lose your moral high ground by killing your mortal enemies. You affirm it.

[hrhdave]

Here's are some of many Arab-Muslim declarations of the War of Extermination.

Earlier this summer, Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi declared, "By G-d, we will not leave one Jew in Palestine (meaning Israel as well as the territories)," justifying his pledge by claiming, "This is our land, not the Jews'." Last year, the leader of Hizbollah, Hassan Nassrallah, mused, "If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide." And Hizbollah's protector, the Syrian government, is no less open about its desire to kill all Jews. Syria's Minister of Defense, Mustapha Tlass, opined in a television interview two years ago that if "every Arab killed a Jew, no Jews would remain," and added that he personally wanted "to kill any Jew he faced."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0803/mowbray_2003_08_28.php3

The appropriate response of Israel is to kill their enemy before the enemy gathers the strength to match his murderous intentions. It's called "self-defence."

[Desecrated]

If the situation was reversed and the Arab countries had the nukes, do you think they would be bound by the moral "high ground?" Since they flat out say NO, the answer is clear.