Capitulation isn’t an option

ISRAPUNDIT ^ | Aug 3/08 | Arieh Eldad

[tedbel]

Ongoing debate on Shalit prisoner swap diverts attention from military option

There is a military option in Gaza. We can issue an ultimatum to Hamas that Israel would assassinate one of its leaders in Gaza or elsewhere every day if Gilad Shalit is not released at once. We can embark on a targeted operation based on existing intelligence information, or a broad operation if we lack such accurate intelligence information. We can kill every terrorist on the way, go from one house to the next, and while we’re at it blow up Qassam rocket workshops, arms caches, and tunnels. We can pulverize Hamas in Gaza as we pulverized the PLO in the First Lebanon War, and unlike what we did to Hizbullah in the Second Lebanon War (the reason we didn’t do it was not lack of power, but rather, deficient political and military leadership.)

Gilad Shalit has been in captivity for more than two years now. The media is replete with harsh descriptions regarding the conditions his captors are holding him in – a cellar or a narrow tunnel, without any daylight. I don’t know what the source of these descriptions is and whether they are based on intelligence information or imagination. However, there is no doubt that we need to get Shalit back home.

[WildcatClan]

I am not sure about assassinating Hamas leaders as a direction Israel really wants to take. It is just more of the tit for tat and amounts to more sitting in the powder keg giving off sparks.

If I were an Israeli I would have had me enough of the Palestinians by now. When Israel is serious they will declare war, cut off supplies, quit paying the Palestinian’s bills, supplying them water, electricity and medical care.

I wouldn’t care about public opinion or what America or Europe or anyone else thought. I would march in, kill all terrorists and any combatants along the way. I would wage all out war and continue to wage that war until the Palestinians learned to hate war and violence more than they hate Jews.

All the politically correct clap-trap won’t get it with these characters. Hamas, nor any other of these terrorist death cults are going to be turned into law abiding and peaceful political action groups. They must be destroyed and all that follow them if the Palestinians are ever to have any kind of life or Israel is to ever have any modicum of peace.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“I am not sure about assassinating Hamas leaders as a direction Israel really wants to take.”

According to Machiavelli, either caress or annihilate. Regarding petty assassinations, that is a lame idea. It would be like poking a bear with a stick. No, if Israel needs to find military solutions, it should be war— a quick strike out of the blue, planned with care.