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Some Moderate Proposals [Victor Davis Hanson's 'modest proposal']
National Review ^ | 12/30/08 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/31/2008 9:24:38 AM PST by rhema

1) Request that 50% of Israel's air-to-ground missiles be duds to ensure greater proportionality.

2) Allow Hamas another 1,000 free rocket launches to see if they can catch up with the body count.

3) Have Israeli soldiers congregate in border barracks so that Hamas's random rockets have a better chance of killing military personnel, to ensure it can claim at least a few military targets.

4) Redefine "holocaust" to refer to deaths of terrorists in numbers under 400 to give greater credence to Hamas's current claims.

5) In the interest of fairness, allow Hamas to establish both the date that war is supposed to begin and the date when it must end.

6) Send Israeli military advisers to Hamas to improve the accuracy of their missiles.

7) Take down the barriers to return to Hamas a fair chance of getting suicide bombers back inside Israel.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; islam; israel; jihad

1 posted on 12/31/2008 9:24:38 AM PST by rhema
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To: rhema; Grampa Dave; PhilDragoo; Ernest_at_the_Beach; SierraWasp
VDH is the best, even when on his moderate ground.
2 posted on 12/31/2008 9:28:41 AM PST by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: rhema

LOL


3 posted on 12/31/2008 9:33:29 AM PST by lormand (...somewhere in Illinois, a village has lost it's marxist community organizer.)
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To: lormand

Number 6 is absolutely hilarious.


4 posted on 12/31/2008 9:52:10 AM PST by Clock King (Radical Conservatives, arise!)
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To: self

mark


5 posted on 12/31/2008 10:16:11 AM PST by RedRover
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To: BOBTHENAILER

Both he and thomas sowell always have something smart to say.
I don’t remember reading any columns by either where i didn’t learn something.


6 posted on 12/31/2008 10:43:09 AM PST by genghis
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To: Clock King

Number 6 has been done — by the Clinton administration for China.


7 posted on 12/31/2008 11:40:59 AM PST by expatpat
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To: rhema

8)Give Hamas a few tons of rebar to fortify their tunnels.


8 posted on 12/31/2008 11:50:41 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Don't blame me...I voted for Palin!)
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To: rhema

I love VDH. This proportionality nonsense is a frigging joke.


9 posted on 12/31/2008 12:20:30 PM PST by lawnguy (The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil-Cicero)
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To: genghis

both are great-—you’re right.


10 posted on 12/31/2008 1:33:56 PM PST by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: rhema

how about find another suger daddy like Saddam to pay the families of “martyred” homicide bombers?


11 posted on 01/01/2009 7:41:16 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: gusopol3

sugar


12 posted on 01/01/2009 7:41:54 AM PST by gusopol3
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