Jeff Katz is an Israeli tour guide;
It’s like we Israelis are stuck in some Greek tragedy or some movie that has a sad ending with the hero dying. And no matter how many times you see it, the ending is always the same. It seems no matter who Israel is acting/fighting with on the stage, we always end up being the bad guy and the crowd hating our guts. The true villain walks off with the girl and the money. The play is cut short before we get to finish the job we set out to do. I mean haven’t we been in this situation before, in 1996 in Lebanon. In 2002 in Jenin [the “massacre”].
Have you seen the air force clips that were aired last night? Benay, my wife, has linked them at the bottom of this e-mail. They show how the Hizbolla shoot rockets from behind civilian apartment buildings and then, my friends, you watch as the truck carrying the rocket launcher drives into a car park under a house! How the heck does anyone expect us to clear out these rockets without bombing the house??? The local Lebanese population was warned by Israel to leave the area three days in advance. Some locals stayed because they couldn’t afford to leave. I read that Lebanese taxis charge $1000 to go to Beirut. So someone please explain to me why these locals didn’t hide in a building where there were no rockets or any ammo dumps?
[…]
Benay volunteers in the ER of Afula hospital. She has prepared 300 files for a mass-wounded situation. The ER is in the basement of the hospital and it is built as one huge bomb and chemical warfare shelter. Funny how there isn’t a single hospital in the Arab world that would even consider the necessity to build a hospital in a bomb shelter. Why? Because they know we would never target a hospital.
More, including photos, at the link.
David, what is compromise when the starting point is the total annihilation of Israel? Pop. 6,276,883. Meet halfway so kill only 3 million give or take?
enough
Kate, I did exactly that. Best online advice ever!
enough,
That’s a great starting point. There’s probably a whole host of reasons why the Islamos want the annihilation of Israel.
Pick the severest and over the course of time work at softening it.
If David was able to slay Goliath then surely a modest amount of headway could be made in this vein.
David Brown: “I gave him all the money in the till while talking softly to him.”
So the application to the Lebanese situation is:
Give Hezbollah everything they are asking for (the destruction of Israel) and then go to the police.
What’s your Plan B?
Last post for today and off topic but still relevant.
For all you non-hippie types.
The term ‘if you remember the 60s you probably weren’t there’ was not coined by Robin Williams but rather by Timothy Leary.
Robin was barely a pre-pubescent Mork in the 60s.
BTW, I was there and do remember everything from Yorkville to the Vietnam war and made the required pilgrimage to Haight-Ashbury SF.
It was not Davids money so he had no real investment there. Easy to give away other peoples money.
And wow! Killing 3 million is a starting point. That is a phsychopathic comment. Shows a complete unconcern about the slaughter of people.
With a rational person the starting point is 0. It is fine to kill 0 Israelis. It is like the old joke of offering $1 million to a woman for sex, then offering $100 to the same woman. We already established that she is a prostitute, we are just negotiating the amount.
This is the mentality that has prolonged this conflict. Simply unacceptable.
enough
It was not Davids money so he had no real investment there. Easy to give away other peoples money.
And wow! Killing 3 million is a starting point. That is a phsychopathic comment. Shows a complete unconcern about the slaughter of people.
With a rational person the starting point is 0. It is fine to kill 0 Israelis. It is like the old joke of offering $1 million to a woman , then offering $100 to the same woman. We already established that she is a prostitute, we are just negotiating the amount.
This is the mentality that has prolonged this conflict. Simply unacceptable.
enough
enough,
Once you cool down go back and re-read your post then tell me who the rational person is.
Giving money to a robber is exactly what all money hadlers are trained to do. Who wants to be a dead hero for the sake of $160.
Killing 3 million people is your ‘psycopathic’ comment. I never ever suggested that as an option.
Pig-headed stubborness has prolonged the conflict…fresh thinking will shorten it.
Breaking: CNN reports IDF lands in Balbeck [N Lebanon]
CNN TV . …-
Present-day Baalbek, connected by road with Beirut and with Damascus and Halab (Aleppo) in Syria, is the chief town in eastern Lebanon.
IDF lands? ‘Chute drop?
On to Damascus, Syria.
More and faster.
Hezbollah central casting. 1996-2006
Who is green helmet?
Tragically he gets older but not the little children that he depravedly uses as props.
3W. eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/07/who-is-this-man.html
So, Plan B from Planet Brown would be to remember his hippie days and kiss Israel and his own sweet ass goodbye.
Nice plan for ’60’s Yorkville (ahhh . . . pass the joint again). Not so great for Planet Earth.
Timothy Leary really is dead.
There should be a cease fire. Isreal is paranoid about the Arabs and visa versa. They bombed a United Nations post and our Fuhr says the UN shouldn’t have been there. The guys too much like Bush, a trigger happy fool from Albrta. He has to go that’s for sure. He follows American policy word for word. How original. Who voted for this pro American fool. We were peace keepers and admired around the world. Now we are American puppets. What progress we have made. No wonder he muzzles his caucus. These guys are a ship of fools. Isreal thinks they are the only ones suffering in this war. They outgun the Arabs 10 to 1. It’s not a fair war. Someone should stand up to the Jewish/American front. They ignore the UN and think they have a devine right to tell the rest of the world what to do.
Is it me, or does David Brown not sound a lot like our old friend steved…let’s negotiate, let’s talk, let’s hug-a-thug, let’s-magically-go-back-in-time-and-do-things-differently-so-we-don’t-end-up-where-we-are-currently.
I suppose if a huge meteor is hurtling towards Earth, your solution would be to negotiate with it. Essentially, that is what you’re suggesting here. So far, Hezbollah has shown that they are as responsive to negotiation as a rock.
As the sayings go (imperfectly quoted):
– Walk softly and carry a big stick
– In times of peace, prepare for war
– Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggie” while reaching for a big rock
ok4ua: There is just so much wrong with what you said that there’s no point in refuting any of it…maybe others have the patience to do so, but not I. Every single sentence you typed is dead wrong (imo), with the only exception possibly being the first sentence (but then, only after certain conditions are met).
ok4ua: Please, shelve the “We were peace keepers and admired around the world”. It’s BS. I’ve been around the world and most people know as much about Canada as they do about Liechtenstein; they might nod & smile but that’s just politeness.
Try reading Sunil Ram’s column about Canada’s much vaunted, (for domestic consumption only, provided by the CBC and the Liberal Party) supposed role in ‘peacekeeping’:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-19936.html
Oh…and BTW…there are 1 BILLION Muslims, about 200 million of whom are Arabs and 70 million are Iranians…….opposed to 6 million Israelis.
Your ‘fair war’ comment REALLY made me laugh, and I hope, for your sake, that you are ten years old, because, if you’re any older…….HAHAHAHA
Insider Info
I have just hung up the phone with a good friend of mine who has relayed the following info to me. The Syrian Army has passed the word down from Assad that today sometime between now current time in Israel is 11:40pm (23:30) and the morning Israel will attack Syria. …-
yoni
100% support for Israel. Nothing for that death cult. Who’s your Allah? Beatch.
Another “F” Word: Fake.
The Rather Syndrome: Fake but accurate.
The MSM Word: Fakery. …-
Wire Services Defend Staged Photos
The news wire services are circling the wagons around their propaganda photos from Qana: News agencies stand by Lebanon photos.
NEW YORK – Three news agencies on Tuesday rejected challenges to the veracity of photographs of bodies taken in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, strongly denying that the images were staged. …-
LGF
Google images: keyword: qana.
The solution to Hezbollah is kill everyone of the stinking terrorists and anyone who backs them up.
Is that simple enough for you Mr Brownshirt?
FREE,
I think what brownshirt is saying is that he agrees that Hezbollah are terrorists and should pay the consequences. His first posts were more along the lines that Israel and the Jewish people need an image makeover and better PR. With that in mind it’s possible organizations like Hezbollah probably wouldn’t even exist in the first place.
“This is a war. Get it? Bombs going off, explosions. People will die accidentally and on purpose. Not all munitions are smart weapons. The majority are not”
Its easy to talk with such detachment when you dont have family living there. There are many in Canada who do. I wonder if you, or, in fact, anyone else here, would be singing Israels praises and being all gung ho about it, or talking carelessly about collateral damage, if your family was stuck in the thick of it. War or not, if it was your family in there, the majority of you would have believed that the innocent should take precedent.
You all sit here and defend and defend and ignore the fact that civilians are dying, but the simple fact is that if it was your mother, father, sister, or brother, at the recieving end of Israeli munitions, you d be dancing to a different tune. Thank your lucky stars that no one you know is in there, but everytime a civilian dies, think about his/her family. Its almost as if you ve forgotten that theres human beings out there who are suffering. I wonder what your thoughts would be if your family was stuck in there.
Now for those not sure of just what trolling is, please try to read ok4ua.
To the “lets talk it over” crowd, I watched an hour or so of CPAC and the Foreign Affairs gaggle, err committee try to put together a statement to say that they don’t condone the violence, ceasefire, etc. Talk about your waste of oxygen…
With the exception of maybe Cyprus, can anyone name a ceasefire that actually lasted, let alone work?
If its a civi in lebascam its one more terrorist we dont have to deal with later.
Middleton: Are you suggesting that the attacks should not proceed lest a civilian be killed? If that were the case, Hitler would never have been defeated and the Japanese would have held on for a much longer time. Was the price of a few hundred thousand (however many) “innocent” civilians in Dresden worth paying to rid the world of Hitler?
When you send troops into battle, you do so knowing that many will die. Out of fear of causing grief to the families and friends of the troops, do you refrain from fighting?
Your intent may be noble…we should never take the issue of war or civilian casualties in any way lightly and should enter a war only if there is no other practical way of achieving your goals or defending yourself. Once in a war, you should attempt to limit civilian casualties but you cannot avoid them entirely…attempting to do so will expose your “Achilles heel” to the enemy and you will lose.
So, I suspect that most of the “offending” SDA contributers have recognized this, ACCEPTED THIS AS A GIVEN and stepped over this without stating so.
Nice thought and something to reflect on before we type, but civilian casualties cannot be avoided in a war (particularly THIS war) and the IDF cannot permit themselves to pull any punches.
“I read that Lebanese taxis charge $1000 to go to Beirut.” Not very Christian of those taxi drivers to charge folks $1000 to escape the danger area.
Capitalism at its finest however.
Wes
Perfect metaphor, Minister MacKay.
Prognosis: Terminal. …-
MacKay calls Hezbollah “cancer
National Post – 8 hours ago
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay defended on Tuesday the government’s handling of the Middle East crisis at a House of Commons foreign affairs committee meeting and said he favours a ceasefire but only one that would be lasting and agreed …
Middleton
So glad no civilians died in any suicide bombing in Israel?! Oh but they’re Israelis so they don’t count? Of course nobody wants to see innocent people suffer but it would appear that you are only seeing innocents suffering on one side of the line and not the other. How many times did Hezbollah rejoice when they targeted civilians! Israel is doing it’s best to avoid civilian targets, can the same be said for Hezbollah?
Willy Graham: Hold it. You and Iggy have some ‘splaining to do to the Canadian people; all you of the creed/faith of the Socialist/Liberal Party of Canada.
Your nuance is exposed.
Your nuance is: “extraordinary equivocation about the nature of Hezbollah”.
Your nuance in Lib/Socialist speak is:
“I don’t take sides for or against Hezbollah; I don’t take sides for or against Israel.”
You, Graham and Ignatieff, have taken lessons from the American democratic moonbat, Dingell. You are copying from an American; your hypocrisy is stunning; you of the party of Aunty-American.
Your party, the Liberal Party, has also suffered a
national security collapse.
To all Canadians: Stand with Prime Minister Harper.
Stand with Israel.
Down with hezbollah. …-
The National Security Collapse of the Democratic Party
Hugh Hewitt ^ | 08-01-2006 | Hugh Hewitt
I have already posted on Democratic Congressman John Dingell’s extraordinary equivocation about the nature of Hezbollah: “I don’t take sides for or against Hezbollah; I don’t take sides for or against Israel.” …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676097/posts
Hassle,
I am not interested in making myself out to be noble. The history behind Dresden is interesting enough. It was no coincedence that firebombs were used. They were used deliberately to catch the Soviets attention. History is and always has been written by the victors. But does that justify Dresden, or in fact, Hiroshima (where it is argued that Japanese civilains lives saved American soldiers lives)?
Soldiers know they might die. They join the army regardless, accepting it as an occupational hazard. Civilians dont want to die -thats why they dont join the army.
“Once in a war, you should attempt to limit civilian casualties but you cannot avoid them entirely…attempting to do so will expose your “Achilles heel” to the enemy and you will lose.”
And then we must ask if this is a war at all. This is a case of Israel getting irritated by a group in a country that has just rebuilt itself and hardly has an army to speak of. Is the Hizbollah representative of the Lebanese people. You folk are taking this as a given, despite knowing fully well that it is not true.
It reminds me of the COnfederates in Canada during the Civil War. A couple of them go over to St Albans and engage in some stupidity and give the Union the same pretense being used by Israel here. Canada did arrest them, but thats because Canada had the means to arrest the troublemakers. Lebanon does not. Its army, if there is one, is in no position to fight it out with Hizbollah.
What if the Americans had done what we Israel is doing now – attacking an entire population, because a group of terrorists, who are not representative of the people, are doing as they wish on the southern border. Would we be as forgiving of America then, as we are of Israel now.
This is a very strange “war”. It doesnt appear to be achiveing much regardless of the IDFs protestations to the contrary (Its funny how every side is winning, till one side is close to total annihilation). Civilians are dying and Hizbollah is continuing to wreak havoc.. Dont get me wrong – I want to see Hizbollah go just as much as the next Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson, but this strategy isnt working out.
There are many who think criticizing Israeli strategy is anti-Israeli. I dont think so. From what I m seeing, the Israelis arent really getting anywhere. Sure they ll set up their buffer zone, but those rockets will keep getting their range upgraded. This little “war” isnt helping them in the least.
Civilians are dying while you toast the Israelis and turn a blind eye to the manner in which they ve conducted this. A Canadian, by the way, is one of the many dead. Yet none of you will dare criticize Israeli tactics. Everything is collateral, because thats war. People die in wars. In this case, rather unneccassarily.
FREE,
“If its a civi in lebascam its one more terrorist we dont have to deal with later.”
Too bad you werent born Lebanese. Or your mother or father or brother or sister or son or daughter. I dont think you d be making such irresponsible statements if that were the case.
“So glad no civilians died in any suicide bombing in Israel?! Oh but they’re Israelis so they don’t count?”
Keep putting words in my mouth. That way you ll hear exactly what you want to. Just twist my words around.. You know I didnt say that. And you know damn well that I didnt implicitly mean that.
I strongly believe that the Israelis are going about this the wrong way. I dont think the Israelis are wrong in trying to dismantle the Hizbollah. But they re going about it all wrong, IMHO.
Of course nobody wants to see innocent people suffer but it would appear that you are only seeing innocents suffering on one side of the line and not the other. How many times did Hezbollah rejoice when they targeted civilians! Israel is doing it’s best to avoid civilian targets, can the same be said for Hezbollah?”
Its strategy is all wrong. Three weeks into the war, its achieved precious little. Israel can castrate each Hizbollah freak with red hot iron for all I care, but this approach is taking far tooo many civilian lives vis-a-vis militant lives. Hizbollah continues and civilains die. And you call me Anti-Israeli for daring to suggest that Israel could have done a better job.
middleton, your sentiment just doesn’t cut it, you may feel, or “strongly believe that the Israelis are going about this the wrong way” and “they re going about it all wrong, IMHO”, and “Its strategy is all wrong” and “its achieved precious little” and “it could have done a better job”. You’re obviously not so humble (“IMHO”) after all, you must think you’re some kind of expert on military matters and anti-terrorist activity. The Israelis have had that expertise forced upon them by decades of self-defense. They made a serious decision to clean up southern Lebanon, they had to, have you noticed how many rockets are being fired into Israel from there? Israel doesn’t want to be doing this, they’re losing fine young citizen soldiers in the process.
They have to do it, no-one else has done anything or will do anything, and all that is happening flows from this fundamental concept.
Lots of people are going to die including civilians ( I suppose there might be a few places left on the planet where war can be fought without the presence of lots of civilians – the interior of the Sahara, Antarctica… ), that is the nature of modern war in this modern world. Your sentimental blubbering about wrong, wrong, wrong doesn’t cut it, if you don’t have viable practical options to justify your objective opinion you’re babbling drivel. How else to, or who else can, end this totally unacceptable violent activity against Israelis? Any suggestions? I didn’t think so.
I never claimed to be a military expert. Their results speak for themselves. 700 odd civilians dead. At most a 100 Hizbollah dead. No matter how you interpret that, it suggests a very bad strategy. Yes I did notice how many rockets are being fired into Israel. The deathtoll is 54 Israelis- 18 civilians – those rockets arent doing much.
3 weeks into it and theres nothing to show for it. The ground offensive has only just started – GOd lone knows why Israel didnt begin with a ground offence in the first place. I think soldiers on the ground will be a lot more careful about civilian casualties than pilots sitting a mile up who dont have to stare dead children in the face. I hope the ground offensive is more succesfull because by the looks of it, the Hizbollah is as strong as its ever been.
Yes I do have suggestions. One of them was to go with the ground option a long time ago. The other was to be careful about targetting. They could have done a better job with their targetting and intelligence.
Hezbulah is not out to get Canada. We should remain neutral on this issue. I hope this decision by the tories brings down the government. They don’t deserve to rule us. Notice rule and not lead. They are not leaders. This is just the beginning of the Tory/USA alliance that will ruin Canada. These Alliance/Tories who are in Ottawa are running on empty. We were warned but didn’t listen. Harper quotes Bush’s office word for word. 77 percent of Canadians feel the Gov’t is too much up America’s behind.
Middleton: I think I rebutted you in an ineffective manner. Perhaps I should have turned your comment around and pointed it back to you, thusly:
“Its easy to talk with such detachment when you dont have family living there. There are many in Canada who do. I wonder if you, or, in fact, anyone else here, would be CONDEMNING ISRAEL and being all gung ho about it, or talking carelessly about collateral damage TO ISRAELI CITIZENS INFLICTED FOR YEARS BY HEZBOLLAH, if your family was stuck in the thick of it. War or not, if it was your family in there, the majority of you would have believed that the innocent should take precedent.
You sit here and defend and defend and ignore the fact that ISRAELI civilians are dying, but the simple fact is that if it was your mother, father, sister, or brother, at the recieving end of HEZBOLLAH munitions, you’d be dancing to a different tune. Thank your lucky stars that no one you know is in there, but everytime an ISRAELI civilian dies, think about his/her family. Its almost as if you ve forgotten that theres human beings out there who are suffering. I wonder what your thoughts would be if your family was stuck in there.”
See how nicely your words can be turned around? Do you understand now, Middleton?
Israel has been under attack from ALL sides of their country by muslims who want EVERY ONE OF THEM DEAD. What would YOU do if YOU and your family were there in Israel? Negotiate? Think of all the poor civilians who might get hurt if you fight back?
I doubt it…I suspect you’d run away and play the victim.
“those rockets arent doing much”
Maybe because of massive Israeli evacuations and lots of Israelis living most of the time in bomb shelters? In any case, if you were capable of a rational balanced perspective, you’d understand that those rockets are doing enough that they must be immediately stopped by any means.
“GOd lone knows why Israel didnt begin with a ground offence in the first place.”
How about to try and keep their death toll down? You obviously have no military knowledge, air power rules, by far, for about the last seventy-five years. Ideally, any military operation would be 100% from the air. Unfortunately, ground forces have to go in and mop up. Any commander who sends in ground forces without first using available air power to soften up the enemy is a murderer. Ground forces advancing against a dug-in enemy suffer grossly disproportionate casualties, every bunker, every piece of high ground, becomes a bloody little battlefield, a handful of fanatics in a well-defended position can extract a terrible cost from attackers. Air power is fundamental and vital. No sane or knowledgeable person would suggest not using air power to prepare the way for ground troops. A good country, particularly democracies, places a very high value on the lives of its citizen soldiers.
“They could have done a better job with their targetting and intelligence.”
What the HELL do you know about “targetting [sic]and intelligence”? I would suggest the Israelis are among the best in the world at these things. You don’t know what you’re talking about and you’re a “useful idiot” for Hizballah propaganda.
No further discussion with you, you don’t know what you’re talking about, you haven’t a clue.
LGF has some interesting stuff from an Egyptian blogger who has some interesting questions about the Islamic point of view:
“If we were the ones who had the superior military machine, would we have shown them any mercy, or any regard to their civillian casualties? Would we have hesitated to wipe them all out? Armed forces, civillians, whatever? Would any of us have felt bad about it at all? Or would we be filled with the feelings of Pride, honor and dignity that we keep talking about day and night?”
He asked nine of his muslim co-workers this: “if a Hezbollah rocket had attacked a building in Israel, killing 55 civillians, of which 30 were children” what would he think. Nine out of nine thought it would be justified and seven out of nine felt it would be cause for celebration.
So don’t hold Israelis to a ridiculously unreasonable higher standard. Their standards, morals, and ethics are much higher already. They’re doing what they absolutely have to do, as best they can, whatever stupid armchair generals, who support anti-American anti-semetic agendas, type on the internet.
Hassle,
I m not pro Hizbollah. I want to see them go as much as the next, I dont know, the next rabid Canadian right winger. But that doesnt exempt the Israeli actions from criticism. Your turning the tables on me in such a manner would only be warranted if I criticized one and not the other. Thats not the case. I never doubted Israels right to fight back. They could have gone about it a hell of a lot better.
Anon,
Air power is used to soften up fortifications and positions. 3 weeks to identify and destroy Hizbollah fortifications is a bit long and doesnt say much for intelligence. The fact that many civilians have died, and not that many Hizbollah suggests the Israelis air campaign really hasnt done much more than create rubble. And dead civilians.
And this all goes back to the same question – to what point can you keep sacrificing civilians on the other side to save your own soldiers. And keep in mind the fact that the Hizb is not representative of most of these civis. Soldiers sign up knowing death is an occupational hazard. Civilains dont sign up for about the same reason. This isnt war as you know it. This isnt about nations fighting. This is about Israel getting irritated with a group and engaging in collective punishment.
And here we go again. Criticizing IDF strategies is not equal to anti-Semitism. I never once said they shouldnt go after the Hizbollah. I do dare to criticize the IDF’s conduct in this one, and I do think the Israeli PM rushed into this.
I do find it amusing that Conservatives, especially Christian ones, level charges of anti-semitism against me. Its convenient to forget that this whole pro-Israel thing only started 60 years ago. Persecution of Jews by Christians began in earnest by 380 AD and the first Crusaders to claim Jerusalem thought it appropriate to burn the synagogue, with Jews in it. History is replete with Christian persecution of Jews. Somehow I cant take you seriously when you call me anti-semitic, if only because I know as well as you do that this benevolence towards them is based on the presence of a common enemy – Islam. If Islam hadnt existed, you d be out there doing the dirty deeds.
” No further discussion with you, you don’t know what you’re talking about, you haven’t a clue.”
Next time put that statement at the end, not the middle, of your comment. It might actually have an impact.
my God it is amazing the selectivity employed by supporters and defenders of hezbollah.
YEARS and YEARS of hostility and attack aimed at Israel by that bunch and all of a sudden the IDF decides the situation has reached the time for some tit-for-tat reaction and whoAAA bad bad bad jews.
jeezuz murphy.
arafart, iranians, terrorist groups aplenty all with the frequent expressed desire to commit a repeat of the holocaust. images of palestinian children decked out in terrorist duds chirping anti-jewish slogans, on and on and on.
very selective view of the world there all you lefties.
whine whine whine about civilian deaths caused by Israeli bombing; aimed at hezbollah that are clearly known to wear CIVILIAN clothes and ride around in pickup trucks well withing heavily populated areas to launch their missiles and then duck into CIVILIAN occupied buildings.
why dont the lebanese civilian vitims get some weapons and start killing these hezbollah that are bring this bombardment upon them?
The UN has previously ruled that Hez must be dismantled. Yet, despite the fact that years have past since, nothing has been done. Same thing happened with Iraq. What is the point of the UN? And what is Israel to do?
Israeli actions are forcing the UN to deliver on it’s promise. The blood is on the UN’s hands, once again.
Middleton, ok, David Brown, etc. like all the other brainless twats believes that Israel is wrong, yet offer no alternative than to ‘talk.’
1500 years of Islam have proven that talk and appeasement don’t work. Their objective is conquest, conversion, enslavement, or exterination – period. They will use whatever bloodthirsty tactics necessary to achieve their objectives including the slaughter of their own people for ‘good’ PR.
As Golda Meir put it, “We can forgive you for killing our sons, but we can never forgive you for making us kill yours.”
In this war, Israel is alone at the battlefront against militant Islam. They fight for their own survival to be sure. But by proxy whether willingly or not, fight for all non-Muslims.
Anybody who comments here, without doing a little homework into the reality of Islam deserves nothing but scorn. It is you people, whether willingly or not that are accomplices to every attrocity commited by Islam in their quest towards world Islamic fascism.
Wake up.
in case anybody missed it, from the above cited link:
Professor of Law at Harvard, Alan Dershowitz writes:
“The Hizbullah and Hamas provocations against Israel once again demonstrate how terrorists exploit human rights and the media in their attacks on democracies.
By hiding behind their own civilians the Islamic radicals issue a challenge to democracies: Either violate your own morality by coming after us and inevitably killing some innocent civilians, or maintain your morality and leave us with a free hand to target your innocent civilians.
This challenge presents democracies such as Israel with a lose-lose option, and the terrorists with a win-win option.
There is one variable that could change this dynamic and present democracies with a viable option that could make terrorism less attractive as a tactic: The international community, the anti-Israel segment of the media and the so called “human rights” organizations could stop falling for this terrorist gambit and acknowledge that they are being used to promote the terrorist agenda.”
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I think I will start calling them hizbullshit from now on.