I promised an appropriate discussion post concerning the flare-up of tensions in the Holy Land, but my darling bride (of 33 years, 5 months and 29 days) has other plans for my services this afternoon, so I will be unable to write much of an opening post on the subject for several hours. So, instead of doing that, consider this an open thread on the topic.
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Hamas throws rocket after rocket into Southern Israel. Israel strikes back and Hamas cries like a baby that big bad Israel is fighting back. Hamas, if you don’t like the game you started, QUIT. And you cowards Hamas, stop placing your gun emplacements on schools, playgrounds, churches and mosques.
I cannot think of another situation in history where one of the warring parties could win their fight by simply not fighting anymore, but that’s the situation the Palestinians have: all that they have to do is stop fighting, and they’ll have their independent Palestinian nation.
But, what they won’t have is an independent Palestinian nation which encompasses the entire region; they’ll have one side-by-side with Israel, and for too many of them, that is not victory, but defeat.
York, Islamic terrorists aren’t going to stop putting their rocket launch sites and their gun emplacements in protected places they know Israelis refuse to attack.
And, they know pressure will mount in the Israeli towns and villages under murderous rocket assault from Gaza and now Egypt, and soon from Syria and possibly Jordan as well, and eventually Israel will have no choice but to reverse their retaliation policies and both invade Gaza and launch counterattacks on the schools, playgrounds, and Mosques harboring Islamic fire-teams which will of course produce the photos and video tapes (both real and “enhanced”) of sympathetic children and elderly blood soaked victims of Zionist aggression that Islam’s allies in the Western CorruptMedia can use to condemn Israel and to demand the establishment of a Palestinian State with it’s capital in Jerusalem.
So, as usual, Israel will be put in a no-win situation and slowly squeezed till they’re subject to the next round of UN inspired condemnation. Better they fight back now while they still have a fighting chance rather than wait till their implacable and merciless enemies have atomic weapons to use against them.
From Bruce Kesler:
I have really wondered today if an errent Palistinian rocket aimed at Jerusalem would hit the dome of the rock. I mean (wink, wink) what are the chances?
York, don’t you understand? If such a thing did happen, it would be Israel’s fault!
If Hamas et. al. laid down their arms there would peace in the Middle East. If Israel laid down its arms, it would be obliterated.
Editor says:
November 18, 2012 at 08:42
York, don’t you understand? If such a thing did happen, it would be Israel’s fault!
In the hate Israel and all Jews world we live in, it’s always Israel’s fault. Yet in a very weird way, Saudi is bulldozing some sacred islamic shrines and the world hears crickets. In the near future I wouldn’t doubt that the muslims would blame Israel for that.
From Marc Ash:
So, shooting at people is perfectly OK, as long as there is no “realistic” threat you might actually hit one? Great logic!
OK, I have fulfilled my obligation, as specified by the author, for credit and a hyperlink. But if Mr Ash thinks that President Obama can “call off” Prime Minister Netanyahu, he’s got another think coming. Israel will do what her leaders believe to be in her own national interest, period. Mr Netanyahu has already called for early elections, and Haaretz has noted that the Prime Minister’s political opponents have little choice but to support the actions against Hamas:
More at the link, mostly about the political changes which address some of the weaknesses from 2006. But the article concluded:
Here’s the thing: The Dome will fall. In its place will be a new Mohammedan unholy place alongside a new “David’s Temple”. On the Temple Mount where the Mohammedans intentionally defiled that specific spot with their unholy mosque.
I have this information from a very, extraordinarily, reliable source, which has never been wrong about anything.
I certainly hope that Mr Hitchcock enjoys the current banner panorama, of Jerusalem as seen from the Mount of Olives. I’m at work now, and using an old, standard CRT monitor, so I don’t get much width, but on my big monitor at home, I can see the whole thing: the panorama is 1603 pixels wide.
I have this information from a very, extraordinarily, reliable source, which has never been wrong about anything.
Would this be the same source that told you about Romney winning at least 300 EVs, and about the mobile WMD labs you still claim the US captured?
Wingnuts can’t face reality.
A classic Gandhian strategy? What kind of Orweelian doublespeak is this? Gandhi practiced nonviolent resistance to authority, with the emphasis on “Nonviolent”. What does that have to do with terrorists firing rockets at civilians, terrorists who cowardly hide their munitions among schools and hospitals, so as to assure “Collateral damage” when Israel strikes back?