Ugh... bad idea, I'd say. Note this is afp reporting here, I hope this is heavy spin & wishful thinking, putting emphasis on the village's idiot to float the EU "peace" plan.| I'm not sure the "Today's Idiot" submissions should be opened to statesmen; if we did no ordinary human could possibly compete. AoS. |
"For the moment there is no military solution to the Qassam (rocket) fire problem on Israel from the Gaza Strip and therefore the deployment of a multinational force needs to be considered," minister without portfolio Yitzhak Cohen, from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, told public radio.
"This model has worked in Lebanon... We went to war this summer in Lebanon and an average of 180 Katyusha rockets were fired against our territory every day. That stopped only thanks to (UN) Resolution 1701," he added.
I think there's a slight confusion, here...
"The Tsahal (Israeli army) is a strong army which should deal with strategic threats and not Qassam rocket fire. It would be better if Israel initiated this idea," Cohen added, referring to the international force.
Yeah, let in the Mighty Blue Helmets!
Pensioner Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan also said on the radio that Israel should try to reach a truce with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. "We don't want to dominate another people and we left the Gaza Strip... We need to make a ceasefire agreement and need to see if Abu Mazen (Abbas) is capable of implementing it," he said.
Shouldn't that be a prerequesite, instead? Why ask for something he can't implement? Diplomacy for the sake of diplomacy?
But former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, head of the opposition Likud party, called for another strike against Gaza to halt the missile attacks. "I recommend a massive military operation against the northern Gaza Strip to halt these rocket attacks, and another against the southern region to block contraband weapons coming in from Egypt," he told public radio.
"It is very difficult to live with this constant menace of rockets and we must do something," he added.