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2006-11-26 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by tipper 2006-11-26 06:57|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The PA is taking no action to stop the rocket launches, and rather than pressuring the terrorists to stop, the general public in Gaza has begun taking on the role of human shields to block Israeli counterterrorism efforts.

Forget about issuing small arms to the villagers. Take the battle to the enemy. Those who would shelter or shield the enemy are the enemy. After enough of those who would interfere with military prosecution of the terrorists end up dead, the interference will cease.

So long as Israel is willing to back down when confronted with the prospect of incurring collateral damage against those who joyously inflict collateral damage, their cause is lost.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-26 14:34|| 2006-11-26 14:34|| Front Page Top

#2 I think it was yesterday or the day before that I suggested the inhabitants of the Negev be given their own rockets to fire back toward Gaza when Gaza fires rockets toward them.

Naturally, I regard Rabbi Rosenne as a tactical genius.

Posted by Fred 2006-11-26 15:10|| 2006-11-26 15:10|| Front Page Top

#3 But what about the international uproar? It's not fair! They should just sit there and take it! Oh, the poor, poor Palestinians. People could get hurt. And a few more truckfulls of similar crap from people who are just as clueless as they are opinionated.

I've always thought it would be good to drop a 500# bomb at some random location in the Paleostinian area each time a suicide bomb went off or was even found, even if it was unexploded. And returning fire, rocket for rocket, makes a lot of sense. But I don't think civilians ought to do it. It should be something the IDF does, even if it won't make a bit of difference to the terrorists, it would be something more palateable to the ever-so-philosophical international community.

Posted by gorb 2006-11-26 15:29|| 2006-11-26 15:29|| Front Page Top

#4 And returning fire, rocket for rocket, makes a lot of sense. But I don't think civilians ought to do it. It should be something the IDF does, even if it won't make a bit of difference to the terrorists, it would be something more palateable to the ever-so-philosophical international community.

Fred, in this case I must respectfully disagree. As gorb notes, it would be unwise to allow the civilian population of Sderot and other edge-locations to return rocket fire. Such actions would only serve to cement the long held Palestinian insistence that ALL Israelis, including civilians, are fair targets. The Palestinians must denied any attempt at imposing moral equivalency. Especially so when their population votes for, shields and actively supports terrorist activities. Rest assured that your response was my first thought as well, but the Palestinians both need and royally deserve the bitter taste of crushing military defeats much more than any tit for tat ballistic exchanges.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-26 16:37|| 2006-11-26 16:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps the itinerant members of the International Solidarity Movement and other ~~Jew-hating~~ peaceniks would like to serve as "human shileds" in Sderot?

Why not follow in the ~~flattened~~ footsteps of that idiot from Seattle who was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer a few years back in Gaza?

Peace is peace, so the ISM shouldn;t have any qualms lining up to defend Jewish as well as Muslim lives, right? I thought so.

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-11-26 18:25|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com] 2006-11-26 18:25|| Front Page Top

#6 *shields* UGH!

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-11-26 18:25|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com] 2006-11-26 18:25|| Front Page Top

#7 I prefer the Lamekh version
For I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
If Qayin shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamekh seventy-sevenfold.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-11-26 18:59|| 2006-11-26 18:59|| Front Page Top

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