tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post782727941117018548..comments2024-01-26T03:40:32.465-05:00Comments on Breath of the Beast: Welcome to SderotYaacov Ben Moshehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16711165551258127500noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-32796454145177403862008-06-25T16:24:00.000-05:002008-06-25T16:24:00.000-05:00why don't the Israelis fire back? Because whether ...why don't the Israelis fire back? Because whether they hit their target or not, their response will be cast as "disproportionate". So, instead, they send the IDF in to close smuggling tunnels or clear out the rocket launchers from their locations in the Gaza, West Bank and south Lebanon. And then they are accused of being invaders.<BR/><BR/>The Palestinian propaganda machine has been so effective, that even Muslim writers writing articles decrying the tendency to blame others still go ahead and blame Israel for the fighting between Fatah and Hamas. Or the world gets taken in by the stage shows of how bad the deprivation is, when, in fact, the deprivation is not as bad as shown, or directly caused by Hamas hijacking fuel deliveries intended for civilian use.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-69222095798421499692008-06-22T18:50:00.000-05:002008-06-22T18:50:00.000-05:00Oh, and I agree with commenter "A Nonny Mouse", wh...Oh, and I agree with commenter "A Nonny Mouse", who said, "President Bush and Condoleezza Rice should butt out of Israel's affairs, should stop pressuring Israel for appeasement and capitulation, and should instead offer to supply some of the new bunker-busters 'for research purposes only'..." While the President has done much to support Israel, Condi has been less than helpful. <BR/><BR/>It's my opinion, as an American, that it is our duty to support the free societies of the world, since there are so few of us.April Gavazahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381762755629233170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-50282483248562035112008-06-22T18:44:00.000-05:002008-06-22T18:44:00.000-05:00I kind of feel like the western world just does no...I kind of feel like the western world just does not get it when it comes to Israel. We hear the reports from Sderot and Tel Aviv and think "2 or 3 casualties? At least it wasn't bad." I think we feel that it is remote enough to not ever happen here--even though it already has! I mean, half of the voting population seems to accept the hard Left's argument that there is no terrorist threat whatsoever. Madness. We seem incapable of accepting the truth that the Islamists will not stop at the destruction of Israel--they are after all who believe in individual rights and freedom. <BR/><BR/>Great post.April Gavazahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381762755629233170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-71348138601150318602008-06-22T03:32:00.000-05:002008-06-22T03:32:00.000-05:00I thought that a principal function of government ...I thought that a principal function of government was to protect its citizens... Israel's government has a DUTY to protect its citizens from known hazards (this includes Hamas!), and to retaliate on their behalf if deterrence doesn't work.<BR/><BR/>PS- President Bush and Condoleezza Rice should butt out of Israel's affairs, should stop pressuring Israel for appeasement and capitulation, and should instead offer to supply some of the new bunker-busters "for research purposes only"...A_Nonny_Mousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13599733730516661522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-33550286378561446122008-06-21T23:39:00.000-05:002008-06-21T23:39:00.000-05:00General MacArthur said: "There is no substitute f...General MacArthur said: "There is no substitute for victory." Today it is crystal clear, there is no substitute for leadership. Guts. Courage. The wisdom to know what is the right thing to do and the determination and decisiveness to do it. <BR/><BR/>It is a sad fact that, since the early 90's, the only real determined effort Israel put into its security was for about 21 months (3/02 to 12/03)--and it paid fantastic dividends, effectively destroying the PLO. If insanity is redoubling the same techniques that brought failure, then what is abandoning techniques that brought success?<BR/><BR/>What really gets me in the kischkes about Sderot is that it is a 24/7/365 reproach and reversal of the most basic, elementary and dare I say sacred promise of Zionism: that the reborn Israel would be a place where Jewish life was not cheap. Where Jews could feel free that in going about their normal lives they would not suddenly be set upon by some lynch mob or Cossack or imam and have their lives snuffed out with impunity.<BR/><BR/>For centuries Arabs amused themselves by throwing sticks, stones, and other nasty objects at Jews on the streets when the spirit moved them. Today they have upgraded to small-scale rockets. The idea is the same, to impress upon the Jews that the Muslims--even just ordinary kid <BR/>Muslims-- can and will kill them with impunity.<BR/><BR/>Sorry, I just don't believe "a simple Jew" like Menachem Begin would be engaging in tit-for-tat strikes in the face of this long-term strategy by Hamas. He said in 1982: "There will be no more Katyushas in Kiryat Shemona" (this was when the Soviets were heavily invested in Syria and the PLO, so a strike into Lebanon truly had international repercussions). He had enough, and that was the end of the PLO until Rabin and Peres revived it in 1993.<BR/><BR/>I'm sorry, a city full of Jews that is shelled every day by giggling Arabs while Arab cities a few miles away are living normal lives, where Israel has total air and ground superiority...This is not a picture the early Zionists wd ever have recognized. It betrays a horrendous lack of solidarity and responsibility on the part of Olmert, his Manchurian Cabinet, and all their slimy enablers.Jewish Odysseushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16704379332151214452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-59231492014386129852008-06-20T23:44:00.000-05:002008-06-20T23:44:00.000-05:00Dear BOTB, Great piece, empirical and urgent, like...Dear BOTB, <BR/><BR/>Great piece, empirical and urgent, like right now. You are correct and we are so infected and more every day in Australia.<BR/><BR/>Our local rep for Islam apologia, blame shifting and denial is one Waleed Aly. A very slim customer. Some say God help us all, I say George S. Patton, Churchill or similiar within ourselves save ourselves. Again, many excellent and quotable lines. Bravo.<BR/><BR/>Colonel Neville.<BR/>http://colonelrobertneville.blogspot.com/2008/06/nothings-gonna-touch-you-in-these.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-55598922137430998712008-06-20T22:11:00.000-05:002008-06-20T22:11:00.000-05:00I'm not sure that people aren't aware of all this....I'm not sure that people aren't aware of all this. I think that they are just accustomed to the idea that killing Jews in Israel is not that big a crime, not particularly comparable with (say) killing Kosovars or Miskito Indians.<BR/><BR/>The leadership of Israel is hypnotized by the opinion of people -- in the USA and and elswhere -- who do not wish the Jews well.<BR/><BR/>Better that Israel take muscular action in its own defense than wait for approval from the likes of Condi Rice.<BR/><BR/>I, for one, support a "scorched earth" policy towards the Palestinians in Gaza, as well as in Judaea and Samaria.<BR/><BR/>But that's just me.Baron Bodisseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13518154807805363319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-16111235492158713372008-06-20T21:28:00.000-05:002008-06-20T21:28:00.000-05:00Yaacov – I don’t get it. These rockets are KILLIN...Yaacov –<BR/> <BR/>I don’t get it. These rockets are KILLING Israeli people. Why not make Hamas stop?? <BR/> <BR/>Line up 100 rockets on the Lebanese border and announce they will be fired the next time a rocket fires into Israel. Repeat as necessary. <BR/> <BR/>What is preventing this action?<BR/> <BR/>World opinion. Bush has sweated opinion polls, “Islam is the religion of peace” (smirk). What did it get him? He’s 28% in the polls and he got his party thrown out of the Congress. <BR/>World opinion II. Why worry about what the press thinks/says? Why give them the power to decide if Israelis live or die?<BR/> <BR/>I’m an American Catholic so I am reticent about criticizing Israeli’s so-called leadership. But this situation doesn’t need negotiations, world opinion, the UN or catchy articles by you, Yaacov. It just needs the immediate resolve to stop this KILLING nonsense now. <BR/> <BR/>JohnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-57293472434217918942008-06-20T12:21:00.000-05:002008-06-20T12:21:00.000-05:00I understand your frustration. I have been postin...I understand your frustration. I have been posting about the decade-long presence of Hizbollah in Latin America for years now. Yesterday I even posted on how the Venezuelan government has Hezbolla-connected employees.<BR/><BR/>No one seems to pay attention. Americans think it's just not going to happen here, while we all live in Sderot, indeed.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13154015283119375127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-8298348750728716482008-06-20T11:41:00.000-05:002008-06-20T11:41:00.000-05:00Why don't the people of Sderot shoot rockets at Ha...Why don't the people of Sderot shoot rockets at Hamas?Ariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11925730650755037497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-44696435736190886812008-06-20T11:39:00.000-05:002008-06-20T11:39:00.000-05:00Muslim mathematicians were not creative enough to ...Muslim mathematicians were not creative enough to develop the concept of zero. It came from the Indians and passed through the Middle East to Europe.<BR/><BR/>Almost all the supposed achievements of Islam should actually be credited to the Christian and Jewish dhimmis in the Islamic world. Once the dhimmis had been dissipated by oppression the Islamic majority turned inward against itself and became a cultural backwater.Ariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11925730650755037497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1625076107995960519.post-61038334388639650242008-06-20T10:48:00.000-05:002008-06-20T10:48:00.000-05:00I think the analysis is correct. Hamas would have ...I think the analysis is correct. Hamas would have no problem getting katyusha rockets, which would inflict much greater damage.They want to keep it low grade because Israel will not retaliate and when they do it will be the Israelis who look like the aggressor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com