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Not For The Spineless
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Carridine
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Concur yr analysis!
Faster, cleaner, harder... as deadly and as quickly as possible!
Posted by: Carridine on November 29, 2004 09:57 PM
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James
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Very true
Posted by: James on November 29, 2004 11:18 PM
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Fulk
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The sooner the better, and coordinated with the US (but go it alone if you must) before either of us gets an Islamic nuclear reminder.
They have declared war, Let us put an end to it.
Posted by: Fulk on November 29, 2004 11:32 PM
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Joey
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hopefully many people will be outraged by the actions that must be taken, that outrage shows our moral character. we know what we have to do but we won't enjoy it. thats the difference between those that support israel and those that support palestine. everytime i hear of a death on either side of the conflict i get upset and angry, but i understand what must be done to ultimately save lives and shorten the conflict. the israelies and those that support them show remorse that it has come to this, while the palestinian supporters seem to be overcome with joy at each terrorist attack.
Posted by: Joey on November 29, 2004 11:34 PM
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José Joseph
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You haven't quite got it right. Israel isn't hated for the reasons listed. It's hated because it's full of Jews (and some Christians), who are hated by islamofascists (and atheists) because Judaism (and Christianity) are always seeking the truth. This _REALLY_ makes these loonies go off the deep end since the islamo belief system is built on a pack of lies. Everything they learn and believe in from the holiness of their loony founder all the way to the 6-dozen virgins in heaven is utter rubbish. Any good Jewish thinker will cut their ideas to shreds within minutes. Christian thinkers take a bit longer, but get there just the same. This totally enrages the loony islamos. They think that if they can vaporize Israel (and all the really irritating truth-seekers within), they can get back to their sick and perverted beliefs. The result looks just like "hatred of Israel", but it's more Biblical than that. The last reason says it: "Israel’s existence places Islam in question as well as Allah". It's the constant search for truth and light that does it. Under the light, Islam and Allah are toast. The Islamos know it, but they'll die before they admit it.
Posted by: José Joseph on November 30, 2004 04:40 AM
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Mike
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The time has come to take off the gloves, Israel. Divide the so called Pal areas in quadrants and raze them to the ground for each terrorist act...civilians are not safe!
Posted by: Mike on November 30, 2004 08:26 AM
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BobW
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I am a firm believer that Prof Paul Eidelberg of Jerusalem is the only international commentator presenting the true situation.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on November 30, 2004 10:01 AM
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Anthony
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Absolutelly correct.
The problem now in Israel's Leadership. They must regain the confidence in which
"Never Again" was declared. Playing politics only prolongs the agony. They, islamists, will never be satisfied, no matter what deals will be made with them.
Israel must finish the destruction of islamic terror, the sooner - the better. Great many lives will be saved.
Posted by: Anthony on November 30, 2004 02:12 PM
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Paul la Demain
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History teaches that any people who conduct themselves as if their lives are less valuable than those who war against them are people asking to be slaughtered. History's corollary is that any people who aver that they ought to feel moral outrage at the actions that must be taken to defend themselves are people who are regarded by their enemies as moral weaklings who deserve to be defeated--and exterminated. Sharon and his cadre are besotted vain fools who think they can defy the lessons of history by "thinking different." Unfortunately, their social experimentation does not endanger their own skins and blind their own eyes--only the skins of their people, whom these weak, immoral leaders have deliberately placed in harm's way. Sharon's policy of groveling at the feet of all those who criticize Israel and then apologizing or standing mute in the face of those who slander and insult Jews or the State of Israel proves him to be a feckless politician, not a leader. He and his cadre are oblivious to the lessons of history or else no longer care what happens to Israel as a nation thus it comes as no surprise that their fecklessness incites further bullying by the Arabs and their new best friends, the Euroids and the Islamic-dominated UN.
Posted by: Paul la Demain on December 10, 2004 11:36 AM
Not For The Spineless
By Prof. Paul Eidelberg
Israel is at war, a war for its very survival. One would hardly know this judging from Israel’s Neronian Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon. Like Nero, Sharon fiddles while his country burns, but unlike Nero, Sharon doesn’t know he’s fiddling.
Moral cowardice permeates the Sharon government. No outrage by Likud ministers when Sharon reneged on his pledge to abide by his party’s referendum on unilateral disengagement—the policy he campaigned against in the January 2003 election.
And of course no public denunciation of Sharon’s electoral thievery and political skullduggery. But what can one expect from people that have been conditioned by Israeli governments to tolerate the murder and maiming even of Jewish women and children? What can one expect from ordinary citizens given the spineless character of Israeli prime ministers?
And what about the Israel’s general staff? Not a single general resigned from the Israel Defense Forces in protest against Sharon’s indefensible disengagement policy, or to the sacrificing of Jewish soldiers to avoid killing anything but innocent Arab civilians.
So I write for another day. Perhaps men will yet rise to take the helm of state. With them in mind I offer, or rather adapt, some guidelines which another author penned for America in its war against an enemy related to Israel’s.
I. Accept the fact that Israel is hated, not misunderstood.
A. Israel is hated because
1. Jews inhabit land which Muslims claim, rightly or wrongly, as theirs.
2. Israel is a sovereign and independent state, whereas Jews, according to Islam, are supposed to be dhimmies.
3. A Jewish majority in Israel rules an Arab minority, overturning Islam’s moral universe.
4. Israel has defeated Arab armies, thereby assaulting Arab pride—for which affront Arabs must wreak vengeance on the Jewish state.
5. Israel is an outpost of American cultural imperialism, of materialism and hedonism, which may infect and corrupt Islam.
6. Israel is a democracy, a threat to the power structure of Islamic autocracies.
7. Israel’s existence places Islam in question as well as Allah.
B. Hasbara—information programs—will not endear Jews to Arabs or Muslims.
1. Better to be feared than loved, for fear depends on you, whereas love depends on the other.
2. Truth has never been the currency of nations.
II. Israel’s security depends on its ability to kill its enemies.
A. Daintily applying military power—such as targeted killings and brief incursions into Arab-held territory—only prolongs the war.
1. Moderation or self-restraint in war arouses Arab contempt for Israel
2. Moderation in war undermines martial virtue and undermines the soldier’s confidence in the justice of Israel’s cause.
B. To secure its way of life, Israel will have to use military force in the way the U.S. used military force in France and on the Pacific Islands, and from skies over Dresden and Tokyo.
1. Progress in war must be measured by the pace of killing and, sorry to say, by body counts.
2. Among Israel’s enemies the dead will include as many or more civilians as combatants because most of Israel’s enemies wear no uniforms or provide havens for those who do.
3. This bloody-mindedness may not be admirable, but it will shorten the war and reduce casualties on both sides.
III. Cant will kill more and more Jews
A. Cease trying to make war civilized.
1. Enough of this deadly nonsense that “self-restraint is strength”!
2. Stop the moral clap trap about “purity of arms.”
B. Israel, to repeat, is in a war for survival.
1. Stop moralizing by saying “we do not want to stoop to the level of our enemies”—which is sheer cant, the language of moral cowardice and defeat.
2. War is hell, hell, hell. American ferocity in World War II did not damage the nation’s moral fiber.
3. Don’t worry about world opinion. Israel is condemned for killing one terrorist. Kill as many as possible in the shortest possible time, but do not stop until the enemy is completely disarmed and utterly incapable of waging war another day.
No doubt some readers will be outraged by these guidelines. Would that such rage would erupt among Jews whose fellow-citizens were reduced to human debris.
Posted by Tiburon at November 29, 2004 08:13 PM