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July 31, 2006
Casualties of War
Thirty million civilians died in World War Two.
No war has ever been fought without civilian casualties. Civilian casualties are to be regretted, but nations do not refuse to go to war because there will be civilian casualties. If this was so, only tyrannies would rule for by definition, they care nothing about the lives of the innocent.
Witness the Hizbullah and how they cynically hide behind the civilian population of Southern Lebanon, putting Israel in the no-win position no matter what she does.
Those who insist that Israel is targeting civialins have conveniently forgotten that Israel dropped millions of leaflets urging the population of Southern Lebanon to flee.
Israel does everything she can to avoid killing civilians. This should be clear to everyone unless your vision is blinkered by ignorance or pure hatred.
It becomes clear that no matter what course of action the IDF takes, it is never good enough for these pathological Jew haters.
It must take a great deal of hatred and loathing to side with JIhadists against a truth driven Democracy that has, time and again, extended the hand of peace to its genocidal enemies.
Israel must never accept a cease-fire for that is only a hudna, and a hudna, for those who do not know, is just an opportunity for the Jihadists to strengthen the Muslim army, resupply, and then attack when they are once again strong enough. No cease fire until Israel's war aims are achieved: the destruction of Hizbullah, and the return of her kidnapped soldiers, a deep buffer zone in Southern Lebanon.
And no "International Force" has ever been successfull in patrolling any state's borders. That is just silly. No German or Italian soldier is going to risk his life by going up against Hizbullah to keep the peace between Lebanon and Israel.
Sure, some Frenchman is going to give up his life for Le Juif.
As always, the UN diplomats are sadly delusional.
I have a feeling that the Israeli government are using what's called "paradoxical therapy" on the diplomats. Saying yes, because they know that it will never happen. This way, Israel can never be blamed for a truly dumb non-starter.
Only a smart ground offensive with regular and elite troops will get the job done, annihilate Hizbullah, in the next few weeks. Let's hope that the current Israeli government will sieze the day, and realize that they have the support of the people of Israel, and the support of President George Bush and the people of America.
Chazak V'ematz.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at July 31, 2006 05:15 PM
Comments
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An army can frighten people with a devastating weapon, until it uses it. Israel has used its weapons so often in Lebanon that the Lebanese don't care. They are suffering, but they are standing up to the displacement of a half million people and the loss of many hundreds of men, women and children. "The resistance isn't playing the role of victim," Azmi Bishara, a Palestinian Arab Member of the Israeli Knesset wrote in Al Ahram Weekly. "It didn't ask for international sympathy with the victims but for solidarity among freedom-seeking peoples." So, what other tricks can Israel perform that are not old-hat to the Lebanese? Bombardment? The Israelis have been bombing Lebanon since the late 1960s. Invasion? They played that card in 1978 and 1982 and left a thousand soldiers dead on the field before they withdrew in 2000. What's left in the arsenal? Occupation, again? The Lebanese realized sometime in 1983 that Israeli soldiers on Lebanese soil were not ferocious warriors so much as targets. Israel could give them more targets, like the eight or nine Israeli soldiers who died on Wednesday in the small Shiite border village of Bint Jbeil (a place that made shoes until Israel occupied and nearly emptied it in 1978).
Posted by: Rachel at August 1, 2006 06:27 AM
Rachel:
What? Look, just because new enemies keep rising up, it doesn't mean Israel can have the luxury of not doing some ugly fighting to stop them. This isn't like living in Detroit in 1968, when all everyone had to do was move to suburbs. We're dealing with suicidal murderers who will never rest until they finish us off. I'm guessing you're not a parent. Nothing works to keep my kid at the table or in her bed for very long, but it's not like I have the luxury of just ignoring her.
Posted by: Jake at August 1, 2006 08:53 AM
Rachel:
The Janjaweed Muslims in Darfur have murdered approximately 700,000 non-Muslims, and created a million refugees.
Where is your self-righteous outrage?
A thousand people die in the Congo/Zaire of hunger every single day.
Same question.
There has been a brutal civil war in Liberia that has taken the lives of untold numbers of people with child soldiers as the main murderers.
Same question.
The casualties in Lebanon, though tragic are tiny compared to what what goes on in Africa. I won't even start in on the Arab states and what they inflict on their own citizenry every day through their state brutalities.
No, the fact is that you are fixated on Israel because, well you know why. She is a Jewish state. And you are fixated on Jews.
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at August 1, 2006 11:20 AM