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July 12, 2006
The End of Restraint
Seven IDF soldiers have been killed and two have been kidnapped on the Northern front.
Prime Minister Olmert has made one of the most self-defeating statements in the history of warfare: "Israel's response will be restrained but very, very, very painful," Olmert said.
Hizbullah and Hamas must be shaking in their boots.
William Tecumseh Sherman, Lord Kitchener, and Curtis LeMay all argued, quite correctly, that war is ultimately powered by civilians without whose support the machinery of killing cannot move ahead.
Israel has time and again offered the Arabs peace. Time and again the Arabs have responded with war and terror.
Thus war can only be ended when the civilian base that supports the terror--and make no mistake about it, the Arabs in Gaza, Judea and Samara support the terror with all their hearts--when they cannot or will not pledge their every breath to the terrorist infrastructures that have become this Arab society.
Ever since Israel pulled out of Gaza, the Arabs have rained a thousand rockets into Israel. There was no response to these acts of war.
From this silence, the terrorists learned that Israel was a big fat target ripe for attack.
Imagine if rockets came into California from Mexico. America would obliterate the city these rockets came from.
There is no disengagement without serious, painful deterrence.
Prime Minister Olmert has proven to be an ineffectual leader. He has responded with too little and far too late.
To quote Victor Davis Hanson: "Was it a more moral and effective strategy to burn the slave estates and ruin the property of the plantation class of Georgia, which had fueled secession, or to have Ulysses Grant kill thousands of largely young and non-slave-owning youth in northern Virginia in open battle? Far worse still, was Curtis LeMay a war criminal who burned down the cities of Japan, killing tens of thousands of civilians with his napalm-fed infernos? Or, in effect, did he shorten the war and punish those in Tokyo's household factories whose labor produced the planes, shells, and guns without which the Japanese imperial army could never have murdered thousands of innocent Koreans, Chinese, and Filipinos and killed so many American servicemen?"
Somewhere in Gaza, somewhere in Lebanon, somewhere in the Arab world, a dirty nuclear bomb is being assembeled.
It is bound for Israel.
The only way to stop it from reaching its destination is to make total war on the Arabs. To make them realize, once and for all, that their mad death cult has consequences.
The longer Israel puts off the inevitable, the higher the body count--on both sides.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at July 12, 2006 12:11 PM
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Hmm, napalm, that might work. Has it been outlawed? (As opposed to terrorism of course.)
Shabbat shalom ve-shalom al yisra'el !
Posted by: Ari Kinsberg at July 14, 2006 09:22 AM
Ari:
Napalm is a very effective weapon, and I do not believe the Jihadists have ever felt its bite. They should. They would then think twice about attacking Israel.
Shabbat Shalom.
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at July 14, 2006 09:44 AM