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March 11, 2008
Israel: 1938
Neville Chamberlain proclaims “Peace in our time,” after signing
an agreement with Adolph Hitler. Obviously, that didn't quite work out.
World War II ensued. Hitler could have been stopped right then
and there in 1938 and fifty million lives would have been spared.
Not to mention six million Jews. But gee, let's give appeasement
another whirl. What could possibly go wrong?
If the reports of a cease fire are true then Israel has been betrayed by her government. After the Mercaz Massacre the Arabs understood that a red line had been crossed and the Jewish people demanded a proper military response.
Thus the Arabs offered a hudna—not a cease-fire—to Olmert and Livni.
Being reflexive appeasers and cowards, Olmert and his gang took the bait.
Now, Hamas will build up her rocket capabilities to an even greater strength than ever before. Iran will ratchet up her training of Hamas terrorists, and the Egyptians—leaky vessels at best—will make a show of putting extra troops on the Gaza border, but in reality is only looking to appease the Muslim Brotherhood. Thus massive arm shipments and money will be smuggled into Gaza via Egypt. Mubarak and his cronies stay in power through one simple dictum: Let the crazies loose in Gaza not in Cairo.
Hence: More Jews will die.
Hence: More Israeli cities will fall under terrorist missile range as technical capabilities improve. They've already hit Ashkelon. Obviously, Tel-Aviv will be within range in the not too distant future. The Iranians are working furiously on the next generation of Grad missiles. It's not a complex engineering problem. Don't forget, the Persians are building a nuclear facility, so missiles with a range of 30 to 40 miles is just a matter of political and military button pushing. The technical knowledge is already there.
It's just a matter of when and where the missiles fall; how many Jews die and how many are mutilated.
We're certain that the elegant and reasonable liberals sipping latte in Tel-Aviv will urge restraint when the steel rain falls on Dizengoff. As they do when they sit back and sigh: “Golly gee, poor S'derot.”
Hellloo. Do you think the Gazans are going to build an infrastructure in their terrorist statelet during this so-called cease-fire? Two words: No. Way. They are going to do what they do best: planning the murder of more Jews.
And in the meantime you can bet that Olmert and Livni are giving away chunks of Jerusalem to Fatah. That'll help, right? The Arabs will be able to set up sniper hides in East Jerusalem and launch rockets from just a few blocks away. Talk about, er, painful concessions.
Oh, I forgot, they just want to live in peace.
Like they did after we made Gaza Judenrein.
But this time it'll be different, right?
No wonder liberals/progressives /leftists/global greenies—whatever the fashionable label du jour—is now indistinguishable from mental illness. A condition brought on by moral relativism—the rotten core of multiculturalism.
Ehud Olmert is not the Prime Minister of Israel, he's the Prime Minister of the Palestinian terrorist entity.
Let's review the lessons of the Mercaz Massacre:
1. It's okay to slaughter Jewish children.
2. The family of the butcher is treated with all due respect by Israel, even as the family honors Hamas, a proudly genocidal organization. Great state. Ripe for destruction.
3. The Israeli government immediately return to so-called peace negotiations even before her Jewish children are buried. Olmert & Co. don't give a crap about their own people. They're just running scared.
4. Fatah celebrate the terrorist murderer as a holy martyr. Conclusion: Israelis are delusional or just plain cowards.
5. There is no payback when Jewish children are slaughtered. Open season on Yids.
6. In fact, the Arabs are rewarded with a hudna, which only benefits the terrorists.
7. Israel promises not to get all mean and violent in Gaza in exchange for:
8. Empty promises not to launch missiles from a bunch of lying terrorists.
9. Gee, what a bargain.
10. Final lesson: Arabs can keep killing Jewish children, preferably Orthodox yeshiva students. The left wing press blames the children for their own deaths because their yeshiva is, y'know, the “backbone of the settler movement.” Serves them right, is the subtext of the oh-so-compassionate left.
Now it's official: Despite Olmert's denials, defense official confirms agreement between Hamas, Israel worked out via Egyptian mediation; Israel to refrain from massive Gaza attacks in exchange for end to rocket fire.
To read the complete story, click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Lance Fogel
Update: An Israeli 4th grader in Ashkelon is smarter—tactically, strategically and morally—than Olmert:
However, during a visit to an Ashkelon school, one of the students shared an idea for curbing the rocket fire.
"My dad said that we should have some sort of button, so every time a Qassam is fired, it will fire back at them," the fourth-grader told Olmert, putting a smile on the faces of the adults in the classroom.
"Well, I think we're going to have that patented," answered the PM, trying to convey a sense of self-assurance in the face of the children's obvious distress.
To read the complete story, please click here.
Hat Tip: Seraphic Friend, Gregg
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at March 11, 2008 07:17 PM
Comments
Seraphic Secret is private property, that's right, it's an extension of our home, and as such, Karen and I have instituted two Seraphic Rules and we ask commentors to act respectfully.
1. No profanity.2. No Israel bashing. We debate, we discuss, we are respectful. You know what Israel bashing is. The world is full of it. Seraphic Secret is one of the few places in the world that will not tolerate this form of anti-Semitism. That's it. Break either of these rules and you will be banned.
"It's okay to slaughter Jewish children"
often the media will refer to a palestinain under the age if 18 who is killed, wounded, arrested, etc. as a "child." of course this is not so when it comes to the reports on our kedoshim
Posted by: Lion of Zion at March 11, 2008 09:27 PM
Robert, it seems to me that most of us Jews, both in the diaspora and Israel, are determined to commit suicide slowly.
Why else would Israelis permit a series of governments to gradually give up what little strategic depth Israel gained in 1973? Why else would most of us in the diaspora continue to support politicians who are intent on weakening Israel?
There are Jews who understand that the only way to crush an enemy intent upon killing us is to kill him first, and to do so in a manner which destroys even the slightest flicker of revanchism. However, they are a minority. Most Jews are liberals who think that peace is a policy, not the reward for total victory.
I cringe when I hear Jews saying things such as, "We can't lower ourselves to the level of our enemies, as, then, we'd be no better than them." I guess they've never heard of Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It's better to be hated and strong, than to be admired and dead.
I'm rambling, and it's late at night, so I'd better quit.
Posted by: Hugh at March 11, 2008 10:23 PM
don't click here if unless you are prepared to be in a bad mood before bedtime:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/963202.html
Posted by: Lion of Zion at March 11, 2008 10:35 PM
Lion:
Keep in mind that 99.9% of journalists are liberal, hence profoundly biased against Israel, if not just outright Jew-haters.
Plus: mentally ill.
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at March 11, 2008 10:56 PM
Hugh:
You're not rambling at all. Making perfect sense. I'm onboard with the program. Problem is, the Olmert government and their leftist enablers are steering the ship right into the shallows.
What to do?
Coup, anyone?
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at March 11, 2008 10:59 PM
Lion:
Hey, at least Haaretz, the Village Voice of Israel, correctly identify this Jewish terrorist slattern as a "leftist activist."
They recognize their own.
Her sympathies and dopey rhetoric are a natural result of intellectually bankrupt leftist ideology.
I'm not surprised.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at March 11, 2008 11:04 PM
Robert:
Can you believe this one:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3517751,00.html
Olmert has finally made it official, Ashkelon is now considered by the govt. to be in the line of fire and its citizens will not be protected by the military!
Please I urge all American Jews to refrain from all donations to Shas or any of their affiliate charities.
This might be the only way to force them to leave the govt. and save our country.
Posted by: Gregg at March 12, 2008 06:13 AM
Gregg,
Shas and the other "religious" parties will never leave the Olmert government.
They only have one concern....and once concern only.....
Their communities.
As long as they get theirs....They will never leave.
Posted by: Lance at March 12, 2008 08:14 AM
As I think I've suggested here before, modern "progressivism"--like the mythical "universal solvent" that will dissolve any container in which it is kept--will destroy any society in which it attains a certain critical mass.
It is very disturbing to see this political philosophy gaining strength in Israel, a country in which the margin for error is relatively low. One reason might be that "progressivism" is transmitted primarily by higher education....In the U.S., the people who are passing resolutions against Israel and rabidly denouncing their own country are not generally found either at the Rotary Club or in the union hall. They are found either in academia or in those elements of society that are strongly influenced by academia.
Thus, the strong respect for education which is common among the Israeli people may prove to be the country's undoing.
Posted by: david foster at March 12, 2008 08:33 AM
David,
To add to your comment....
In Israel it is very hard to get a decent paying job without a college degree....in fact, alot of jobs demand a masters.
I met alot of olim who have bachelors degrees...but, have no chance of obtaining a job above paper pusher.
Contrast with America....where it really doesnt matter if you have a degree or not....you can create your own opportunity and live your dream.
These opportunities are not available in Israel due to its socialist background and opressive tax
structure.
Posted by: Lance at March 12, 2008 09:40 AM
"...There is no payback when Jewish children are slaughtered..."
well, at least here's something :
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3518374,00.html
but anything less than having Hamas and Fatah beg for to have their unconditional surrender accepted, is not enough
Posted by: exdemexlib at March 12, 2008 12:46 PM