Failure to Confront Islamic Hostility out of Gaza is to Beg for More!
November 1, 2007
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The only kind of diplomacy the Arabs understand is “constructive” and “comprehensive.” It must be of the construction site
variety when the foreman deals with a worthless, shifty, lazy worker, such that he picks up a 2 by 4 joint, hits the hard headed mule between the eyes with it, and then asks the worker if he “comprehended” why his head hurt.
The Israelis learned this technique of dealing with the followers of Allah more than 40 years ago.
Unfortunately, a majority of the international community of so-called civilized nations has not accepted this technique, and stays on Israel like a duck on a June bug to utilize the same type of “peace in our times” diplomacy that lead to WW II with Hitler.
Failure of the international community to apply this technique with Iran will lead to the final war of the Age of the Gentiles.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article 1
No Security, No Power – Editorial (Jerusalem Post)
On Thursday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak gave the go-ahead to gradually reduce the provision of Israeli power and other supplies to Gaza.
Yet the government stressed that none of this should be regarded as retaliatory, lest Israel be accused of collective punishment.
Hence official Israel portrays its threat to Gaza’s power supply as “a continuation of Israel’s disengagement” from Gaza.
Gazans frequently fire on the very Ashkelon power plant that provides their electricity. That electricity is used, among other purposes, to power rocket production. No other sovereign state would resign itself to a situation in which it is forced to power the production of hardware and munitions geared to destroy the very facilities in which said power is generated.
Moreover, are Palestinian rockets aimed at Israeli kindergartens not in the category of collective punishment? Do Sderot’s children not deserve protection from indiscriminate assault?
The sort of deterrence contemplated in Jerusalem is the least painful and most nonviolent imaginable.
It would not be necessary, moreover, were it not for the inaction, and in some cases even support, of Gaza’s inhabitants and leaders for the rocket assaults.
Israel withdrew from Gaza more than two years ago. It would have no involvement in Gaza were it not being constantly attacked from there without provocation. Its return fire, and its latest efforts to deter the rocket crews, are the direct consequence of those attacks as Israel strives to fulfill its paramount obligation to protect its citizens.
Those who turn a blind eye to Gaza’s transgressions cannot appoint themselves advocates for its citizenry. There is either serenity everywhere, or nowhere.
Begin DEBKAfile Article 2
DEBKAfile reports: Palestinians fire 12 Qassam missiles Thursday to launch new “Gaza Offensive” and further escalate violence against their Israeli neighbors
November 1, 2007, 11:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli air force went into action against the missile sites forthwith.
The Palestinian missiles were directed at Sderot, Shear Hanegev, Nir Am and Gavim, causing heavy damage but no casualties. DEBKAfile’s military sources report that all the Palestinian terrorist groups, including Fatah al Aqsa under Hamas command, are behind Thursday’s barrage and have vowed to follow up with “hundreds of missiles a day.” Their assaults were already redoubled this week against Netiv Ha’asara, the first Israeli border village to be subjected to concentrated mortar shelling.
Officers in the IDF Southern Command maintain that, whereas Israel should be liquidating Palestinian terrorist bases inside the Gaza Strip, it has let the Palestinians grab the initiative and carry their the war across the border to strike at what they call “Israeli settlements.”
Yet the Olmert government is still holding Israeli forces back from taking substantial action to root out Palestinian violence at source and break up their mushrooming war machine. Nothing but pinpoint operations are allowed and only brief IDF incursions no more than 1-1.5 km deep. Palestinian missile and mortar squads use this advantage to pull back as the Israel troops move in and go back to firing stations when they exit.
The word from Jerusalem is that Israel’s large-scale remedial operation in the Gaza Strip, promised by defense m
inister Ehud Barak, has to wait for the umpteenth time for yet another visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Saturday, Nov. 3, and the ending of the international peace conference at an unknown date. In the meantime, Israeli civilians in some 40 Western Negev towns and villages must endure the punishment.
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