Category Archives: The War

For & against a ground invasion

Posted on July 17, 2014 | 6 comments

In favor:

“…the lack of a ground invasion empowers our enemies, diminishes our sovereignty, and will, in the long run, cost Israel more money, terrorist attacks and blood.”

Opposed:

“A tank has no advantages in urban areas as it has limited maneuverability, cannot aim at upper floors and is a slow-moving, easily hit target…Soldiers…are sitting ducks for snipers. Hamas has laid mines, built tunnels underneath the houses, fortified sniper positions in strategically placed buildings.”

Gaza is a rat’s nest. IDF casualties could be high. But bombs are slow and, eventually, will have to be replaced by one of the campaign’s chief critics. Which may not be willing to cooperate.

Which move would you favor?

Via Arutz Sheva

UPDATE:  The die is cast, the ground invasion has begun. After Hamas broke the so-called truce.

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The Mideast game: rockets & retaliation

Posted on July 15, 2014 | 1 comment

Hamas apparently can’t do serious damage to Israel with the munitions it has, despite its rockets now ranging from the Upper Galilee in the north to Eilat in the south, and Israel refuses to do serious damage to Hamas with the advantages it undoubtedly has—including absolute control of Gaza’s electricity and water.

So the rockets-and-retaliation game goes on, with Hamas playing for publicity and Israel trying to manipulate it. Is this a real war? Or a public relations gambit?

The only people who must take the game seriously are the civilians who endure it and the soldiers waiting to see if political threats to once more risk their lives are real or mere propaganda.

One thing is for sure: there will eventually be a truce and eventually a new game. And nothing will be resolved. Outsiders can only shake their heads in wonder.

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When the Religion of Peace isn’t

Posted on July 13, 2014 | 3 comments

Adherents of the Religion of Peace periodically gather to throw rocks at Jews gathering beneath their mosque on the top of the Temple Mount to pray at the base of the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Why, you might wonder, would they be so aggressive?

Well, for one thing, the Jewish claim to the property is much older than the Muslim one (or, for that matter, than the existence of Islam itself) and, in addition to the longtime RoP tradition of blatant intolerance for other religions, they’re probably worried (particularly the history-challenged Palestinians) that they might lose their lease on the place.

Not that there’s much chance of it. Although a few Israeli Jews talk of conquering the mount and destroying the mosque, the Israeli government is determined to keep it open to all who claim it as holy, which includes both Muslims and Jews.

Indeed, it was Israeli Gen. Moshe Dayan, in 1967, who insisted on the sanctity of the mosque atop the Mount when Israeli paratroopers retook the old city from the Jordanians in the Six Day War. The Israelis did promptly clear the area around the Western Wall for religious Jews to use, as they had since antiquity except when the Muslims denied them. The Muslims no longer have that power, so now they throw rocks.

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The dishonest Gaza “civilians” and “restraint” memes

Posted on July 12, 2014 | 2 comments

The international wailing for the innocent civilians of Gaza who must endure the battle between Hamas and Israel is an absurdity. It was invented and is sustained by Israel’s Leftist and Arab enemies who know full well there’s no one over the age of adolescence in Gaza who is not a combatant.

They voted Hamas into power, they elected to stay under their thumb, and they do their work for them. They have never rebelled against them in any way nor moved en masse away from them. They are fellow combatants who willingly cache rockets and other munitions in their homes and mosques. They are human shields in name only.

Likewise the immediate calls for “restraint” whenever Israel fights back against the Hamas rockets and other terrorist attacks. While the attacks are underway, the world is silent, preoccupied. Let Israel respond and the demands for “restraint” and, within a few days, for “ceasefire” rise into the atmosphere like the stink on shit that they are.

The anti-Semitism of the post-Holocaust world is breath-taking.

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Rockets over Israel

Posted on July 11, 2014 | 4 comments

Weitzmann

I expect it’s readily understandable that a student or researcher playing tennis when this Hamas rocket hit so close at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovat might not sleep so well from now on.

But, for the divesting Presbyterians and Methodists in the house, try meditating on that big chunk of metal in the foreground and imagine it landing on your Palestinian-lovin’ head. Maybe that will help you appreciate the Israeli bombing campaign.

Much better in my view than risking IDF lives to clean out the rat’s nest.

This is a new experience for central Israel (Rehovat is about 33 miles from Gaza, roughly 3 minutes by rocket) thanks to the increased range of the munitions supplied Hamas by Iran, Lurch’s and Wormtongue’s pretend partner in nuclear peace.

UPDATE: As usual, Washington looks ridiculous as it lectures Israelis with the pretense that both sides are at fault. We know Obamalot has no honor. Have the feds no brains at all anymore?

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Those murdered Israeli teenagers

Posted on July 1, 2014 | Comments Off on Those murdered Israeli teenagers

Sad to hear of the murders of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers, but not terribly surprised. Nor of the Drudge headline: “Arabs stone ambulance carrying corpses.” It’s the so-called Religion of Peace at work and play.

As Brett Stephens, former editor of the Jerusalem Post, notes: “As for the Palestinians and their inveterate sympathizers in the West, perhaps they should note that a culture that too often openly celebrates martyrdom and murder is not fit for statehood, and that making excuses for that culture only makes it more unfit.”

Among the “inveterate sympathizers” who should know better, we could start with the Presbyterian Church and their new Israel divestment scheme. And the United Methodists who did it before them. At least we can be pleased that their numbers are steadily dwindling.

Via Simply Jews.

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Iraq: another wasted campaign

Posted on June 20, 2014 | 2 comments

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We sure know how to lose ’em, eh?

Via Dr. Boli.

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