Under the rocket rain from Hamas. Scroll down to the video clip where one turns a neighbor’s house in Sderot into a fireball.
Snoopy The Goon goes over the options and finds none of them good. Maybe it’s time to bring carpet bombing back into vogue? It worked for the Greatest Generation and they’re still getting good notices.
Yoni the Blogger thinks a new one is needed.
"We have gone from highs to lows over the last month as together we have watched Israel suffer.
"The people in the north of Israel have suffered deaths and injuries as well as losses of income and production in the billions of dollars, due to the rain of thousands of rockets that have fallen on their homes.
"All of Israel and those that love Israel around the world, have suffered through a month of the worse leadership in Israel’s history…The government’s on again and off again fighting of this war, has caused wide spread suffering in Israel and Lebanon without the destruction of Hizballah."
Others speak of Israel’s broken heart. (Requires free registration.)
"This is a nation whose heart has been broken: by our failure to uproot the jihadist threat, which will return for another and far more deadly round; by the economic devastation of the Galilee and of a neighboring land we didn’t want to attack; by the heroism of our soldiers and the hesitations of our politicians; by the young men buried and crippled in a war we prevented ourselves from winning; by foreign journalists who can’t tell the difference between good and evil; by European leaders who equate an army that tries to avoid civilian causalities with a terrorist group that revels in them; by a United Nations that questions Israel’s right to defend itself; and by growing voices on the left who question Israel’s right to exist at all."
Via An Unsealed Room
Human Rights Watch, which has already condemned Israel, interestingly now condemns Hez. About time.
“’Lobbing rockets blindly into civilian areas is without doubt a war crime,’ said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. ‘Nothing can justify this assault on the most fundamental standards for sparing civilians the hazards of war.’
"Hezbollah claims that some of its attacks are aimed at military bases inside Israel, which are legitimate targets. But most of the attacks appear to have been directed at civilian areas and have hit pedestrians, hospitals, schools, homes and businesses."
Good Update links on the war via the Hashmonean: "On Israel, and many Jewish bloggers covering the situation, at the Truth Laid Bear which is also highlighting the other side, and at Pajamas Media. Soccerdad consistently does HQ round ups as well."
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