Can Israel Win It’s War On Terror?
Posted By: 'Okie' | 11:24 am — 7/1/2006 | 
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Alexandra at All Things Beautiful discusses this today:
‘Israel warns: free soldier or PM dies’, blasts the headline this morning. It seems that President Putin is not the only one who takes terrorists killing his soldiers seriously, rejecting the ever popular ’stop or I’ll say stop again’ tactic of the E.U.
The target, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, responds with the shrill accusation that Israel is waging a “Total War”. Total war? Yeah right.
‘Total War’ describes a war unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded. It perfectly describes what Hamas and Fatah deceivingly call ‘resistance’ against Israel.
If despite General Elazar’s dictum [the Chief of Staff, Beirut 1973 said: "Israel won’t play by the rules of partial war; wars are not won with a strong defense.”], contemporary Israelis keep playing by the rules of partial war, and refuse to fight their enemies by the rules of the region in which they live, both the conflict and the innocent civilian casualties will continue until the end of time.
Hamas does not care if its irredentist terrorism kills or causes Israel to kill innocent civilians, but Israel waging ‘total war’ against the murdering thugs; I only wish they would. Of course the demand of the release of 1000 Arabs in return for the life of one Israeli soldier, puts their total disconnect with reality into vital perspective.
In truth, the opposite is happening. Israel is acting prudently, intelligently and with utmost restraint by picking up those who are responsible for Sunday’s raid. In doing so, Israel is sending a clear message to the masterminds, which in a nutshell has this to say: If you think that you can hide behind your own people acting as human shields to evade responsibility for every savage crime against our people, you are mistaken. Know this, every time you commit another heinous act of violence, we will find and apprehend the masterminds and put a bullet between their eyes.
Why is this the right response? Consider the alternatives.
She goes on to make a pretty convincing argument that this time Israel needs to go in, clean house, and eradicate the cancer that is Hamas, PLO, Islamic Jihad — anyone who’s objective is to kill every Jew on the planet, starting with the elimination of the population of Israel.
Wonder what the NYT and the LAT are gonna write if Israel decides to go ahead? Not much mystery there, huh? (db)
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