Which is Greater: Israelis' Suicidal Urges or Palestinians' Genocidal Ones?
At a time when the long-overdue death of PLO chieftain Yassir Arafat has generated yet another wave of brain-addling "peace" hopes so overpowering that even Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is succumbing to the urge to appease his country's blood enemies, it is little short of divine intervention that at least one voice of sanity remains in the Holy Land.
In the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick tells it like it is, with the bark on, to wit: that Israel's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is militarily insane and morally bankrupt.
An example of the former is her citation of the former commander of the Israeli Defense Force's Southern Command, who says that the fence around Gaza has thwarted about 30% of the unsuccessful Gaza-based terrorist attacks on Israel, while IDF operations inside the Gaza Strip are responsible for stopping the other 70%.
Once Israel pulls out, there will be no more such operations. Which means, by definition, a 70% increase in terrorist attacks from Gaza into Israel proper. And don't forget that part of this "peace" drumbeat is the removal of that aforementioned fence, as well as the one in the West Bank.
That's the principle practical objection. The moral objection is staggeringly powerful:
"Israel is the first Western state to call for the forced removal of Jews from their homes, simply because they are Jews, since the Holocaust."
The passage goes on at some length from there, but this sentence, I think, conveys the underlying point just fine all by itself.
Remember when people used to say of the Holocaust, "Never again?" Apparently fewer and fewer people do.
Or ever did in the first place.
Even in Israel itself....
"Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners Monday as a gesture to Egypt and moderate new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but he called for a 'serious release' of thousands of security detainees."
George Santayana must be spinning in his grave.
[Hat tip: Powerline]
In the Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick tells it like it is, with the bark on, to wit: that Israel's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is militarily insane and morally bankrupt.
An example of the former is her citation of the former commander of the Israeli Defense Force's Southern Command, who says that the fence around Gaza has thwarted about 30% of the unsuccessful Gaza-based terrorist attacks on Israel, while IDF operations inside the Gaza Strip are responsible for stopping the other 70%.
Once Israel pulls out, there will be no more such operations. Which means, by definition, a 70% increase in terrorist attacks from Gaza into Israel proper. And don't forget that part of this "peace" drumbeat is the removal of that aforementioned fence, as well as the one in the West Bank.
That's the principle practical objection. The moral objection is staggeringly powerful:
"Israel is the first Western state to call for the forced removal of Jews from their homes, simply because they are Jews, since the Holocaust."
The passage goes on at some length from there, but this sentence, I think, conveys the underlying point just fine all by itself.
Remember when people used to say of the Holocaust, "Never again?" Apparently fewer and fewer people do.
Or ever did in the first place.
Even in Israel itself....
"Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners Monday as a gesture to Egypt and moderate new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but he called for a 'serious release' of thousands of security detainees."
George Santayana must be spinning in his grave.
[Hat tip: Powerline]
posted by JASmius at 6:12 PM
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