Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Israel, not Hamas, Is Wearing the White Hat
Israel made a pinpiint targeted attack inside Gaza today, killing Ahmed Jabari, the military leader of Hamas, the Palestinian governing body in the Gaza Strip. Both Israeli and Hamas officials have now confirmed that Jabari is dead. Israel said that the strike marked the "beginning" of an operation that comes in retaliation for a recent wave of heavy rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Jabari, one of Israel's "most wanted" Hamas leaders, is the most senior Hamas official to be killed since Israeli forces invaded Gaza four years ago. Hamas has said that the death of Jabari will be avenged. This has caused an outpouring of world commentary this afternoon, calling for Israel to be more responsible and not to allow the situation to escalate. Israel has explained that it cannot continue to ignore the daily bombings coming into Israel from Gaza, which kill and injure Israelis regularly. The Palestinian Authority has asked for the hostilities to end, saying, "...what we need is peace." But the sad truth is twofold. First, Hamas has no intention of living in a friendly relationship with Israel and will continue its bombings as long as bombs are supplied to them...by whom? Iran? Russia? Second, the Palestinian Authority, in demanding that Israel recognize the pre-1967 Israel-Palestine borders before peace talks can begin, makes any meaningful movement toward peace impossible. Yet, dear readers, we may expect the same old anti-Israeli world rhetoric in the wake of Israel's retaliatory attack. The rhetoric will demand absolute tolerance from Israel. Tolerance of daily bombings. Of Iran fomenting aggression by Hamas against the Israeli people. Of a Palestinian Authority which prefers to petition the UN for observer status rather than talk to Israel, the one party that can give Palestine what she needs - peace, economic development, world recognition, territory for her refugee population. Why is the world so determined to make Israel the bad guy? How can the world think that Israel is the problem? The UN and the western powers are ever ready to stop racism and genocide almost everywhere in the world. Why are Israel and the Middle East the exception?
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You ask questions that have baffled the so called Middle East diplomacy experts for years upon years. The world we live in today is crying for tolerance, understanding,and diversity. yet NO ONE is interested in extending any rights to Israel.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the real question is that when the "other party" in conflict with one of the Middle Eastern countries is Israel, what do these Islamic/Muslin countries want? Do they want an avenue to obtain peace,prosperity, economic development for their citizens or not. The obvious answer is NOT.
The leaders of the Middle East only want Israel to be gone. Wiped from the face of the earth, forever. Why? Israel has nothing strategic that any of them need. No oil in any volume. No sea/military ports that they need.
They have nothing other than they are the hated Jews and their destruction. But we are to side with the Terrorists,Jihad murderous fanatics, the fundamentalists Muslin, the world's socialists, the old line communists - why, how do we as peace & freedom loving people, tolerant of all religious beliefs no matter what one calls his/her God. Find me ONE common thread between us and them except Israel.
To paraphrase something that someone near and dear to me said . . . . "If you want to know what life is like being shelled, attacked, threatened, and burying the dead almost daily. Ask the attacked , not the attackers"
Israel is wearing the white hat and always have. They practice peace through constant preparedness for war. A lesson the US could adhere to.
ReplyDeleteThe signs on the "ground" are reckoning of the pre Six Day War. This is serious an needs to be taken so by ALL. If the US is not going to back up Israel with tangabile aid, then the least we can do is to make sure that the world understands we stand ready to be involved if ANYONE ELSE gets involved in any manner - and I underline the words ANY MANNER.
The building conflict in the Gaza could well become one of the greatest battles with history turning implications. Take into account the seriousness:
ReplyDeleteVienna in 1529 during the Austria-Otterman wars
Waterloo in 1815 during the Napoleonic Wars
Antietam during the American Civil War in 1862
Stalingrad in 1943-43 in WWII
Hastings in 1066 during the Norman conquest of England
Yorktown during the American Revolution in 1781
All great tide turning of end result defining battles that altered the history of the world.
A full out conflict NOW with Israel and the their neighbors and the neighbors friends could easily fit into this list. The footprint of the Middle east could be so radically changed that the map of history will also be altered.
Netanyahu..."Go for It"
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