Israel, a tiny oasis of democracy in a vast desert of dictatorships, theocracies, and stone-aged monarchies, is finally fighting back. After braving treaty after broken treaty, pulling out of “occupied” areas, treating with terrorists as though they had honor, and enduring daily missile attacks from hostile territory, Israel is finally standing up and defending itself. And I say, good for Israel!
Can you imagine if a group of rogue Canadians in Grand Falls, New Brunswick were to fire 4,000 rockets at Caribou, Maine over the course of three years? You don’t have to imagine it, because that is exactly the situation in Sderot, an Israeli town into which Hamas fires an average of 100 rockets every month, deliberately targeting civilians.
Israel has shown an amazing amount of restraint over the years, and it’s actually good to see that the gloves are now off. And as can be counted on from a civilized country, Israel goes out of its way to ensure that their retaliatory targets are actually combatants.
What I don’t understand is why so many otherwise relatively rational people are so obtuse about this situation. We see time and time again, veiled — and not-so-veiled — comments, articles, and interviews which suggest, imply, or outright blame Israel for killing Palestinians, ignoring the fact that Israel is retailiating and defending itself.
Here is a perfect example of an aggressive and accusatory interviewer and a rational (and quite correct) interviewee, Benjamin Netanyahu.
So why is this so difficult for some to understand?
AussieDave is liveblogging the situation on the ground in Israel. He has a lot of interesting information, frequently updated. If you want the latest, check with him.
H/T: Michelle Malkin
Stoutcat
December 29, 2008 at 4:55 pm |
I agree that people should have the right to defend themselves from attacks. The problem i mhave is that as a non believer Israel beleives thta it has devine right to be their according to a piece of text that i believe is made up. I think that both side have been abused by religeon and noe innocent people on both sides have to die for that.
December 29, 2008 at 4:56 pm |
excue my spelling errors i’ve been working all day and i’m tired.
Meekon
December 30, 2008 at 12:40 am |
Meekon, forget about the Bible. Most Jews don’t even believe it in. Jews think they have the right to be there because they were there first, they were there longest, and because they built the goddamn place. It’s not that hard to understand. The Jews have more right to be there than anybody. The only claim Arabs have to it is that they invaded, conquered, and settled it. They will say that Palestine is occupied by Jew invaders when in fact, Palestine is occupied by Arab invaders, and has been for centuries. Obviously the descendants of the original Arabs who invaded the land can’t be held accountable for how their ancestors came to live there, and should obviously have the right to stay since they DO have a history there no matter how they arrived in the region. History screwed over both the Jews AND the Arabs by giving them both a history there, and this is why the original idea of having both an Arab and Jewish state was the most equitable idea and why it is such a terrible tragedy that it was not accepted.
December 30, 2008 at 4:50 am |
The so-called palestinians already have a country. It’s called Jordan.