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Minister says Israel should raze Gaza villages

2006-09-26

JERUSALEM - Israeli Trade Minister Eli Yishai said on Tuesday that the Jewish state should raze Palestinian village in the Gaza Strip to stop militants there from firing rockets.

Fire up the KillDozers!

What is needed is to evacuate the villages from where the rockets are being fired, and raze them, Yishai, from the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, told public radio. And to do this village after village until they stop firing rockets against us, said Yishai, who also serves as deputy prime minister and is a member of Israels security cabinet. This situation cannot continue as is.

Sounds like he's been reading Rantburg

Earlier Tuesday, an Israeli woman soldier was wounded in the southern town of Sderot when a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip exploded, a military source said. An anonymous representative from the hardline Islamic Jihad faction claimed responsibility for the rocket fire in a call to AFP in Gaza City.

Gaza militants regularly fire rockets into Israel, with the majority of the makeshift devices causing property damage. Since the start of the second Palestinian uprising in September 2000, the rockets have killed eight people inside Israel, including five in Sderot, according to the army. Israel has been waging a three-month air and ground operation in the Gaza Strip in a bid to stem the rocket fire, during which more than 200 Palestinians have been killed.

Separately, in the northern West Bank town of Nablus, a Palestinian militant was wounded by Israeli gunfire Tuesday, hospital sources said. An army spokesman said soldiers had opened fire after a Palestinian tried to detonate explosives. Six wanted militants were arrested by troops overnight in the West Bank.

Posted by:Steve

#3 Hey, hey! No arguing. Annex the land and appropriate the oilfields! Any questions?

Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-26 22:46

#2 Ne. Lets go after the root cause---Persian Gulf oil fields.

Posted by: gromgoru 2006-09-26 14:20

#1 He's right but in the wrong way. Knocked down buildings are soon rebuilt, and the status quo continues.

That is why I advocate the Israelis start a program of "eminent domain" in response to attacks from Gaza. They *purchase*, involuntarily, and at a fair price, a parcel of land from its Paleo owner adjacent to the wall, not from deep in Gaza where the attacks originate. Then they build a new section of wall around the taken land and it ceases to be Palestinian--forever.

It does not become part of Israel, instead while everything on it is razed, it becomes "training area" for the Israeli army--no settlements allowed. Legally, it is no-man's land.

The first land taken will be empty farmland and desert. But by taking more and more land, in a methodical process every time they are attacked, it erodes the Gaza Strip. Over time, the Paleos will be forced to either stop attacking, live shoulder to shoulder, or leave entirely.

And Israel must never, EVER, give any taken land back. No matter what. It is non-negotiable, even for promises of peace. It is permanent.

Only by being permanent does it ever have any chance of success. Enough of the "carrot and stick" approach, it does not work. The Paleos are no more responsive to it than are career criminals responsive to offers of rehabilitation.

The Paleos do not care about their prosperity, or their lives. They do not want peace. They do not care if their children are brutalized. All they care about is land and hate. So they must be trained in the Pavlovian manner. As they hate and attack, they lose their precious land. If they stop attacking, then they can keep what they have.

The mistake has been in promising them more if they behave. The offer should be that they can keep what they have only if they behave. Otherwise, someday they will have nothing and live elsewhere. It is their choice.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-09-26 11:39

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