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2006-12-04 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

PM Overrules Security Brass: DonŽt Touch Gaza Rocket Cells

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-04 11:12|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Gawdamn this stinks.

"They were overruled, however, by Olmert and Livni, who asserted that there are other considerations. "

Smells like advice/pressure from Rice again, who was just there. This attitude that if you hold hands with these muzzie terrorists, everything will turn out fine is assinine. If they were shooting rockets at her place or The White House I would think their opinions might change. But, who knows, maybe they wouldn't. Maybe they'd just curl up in a fetal position and wait for the end.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-12-04 12:20|| 2006-12-04 12:20|| Front Page Top

#2 One of the few levers I could imagine being used to achieve this result is that the Palestinians are threatening to kill Shalit if the Israelis don't ease up. You'd think this was a hard lesson learned long ago by Israel. NO NEGOTIATING WITH TERRORISTS. What with all the advance phone calls, it appears as though they've gotten back into the habit of doing this.

Shalit must be considered to be already dead. Personally, I cannot even believe that this individual is still alive. Even if Shalit could help them build a nuclear weapon, out of pure hatred, the Palestinians would still kill him.

Olmert, by himself, has shown enough equivocation to have been responsible for this daunting reversal in Israeli prosecution of terrorist activities. With the security barrier in place, rockets represent one of the few solutions that defeat its function. To allow such a blatant breach of national defense to continue unabated is manifestly idiotic. Irrespective of the rockets' effectiveness, they represent a significant psychological boost for the terrorists. The Israelis know well enough to disallow such morale improvements. Concomitantly, the Israelis should also know well enough not to demoralize their own fighters with such half-hearted repsonses.

If, indeed, this is a result of external pressure from Rice or the White House, it bodes very ill for any hopes of an attack against Iran. The Israeli situation is a pimple compared to the tumor that is Iran.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-04 13:29|| 2006-12-04 13:29|| Front Page Top

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Posted by gromgoru 2006-12-04 17:32|| 2006-12-04 17:32|| Front Page Top

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