Sent: Tue, Jul 8, 2014 10:31 pm
Subject: Disproportionate intent
Western liberals like to complain about the
"disproportionate force" that Israel uses in response to the Palestinians, both
in terms of police putting down Palestinian youth demonstrations (riots)
and IDF response to rocket fire from Gaza into Israel, often termed "asymmetric
warfare." But there is a far more fundamental "disproportion" that
liberals prefer to ignore, that is the fact that Palestinians and Arabs in
general intend to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews, while Israel
has no such agenda in relation to the Arabs. We merely want to stave them
off and survive.
I defy anyone to find anywhere in Israeli documents a
statement of a plan or intention to kill all Palestinians. But, it is in
plain view in the founding documents of the PLO (supposedly abrogated) and
Hamas, the deliberate intention to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews.
That's why they use any excuse to riot in full force with stones and petrol
bombs, and what do they shout "Death to Israel," "Kill all the Jews."
That's why Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza have fired 100 missiles,
rockets and mortars into Israel in the past day, no nation can accept such a
barrage. Yesterday there were Red Alert sirens in
Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Beersheva, Beth Shemesh and Jerusalem and 10 missiles
were intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system. This cannot be
allowed to continue and is unacceptable, even the US sympathizes.
Yet, the Israeli Cabinet's announced policy is a gradual
escalation of response, from ca. 10 sorties a day to last night there were 60
IAF sorties over Gaza. The US of course asks for restraint on
both sides (that's a laugh). The extent of the damage in Gaza has
not yet been assessed, but you can be sure it was greater than the damage
done in Israel. But, if they stopped the firing of missiles into
Israel the IAF attacks would stop immediately, and they know that. It may
be that right now, given the success of the ISIS Sunni terrorists in Syria and
Iraq, they want to remind the world that Hamas is also there and
active. They may also want to demonstrate that although they signed a
unity agreement with Fatah, they have not changed their basic extremist
policy. But, whatever the reason for the current atacks, it is
the disproportion of Palestinian intent that is clearly the cause of the
escalation of violence.
It is true that a Palestinian youth was murdered by 6
Israeli youths in revenge for the murder of three Israeli schoolboys. But,
this is so disproportionate, let's not forget the murder of Shelly Daddon, a
19-year old girl who was abducted by an Arab taxi driver and stabbed multiple
times and her body dumped. And the Israelis driving in the West Bank who
have been murdered by stones thrown at their cars or shot as they drove,
including the killing of babies. And the hundreds who were killed in
suicide bombing attacks before the Israeli Government built the security fence
and wall, that has saved countless lives from terrorist attacks. And now
ca. 120 missiles and rockets were launched from Gaza at Israel overnight from
Hadera in the north to Beersheva in the south. No, this is the true
disproportion, the Jews want peace, while the Arabs want
war.
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