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Israel’s military said Hezbollah guerrillas fired at least 10 Katyusha rockets into southern Lebanon early Tuesday.

And despite all the criticism Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has taken on signing the bogus U.N. peace deal, today’s actions by Hezbollah prove just what Olmert was likely trying to show the world… that no matter how much you give in to terrorists and no matter how much good faith you offer,for example, in authorizing a cease-fire… terrorists will always be terrorists incapable of acting civilized and unworthy of negotiation.

1. Olmert: politically shrewd?

   perhaps Olmert calculated that the Hezbos would do exactly what they’re doing now, which is ignoring the terms of the “agreement.” That way, once Israel resumes levelling the Hezbos, Olmert can claim “Hey, we tried to be nice and look where it got …

   Trackback by Crush Liberalism — 6:57 am
   

2. Yeah,

   And just like you and W, the Israeli’s seem not to have learned from the past…In 1982 Israel invaded Lebanon to depose the PLO…The PLO was moved and guess what? Where the PLO left, Hezbollah moved in…The invasion of Lebanon in 82 is what GREW Hezbollah…

   In 1948 hundreds of thousands of Arabs were forced to leave their homes, homes in their families for generations, to establish a Jewish State…So am I to understand if the US Government gave Texas back to Mexico that Texans would quietly pick up and move? Riiiiight…

   Instead of spinning rhetoric, how about we learn the root cause of this conflict and start from there instead of being one of only 4 Countries in the World that call Hezzbollah a Terrorist Organization?

   Or just be ignorant and believe that invading Iraq helped us capture OBL and fight terror (where were the 9/11 terrorists from? Saudi Arabia Where were the London Bombers from? Pakistan). You seen the pics of W kissing the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia?

   Ignore that since the invasion of Iraq the Muslim faith has gained political power in EVERY single Middle Eastern Country!! The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt…Hardline Islamic leader in Iran, AQ in Pakistan and Afghanistan and on and on…

   Comment by Mark DeVoe — 7:25 am
   

3. “Instead of spinning rhetoric, how about we learn the root cause of this conflict…”

   We know the root cause, Mark, LIBERALISM! It is a disease that prevents people from recognizing reality. Would you demand that someone determine the “root cause” of the man holding a gun in your face threatening to kill you and your family or would you prefer some mean SOB shoot his ass before he kills you?

   You concentrate on finding the “root cause” and in the meantime, let the Israelis and our military make plant food of as many terrorists as possible.

   Oh, BTW, I believe God gave Canaan to the Israelites long before Mohammad was a twinkling in allah’s eye.

   Comment by Old Soldier — 7:52 am
   

4. So, tell the Canaaites to take it up with God, it was His decision to give the land to the Israelites.

   Dan, so if guests of your neighbors kept lobbing grenades into your yard and managed to kill some of your family and visiting friends, and kidnapped your youngest son, you would seek negotiations first? Even knowing that the aggresive neighbors professed goal was to annihilate you and take over your house and land?

   Just how long would suggest allowing Mexico to lob rockets and missiles into the US before we reacted? Five or six years?

   Comment by Old Soldier — 8:40 am
   

5. MS forgot to publish this AGAIN,,,,
   Speech of Ehud Olmert, Prime Minister of the State of Israel, published in Maariv on Monday, July 31, 2006.

   Ladies and gentlemen, leaders of the world, I, the Prime Minister of Israel, I am speaking to you from Jerusalem in the face of the terrible pictures from Kfar Kana. Any human heart, wherever it is, must sicken and recoil at the sight of such pictures. There are no words of comfort that can mitigate the enormity of this tragedy.

   Still, I am looking you straight in the eye, and telling you that the State of Israel will continue its military campaign in Lebanon .
   The Israel Defense Forces will continue to attack targets from which missiles and Katyusha rockets are fired at hospitals, old age homes and kindergartens in Israel .

   I have instructed the security forces and the IDF to continue to hunt for the Katyusha stockpiles and launch sites from which these savages are bombarding the State of Israel . We will not hesitate, we will not apologize and we will not back off. If they continue to launch missiles into Israel from Kfar Kana, we will continue to bomb Kfar Kana.
   Today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Here, there and everywhere.
   The children of Kfar Kana could now be sleeping peacefully in their homes, unmolested, had the agents of the devil not taken over their land and turned the lives of our children into hell.
   Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time you understood: the Jewish state will no longer be trampled upon. We will no longer allow anyone to exploit population centers in order to bomb our citizens. No one will be able to hide anymore behind women and children in order to kill our women and children.

   This anarchy is over. You can condemn us, you can boycott us, you can stop visiting us and, if necessary, we will stop visiting you.
   Today I am serving as the voice of six million bombarded Israeli citizens who serve as the voice of six million murdered Jews who were melted down to dust and ashes by savages in Europe. In both cases, those responsible for these evil acts were, and are, barbarians devoid of all humanity, who set themselves one simple goal: to wipe the Jewish people off the face of the earth, as Adolph Hitler said, or to wipe the State of Israel off the map, as Mahmoud Ahmedinjad proclaims.
   And you - just as you did not take those words seriously then, you are ignoring them again now. And that, ladies and gentlemen, leaders of the world, will not happen again. Never again will we wait for bombs that never came to hit the gas chambers.

   Never again will we wait for salvation that never arrives. Now we have our own air force. The Jewish people are now capable of standing up to those who seek their destruction - those people will no longer be able to hide behind women and children. They will no longer be able to evade their responsibility. Every place from which a
   Katyusha is fired into the State of Israel will be a legitimate target for us to attack. This must be stated clearly and publicly, once and for all.
   You are welcome to judge us, to ostracize us, to boycott us and to vilify us. But to kill us? Absolutely not.
   Four months ago I was elected by hundreds of thousands of citizens to the office of Prime Minister of the government of Israel, on the basis of my plan for unilaterally withdrawing from 90 percent of the areas of Judea and Samaria, the birth place and cradle of the Jewish people; to end most of the occupation and to enable the Palestinian people to turn over a new leaf and to calm things down until conditions are ripe for attaining a permanent settlement between us. The Prime Minister who preceded me, Ariel Sharon, made a full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip back to the international
   border, and gave the Palestinians there a chance to build a new reality for themselves. The Prime Minister who preceded him, Ehud Barak , ended the lengthy Israeli presence in Lebanon and pulled the IDF back to the international border, leaving the land of the cedars to flourish, develop and establish its democracy and its economy.
   What did the State of Israel get in exchange for all of this? Did we win even one minute of quiet? Was our hand, outstretched in peace, met with a handshake of encouragement? Ehud Barak’s peace initiative at Camp David let loose on us a wave of suicide bombers who smashed and blew to pieces over 1,000 citizens, men, women and children. I don’t remember you being so enraged then. Maybe that happened because we did not allow TV close-ups of the dismembered body parts of the Israeli youngsters at the Dolphinarium? Or of the shattered lives of the people butchered while celebrating the Passover seder at the Park Hotel in Netanya? What can you do - that’s the way we are. We don’t wave body parts at the camera. We grieve quietly. We do not dance on the roofs at the sight of the bodies of our enemy’s children. That is the monstrous behavior of our enemies. We express genuine sorrow and regret. Now they have risen up against us. Tomorrow they will rise up against you. You are already familiar with the murderous taste of this terror. And you will taste more. And Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal from Gaza — what did it get us? A barrage of Kassem missiles fired at peaceful settlements and the kidnapping of soldiers. Then too, I don’t recall you reacting with such alarm. And for six years, the withdrawal from Lebanon has drawn the vituperation and crimes of a dangerous, extremist Iranian agent, who took over an entire country in the name of religious fanaticism, and is trying to take Israel hostage on his way to Jerusalem - and from there to Paris and London. An enormous terrorist infrastructure has been established by Iran on our border, threatening our citizens, growing stronger before our very eyes, awaiting the moment when the land of the Ayatollahs becomes a nuclear power in order to bring us to our knees. And make no mistake - we won’t go down alone. You, the leaders of the free and enlightened world, will go down along with us.

   So today, here and now, I am putting an end to this parade of hypocrisy. I don’t recall such a wave of reaction in the face of the 100 citizens killed every single day in Iraq . Sunnis kill Shiites who kill Sunnis, and all of them kill Americans - and the world remains silent. And I am hard pressed to recall a similar reaction when the Russians destroyed entire villages and burned down large cities in order to repress the revolt in
   Chechnya . And when NATO bombed Kosovo for almost three months and crushed the civilian population - then you also kept silent.

   What is it about us, the Jews, the minority, the persecuted, that arouses this cosmic sense of justice in you? What do we have that all the others don’t? In a loud clear voice, looking you straight in the eye, I stand before you openly and I will not apologize. I will not capitulate. I will not whine. This is a battle for our freedom. For our humanity. For the right to lead normal lives within our recognized, legitimate
   borders. It is also your battle. I pray and I believe that now you will understand that. Because if you don’t, you may regret it later, when it’s too late.

   Comment by Ken — 11:20 am
   

6. Dan, in this case, your cops are the UN. So, how secure do you feel in calling the cops? Better make sure that rifle is clean and you have plenty of ammo on hand.

   The difference between your youngest son and your neighbor’s youngest son is that your neighbor’s son was apprehended after killing some of your family. So were the rest of the “kids” you hold in your basement. They are all considered criminals who have perpetrated enemy actions against you. Do you feel comfortable letting them go?

   Moving is an option; unless you are a sovereign nation. Where is Israel to consider moving to?

   You’re right, there are more than Arab terrorists in Lebanon. However, if the government was serious about developing into a full fledged democracy, why didn’t they throw the trouble makers (Syrian and Iranian Hezbollah) out of their country? Or ask for international assistance in dealing with Hezbollah? I don’t believe a democracy, nascent or otherwise, ignores terrorist attacks against a neighbor launched from within its borders without trying to stop it. Lebanon condemned itself when it acknowledged Hezbollah as a political party and allowed them to have seats in the parliament.

   Comment by Old Soldier — 11:40 am
   

7. …instead of being one of only 4 Countries in the World that call Hezzbollah a Terrorist Organization?

   That’s because only about four countries in the world have a problem with Hezbollah killing Jews. As far as the rest of the world goes, a few dead Jews is a good start, right?

   You’re sick, dude…

   Comment by Jonathan — 12:20 pm
   

8. “Iraq is currently ignoring Kurd attacks into Turkey.

   Ye old double standard I guess. ”

   Oh, man, Dan, you really got Old Soldier. Put him right in his place on that one… well, except for the fact that you’re wrong:

   Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Wednesday he had personally intervened with the Turkish government to diffuse tensions over cross-border raids by Kurdish guerrilla movements in northern Iraq.

   Last month, Ankara threatened military action if cross-border attacks by militants from the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) did not cease.

   “I have personally intervened on the issue of the PKK and I called the Turkish envoy and assured him the Iraqi government is serious about stopping the use of Iraqi land by armed groups against neighboring countries,” said Talabani, himself a Kurd, in a press conference about security matters.

   “Iraq will do its utmost to stop the PKK from using Iraqi land against Turkey,” he said, adding that he had already closed some offices for pro-PKK groups.

   Talabani said that he expected a trilateral meeting with Turkey and the US on the issue soon.

   The announcement comes after Ankara dramatically moderated its tone on the issue, apparently in response to Talabani’s phone call.

   “Iraq has recently given us information about the measures it foresees to stop the activities of the PKK terrorist organization in Iraq,” foreign ministry spokesman Namik Tan told a press conference in Ankara on Wednesday.

   Comment by Texas Rainmaker — 1:39 pm
   

9. Relax, Dan. For some reason your posts were getting caught up in the spam filter.

   Comment by Texas Rainmaker — 3:18 pm
   

10. “Thanks for proving my point.

    Kurds have used Iraq as a base for attacks against Turkey.”

    Nice try, changing “your point” and all… but “your point” was:

    Iraq is currently ignoring Kurd attacks into Turkey.”

    You posted it in response to Old Soldier’s comment:

    However, if the government was serious about developing into a full fledged democracy, why didn’t they throw the trouble makers (Syrian and Iranian Hezbollah) out of their country? Or ask for international assistance in dealing with Hezbollah? I don’t believe a democracy, nascent or otherwise, ignores terrorist attacks against a neighbor launched from within its borders without trying to stop it. Lebanon condemned itself when it acknowledged Hezbollah as a political party and allowed them to have seats in the parliament.

    And “your point” was proven to be bogus.

    Comment by Texas Rainmaker — 3:22 pm
    

11. Making a disctinction between Hez and Lebanon is useless; their expressed political goals are the same, and you can’t count on the Lebs to stop the Hebs.

    Back in the 60s, on college campuses, the Dans and Mark DeVoes of the world would have sit-ins and sing real loud and smoke their dope, and when they got dragged in fron of the dean, they’s day, “Man, we’re peaceful, man. But the blacks, well… we can’t control them blacks, man.” So they’d be able to negotiate with the Dean exactly as if they were violent, without being violent.

    So it is with the indistinguishable Leftists and Muslims today- they all claim to be peaceful, without lifting a goddamned finger to stop those who commit violence to further the political ends they all share.

    Comment by A. Truman North — 1:29 am
    

12. Good thought.

    Comment by Dave — 3:19 pm
    

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