“Only in Israel can someone like Shimon Peres still show his face in public, much less be part of the governmemnt.”
Amen to that. Also how on Earth a Stalin looking, ignorant union thug named Amir Peretz can wind up with the Defense protfolio is beyond me. One of my Orhtodox co-workers a few moths ago referred to Ehud Olmert as a “snake.” I think he was right. If a hostile government across the James River was shelling Richmond, or across the Hudson River was shelling Manhattan, we would be demanding total war against that terror entity. I see no reason why the people of Sderot have to live in fear. I think that Israel has been trying to wage war on the cheap by an assassination here and another assassination there. Trying (admirably I might ad) to limit both Palestinain and Israeli casualties.

I’m sorry, but the negative PR factor alone is killing Israel.

This way isn’t working. The attacks haven’t stopped.

I think Ephraim has a point about threatenting the leadership. It always worked before.

The alternative to IDF action is dead Israeli kids rather than dead paleo kids.

Take your choice.

The reason this is still happening is not because Israel is responding too harshly, it is because it is not reponding harshly enough. The next time a Qassem is fired at Sderot, Israel should bomb all PA institutions flat, regardless of who is in them, specifically targeting the Hamas leadership. Forget all of these nickel-and-dime targeted “assassinations”. There’s a war on, and Israel is being derelict in its duty. Sderot is under daily bombardment. How come Israel has not invaded Gaza and killed thousands of terrorists? Instead, they are allowing Jews to be fired at with impunity. In any other country, the government would have fallen by now. Only in Israel can someone like Shimon Peres still show his face in public, much less be part of the governmemnt.

In any case, it is a chutzpah of chutzpahs for the paleos, who kill Jewish kids on purpose, to wail and beat their breasts when their own kids, whom they deliberately put in harm’s way on purpose, hiding behind them like the filthy cowards they are, get killed.

Sorry folks – it’s barely half a century since “the greatest generation” carpet-bombed Dresden and other German cities. The notion that wars can be conducted without any civilian casualties is just untenable.

We’ve become

1)Spoiled by the restraint of the IDF, and the accuracy of the targeted techniques it pioneered.

2) Boxed in by our own pro-Israel arguments based on that restraint. Perversely, those arguments have been used by the Double Standard Gang to limit what is considered acceptable Israeli military action – to the point of unreal demands for complete, bloodless purity.

The time has come to defend ALL Israeli actions, and express sympathy – but not a smidgen of guilt, weariness, or defensiveness – at the collateral damage that does ensue.

In any case, your justifiably uncomfortable reaction to the headlines is no justification for the IAF to stop what it is doing – because then OUR children will be killed by them. What’s more important, your guilt, or saving lives?

I worry when someone like Meryl, who clearly knows the situation well expresses sadness and criticism for an operation in which children were killed–not an intention to dismantle the IDF, mind, just sadness–and people immediately run in to disavow any ‘emotional qualms’.

I look at those names and ages, and I flinch too. I don’t necessarily say that I wouldn’t have ordered the strike, given the option. But I grieve for the children. War is hell. That truth should never be used to rationalize the deaths of children.