Comments on: Operation Summer Rains: News roundup http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/28/1525 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:56:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: david foster http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/28/1525/comment-page-1#comment-10670 david foster Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:32:43 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/28/1525#comment-10670 "a Kassam rocket landed a few hundred meters from where reporters were standing"...it was probably one of those rockets that is both "home-made" and "symbolic," so nothing for any reporters to worry about. “a Kassam rocket landed a few hundred meters from where reporters were standing”…it was probably one of those rockets that is both “home-made” and “symbolic,” so nothing for any reporters to worry about.

]]> By: Joel Rosenberg http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/28/1525/comment-page-1#comment-10665 Joel Rosenberg Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:41:57 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/06/28/1525#comment-10665 The main problem is that terrorism <strong>has </strong>worked for the Pallies. Israeli and American governments have negotiated and given both real concessions (establishing the PA, not killing Arafat, etc.) and at least perceived concessions (retreat from Lebanon and withdrawal from Gaza*) as a result of terrorism. Why should they give it up? It works. Answer: if there's been a real paradigm shift -- I want there to be one, but I don't believe it -- that will, eventually, persuade the Pallies that terrorism doesn't work, by punishing, rather than rewarding it. A good start would be for Olmert to green light every Hamas official at least on a target of opportunity basis, and for the IDF to take a bunch of them out. Threats won't persuade these people; killing enough of the terrorists will have an influence on the survivors. ____________ *My own take on Gaza is idiosyncratic: I think that it was a strategic albatross around Israel's neck, which nevertheless shouldn't have been handed over to the Pallies; the land was paid for in far too much blood. The main problem is that terrorism has worked for the Pallies. Israeli and American governments have negotiated and given both real concessions (establishing the PA, not killing Arafat, etc.) and at least perceived concessions (retreat from Lebanon and withdrawal from Gaza*) as a result of terrorism.

Why should they give it up? It works.

Answer: if there’s been a real paradigm shift — I want there to be one, but I don’t believe it — that will, eventually, persuade the Pallies that terrorism doesn’t work, by punishing, rather than rewarding it.

A good start would be for Olmert to green light every Hamas official at least on a target of opportunity basis, and for the IDF to take a bunch of them out.

Threats won’t persuade these people; killing enough of the terrorists will have an influence on the survivors.

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*My own take on Gaza is idiosyncratic: I think that it was a strategic albatross around Israel’s neck, which nevertheless shouldn’t have been handed over to the Pallies; the land was paid for in far too much blood.

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