So it comes to this: Rockets are falling on Sderot’s schoolchildren, and it is only a matter of time before they score a hit. The IDF is prepared to respond. Some high-level politicians call for cutting electricity, fuel, or water to Gaza until the rockets stop falling on Sderot. The IDF finds four kassam launchers in a Gaza operation earlier today. So what does the Cabinet do?
The security cabinet decided Wednesday not to expand the scope of the IDF’s operations in Gaza despite the ongoing bombardment of Sderot and the neighboring communities.
[…] The ministers did not put to a vote the proposal made by several MKs to cut off Gaza’s electricity or water as punitive measures against the firing of Qassams.
Oh, I forgot. Olmert told the IDF to research the problem.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered the army to present him with a comprehensive plan to combat the Qassam attacks on the Negev.
Israel is already defeated, because her politicians won’t call for the measures needed, and her people won’t call for the removal of the current administration. Until some kind of action is taken, Sderot’s children will not be safe.
Olmert and the Knesset are risking (courting?) vigilante action if they continue to ignore the attacks. That’ll play well in the international press.
Olmert and co. want vigilante action. That will let them go after an enemy they have international approval to go after, the specter of “Jewish extremism”, while diverting the public from the enemy threat
If a piano fell out of a window and ended Olmerdes worthless life I would not shed one tear.
Olmert is a small part of the problem. He is part of a system that will not respond to public needs.
These are people who pay more attention to international advice than to Jewish funerals.