Still, human psychology isn’t as fixed as the laws of physics. As long as Israel doesn’t face an existensial threat, their forebearance is noble rather than foolish. The existensial threat, however, does seem to be fast approaching. How much of it is lies intentionally spread by the Pan-Arabs who still believe, despite repeated historical proof to the contrary, that Israel will collapse rather than lash out remains to be seen. I, however, will no more blame Israel for anything it does than I blame George W. Bush for taking seriously Saddam Hussein’s efforts to convince the world he had huge stockpiles of WMDs ready to use. You mess with the bull, you get the horns.

Now I know what it was like in the 1930’s for European Jews.

The Iraqi situation was declared unwinnable, and yet, we appear to be winning it.

There must be a way.

My anger is for both the savages, and their useful idiots in the so called “liberal” press.

“The family of Alaa Abu Dheim, a 25-year-old from east Jerusalem, said he had carried out the attack. They described him as intensely religious, but said he was not a member of a militant group and had planned to get married in the summer.

Abu Dheim had been transfixed in recent days by the news of bloodshed in Gaza, said his sister, Iman Abu Dheim,”

Break off the talks. Clean out the terrorists. Then talk.
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Thanks for standing with us here in Israel. But please stop acting like you can have your cake and eat it, too.

There is no practical way to differentiate between the “good Gazans held hostage by Hamas” and the “bad terrorist infrastructure”. There is no way to clear out the terrorists while retaining a Gazan populace that we can then “talk to”.

And not just because such infiltration is a key point in modern terror strategy.

Your own blog has documented Pali culture’s descent into depravity – which has successfully brainwashed the younger generation, and is even influencing Israeli Arabs who are living the good, free life – this attack was committed by an East Jerusalem with Israeli citizenship.

Israel and the US are feeling their way in this new type of asymmetrical warfare. So far, they have two options: limited military action that – as we have seen – is easily spun by the terrorists into a “victory” by the new rules of engagement. Or scorched earth excision/expulsion of the Arabs of Gaza.

Despite the wishful thinking in your saber-rattling comments – those are the only realistic options for Israeli action.

Are you willing to support the de-facto expulsion of the entire Gazan population (= a decimating Israeli incursion that precipitates panicked mass exit to Egypt)?

It’s theoretically allowed under the Geneva conventions.

If so – please stop talking as if there will be anyone left to “talk to” after Israel defends itself.

There is an affiliated high school.

My nephew isn’t a settler.

Thank God he was learning elsewhere in the Yeshiva when the terrorist struck.