Comments on: Katyusha hits Ashdod?

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:49:11 +0000

I’ve been saying for some time that Gaza ought to be taken out before Hizbullah was ready for war in the North. Waiting has just let the initiative go to Iran and its sock puppets. Israel will now face a war on at least two fronts, and maybe more. If Egypt really is complicit in this Egypt may also join the war. Ditto The Wahhabist Entity and Syria, which certainly is complicit with Hizbullah.

Israel now faces war. Either she takes the initiative and routs Hamas in a quick campaign, or waits to be attacked, with no strategic depth and enemies on all sides. That situation sounds depressingly familiar, similar to that forty years ago before the Six-Day War.

There will be a bloodbath. If that is the way things have to be, and that is the case due to the implacable Muslim determination to kill the Jews, then Israel should make sure to minimize the effusion of Jewish blood, and maximize that of her enemies. “War means fighting and fighting means killing.” The Palestinians wanted war, it is now time to give them what they wanted. Israel must make them so sick of being killed that the Palestinian Arabs give up their aspirations to kill the Jews and destroy Israel, so that they choose to make peace. By the choice of the Muslims, there is now no other way.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:49:45 +0000

Jameels’ report must be in error, Meryl. There’s a truce. I only hope rash and ill-considered Israeli reactions don’t lead to another outbreak of the cycle of violence that besets this war-torn land.

By: Soccerdad

Soccerdad — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:57:08 +0000

You wrote: The removal of the wall on the Egyptian side was an operation long planned by Hamas and their Iranian masters. The influx of longer-range rockets and Iranian Revolutionary Guards to shoot them, and train Palestinians in their use, was part of the plan. That's correct to a point. However it started sooner, with the hajj maneuverings where Egypt allowed a Hamas affiliated group through Egypt and prevented a Fatah related group from going through Israel. (The first grad was launched shortly after the pilgrims returned from hajj.) Keep in mind that Egypt also was almost certainly complicit in the wall breach too. Go back to the reporting and you'll see how the hajj maneuvering was cast as a "political defeat" for Abbas. And how there were "Israeli claims" that personnel and weapons were taking advantage of the hajj (and wall breach.) There was a big story that the media missed. There was coordination between Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Hamas to upgrade Hamas's offensive capabilities. All the media was interested in were the political consequences, while the threats were dismissed as "Israeli claims." I really have to go back and trace the media coverage.