Comments on: The self-defense of Jews: Still not welcome http://www.yourish.com/2009/04/16/7183 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:04:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2009/04/16/7183/comment-page-1#comment-36459 Alex Bensky Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:14:12 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7183#comment-36459 Oh yes, Israel withdraws from the West Bank and I can just hear the ayatollahs saying, "Well, OK, we're satisfied. Call the guys and tell them to cancel the nuclear weapons program." I hope Emmanuel was misquoted. Oh yes, Israel withdraws from the West Bank and I can just hear the ayatollahs saying, “Well, OK, we’re satisfied. Call the guys and tell them to cancel the nuclear weapons program.”

I hope Emmanuel was misquoted.

]]> By: Alan Furman http://www.yourish.com/2009/04/16/7183/comment-page-1#comment-36456 Alan Furman Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:55:32 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7183#comment-36456 "Any treatment of the Iranian nuclear problem will be contingent upon progress in the negotiations and an Israeli withdrawal from West Bank territory." Thus spake Rahm Emanuel, <a href="http://israelpolicyforum.ngphost.com/blog/emanuel-says-obama-insists-implementing-two-state-solution-no-ifs-ands-or-buts" rel="nofollow">according to Yediot Aharonot</a>. “Any treatment of the Iranian nuclear problem will be contingent upon progress in the negotiations and an Israeli withdrawal from West Bank territory.” Thus spake Rahm Emanuel, according to Yediot Aharonot.

]]> By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2009/04/16/7183/comment-page-1#comment-36455 Alex Bensky Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:59:43 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7183#comment-36455 Oh, yes, Meryl, don't you see--what is needed to prevent apocalyptic mullahs from getting a nuclear device is reason, enticements, and moral suasion. Certainly that has worked so well with them for the last thirty years. I wish I'd been there to ask Gates precisely what he thinks Israel could do to make the Iranians hate them less and swear off Israel's destruction. Meanwhile, as to "never again." Yes, it does mean Jews will never again rely on other people to protect them--we have a couple of thousand years to consider how well that worked--but I also think it means, "Never again. But if again--not just us this time." Oh, yes, Meryl, don’t you see–what is needed to prevent apocalyptic mullahs from getting a nuclear device is reason, enticements, and moral suasion. Certainly that has worked so well with them for the last thirty years. I wish I’d been there to ask Gates precisely what he thinks Israel could do to make the Iranians hate them less and swear off Israel’s destruction.

Meanwhile, as to “never again.” Yes, it does mean Jews will never again rely on other people to protect them–we have a couple of thousand years to consider how well that worked–but I also think it means, “Never again. But if again–not just us this time.”

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