Debbie Schlussel: Don't Get Too Excited About the Phony Baloney, Temporary Israeli "War" vs. HAMAS
I've been getting a number of e-mails from readers cheering on the current Israeli strikes on HAMAS and Gaza in response to HAMAS' katusha rocket attacks on Israel.
And to those readers, I say, Don't Get Too Excited. You're buying into the latest campaign tactic of losing candidate for Prime Minister, Tzipi Livni--a complete doompa a/k/a Olmert in a skirt and makeup. Anyone who thinks this latest "salvo" against HAMAS is of any significance whatsoever, really doesn't know much about Israel and hasn't been paying attention to goings on there for the last couple of decades, especially the last several years.
There have been many of these occasion, temporary Israeli attacks on HAMAS or temporary blockades of funds or supplies to Gaza. And they are a waste of time because Israel doesn't mean business. Eventually, Israel backs down and stops and allows HAMAS to get "refueled" with supplies, money, etc. And yet the HAMAS attacks never end.
You must ask yourself why Israel suddenly chose to strike back now after years of HAMAS sending these rockets to kill the poor, working-class Israelis of Sderot--most of them descendants of Jews expelled from their homes and property in Arab Muslim countries. Why did it not matter that HAMAS sent rockets every day to kill Jews during the faux-truce and before then? Why does it suddenly matter now? What was different about now versus two months ago or two months from now?
Well, I'll tell you what's different: The only hawk running for Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu (we'll see how hawkish he ends up being once he's elected--since he wasn't nearly as hawkish in office as out of it), is whipping Livni in the polls, and the elections are just two months away. This is Livni's and Olmert's attempt--after several years of capitulation to Islamic terrorists, after practicing Judenrein in their own country and yanking Jews from their homes and businesses in Gaza and cities like Amona in the so-called West Bank--to try to look tough to Israelis with short attention spans. That's all it is.
This "war"--which is really no war at all, since there is no intent to win and no inclination to continue this with any sort of relentlessness to defeat HAMAS and its entire support network in Gaza (almost all of the Gaza population)--is show business meant for an Israeli electorate. It is no different than Bill Clinton bombing a baby formula factory the day Monica testified. It's a waste of munitions and a risk of Israeli soldiers' lives to win an election.
If Israel really meant business, it would have invaded and attacked Gaza long ago. Or rather, it would never have pulled out of there in the first place. It would have expelled the Gazans to Arab countries, the way the residents of Sderot's parents--who are once again under attack by Muslims--were kicked out by those countries. All of these things would have saved Israeli lives. But that's not what this is about.
If Israel consistently attacked HAMAS, it would be great. But that's not what the post-modern (and post-Israel) Israelis do. In a week or two, they'll be letting through "supplies" and making a new fake "truce"--either official or de facto--and releasing more Palestinian terrorists to show "good will." That's what they always do. It will make this--as it does all of their brief, temporary attacks on HAMAS--meaningless.
You do not kill cancer by occasionally going through chemo or radiation when you want to look good at a Bar Mitzvah, after the metastasis is already happening. You kill cancer through regular treatment of the attacking cells, not by self-amputating your arm and leaving the cancer cells to fester on the remaining stump. That is what this ephemeral "war" on Gaza/HAMAS is. Nothing more.
And nothing to cheer about. It may make you feel good that, for example, HAMAS has occasional, perfect aim, killing its own people, which it views as expendable collateral damage. But in the long run, they are winning.
The Muslims not only have the will to survive, but to attack relentlessly their Jewish (and Christian) enemies. Israelis only have the will to get re-elected and take a siesta on Dizengoff Street and the discos of Tel Aviv.
No "Mazel Tov" from me on this expensive, dangerous, temporary campaign commercial for the Israeli leftists and their ambitions for the Prime Minister's office.
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And don't forget that this is all about propping up the so-called "more moderate" terrorist leader--Holocaust-denier and Munich-massacre-paymaster, Mahmoud Abbas, who really doesn't enjoy the popular Palestinian support HAMAS has. This is Israel continuing to risk Israeli lives to prop up this scumbag, just 'cuz he's the favored scumbag, but no less scummy than HAMAS.
Yes, let's hear it for those "partners for peace." And remember that, regardless of this temporary "attack" on HAMAS, America will pressure Israel into establishing a Palestinian state--right now there are two de facto such states on either side of Israel. And HAMAS will eventually take over that state.
Ah, statehood for the "deprived" Palestinians who strongly support HAMAS and live in Gaza and Ramallah mansions (which in Ramallah, are subsidized and "bailed out" by your taxes).
Posted by Debbie on December 28, 2008 03:11 PM to Debbie Schlussel