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By: Math of Democracy, lesson 2 « South Jerusalem

Math of Democracy, lesson 2 « South Jerusalem — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:56:57 +0000

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By: SAO

SAO — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:20:57 +0000

“What is a Palestinian to conclude from such a comment?”

I think the Palestinians concluded a long time ago that Israel would take more land during times of “peace.” The alternative doesn’t really bring about a more preferable situation for them does it, though? Slow death vs. slower death.

Not that I can be all that righteous about this, here in the States we’ve sold our livelihood to our extreme fringe as well (at bargain prices, I might add).

By: Yishai Kohen

Yishai Kohen — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:58:50 +0000

We will not stop building here in OUR land: Better get used to it.

As to what the Philistines should conclude from this, it’s obvious: No matter how much violence and terror they employ, they cannot stop the return of the nation of Israel to its land. Even through the Intifada our population increased- at a rate three times that of the country as a whole.

As to what an Israeli parent should think before his child takes a bus, thank G-d we DO know how to defeat terror:

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: ISRAEL PROVES THERE IS A MILITARY SOLUTION TO TERRORISM

…Anyone who visits Jerusalem today will not see the ghost town it was in 2002, when Israel was absorbing an average of one suicide bombing a week.

… How did things improve so dramatically, and so quickly, for Palestinians and Israelis alike? Begin by recalling Israel’s assassination, in late March, of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. At the time, the action was all but universally condemned as reckless and counterproductive. “By granting Yassin the martyrdom he craved, the Israelis have provided a motive for new suicide attacks,” went an editorial in the normally pro-Israel Daily Telegraph of London. “More young Palestinians will fall in love with death, and more Israeli civilians will die with them.”

Yet what followed for Israel were nearly six consecutive terror-free months. This wasn’t because the Palestinian terror groups lacked for motivation to carry out attacks. It was because they lacked for means. The leaders of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Yasser Arafat’s own al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades had to spend their time figuring out how to survive, not on planning fresh attacks. The Israeli army incarcerated terror suspects in record numbers–some 6,000 now sit in Israeli prisons–which in turn helped yield information for future arrests. Most importantly, the security fence has begun to make the Israeli heartland nearly impenetrable to Palestinian infiltrators. (August’s double suicide bombing in Beersheba happened precisely because there is still no security fence separating that town from the Palestinian city of Hebron, from where the bombers were dispatched.)

Taken together, these measures prove what a legion of diplomats, pundits and reporters have striven to deny: that there is a military solution to the conflict.

By: It’s A Cycle « Matt Zeitlin: Impetuous Young Whippersnapper

It’s A Cycle « Matt Zeitlin: Impetuous Young Whippersnapper — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:35:25 +0000

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