TO ALL AM ISRAEL
The ranting and raving by Mr. Erdogan, Turkey's P.M., and others is nothing but a cynical exploitation of un-informed public opinion. The well orchestrated demonstrations in Europe and elsewhere, courtesy of the Arab League, as well, are all playing to the gullible crowd.
There isn't a country in the world that would allow its citizens to be bombarded day after day, hour after hour, the way our civilians were bombarded, for these many years now.
But the job is not finished. The IDF has proven Israel's deterrent capability, and yes they have done everything humanly possible to avoid civilian casualties. There is video footage available showing how many air sorties were abandoned to protect civilian life.
Hamas dastardly used their own civilians as human shields, as they continued to attack our civilian population, - all of which are war crimes and crimes against humanity!!!
In an orderly world, it is these Jihadist murderers, who would be pursued by law enforcement agencies and delivered to International Tribunals
Our civilian population is still being attacked by ever "improved" missiles. This war is not finished!
We must demand clear answers from our would-be leaders, how they plan to protect our people, from the Jidhadists, not only in Gaza, but in Judea and Samaria. We can not, must not and will not allow this violent population educated for Jihad against us - to ever gain a foothold in Judea and Samaria. We must never allow this Trojan Horse in our heartland.
As already explained (See letter to US President Mr. Obama January 30 2009 Haaretz both in English and in Hebrew), these people have no right to create a state within our state.
Foreign powers may have their own agenda to protect their national interest. Israel too, has its national interest to protect and defend our people and our national borders.
As the elections draw near, we must consider which party will have the courage, to stand up to foreign pressure. We already know that our outgoing Prime Minister, Mr. Olmert his Foreign Minister Ms. Livni and the Defense Minister Mr. Barak were ready to give up our land including Jerusalem up to the 1949 armistice lines, to a terrorist entity PLO- Fatah, whose phased Plan (Cairo, 1974), sees the "Two State Solution" as only a phased solution, which they believe will lead to G-d forbid a final solution!!!
We live in a different world, where the Arab League propaganda has managed over time to convert terrorist Jihadists into "liberation movements." and use the Arabs in our land as a fifth column, a Trojan Horse.
Demography is not our most urgent problem. Right now, the most urgent problem is to defeat the Jihadist. To prove that we are here to stay and that we are prepared to defend our ancestral land and our people come what may.
We must be strong united and of good courage and we will prevail.
Israel’s war with Hamas raises a question or two: Is a “just war” qualified by ruthless acts of aggression perpetrated by one nation against another that wishes to exist in a state of peace? Should the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, that may otherwise promote “excessive” collateral damage, be factored into that nation’s decision to properly defend itself? Such questions raises the proposition: Whether or not any war is morally justified given the potential scope of modern weaponry to extend beyond “battlefields” whose traditional boundaries have been redefined over the last 100 years or more.
Most reasonable people would correctly argue that aggression and violence should be properly met with resistance. The overriding question, however, is how much force is deemed sufficient and whether a nation’s (Israel) military objectives should center on containment rather than neutralizing its enemy’s military potential? If “popular” opinion is any indication, moderation appears to be the go to option. International elites have been especially prone to reflexively adopt passive positions as they relate to appeasing Islamic Fascists engaged in a “holy war” against Western Culture and its supporters: read Israel!
Appeals cautioning self-restraint, whatever its moral or political dimensions, are unrealistic in light of evil acts of aggression against a peaceful nation struggling for its immediate survival. Such applies to Israel who, since its inception, has been beleaguered by its Arab neighbors who have made it abundantly clear that nothing less than its complete dismemberment will satisfy them. The question of an acceptable or appropriate response is understood by Israel’s moral obligation to protect the lives of its citizens under constant siege by a hostile neighbor who places little, if any value on human life as evidenced by its own unconscionable practice of insinuating itself within its own civilian population and cynically employing women and children as human shields, thereby serving a dual purpose of running interference for them while obtaining sympathy from Israel’s detractors whenever unintended casualties occur. The latter hasn’t been lost on Islamic Fascist propagandists and their supporters in the international community with their own ideological axes to grind.
Where’s the outrage from those calling for proportionate response and civilian immunity that offer little, if any chance for military success and a lasting peace. The War on Terror, or any form of guerilla warfare for that matter, must necessarily alter traditional military conventions and rules of conduct where everyone and no one is the enemy; that is to say, where the guilty and (unfortunately) the innocent, are counted among the enemy. Perhaps Saint Augustine’s just-war position stated it best and I quote: “that Christians should share in the responsibility of resisting aggression and maintaining social order, but with the recognition that that all human life is sacred”. Substitute Christian with whomever you like. That rule still applies.
Who possesses the moral authority that determines whether a nation’s right to defend itself is manifestly unjust? Who sets the definitive limits of Freedom? I suppose it’s all a matter of perception. It would seem that some of us have conveniently adopted a line attributed to Saint Thomas Aquinas and again I quote: “it is lawful to repel force by force provided one does not exceed the limits of blameless defense”. Israel’s legitimate right to defend itself seems to be the real issue here inasmuch as that nation has been widely perceived by Islamic Fascist apologists as the aggressor contrary to overwhelming evidence that suggests otherwise.
Sincerely
Al Baldi
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Posted by: Al Baldi | February 02, 2009 at 08:56 AM