Hit Gaza Strip hard, now

[Alamuti Lotus]

Hit Gaza Strip hard, now
Self-declared leftist Yakir Elkariv says Israel must pound Gaza terrorists, without apologies

Even if you turn Israel upside down and shake it up, you won’t find a worse leftist than me. If it depended on me, in the framework of an agreement with the Palestinians they would get a state with east Jerusalem as its capital, and a few more gestures “on the house.” Peace is not a favor we’re doing someone, but rather, the most genuine guarantee for the continued existence of the Zionist enterprise, or what we refer to as “home.”

All of the above is true on normal days – when everyone makes an effort to behave like adults. Yet until this happens, we cannot allow the wellbeing and security of hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens – southern residents in this case – to hinge on the caprices of some member of some resistance committee that convenes at some cave or tunnel somewhere in Gaza.

If the abovementioned killer wakes up in the morning and decides to fire a missile or launch an attack on Israel, it’s our duty to ensure that he and his gang will not be seeing the sunset that day.

During the tent protest, top security officials raised a hue and cry when it appeared that a threat hovers above their holy budget. We paid more than NIS 55 billion (roughly $16 billion) in the last fiscal year in order to maintain this immense defense establishment, yet a bunch of Muslims with cheap Kalashnikovs and slightly more expensive Grad rockets are still dictating our national agenda and sending Beersheba and Ashdod residents into bomb shelters?

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4112001,00.html

[Alamuti Lotus]

1. just a sample of the calls for mass terror in Israeli papers at the moment

not representative of the OP's own opinions, of course.

[enlightenment]

2. I think this individual's 'leftist' cred

has left the building.

[Ozymanithrax]

3. Bombing should only be done, if you kow who did it and can hit them...

Just bombing Gaza because some fanatic religious freedom fighter fires a rocket is not going to work. He will simply set in his tunnels and laugh at you as you kill people who had no part in the attack. The relatives of those you killed will join him in his Jihad.

That guy is about as left as Perry, who used to be a Democrat, supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic presidential primaries and chaired the Gore campaign in Texas.

[LeftishBrit]

5. +1

[azurnoir]

4. the article acurrately reflects what I've been seeing the last few days

in Israeli on line publications, the general feeling seems to be bomb them wipe them out let the world condemn us we don't care

[Purveyor]

6. Like that is something new? eom

[azurnoir]

8. new other than my misspelling accurately which is not new? yes and no

the sentiment ebbs and flows it seems at high tide right now however along with calls for Barak's ouster

[Scurrilous]

7. Evidence undermines gov’t’s claim that terrorists were Gazans

The Minister of Defense and the Prime Minister claim the terrorist attack last week came from Gaza. They have yet to provide any proof – and the evidence looks dubious

<snip>

"An unknown group carried out a combined attack from Sinai into Israel, hitting a number of targets. Six Israeli civilians were murdered and two soldiers were killed; so were seven of the terrorists and a number of Egyptian security personnel. While the attacks were carried out, Minister of Defense Ehud Barak quickly told the public the people responsible were the Popular Resistance Committee of the Gaza Strip; within hours the IAF attacked a house in the Strip and killed several of its leaders. Later that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that the people responsible for the attacks were killed. This attack by the IAF is what spurred the recent round of escalation – and it’s worth noting the IAF has been raising the flames in the regions for about a month, with the Israeli media quietly ignoring it.

However, Israel has never supplied any proof that the attack has indeed originated in the Gaza Strip. The PRC have denied involvement in the attack. An Israeli propaganda apparatus, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, also claimed (Hebrew) the PRC was behind the attacks, but had to tautologically write “no terror organizations has publicly claimed responsibility for the attack and the Popular Resistance Committee has denied any involvement. However, the Israeli prime minister and other Israeli officials have pointed to the Popular Resistance Committee as the organization who carried out the attack. So, according to the ITIC, the fact that Netanyahu said something is proof enough, even if the other side completely denies it."

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