Comments on: What would you do if you were the Prime Minister of Israel?

By: Darrell

Darrell — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:07:29 +0000

JD, isn’t it hard to see with your eyes rolling around like that? And how did you get your arms out of their restraints to type?

By: john Ryan

john Ryan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:54:57 +0000

And what should American government do ? Well for a start maybe they should be listening more to what American Jews think should be done: and 87% of the American Jewish vote goes to the Democrats. American Jews are one of the bases of the modern Democratic Party.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/pages/results/states/US/H/00/epolls.0.html

By: JD Rhoades

JD Rhoades — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:26:16 +0000

Why don’t ya’ll just call it a “Final Solution to the Ay-rab Problem” and be done with it?

Man up and ‘fess up about your real agenda, namely genocide.

By: farleyt

farleyt — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:29:43 +0000

We who live in tolerant nations may have forgotten Baruch Goldstein but do you think muslims in the territories have?

In 1994 on Purim, Goldstein stormed a mosque and fired on praying Muslims in the West Bank city’s Tomb of the Patriarchs – a shrine sacred to both Muslims and Jews.

Twenty-nine people died in the attack, and the angry crowd lynched Goldstein in retaliation.

Israeli extremists continue to pay homage at his grave in the nearby Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, where a marble plaque reads: “To the holy Baruch Goldstein, who gave his life for the Jewish people, the Torah and the nation of Israel.”

About 10,000 people had visited the grave since the massacre, Mr Marzel said.

In 2000 the BBC reported: “Militant Jews have gathered at the grave of Baruch Goldstein to celebrate the sixth anniversary of his massacre of Muslim worshippers in Hebron.
The celebrants dressed up as the gunman, wearing army uniforms, doctor’s coats and fake beards.

Goldstein, an immigrant from New York City, had been a physician in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba.
Waving semi-automatic weapons in the air, the celebrants danced, sang and read prayers around his grave.

“We decided to make a big party on the day he was murdered by Arabs,” said Baruch Marzel, one of about 40 celebrants.

By: George Atkisson

George Atkisson — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:52:34 +0000

I would publish the directions for making the exact same rockets as the Palestinians, and make it very clear that the government would take no action againt any Israelis who built them and fired them into Gaza. When asked why Israel was doing nothing to stop the counter-barrage, he should just smile and say, “We’re just being good neighbors and returning their rockets.”

By: photoncourier.blogspot.com

photoncourier.blogspot.com — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:27:07 +0000

CraigC…not suggesting that Dresden was a peaceful art center…I really don’t think the Dresden operation was different in kind from the other area bombings of German cities. The theory of all these operations was that–given the poor accuracy of bombing from high altitudes–the most effective way of using the bomber weapon was to destroy worker housing, thus making it difficult to support the populations required for the factories and possibly even creating widespread panic and abandonment of the cities. Some were skeptical at the time, such as the scientist Henry Tizard, who had been a major force in the British deployment of radar, and in retrospect it seems the campaign wasn’t as effective as hoped, although it did consume large amounts of German manpower, AA guns, etc, it also consumed a lot of Allied resources.

But my point in the comment above was a more psychological one, dealing with an alternate history in which the war was won *without* an area bombing campaign. Would the population have really accepted defeat?

Just wondering, not suggesting that I know the answer.

By: ibfamous

ibfamous — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:31:12 +0000

by all means, retaliate, its worked so well in the past…

By: scaramouoche

scaramouoche — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:19:57 +0000

In her book Jews and Power, historian Ruth Wisse referred to the Jewish phenomenon of being so consumed by our higher morality–an obsession that makes us ill-equipped to defend ourselves from those who seek to destroy us–as “moral solipsism”. Moral solipsism feels awfully good–until, of course, they kill you.

By: CraigC

CraigC — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:37:03 +0000

Just for the record, I too wish that the Israelis would put an end to it. The question is, would it ever actually end, the problem being the apparently infinite supply of twisted islamic automatons who are willing to die for their Kafkaesque fantasies.

By: CraigC

CraigC — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:31:34 +0000

Roger, Dresden was a British operation, not an American one. Photoncourier, there certainly is room for argument about the necessity/efficacy of the Dresden bombings, but if you'd like to read a very even-handed treatment that brings to light a number of reasons for the bobmbings and debunks some of the more persistent myths, such as that Dresden was a peaceful art center that had nothing to do with the Nazis or the war, read Dresden: Tuesday February 13, 1945" by Frederick Taylor.