It’s always something
Bookworm on Jul 07 2006 at 4:58 pm | Filed under: Europe, Israel
My theory about wars is that one fights them to win. The EU’s theory, apparently, is that they should be fought for Israel to lose. How otherwise to explain its most recent criticism:
The European Union accused Israel on Friday of a disproportionate use of force against Palestinians in Gaza and of making a humanitarian crisis there worse.
It was the first time the 25-nation bloc had made such a sharp criticism of the Jewish state in the crisis triggered by the abduction of Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit from a border post by Palestinian Islamic militants on June 25.
“The EU condemns the loss of lives caused by disproportionate use of force by the Israeli Defense Forces and the humanitarian crisis it has aggravated,” Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, whose country holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said in a statement on a visit to St Petersburg.
It was released after 20 Palestinians were killed in the bloodiest day of fighting since 2004 on Thursday in military operations designed to stop rockets being fired into Israel.
Somehow I seem to be forgetting the many times the EU condemned Palestinian terrorists and Yassar Arafat and his successors for the “disproportionate force” they used on buses, in cafes and in marketplaces, when their human bombs detonated dozens of people at any one time.
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“disproportionate”. Hm.
Those who are for the Palestinian camp are using self-destructive arguments. I mean really, if they seriously believed the Palestinians were justified to use anything, including their children and lies, to fight the Israelis simply because the Israelis have a higher technology level, then they must realize that they are laying the justification for Israeli use of Area Denial weapons like nuclear weapons.
Why is the Palestinians justified in using all out force and methods, but the Israelis have to be “morally pure” and restrained by the laws of war? Seems a bit uneven to me.
In the real world, this never would have worked on the Ancient Romans.
Total War is the philosophy that people allow and fuel wars, destroy the will of the people to tolerate and make wars, and the war ends. Israel has the power to render the entire PLO territory into a no man zone of death and poisoned water, but they refuse to do so, and therefore they get the best of both worlds. They get the hate of the Palestinians, and the Palestinians get more reasons to wage endless wars.
The Left believes leaders engineer wars. While that is true for fascist organizations like the 3rd Reich, communism, and Islamic JIhad, it isn’t true for democracies. In democracies, the will of the people determine whether the nation goes to war or not. Many times the public has yearned and demanded war, and the leaders in America could not stop war. The reason why the Left believes leaders engineer wars is because the philosophy of the Left demands that wars be engineered.
In the case of Palestine and the Sunnis in Iraq, they don’t do anything about their leaders or they don’t have the power to do anything. So either break the supporters of Hamas and the enablers of insurgents in Iraq, or co-opt local resistance fighters to your cause. Preferably, do both.
Israel’s co-option program suffers from the same problems as the US’s program in Iraq. Terroists are allowed and are able to exterminate specific families and people, so obviously the civilians are going to go with the terroists rather than inform the US and be exterminated. The US is not trusted with protection the same as civilians didn’t trust the FBI with protection against the mob. Terroists are a lot more effective than the mob, and there is no witness protection program in existence in Iraq in any form.
A Palestinian that tries to work with Israelis, is executed. Israelis and Arabs that work with Palestine, are arrested and jailed, then released in return for Israeli hostages. Why does that sound not exactly a winning strategy.