This morning, FOX and Friends went live to Israeli soldiers knocking down the door of some settlers. There wasn’t a violent confrontation inside, just lots of crying. They had stayed their 32 years as the Palestinians shelled them. They had lost a son to that violence. All that strength in the face of adversity, and now their government was evicting them.
The mother cried, “Is there anyone in the world who cares what is happening to us?” The Israeli settlers had been lambasted by about every country in the world, and now, their only supporters, their fellow Jews, had turned against them.
America seems to be Israelis only friend in this world, but they deserve a better one.
UPDATE: Ariel Sharon: “Attack me, I am responsible for this, attack me, accuse me, don’t attack the men and women in uniform.”
No, they’ve already got a better friend, and He’s not letting this go unpunished.
The problem is not that the settlers were evicted, as Gaza is difficult to defend. The problem is that Israel made such an incredible concession without anything in return from the Palestinians. It’s like Camp David all over again; terrorist groups see this as part of a larger withdrawal from the West Bank, and then a final battle within Israel itself.
I watched it as it was happening live and I felt a sense of historical irony that it was actions such as this in Germany in the late 1930’s (albeit without the violence) that led to the holocaust. I hope this isn’t a precursor to another holocaust at the hands of the “peaceful Paleswineians”.
Oh and FIRST!
This is an interesting backdrop to the recent anti-Israel rantings of Cindy Sheehan, which btw, is explicity approved by former Klan member, David Duke.
Man I feel bad for the Israeli people. They’ve been belittled and beaten about by just about every nation over the past 2000+ years. And when they finally got fed up and took back “their” historic nation, the modern era of global media/United Nations is there to make them into the bad guys!
Imagine what it would be like if the USA was waging the “Indian Wars” to take the lands of America under this kind of global media/United Nations environment. We’d be catching the same crap too. Hey, it wasn’t pretty, but the USA has done a hell of allot more for the world then build wig-whams!
I say the second thing we do after getting rid of the UN, is swing the US military from Iraq, through Syria, and “forcefully” move all of the damn Palestinians on to “Reservation Gaza”!
We did it before, and we can do it again…
The point of the pull out, other than simple protection from Pali attacks, is to end the Pali’s ability to blame Israel for everything that’s wrong with them. OK, you’ve got control of Gaza and the West Bank, let’s see how you manage… and they’ll make an internation spectical of themselves as the PLO fails to be able to govern, and it all eventually decends into civil war among the PLO, Islamic Jihad, Hamas, etc.
The next world war just got a shove.
There is going to be hell to pay for this. G-d is going to punish all the bastards who played a role in making this happen, including Sharon, Bush, Rice, and every other so-called “Conservative” who thought this was a good idea.
May their wretched souls rot into nothingness, and their entire bloodlines be erased from the earth.
Giving land to the “palestinians” (who aren’t even a real people, and have no roots anywhere except the surrounding muslim nations they crawled out of), is like giving a loaded gun to a retarded monkey. You can have all the hope and confidence you want, but you know that sooner or later, something horrendous is gonna happen.
I think the pull out is a good think. Most of the settlers are the radical type which only cause friction with the Palestinians. Also, they’re a drain on government resources and highly vunerable. There’s no military value to the settlements. There’s only military value in controlling Gaza. This should free up resources, and in conjunction with the wall, should make that area more secure. Now, the Palestinians in Gaza don’t have excuses. The Isrealis can go “I told you so” when they fail. Also, doing this unilaterally shows how irrelavant the Palestinian Authority (or other “leadership” groups are). All in all, I think it’s a win-win for Isreal.
Andrew,
The fact that Gaza has little military value is besides the point. The important fact is that Israel did this with absolutely no concessions from the Palestinians, who no doubt see this as the first step towards taking the West Bank, then the whole of “Palestine” (a nation and a people which don’t even exist). There’s already some indication that terrorists intend to move into Gaza, giving them a strategic foothold to attack Israel proper. Israel should have demanded something, anything, in return. Even Abbas is saying something to the order of, “Now Gaza, later jerusalem.” Haven’t we learned anything from the Camp David fiasco? This time, the Palestinians “accepted” the very generous proposal, but unlike the Camp David accords (which were rejected by the terrorist, Yasser Arafat), there was no agreement made on the Palestinian end. All in all, a disgracefull affair.
Alucard:
I recognize your point, and a few years ago I would have said the same thing. But now, I think what we have learned from the Palestinians is it doesn’t matter what they agree to, it isn’t going to happen on their side (even if the Isrealis do their part). It also hasn’t changed the attitude of the Palestinians (ie – polls indicate that 70-80% think Isreal should be wiped out). I think it’s time for Isreal to do what it thinks is best for itself, to consolidate their lines, and let the Palestinians in Gaza learn their situation isn’t Isreal’s fault – it’s their’s, their leader’s, and their friend’s faults. I think it’s time to make the Palestinians go begging to the Isrealis, not the other way around.
I certainly don’t think Isreal should give up land for no reason. But, sometimes you have to let go of something to use that hand for something else. I don’t think withdrawing from Gaza is a win for the Palestinians (although they will think so). I think it’s a win for the Isrealis, but I don’t think we’ll realize it until later and probably not in the way we’d think.
An end note – I don’t think the situation in the West Bank is the same as Gaza. I think Isreal should consolidate their lines there, but not necessarily on the “historic” west bank border. It should at least be at that border, if not farther into the West Bank. Then build the wall and control the frontier.