European countries want UN, not U.S., to advance Mideast peace talks
They want Israel to agree that the borders would be the ’67 lines with minor exchanges. ISRAEL SHOULD REJECT THIS OUT OF HAND.
Iron Dome missile defense system to be deployed next week. THIS IS IDIOCY. IT COSTS ISRAEL $200,000 TO RUN THIS SYSTEM FOR EVERY ROCKET LAUNCHED AGAINST US. HAMAS WILL SIMPLY LAUNCH 100 ROCKETS A DAY AT A COST TO ISRAEL OF $20 MILLION A DAY.
I wonder how much the economies make surrounding Gaza? I know Sderot, alone, isn’t able to make that kind of money, but if the region became more protected, wouldn’t it follow that more people would migrate there?
Not a very likely scenario I know, but just trying to see a way through!
But how much does it cost to have constant air-time for our fighter jets and all that surveillance?
Anyway, if Israel begins to mine for oil shale, $20 mill a day would be child’s play. We just have to be able to outlast the Obama administraion!
Crimes and war crimes are shown via intent, not success rate. So technically, the rocket attacks would still be acts of war/war crimes (targeting Israeli civilians).
It would be a lose-lose situation for Hamas if the Dome protected Israel, and IAF then took out Hamas. Of course, that’s if Israel wants to continue to let Hamas exist… which takes us back to the main obstacle: the Obama administration!
After Israel has been permitted to take a turn sitting on the Security Council,
and after Israel has been permitted a term on the Human Rights Council
— the same rights that the other 191 UN member states have
— THEN the UN may be in a position, morally, to “advance” such talks.
Come back after those terms have been served and we’ll talk about it.
Until then, the UN will have no legitimacy to do anything but kiss my keister on YouTube, Facebook and Macy’s Window at High Noon on Easter Sunday.
They should be sure to bring disinfectant with them
(after all, one never knows where some mouths have been).
Are the ‘Palestinians’ ALSO prepared to halt their own building in those areas as a condition to the talks?
From Israel’s point of view,
It does not take a fervid imagination to imagine the Obama administration allowing itself to be bound by a Security Council Resolution based on the duty to protect Palestinian “civilians” in Gaza or the West Bank from overwhelming Israeli military superiority. The dilution of American sovereignty in the Libyan intervention, and the substitution of a hostile UN for the US Congress as the arbiter of legitimate employment of American forces, constitutes a grave threat to Israel.
Besides using $200k interceptors against $100 rockets would bankrupt the Jewish state over time. Taking the best case scenario that Iron Dome fully protects Israeli towns, Hamas can increase its shelling. It would be a win-win situation for Hamas; the terrorist group scores a propaganda victory on the Arab street, and Israel refrains from retaliating because she is effectively unharmed. Thus, a good defense would provoke a spiral of offense. Same reasons why Star Wars failed