By Ted Belman
After the barrage of 60 rockets yesterday Netanyahu ardered the IDF to “act in any necessary way in order to restore calm to the south.” The Israel army is not called Israel Defence Force for nothing.
Yaalon added;
“When there is no quiet in the south, we will not allow Gaza to have quiet either.”
That’s not good enough. I would like to see some punishment meted out. Such provocations should be punished. They should not be allowed to quickly give us temporary quiet so that they avoid serious punishment.
Having said that the IDF should recognize that the barrage was not intended to hurt but to show force. Most rockets landed in open fields. The barrage, we were told, was in retaliation for the capture of the arms shipment. If that is their best shot we can live with that.
Retaliation is not enough as this last barrage has proven.
Elimination is the only thing these brutal savages will understand.
Why should Israelis have to suffer the fear and trauma that these rockets must cause?
Eliminate completely the rockets and their origin by whatever means is easiest and quickest.
Give those long suffering Israelis permanent and long needed peace.
I say we simply hand them over the on/off switch to the water and electricity supply to Gaza. The switch comes with a simple instructions booklet which reads:
ALWAYS ON: ROCKET LAUNCHES OR OTHER TERRORIST ACTIVITY WILL CAUSE SUPPLY INTERRUPTIONS FOR PROGRESSIVELY LONGER PERIODS: CAUTION ADVISED.
Problem caused by Hamas gets solved by Hamas. How elegant and simple.
I am glad that “we can live with it”… Who can live with “it”? Why should any normal human being have to live with rockets raining at will? ’cause we like Russian roulette?
It is terrible that we accepted as norm “to live with it”.
I wonder what else we can live with….
Ted,
The ugly truth is that unless Israel is ready to destroy Gaza – and I mean turn it into a smoking, radioactive crater under a mushroom cloud – this will never stop. And the same is true with Hezbollah.
“We can live with that”? Really, who are the ones ready to live with that?
Those shell shocked and traumatized near Gaza seem to disagree. I stopped providing services to the REPS in Ashkelon after rockets fell in their parking lot one day we were working there. A tool shed was destroyed.
People in Savyion, North Tel Aviv or the kibbutzim are seldom targeted for some strange reason that we intend to ferret out so they can “live with it”.
No sane people can play Russian roulette and “live with” rockets being fired at them almost daily.
The ghastly “disengagement” gang is still in power here and will never go in and destroy the enemy… It would be a recognition of the utter failure they are.