What Right?: Israel & the U.S. bear blame for current state of affairs.

[QuietStorm]

August 18, 2003, 10:00 a.m.
What Right?
Israel and the U.S. bear blame for current state of affairs.

By Saul Singer

Israel, though being a very, very tiny, small country, is the only place in the world where the Jews have the right and the capability to defend themselves, by themselves. And that we'll have to preserve.
— Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, August 12, 2003

JERUSALEM — Sharon says this a lot. It is obviously something he feels deeply, something that animates his entire career as a warrior and a statesman. It is, arguably, the kernel of his Zionist vision.









But it is not true.

On paper, it is true that Israel has a "right and the capability" to defend itself. It is also true that in military terms Israel is a regional superpower. And even the State Department now says Israel has the "right to defend itself." Last Wednesday, separate suicide bombings took the lives of Erez Hershkovitz, 18, and Yehezkel Yekutieli, 43, and wounded 12 others. Hamas took responsibility for one attack, Fatah the other.

Yet Israel has made it clear that there will be no obvious military reaction to these bombings, only continued operations against terrorists in areas the Palestinians do not yet control.

Israel is militarily more active than meets the eye. The IDF has arrested 19 terrorists who were planning suicide bombings after the "ceasefire." In this same period, there have been about 200 attempted terror attacks and the number of attack warnings has stood at about 20 per day. Last week, the IDF arrested 18 people belonging to Palestinian Authority security organizations who manufactured Kassam rockets in Jericho, which have been openly tested under cover of the "ceasefire."......

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-singer081803.asp

[Resistance]

1. Singer is such a moron

What a waste of my time to have read this piece of trash

[QuietStorm]

2. Interesting

bit of inversion he has going there. I had to post it.

[vierundzwanzig]

3. What do you expect?

National review? It's like asking for truthful reporting on CNN.