Why?

If the terrorists ever shoot Arty, rest assured I will act in his spirit and explain that shooting Arty is "resistance" and that the terrorists probably had reason to hate him.

Turns out it wasn't just Israel that didn't help Arty's tool, the unfortunate cancer patient. Arty also didn't help him. And now they hate him for it, obviously.

Well, occasionally the Arabs kidnap an Israeli and torture him to death.

Different cultures...

Terrorism has become the hated "T" word and after the Mimbai Terror attaks, many have lost whatever misguided sympathy they may have had for the Palestenian cause. Losing sympathy does not, however, mean that they do not have a cause. We have a fundamental disagreement on how to settle them.

First, what does Israel seek to achieve. I think Larry Kuperman has an important point when he says that the labor Party and Kadima are likely to bebnefir t from this attack on HAMAS. Is the air attck timed to garner votes in the election. I hope not.

Second, it is obvious that Israel cannot hope to destroy HAMAS and as I stated the objective seems to be degrade its offensive capability in a significant manner. And in this Israel will succeed.

Third, will the air attack follwed by ground attack help to bring peace. The answer is a resounding NO. The moderates stand to lose the most as they will be perceived as footmen for the Israelis.

Now the fact is Israel is showuing all signs of Imperial hubris in throwing caution to the wind and ingulging in indiscriminate violence. A few months back I would have said that is unacceptable but the War on Terror follows different rules as the terrorists do not respect the lives of women and children they target. So the humanitarian argument is  humbug.

Israel has had a very successful policy of targetted assasinations and I think it is time for Israel to follow through on this.

Why would anyone want a terrorist killed?

Don't worry, Artysim...this time Israel probably won't stop until it's done. I'll light candles for that!

Humanitarian crisis? LOL. This time that trick/whine ain't working.

30,000 Egyptians demonstrate against Hamas after Hamas kills an Egyptian border police man.

http://www.sandmonkey.org/2008/12/31/30-thousand-egyptians-turn-out-for-officers-funeral/

The man died in the defence of his country. May his murderers go to hell!

And in Iraq a suicide bomber hits a pro-Hamas Gaza protest:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081228/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq;_ylt=AnWmJS5UrtY_IAIl9lD_KUBvaA8F

Cannot figure out which group he represented.

And Fatah and the Palestinian Authority are calling on Fatah supporters in Gaza to storm Hamas installations and say that they are ready to send security forces and take over Gaza.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230111721802&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

I wish them the best of luck.

This deserves 5 stars, Leauki. Cowardly, whining posers. They challenged Israel to "Fight Like Men" well, I guess the "Men" need a time out...LOL!

Not unfortunate at all...especially when they store their weapons there. Then, they get it too.

Why bother? I'd rather let my fellow soldiers do that....

The more that are dealt with now, the fewer we have to worry about later. The ones still hanging out in Gaza/Rafiach, etc. are potential candidates for The Darwin Award anyway. You won't catch me shedding a single tear for the snakes that shell schools, etc. INDISCRIMINATELY in Israel and then depend on people like you to whine for them. LOL....who cares if you or they whine?

Well who put the targets in those areas? Your Hamas Heroes. Now they're eating it...great. May they choke.

Well, I guess the old Real Estate mantra is right after all... "Location, Location, Location"...lol.

Guess they were too stupid to move? Or too cowardly or hateful to tell Hamas not to put their Weapons of Self Destruction there.

Luftwaffe? Zer Vas no Luftwaffe! Zat vas der Lufthansa! The Jews bombed London!

Hamas struggles for the people. There can be no war crimes if you struggle for the people.

Only the Jews committ the war crimes.

On a more serious note....the whining has gone into high gear which means Hamas is getting it's ass seriously kicked (and hopefully killed).

I only hope Israel will ignore everyone and everything until it's done with them...or until they surrender.

Leauki....they're all singing Kumbaya and wringing their hands..."oh the poor wittiw Terrorists"...

LOL....they're dyin' by the numbers.

Btw...the Egyptians opened their borders to the wounded (you know..the "Humanitarian Disaster") Hamas answered that only if "The Freedom Fighters" were allowed through (i.e. run for their worthless, cowardly, murdering scum lives) would Hamas let the wounded  into Egypt for treatment!

The cruds are holding their own wounded hostage...I love it! And they're blaming the Israelis as war criminals.

May Hamas be ground into dust.

Regarding accusations of genocide against Israel:

Number of Palestinian Arabs in 1948 = 1,308,00.

Number of Palestinian Arabs in 2008 = 10,574,521.

Israeli attempted genocide of Palestinian Arabs over 60 years = EPIC FAIL!

There has been at least one great anti-Hamas protest in Egypt a few days ago. 30,000 people turned up over Hamas' murder of an Egyptian border police man.

An Op Ed piece from Ynet:

Arabs must decide



Farid Ghadry says Arabs must be ones to stop Hamas, which embodies everything wrong in Mideast today

Farid Ghadry Published: 12.31.08, 23:19 / Israel Opinion


During this Israeli campaign to silence the terror of Hamas, one can discern two voices coming out of the Middle East against or in support of the Gaza operations.


 

The boisterous voices are those of Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbullah leader, who a few days ago, verbally attacked Egypt's leadership for not standing by Gazans by opening the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt. The attack was unprecedented in scope and intensity because it just fell short of asking Egyptians to overthrow the rule of Mubarak. It did, however, heighten anger amongst the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt enough to incite them to rise against their own government.

 

Other noises come from Damascus and Iran, where the "resistance" has its center of gravity. Both Assad and Ahmadinejad know that a Hamas defeat is their defeat. Those two have incited the Arab street in a show of force and complicity with extremism. And while many believe the fate of Hamas parallels the fate of Hizbullah, reality is that short of a total defeat of Hamas, not to exclude regime change, Palestinians and Israelis will continue to suffer the consequences of an election that brought them more misery than they imagined on that fateful day: January 23, 2006.

 

On the other side, the majority of voices approving of the Israeli campaign are those who have remained quiet or convoluted in their objections. Many Arab leaders, intellectuals, businesspeople, and even commoners from Iraq to Lebanon, from Egypt to Morocco, from Bahrain to Yemen, believe that Hamas represents deformity of an Arab civilization, one that is in dire need of an overhaul by existing homegrown leadership in Palestine, Syria and Iran capable of that solemn responsibility.

 

Many ask why fellow Arabs would support the destruction of Hamas and Hizbullah. The answer is simple. Both organizations, in addition to the rule in Damascus and Iran, represent everything that is wrong in the Middle East today: Morally weak organizations or states seeking revenge, extolling resistance, and abetting violence against those who have surpassed us in knowledge and technology.

 
Hamas, Hizbullah must be destroyed

Our only chance, as a civilization that invented Algebra and helped usher advances in medicine, astronomy, and literature during an era of co-existence with the west, is to re-create that co-existence. How could we do that if ignorance is our guide and violent men are our leaders? Witness co-existence by the fact that Algebra was invented by al-Jabr just about the same time the Jewish King Omri founded Samaria.

 

How could Arabs and Muslims help their societies if their program for progress is built upon violence? When was the last time Hamas or Hizbullah issued their 5-year plan to improve the lives of their followers? It will never happen because the failed leadership of both organizations seeks power instead of duty, money instead of benevolence, and longevity in both instead of renewal for the good of their people.

 

Hizbullah and Hamas must be destroyed and the regimes in Damascus and Tehran must be changed for all Arabs and Farsi people to survive and prosper in an ever evolving world timed in nanoseconds and propagating through quantum physics. Their poisonous rhetoric of violence feeding a frenzied mass of ignorant Arabs leaning on their extreme religion to honor their incapacity to compete with the West is destroying future generations of hopeful saviors of our culture and traditions.





We Arabs must be the ones to stop Hamas and Hizbullah, rather than support their demonic and twisted logic of resisting development, enlightenment, and progress of the region. Even when development and enlightenment stare them in the face, their instinct is to destroy them pretending to safeguard their honor, the mechanics of which supersede all else including a happy life of fulfillment and accomplishments.

 

So while we abhor violence of all kind, Israel's campaign against Hamas must continue to the bitter end not only for the sake of peace but also to help Arabs realize they have a choice: Destroy like Gaza or develop like Dubai. Will this happen soon? Maybe not, but if a wake-up call and a nudge, once in a while, to pierce through the fog of deceit perpetrated by Syria and Iran is what it takes to see the light, then we stand by the West and Israel in the only hope that an Arab Renaissance in the Levant may actually have a chance of resurrection.

 

Farid Ghadry is the President of the Reform Party of Syria, a leading US-based opposition group to the rule of Assad and “resistance” in the Levant