Ariel Sharon's son: "We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza."

[ForgoTheConsequence]

From an op-ed today in the Jerusalem Post.

We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too.

There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing. Then they’d really call for a ceasefire.

Were this to happen, the images from Gaza might be unpleasant – but victory would be swift, and the lives of our soldiers and civilians spared.

IF THE government isn’t prepared to go all the way on this, it will mean reoccupying the entire Gaza Strip. Not a few neighborhoods in the suburbs, as with Cast Lead, but the entire Strip, like in Defensive Shield, so that rockets can no longer be fired.

There is no middle path here – either the Gazans and their infrastructure are made to pay the price, or we reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip. Otherwise there will be no decisive victory. And we’re running out of time – we must achieve victory quickly. The Netanyahu government is on a short international leash. Soon the pressure will start – and a million civilians can’t live under fire for long. This needs to end quickly – with a bang, not a whimper.

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?ID=292466&R=R1&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[hrmjustin]

1. Well he has shown he is racist scum.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

7. The rotten apple doesn't fall far from the diseased tree.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

33. Its not racist, but then again you knew that

Falsely claiming racism when its clearly a misuse of the term devalues the legitimate claims

[hrmjustin]

35. What do you think it is?

I have no problem being corrected.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

47. Its not racism

since muslim and even arab is not a race.

[still_one]

51. Perhaps not technically, but a statement that he made comes close to genocide

[Ken Burch]

54. It's racist to insist on a campaign to slaughter Arabs.

This man wants people killed just because they are Arabs living in Gaza. He doesn't care whether they are supporters of Hamas or not(not everybody in Gaza is, and those who aren't have no way of working against Hamas...many of them are only there because Israel refuses to allow them to move to the West Bank.)

Gilad Sharon IS, in fact a Nazi...he is personally on the same level as the worst of Hamas...and must be repudiated by all decent human beings, as all of us have clearly repudiated Hamas.

[madrchsod]

56. israelis and arabs are genetically the same.

this is`t about race it is tribal

[intaglio]

58. Not racist but definitely genocide

and that's (another) war crime

[MFM008]

2. That will work well

not.

[teddy51]

3. Another piece of work, is he related to Netanyahu? He's sounding just like

him. War mongering POS.

[johnq45]

13. No............................

This is typical Israeli thinking. I'm just glad all of the American tax dollars we give them are going for a good cause! $30 billion American tax dollars a year! Man we sure no how to pick our friends!

[teddy51]

17. I hope everyone does realize that the fault for this does lie with the US. They are

responsible for arming Israel to the teeth, with both Nukes and conventional weapons.

[Shaktimaan]

43. ummm.

you're off by a bit. It's 3 billion. Not 30.

[dixiegrrrrl]

52. They NEED that 30 billion!

Each rocket Israel fires costs 40K....
What whould you rather have...Israel running of out of expensive rockets to buy, thus plunging the arms dealers into reduced profits in these horrible economic times
or
47% of Americans not getting their "gifts" of education, healthcare, employment and homes?

Obviously the decison has been made at levels far above our pay grades.

[riverwalker]

22. Ariel Sharon is much worse

He is known as "The Butcher" for a reason.

[oberliner]

39. No he isn't

Ariel Sharon changed his views late in life (like Arafat).

Hopefully his son will have a similar shift.

[atreides1]

4. Sounds like he took some history lessons

From people who had experience with creating ghettos and then destroying them, block by block...


The oppressed have become the oppressor...not quite full circle yet, but that remains to be seen!

[oberliner]

9. "The oppressed have become the oppressor"

What does this mean?

[Ken Burch]

15. I think it means that a descendant of victims of past oppression

(young Sharon, in this instance)now thinks purely like an oppressor...that his humanity is gone and will never return.

He's become a Cossack in spirit...disgusting.

(edited to clarify that this was MY interpretation of another poster's remarks).

[oberliner]

18. You didn't make the comment

I'd like to hear from the person who did.

How can you be certain you know what they meant?

Gilad Sharon was certainly never oppressed.

[Ken Burch]

20. I didn't make the comment...I interpreted it.

It is possible that this person meant something else.

I agree that young Sharon has never been oppressed in any way at all himself.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

41. "Gilad Sharon was certainly never oppressed."

Perhaps in his tiny little mind he feels that way.

[oberliner]

42. I doubt it

In fact, I would imagine quite the opposite is true.

[TheMadMonk]

16. Read your Bible. This is their (AT LEAST) third time around the circle.

Pretty much every single time the Jewish people have had any sort of territorial ascendancy and national identity, genocide against the locals invariably ensues.

[LeftishBrit]

27. That's a vile thing to say...

people like you and Gilad Sharon are just two sides of the same coin. A bigoted coin.

[Alamuti Lotus]

45. I instinctively don't want to defend his line of argument..

that said, I reluctantly proceed. Ever read Deuteronomy? Horrifying stuff; re-reading it right now because of what is mentioned here and because I use my time on evenings off after a long work day very wisely. Whole chapters are devoted to naming the various native tribes snuffed out (and meticulously describing the methods of knocking off the men, women, and of course the children too, but leaving the cattle because they're tasty) because the political leaders who appointed themselves to speak for THE LORD in those days thought it was an awesome plan.

I don't know where this dude is coming from (and it's a slight bit neck-hair-raising, to be sure--with you on that), but precisely what he suggests can indeed be found in your holy books. I'm not sure if making references to the content of a substantial portion of the recognized Torah is really something vile... To what purpose this is being suggested, I cannot say and probably don't care to ask.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

57. "knocking off the men, women, and of course the children too, but leaving the cattle ..."

Wasn't there one story, or at least one story, in which the men were killed but the women (or at least the virgins) were not?

Doesn't that mean that they are not always so cruel?

[TheMadMonk]

59. Thankyou. And I wasn't exactly going anywhere.

Simply noting that any time the Jewish people have had a homeland, they obtained it by treating the previous occupants as badly or worse than anyone else treated them.

[TomClash]

38. Huh?

Are you saying a genocide is then committed against the Jews or Jews commit genocide "against the locals?"

Neither is true and the latter is truly absurd.

[King_David]

44. What a disgusting post nt

[ellisonz]

50. Disgusting that a jury would let your post stand.

[Scootaloo]

5. What a charming young lad he seems!

Someone give him a memo explaining that Truman dropped the bombs to keep Japan out of the Soviet Sphere, not to force a surrender.

And then explain why incinerating two entire cities is this thing called a "war crime" that, yeah, I'll say it, people should have been hanged for.

"The images might be unpleasant," really? I once had a pet lizard that had more human empathy than that statement expresses.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. Perhaps Baby Sharon sees the Palestinians as subhuman and not worthy of his empathy.

[oberliner]

10. "Truman dropped the bombs to keep Japan out of the Soviet Sphere"

I guess that's ok then?

[AndyTiedye]

12. The Same Post Called it a War Crime

incinerating two entire cities is this thing called a "war crime" that, yeah, I'll say it, people should have been hanged for.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

34. Tojo and other top Japanese leaders were hanged...

[Scootaloo]

28. Not at all; as I said, it was a war crime. A fucking BIG war crime.

I just tire of the sad justification for it, "Oh, we had to annihilate two cities, because an invasion would have been harder!" - never mind that the Japanese had been offering surrender months prior, and the US just didn't want to accept their one term (that the emperor remain emperor... kind of a big religious deal for Imperial Shinto, after all)

[oberliner]

29. OK

Misunderstood - sorry.

[struggle4progress]

6. Fuggin moronic scumbag

[oberliner]

11. The scary thing is, he isn't alone

Wow.

[DonViejo]

23. Here and there. In the US, as well as in Israel, but;...

Hitler is admired by some Arabs and Muslims, too.

[hrmjustin]

32. Personally I think Israelis are more peaceful minded than this guy.

My Israeli, and American Jewish friends here in Brooklyn have differing views, but never garbage like this. I would not be surprised if he would be smacked down in the press for this. The government is a different story.

[oberliner]

37. I think you are right

But there is a pretty sizable group that agrees with him, sadly.

[Ken Burch]

14. Disgusting. A person with no humanity and no soul.

no one should ever get like that.

And you can't hold the people of Gaza collectively responsible for Hamas' decisions.

[defacto7]

19. Someone needs to flatten

Ariel Sharon's son.. bad seed.

[riverwalker]

21. "Wipe them off the map".

Where did I hear that recently?
Oh, thats right, Mahmoud Amadinejad.
They sound the same.

[DonViejo]

24. Thank you. nt

[oberliner]

25. Except one is a President and another is just a private citizen

Thank goodness for the latter.

[LeftishBrit]

26. That's a real contribution to peace.

[aquart]

30. Short-sighted, much?

Not that the Palestinians can expect much help from all their great supporters.

There are smuggling tunnels. There's the Rafah gate. Anyone moving women and children to safety?

[ForgoTheConsequence]

31. there ya go folks.

smuggling tunnels and the rafah gate. what else could you fucking want?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

36. Their muslims brothers have been using the Palestinians, especially in Gaza, as proxies for years

Iran and other pour offensive arms into the region in preference to food, medicine, and education. They urge violence and cheer from the sidelines. They care nothing for the Palestinians and never have.

[hrmjustin]

40. That is very true. The Palestinians get caught in the crosshairs along with the people of southern

and now central Israel.

[Scootaloo]

46. *Checks watch* Oh, it's justification o'clock again!

[Recursion]

49. Why on earth would Egypt take on 1.5 million refugees?

Seriously, how is that even an option?

[Lars77]

48. He is merely describing the Israeli doctrine of communal punishment

Nothing new here.

[still_one]

53. The attention always seems to focus on the most extreme elements of either side

[MjolnirTime]

55. One of God's Chosen Few, right?!? What a fucking trogolodyte!

[Eyes of the World]

60. Well he is right.

If your gonna do it then do it.

He isn't addressing political considerations, only military ones, and in those terms he is absolutely right.

A farsighted politician might address it differently.

I don't agree with him, but I'm sure that won't stop people from assuming that I do. Have fun.