Israel can't play tit-for-tat with terrorists

[ellisonz]

Israel can't play tit-for-tat with terrorists
Chicago Sun-Times

January 9, 2009

BY STEVE HUNTLEY

We're hearing again the sorry refrain that Israel's response to thousands of rocket attacks fired at its people has been a "disproportionate use of force." The charge comes from the usual suspects, such as the U.N. Commissioner on Human Rights and far left politicians like Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio).

They never seem to work up as much indignation and outrage when Israeli civilians are running for bomb shelters. It's only when Israelis retaliate by attacking the terrorists, who deliberately place themselves and their arsenals amid Palestinian civilian populations, that the self-righteous guardians of human rights suddenly focus on the violence in the Middle East.

Allegations of a disproportionate or excessive response get a lot of ink and air time in the media without much apparent thinking about what that phrase means.

At the height of Yassir Arafat's terrorist suicide bombing campaign in 2001, Israel jets bombed Palestinian Authority facilities. When U.N Secretary-General Kofi Annan condemned that as "disproportionate," I wrote a Sun-Times editorial wondering, "What would Annan consider proportionate? For some Israeli to strap on a suit of explosives and saunter down to the nearest Palestinian market packed with old people, women and children?"

http://www.suntimes.com/news/huntley/1368939,CST-EDT-hunt09.article

[ProgressiveMuslim]

1. American ignorance and stupidity can truly be mind boggling.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. So can bigotry.

[ProgressiveMuslim]

3. Yeah... I'm the bigot and hater?

You're funny, BTA.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. Sadly, you are not funny.

Then again, you also don't post accurately.

[Duckhunter935]

5. Both are like little kids

one side lobs rockets or uses suicide bombers over years to get a response, then when the other side finally responds with overwelming ( I think too much) force, the original side then melts back into the civilian population and everyone complains about civilian casualties.

Both sides need to grow up and join the civilized world and make peace with each other already.

[Vegasaurus]

7. It would be nice to see

but it will require Hamas giving up its goal of taking over all of Israel.

[Duckhunter935]

8. Yes the would have to make some adjustments

to their charter and Israel will have to continue to work on the settlement issue

[Vegasaurus]

9. I agree with that nt

[Vegasaurus]

6. No one cares about rockets falling on Israel

or those of greater capability for killing hundreds with their ball bearings and schrapnel, aimed 25-30 miles.

The world turns a blind eye to terrorism against Jews.

Pathetic.

[Duckhunter935]

10. I think the problem nis we get use to it and are numb

This goes on for years and it just gets to be normal untill Israel strikes back all at on time.

There are a lot of people around here never lift a finger to condemn the ongoing rocket or earlier suicide attacks.