The Passion Of The Israelis
Do you remember those ads in comic books that featured the scrawny guy hanging out at the beach with his girl and a big bully comes along and kicks sand in his face? Scrawny is humiliated so he takes some pills and pretty soon he’s beating the crap out of everybody else (the anger certainly derived from the fact that his girl left him now that he’s hung like a doorbell).
Israel is reminding me a lot of Scrawny.
Israel used to be our little oppressed democratic brethren in the Middle East. Now they’re the scrappy drunk guy at the bar ready to punch your lights out because you accidentally brushed against him.
First Israel invaded Gaza in retaliation for the deaths of two soldiers and kidnapping of another, leaving 150 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier dead. Now they’re bombing the hell out of Lebanon to gain release of two kidnapped soldiers resulting in the deaths of almost 600 Lebanese and 55 Israelis- including 36 soldiers. Isn’t anybody over there doing the math?
They’ve been so hasty in their recent attacks, are they absolutely certain they’re going after the right people? We had years of intelligence on WMD’s that lead to our war on Iraq. Lotta good that did us. Israel’s attacking Hamas and Hezbollah, meanwhile Al Quaida’s probably in their caves snickering with three captive soldiers. Or maybe the soldiers weren’t even kidnapped and they’re just on a drunken gambling binge on a Mediterranean riverboat. Weirder things have happened. And how do you apologize for a goof like that? “Heh heh- you Lebanese are gonna get a kick out of this one: Turns out the craps tables and titty bars were calling. Sorry we’ve destroyed your country but here are some gold coins as compensation. Shalom.”
I think it’s time for the United States to remind Israel that no matter how tough they think they are, we’ll always be tougher. And if they don’t chill out soon, we’re gonna go Mel Gibson on their asses.
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The U.S. will never do so because Israel has done the same thing our govt.(both parties) did. Used one event as an excuse to wage the fight they always wanted. Doesn’t matter if they are going after the right people. They are going after the people who swore to destroy every citizen of their country. But no one learns that war only begets war, yet no war can truly be won. Even religious fanatics are after power, and their leaders manipulate their own people to gain it. Unfortunately, the govt. of Lebanon could not, or would not, shut down Hezbollah, and now their children and elderly are paying the price. War is truly hell. Sorry to rant. Jenee - you have a great way of making my brain think - be it about my favorite TV shows, online dating, or world events. Keep up the good work! More rants at http://360.yahoo.com/cawolftrax
no war can truly be won - except for our Revolution, Civil war, war against mexico, WWII.
As for going against the right guys, Hezbollah admitted they kidnapped the soldiers, no wild guessing there.
As for doing the math, a lousy few thousand Americans got killed at Pearl Harbor and we kill over 2.6 million japanese (600,000 civilians) in return. Does that seem disproportionate?
I think you are letting your slight dislike of Jews color your thinking. If Hezbollah stole 2 of your children I wonder how many of them would you kill to get them back? Or would you do the math?
Otherwise, I love your articles.
I need to correct your statement that I have a dislike of Jews. That’s not the case and I have some good friends who are hardcore Jewish. I find many religious practices silly but it doesn’t mean I dislike the people who practice them. It’s kind of like having a friend who’s dating a married guy and thinks he’s going to leave his wife for her. I still like the friend but I wish she’d wise up a bit. And, for what it’s worth, there’s a reason I titled the post “The Passion of the Israelis” rather than “The Passion of the Jews” even though the latter has a better ring to it- it wasn’t about the Jews, it was about the Israelis.
As for the comparison to the US in WWII, I could go in depth with a bunch of clichés- two wrongs don’t make a right, that’s ancient history, etc- but I’ll just leave it as irrelevant.
Finally, if someone stole two of my children I don’t know what lengths I’d go to to get them back. But I do know I wouldn’t sacrifice five more children to make it happen.
But would you ask your 5 remaining children to help you get the two back?
Are you saying that you could rescue two of your children but because you did not want to risk losing even one more you would let them dangle in the wind?
Don’t you feel the only way to save the five remaining children is to let those who would harm you know that it doesn’t pay to f*ck around with your family?
Iran has gazillion more money and weapons and soldiers than Israel. Do you know why Iran does not attack Israel directly? Because Israel will always attack disproportionately. Anyone who knows that you are not willing to sacrifice all will be emboldened to take first your two children than another two than your remaining one. In your effort to prevent “sacrificing” your remianing five children, you will only wind up losing them without a struggle.
What you think is protecting your family leads to their utter destruction. In 1939, no one wanted to lose a single son in fighting Adolf Hitler. In the end, 40 million lives were lost when the sacrifice of 5 sons would have halted him his tracks.
As a parent, I appreciate your sentiment to keep them from harm’s way, but in the real world your math will not save your childrens’ lives. In the real world, if you watch any National Geographic, those who appear weak are those who die first.