A "BY THE HOUR" WAR???!!

Israel’s War: Judged By the Hour!

By Arlene Peck

I’m confused. How long have we been lingering in Iraq?
Three years? Four? And how many people are dying,
not to mention the trillions of US tax dollars going towards
funding this war? Hey, I am not complaining. The
extreme Islamists in Iraq are bad guys, who are a threat
to their region and the world, and I support our troops,
who are doing their best to prevent Islamist expansion
beyond that region, and to protect us at home.
Yet, there is no outcry to remove forces immediately
or rush to United Nation’s resolutions.

However, just when you would think the Los Angeles
Times and their biased ilk could not get any worse,
sure enough they prove us wrong. Our news media
reminds us daily of the hundreds of Iraqis and United
States soldiers who are being killed. That’s an awful
“given” of war, that western media has been
rehashing on our domestic front for more than 1,000
days. So, that being said, can someone tell me why,
when Israel, after finally reaching her breaking
point and no longer able to tolerate the continued
Hamas and Hezbollah missile attacks, using Iranian
katyusha and other long-range rockets, moves to
protect herself, as any sovereign country has a right
and duty to do, world opinion is already rushing in to
protect the terrorists? Apparently this is too difficult
to understand.

In between photo-ops with the Hezbollah leader, Kofi
Annan gives a press conference offering his solution,
which seems to consist entirely of calling for Israel to
stop… stop… stop! How are we to believe a man,
whose photograph is proliferating across the internet,
showing him thanking Nasrallah, who is the head of
Hezbollah, for maintaining law and order in the south
of Lebanon in the year 2000? Surely if Annan can
acknowledge Hezbollah was responsible for that,
how can he now accept that it is Israel which is
undermining the country's sovereignty?

World-wide those leaders and “experts” who are
supposedly in accord with Israel’s right to defend
herself, pepper their comments with absurdities,
such as how many hours Israel has been in ‘conflict.’
We know it’s OK to spend years, if necessary, in
enemy territory defending the USA, yet Israel’s
defensive efforts are judged in hours and days.

I do notice, however, that Israel has stated
unequivocally that they would leave Lebanon,
if this same Kofi Anan and his United Nations
would push Syria to also leave Lebanon. Israel’s
position is that the Lebanese army also has to take
up its position at the border with Israel and that
Hezbollah has to be disarmed -- both included
in UN resolution 1559, and ensure that terrorists
would not be able to shoot any rockets into
Israel’s civilian population. This was their agreement
when Israel was forced to withdraw from Lebanon.

As usual, lots of talk, with photo-ops, but is anybody
convinced by the efforts of the Lebanese government
or the results so far? How do you arrange a cease-fire
with a group of terrorists? Hezbollah’s demand for
the release of imprisoned terrorists in exchange for
Israeli captives is not an option and it sure is not an
option any other country (except maybe France)
would tolerate.

Why do they expect Israel to negotiate? Could
we have set up negotiations with Hitler? Chamberlain
tried that and we saw how brilliantly that turned out.
Israel is in the position now of being able to drive a
globally mutual enemy out of the area. I

watch with disgust as the completely anti-Semitic
United Nations, when it considers the Middle East,
concentrates only on trying to rein in Israel. Not a
surprise though. That is what always happens:
instead of finding real solutions, the only answer
the world can find is reining in Israel. That is what
always happens when Israel has been attacked and
is close to destroying the enemy. In addition, I do
not remember when the phrase “disproportionate”
became an acceptable gauge of a country’s right to
defend themselves from attacks against its citizens.

Israel’s position is well established and known: that
it would withdraw if Hezbollah stops firing rockets
into Israel, and returns the kidnapped soldiers.
Simple? It might be helpful if Kofi and gang would
specifically mention in their condemnations that Syria
and Iran must cease supplying arms for the terrorists
to attack Israel.

Israel must be allowed to win a war that has been
thrust upon them. Israel is the best friend of the
United States and western democracies. Our interests
are tied together. If Israel is forced to turn over the
West Bank to Hamas terrorists it would only threaten
the area more. In fact, I’ll go one step further. Now,
in my opinion, would be a perfect time to annex the
territories. This is not a situation that can be cured by
short-term State Dept. responses, nor is it, despite the
Los Angeles Times’ insistence, a short term conflict.

The same pro-Palestinian Los Angeles Times always looks
for a Jew-baiting story. It is well past time that they
acknowledged this ludicrous and obscene situation, where
the sovereign Jewish State has to defend its right to even
exist. It might be prudent to remind our government that
we share the same enemies; that Israel is fighting America’s
battle at the moment. Israel is also fighting, by proxy,
America’s war with Iran.

It concerns me when I read LA Times headlines such as
“Israeli Arabs are caught in a web of Conflicting Emotions.”
The Times went on to say, “They are threatened, along with
Jews, as Hezbollah rockets land in their midst, but many
sympathize with their brethren in Lebanon.” Well gol-ly,
since they dance on the rooftops after each rocket hits an
Israeli city… maybe it’s time to not only annex the area but
cut out the cancer within ... and transfer them! The same
way Beirut was able to clear out its population in just a few
days....it could happen in Gaza. No! It should happen in Gaza.
Since the Israeli Arabs have such terrible conflicts living among
the dreaded Jewish infidels, now would be a perfect time for
the enemy within to leave. For the Palestinian Arabs who are
located in the middle of Israel, in my opinion, the only solution
is transfer! After each attack on Israel citizens, the IDF should
drop leaflets and announce that 10% of a specific PA area will
be taken back and all Arab residents will have one week to
move to any Arab country. Then do it!