Posted on 07/16/2006 6:26:13 PM PDT by SmithL
Every neighborhood has one, a loudmouth bully who shouldn't be provoked into anger. He's insulted? He'll pull out a knife. Spat in the face? He'll draw a gun. Hit? He'll pull out a machine gun. Not that the bully's not right - someone did harm him. But the reaction, what a reaction! It's not that he's not feared, but nobody really appreciates him. The real appreciation is for the strong who don't immediately use their strength. Regrettably, the Israel Defense Forces once again looks like the neighborhood bully. A soldier was abducted in Gaza? All of Gaza will pay. Eight soldiers are killed and two abducted to Lebanon? All of Lebanon will pay. One and only one language is spoken by Israel, the language of force.
The war that the IDF has now declared on Lebanon and before it on Gaza, will never be considered another "war of no choice." Let's save that debate from the historians. This is unequivocally a war of choice. The IDF absorbed two painful blows, which were particularly humiliating, and in their wake went into a war that is all about restoring its lost dignity, which on our side is called "restoring deterrent capabilities." Neither in Lebanon nor certainly in Gaza, can anyone formulate the real goals of the war, so nobody knows for sure what will be considered victory or an achievement. Are we at war in Lebanon? With Hezbollah? Nobody knows for sure. If the goal is to remove Hezbollah from the border, did we try hard enough over the last two years through diplomatic channels? And what's the connection between destroying half of Lebanon and that goal? Everyone agrees that "something must be done." Everyone agrees that a sovereign state cannot remain silent when it is attacked within its own borders,
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Levy is a typical LIB... A Bully is someone who acts when UNPROVOKED.. Israel has been PROVOKED time and time again!
These are talking points for the world's morning newspapers. We'll see how many of them pick them up.
(Go Israel Go! Slap 'em down Hezbullies.)
Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
His enemies say he's on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.
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The writer of the article needs a sound thrashing
then a hot tar bath followed by a feather dressing.
Apologist Levy drooled:
> One and only one language is spoken by Israel,
> the language of force.
Umm, then what were those earlier unilateral withdrawals?
They were the leftist language of peace, that's what,
and the cutthroat cult vermin understood that language
and took what they thought was full advantage of it.
Great Post!
Thanks
Thought I'd try out my new tagline that I've been ruminating over. (Gaza was the carrot).
These are among the stupidest words I've ever heard. We've been trying diplomacy for decades and it doesn't work. Way too many Israelis have been murdered by suicide bombers over the past few years, and the military capabilities of the muslims who surround Israel is growing because they are being supplied by Iran. Islam is a warring, murderous cult and here's hoping the world will wake up now and realize this. The islamic scum will never leave Israel alone until one side or the other is wiped out. Go Israel.
Haaretz and Levy right on time. Ignore Levy. He blames himself for being born Jewish.
There's little question that Iran orchestrated the kidnappings , which were an act of war, not just a humiliation. Iran is the bully. And like most bullies Iran uses others to do its dirty work.
What about the force that was used to evict Jews from Gaza earlier? Would Gil`ad even have been abducted if Gaza hadn't been ethnically cleansed of Jews? And from what I understand, whatever "force" and "bullying" the IDF is using on Gaza and Lebanon now, there are still plans to evict even more Jews from "settlements" in Judaea and Samaria.
The problem isn't just a refusal to learn from history or to recognize the nature of the enemy. It goes much deeper. The problem is that there are still people trying to maintain a secular Jewish state in the Holy Land, which is reserved for the observance of Torah and (eventually) the reestablished `Avodah. Yet despite all the sanctity and all the prophecies, people are still trying to do the inherently impossible--to bring perpetual peace to a Hebrew-speaking Canada that just happens to have religious Jews among its population.
Of all the Bible's claims, it is the one about the special status of the Land and People of Israel that seems the most obvious. What will it take to drive it into the heads of the secular powers that be??? How thick are their skulls?
May HaShem pour out his fury on the nations that have forgotten or deny Him, and may Israel be redeemed at last!
I read Haaretz because it has the latest breaking news and updates faster than YNet or JPost.
But its op-ed writers are bizarro moonbats!
Haaretz: the "NY Times" of Israel
YNet: the "CBS" of Israel
Jerusalem Post: the "Fox News" of Israel
If Haaretz is the "NY Times" of Israel and all your other analogies pertain, what does that make "Idiot Acharanot"?
He besmirches the name Gideon.
CBS.
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