Posted on 03/06/2008 4:03:09 PM PST by SmithL
Rarely have terrorists chosen their target with so much malicious care as in Thursday night's attack on Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva.
In striking the flagship institution of the religious Zionist movement, a Jerusalem landmark whose history is linked with the founding and fulfillment of the Jewish national home in the Land of Israel, the gunman aimed his weapon at the heart of the Zionist enterprise.
If the goal was to outrage the general public and to inflame that particular segment of it most skeptical of the possibility of Israel one day coming to terms with its most immediate Arab neighbors, then the bullets struck home with deadly and accurate force.
Beyond that, as the first terrorist attack on this scale in nearly two years - since a Tel Aviv suicide bomber killed nine in April 2006 - the impact of this incident will be profound.
This will be a sharp blow for those Israelis, especially Jerusalemites, who have allowed themselves to let their psychological guard down since the second intifada petered out. That the gunman was able to carry out this operation in the heart of a crowded Jerusalem neighborhood, some distance away from the Arab neighborhoods of the capital, will raise serious questions about assumptions made since the construction of the West Bank security barrier.
The Olmert government, which until now has been able to contain political fallout from the rocket fire on Sderot and Ashkelon in part because of the absence of major attacks elsewhere in the country, will now find its margin of error - and survival - dramatically narrowed.
The efforts by both Jerusalem and Washington to renew the negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, interrupted by the fighting in Gaza, will now be officially put on hold, and picking up the pieces in the wake of this outrage will not be easy.
The grief and fury in particular of the religious-Zionist sector will be beyond measure at this violent desecration of the cradle of their movement. The current efforts by the government to reach an accommodation with the settler leadership on the removal of outposts will have been in vain for the time being, as any spirit of compromise will be buried with the victims of this atrocity.
Israel's radical Islamic enemies - Hamas, Islamic Jihad or Hizbullah - have talked in the past month about dealing a blow to Israel that would go beyond any of those they have carried out before.
The death toll last night was nowhere near the worst of those attacks they have carried out in the past. But in bringing their war of terror right into the halls of Mercaz Harav, the institution founded by and embodied with the spirit of the Zionist's movement's most revered religious figure, the Yishuv's first Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook, the terrorists struck with the most terribly precise accuracy they have demonstrated to date.
Extermination of Muslims is the answer they are forcing us to accept.
Islam will continue to attack Israel again, and again, and again...........as long at Israel does not stand up for themselves.
Note to Olmert Government...it’s killed or be killed dude. You don’t have some sort of major response other than send a few tanks into Gaza, may the people overthrow your government and put somebody like Bibi into power who will deal with the enemies of Jerusalem.
“Rarely have terrorists chosen their target with so much malicious...”
Yes they have.
Terrorists are filled with hate — and an agenda.
"Israel's radical Islamic enemies - Hamas, Islamic Jihad or Hizbullah - have talked in the past month about dealing a blow to Israel that would go beyond any of those they have carried out before."
Second it!
ADDING to post no. 6:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981084/posts?page=8#8
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969529/posts
Islam is the ROOT and terrrorism and oppression are the fruits.
I think we need to open our borders to unlimited immigration of Israeli jews and even provide transport if things get too bad. I know there are quite a few who would rather die than leave but a jewish nation starting somewhere else is better than being pulverized utterly.
Israel’s problems can not be solved while adhering to the concept of nation-states, or more accurately, while America adheres to the concept of nation-states.
This concept makes it impossible to prosecute war using the “center of gravity” model.
Would you please elucidate....model definitions would be helpful. Thanks
Perhaps one of the alphabet networks would share with the IDF when they cover the next planned large Pali/Hamas/Fatah funeral/demonstrations. An overflight of Several jets dropping napalm on each of these would probably send a strong message. It would at least make the bastards bury their scum in secret, in darkness and avoid crowds.
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The "center of gravity" model refers to the doctrine of attacking the enemy at the point which, if the attack is successful, will make it impossible for that enemy to continue fighting.
The problem for the Israelis is the "center of gravity" in their fight with the Palestinians lies within the borders of nation-states with which they are not currently in a shooting war, and doubtless will never be so long as those nation-states are supplying the fuel that runs western civilization without tempting that western civilization to come and take it from them by force.
Israel jsut needs to carpet bomb the f’n muzzie pali terrorists and tell jorge, condi and the world to STFU!!!!!
It would then seem that they and we are skunked unless they pursue the Bush doctrine of attacking terrorists and the countries that harbor them.
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