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Rattling the Cage: Our exclusive right to self-defense http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid...rticle/ShowFull Oct. 7, 2009 Larry Derfner , THE JERUSALEM POST Virtually all of Israel is now speaking in one voice against the Goldstone report, against any attempt to blame us over the war in Gaza. We've honed our message to a sharp point and, inspired by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's performance at the UN, we're delivering it with just the right tone of outrage: How dare anyone deny us the right to self-defense! How dare anyone deny us the right to fight back against terrorism! Very nice. Puts everyone else on the defensive. The right to self-defense is up there with motherhood and apple pie - who's going to come out against it, especially for us, for Israel, for the Jews, for the people of the Holocaust? The right to self-defense - perfect. But I'd like to ask: Do the Palestinians also have the right to self-defense? We probably wouldn't admit it out loud, but in our heads we would say - again, in one voice - "No!" This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We're entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defense. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism. That's the way it's always been, that's the way it was in Operation Cast Lead. AND THERE are no limits on our right to self-defense. There is no such thing as "disproportionate." We can blockade Gaza, we can answer Kassams with F-16s and Apaches, we can take 100 eyes for an eye. We can deliberately destroy thousands of Gazan homes, the Gazan parliament, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Interior, courthouses, the only Gazan flour plant, the main poultry farm, a sewage treatment plant, water wells and God knows what else. Deliberately. After all, we're acting in self-defense. By definition. And what right do the Palestinians have to defend themselves against this? None. Why? Because we're better than them. Because we're a democracy and they're a bunch of Islamo-fascists. Because ours is a culture of life and theirs is a culture of death. Because they're out to destroy us and all we are saying is give peace a chance. One look at the ruins of Gaza ought to make that plain enough. Here is our idea of the "laws of war": When Israeli bulldozers rolled across the border into Gazan villages and flattened house after house so Hamas wouldn't have them for cover after the IDF pulled out, that was self-defense. But if a Palestinian boy who'd lived in one of those houses threw a stone at one of the bulldozers, that was terrorism. The Goldstones of the world call this hypocrisy, a double standard. How dare they! Around here, we call it moral clarity. |
| QUOTE (BLISTANBUL @ October 15, 2009 01:49 am) |
| i wonder what is yd's take on this. |
| QUOTE (BLISTANBUL @ October 15, 2009 01:58 am) |
| mate why do you bother with the wankbecile?? do you want me to pull up his other weekly residence and show you how sick minded this individual really is? you will be left disturbed forever |
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| I would advise crazy second generation AKEL Cyprians to not worry about Israel, and to actually try something besides relying on personal gossip, false ideology and family views for history. In all my interacting with Zyprians on the net, these are the only sources they get info from on Cyprus's history, along with of course media(which is a joke to rely on for history). Israelis seem to actually defend themselves, something one cannot say for Zyprians who are taught that their nation should beg for its existence at international fora upon receiving their mother's milk(meanwhile with their mother's milk, Turks are told they are born soldiers, figure how this will play out in the future....). Well, really I do not support Israel, other than saying "I support Israel," but I support Israel. I was looking at Giles Milton Paradise Lost: Smyrna, 1922: the Destruction of a Christian City in the Islamic World. at the library one day. In the opening of the book there is a motto(that was for a proposed grand university that would have operated in Smyrna that would have both Christians and muslim students): "In the Orient, a light." That motto reminds me of Israel, surrounded by Islamic hordes and their darkness, oppression, fanaticism, hatred. The way I see it, the only place a Westerner can feel comfortable in the Mid East is Israel. If Israel ever falters, loses a battle, loses territory, or dissolves, and the West allows it to happen, they will suffer for their own lack of identity and values. The same way that Europeans will continue to suffer if they keep accepting muslim hordes whether legal or illegal as residents(since as Turks prove often, they are more loyal to their Turkish homeland and Islam). The muslim world is structurally incapable of peace, Turkey included. There is nothing to support in the once Arab refugees now reborn and referred to as Palestinians or in Turkey, despite what various Euro-leftist tarts think. |
| QUOTE (BLISTANBUL @ October 15, 2009 02:22 am) |
| funny how nikki does not even contest what I've just said. i guess he reckons keep shut the fuck up and don't let him expose. |
| QUOTE (Nikephoros @ October 15, 2009 02:31 am) |
| The fact that you buddy-buddy with Blisterbul says enough about your attributes and qualities, more than I could ever say. |
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Thread: Minorities in Turkey ... I criticise the Jews in Turkey for not letting people enter the synagogues and having security 24/7 watching the door, and you have to drop off a passport to visit. It seems hostile, and doesn't make Jews look good. Frankly, Turkey's Jews should realise that there's a reason they get security and the Greeks don't. |