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commentarymagazine.com - 12/31/2008

What Would a Proportionate Response Look Like?

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“If someone was sending rockets on my house where my daughters were sleeping at night, I would do everything to stop it, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.” – President-elect Barack Obama Now that Hamas’s long war against Israel is matched with a short war in Gaza, ...

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salon.com - 12/30/2008

George Washington's warnings and U.S. policy towards Israel - Glenn Greenwald

— salon.com — (updated below - Update II) University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes -- July 1, 2008... : A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 18 countries finds that in 14 of them people mostly say their government should not take sides in the ... (more) George Washington's warnings and U.S. policy towards ...

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chicagoboyz.net - 12/31/2008

Diplomacy and Terrorism

— chicagoboyz.net — David Bernstein quotes Glenn Greenwald as saying: Terrorism ends when the causes of it are addressed, typically... via diplomatic means. Greenwald has a point. After all we all remember how succesfully we used diplomacy to bring an end to causes ... (more) Diplomacy and Terrorism

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musliminsuffer.wordpress.com - 12/31/2008

ZIONIST ISRAEL’S CRIMES ARE NOT NEW

— musliminsuffer.wordpress.com — bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful === News Update === ZIONIST ISRAEL’S CRIMES... ARE NOT NEW [By Dr. Mohamed Elmasry] - Dec 30, 2008 The inflicting of war-crime acts and crimes against humanity is ... (more) ZIONIST ISRAEL’S CRIMES ARE NOT NEW

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What Would a Proportionate Response Look Like?
Winds of Change.NET — ... strike is going to kill at least as many people as Hamas can kill in twelve months. Does that mean Israel should be given a “license” of one air strike per year to use in the war? If IDF commanders want to take out a target where they expect five Hamas leaders or fighters to be killed, do they have to wait until five Israelis are killed first? If the Israelis endure rocket fire until one civilian is killed, do they get a “kill one Palestinian terrorist” coupon? Read the rest in Commentary Magazine.

Disproportionate idiocy
Power Line — ... fairness, allow Hamas to establish both the date that war is supposed to begin and the date when it must end. 6) Send Israeli military advisers to Hamas to improve the accuracy of their missiles. 7) Take down the barriers to return to Hamas a fair chance of getting suicide bombers back inside Israel. Fans of the idiotic version of "proportionality" that Hanson mocks will be glad to know that Hamas is pounding southern Israel with rockets. Michael Totten, Ramesh Ponnuru and Andrew McCarthy also shed light on the ...

MICHAEL TOTTEN: What would a “proportionate” response look like? “The Israel Defense Forces might …
Instapundit — ... MICHAEL TOTTEN: What would a “proportionate” response look like? “The Israel Defense Forces might have launched thousands of air strikes against targets in Gaza to match the thousands of Qassam rockets fired at the cities of Sderot and Ashkelon. It’s unlikely, however, that this is what Israel’s critics have in mind.” ...

Parting shot
Cold Fury — One more link before I get outta here for the day: Mike Totten , on the idiotic liberal insistence on a “proportionate” Israeli response to non-stop Hamas terrorism. I do think he’s wrong about this part, though: The “disproportionate response” crowd doesn’t seem to mind that Israel struck back at Hamas per se . Ah, but that’s exactly what they do mind. See, they despise violence and war — except when violence is committed and war is made by someone they perceive as a victim of some sort of “oppression.” Then it’s heroic — an unqualified good thing, and absolutely ...