December 2008

The lefty twats of the media are being shown up almost hourly by blog­gers point­ing out the idiocy of state­ments decry­ing Israel’s “dis­pro­por­tion­ate” response to a “few”(6800) glo­ri­fied sky-rockets.

This is plain idiocy on their part.

Michael J. Tot­ten won­ders exactly what they mean by proportionate;

Now that Hamas’s long war against Israel is matched with a short war in Gaza, protests are erupt­ing every­where from the blo­gos­phere and Arab cap­i­tals to the United Nations, and they began on the very first day. Salon.com blog­ger Glenn Green­wald calls the Israeli retal­i­a­tion to more than a year of rocket attacks a “mas­sively dis­pro­por­tion­ate response.” UN High Com­mis­sioner for Human Rights Navi Pil­lay “strongly con­demned Israel’s dis­pro­por­tion­ate use of force.” The Israeli coun­ter­at­tack is, indeed, dis­pro­por­tion­ate, but it could hardly be oth­er­wise. “At last count,” J.G. Thayer wrote, “one Israeli and two Pales­tini­ans (sis­ters, ages 13 and 5) died from rocket attacks. So a pro­por­tion­ate response, one pre­sumes, would have required Israel to kill a sin­gle Pales­tin­ian and two of its own citizens.”

There were, I sup­pose, other “pro­por­tion­ate” responses avail­able aside from killing one Pales­tin­ian and two Israelis. 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.

Vic­tor Davis Hansen pro­poses some mod­er­ate sug­ges­tions to intro­duce more pro­por­tion­ate responses from both sides;

1) Request that 50% of Israel’s air-to-ground mis­siles be duds to ensure greater proportionality.

2) Allow Hamas another 1,000 free rocket launches to see if they can catch up with the body count.

3) Have Israeli sol­diers con­gre­gate in bor­der bar­racks so that Hamas’s ran­dom rock­ets have a bet­ter chance of killing mil­i­tary per­son­nel, to ensure it can claim at least a few mil­i­tary targets.

4) Rede­fine “holo­caust” to refer to deaths of ter­ror­ists in num­bers under 400 to give greater cre­dence to Hamas’s cur­rent claims.

5) In the inter­est of 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.

It is inter­est­ing also to note President-elect Barack hus­sein Obama’s com­ment on Hamas rock­ets and the typr of response they should expect.

“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