Jaskalas makes some valid and invalid statements with, " So, Islamic terrorists are killing people and Lemon Law's solution is to arm them.
Treason does not aptly define this treachery. I'll admit that your aim of arming Islamic nations could work at staving off our response to being attacked, but when every little piss ant nation has nuclear weapons and must adhere to MAD, especially among terrorist factions who revel in suicide... you're begging for a nuclear war. "
First we have to maybe define terrorism because one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. An in the pre-1948 British mandate of Palestine, when the British were
" the cops ", many of the future Israeli leaders of post 1948 Israel State had no compunctions about being the robbers who used terrorism against the British army.
So why should terrorism be necessarily a bad thing, if its good enough for Israel, wny should terrorism be bad for Palestinians?
The other point to make is that the Israel nation has come a long way baby since them,
now they have heavy guns, tank, State of the arts planes, and almost certainly nuclear weapons. And the Palestinians have nothing to match that, and are left with rocks, bottles, suicide bombers, and now a limited number of short range rockets with no real guidance systems. And as Rummy said, you fight with what you have, not with the army you wish you had. Meanwhile, at least inside of the original 1948 borders, Israel has morally advanced to being partly cops and partly robbers. Outside of the 1967&73 borders of Israel, Israel has the moral position of being mainly robbers who outgun the cops, trying to get their stolen land back.
But Israel can and never will be in the enviable position of a large country like say Russia,
who twice in their history has been faced being conquered by the superior armed forces of Napoleon and Nazi Germany. As Russia can endlessly retreat and fight a battle of attrition, while the superior army sees their supply lines endlessly extend to beyond the breaking point. And as the supply lines snapped for Napoleon and Germany, Russia was able to regroup, counter attack, and very few French and German troops were able to make it back home alive.
And instead, Israel is in the exact opposite position, no buffer zone at all, as their vital organs are all at the surface. And as a worse case scenario would be for Israel to be hit
with weapons, already within potential terrorist grasp, namely chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons. And if the terrorists Israel faces can find the means of delivery, the past Israeli theft of land plus continual Israeli disproportionate use of force, leaves the terrorists more than willing and long past angry enough to cheerfully make the Land of Israel humanly uninhabitable for anyone.
So given grim Israeli realities and the inevitable progress of technology that will find its way to terrorist hands, makes the #1 Israeli danger and threat in Israel's building up of hatreds for itself. Israeli military might improperly restrained may inspire fear but it never inspires love or acceptance. And also inspires a long term desire to remove the threat.
And Israel faces basically three types of terrorist threats. (1) One from the legitimate Arab States who have decent sized Standing armies, no one or two of which could stand up to Israel in a conventional war. But the two jokers in the legitimate States class may be in Turkey and Iran because Turkish military might is substantial but they are growing disenchanted with Israel. Iran now possesses a home grown defense industry able to produce anti-vehicular weapons that are portable and shoulder fired. And so rumor has already possess large stocks of chemical weapons and the means to
deliver them. Thus far Iran has shown great restraint in not making them readily available, but could totally make the US military occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq instantly untenable, and greatly aid the armed forces of surrounding Arab States in any efforts to over run Israel. The other thing Israel has shown is better military organization
that has doomed previous Arab attacks, as Arab organization proved abysmal. The down side is that the Arab States have an almost infinite potential to improve and better co-ordinate, and Israel, being already at 100%, has no such improvement potential. But still, at the present time, the Arab legitimate State threat is largely neutralized by Israel.
(2) The second class of terrorist are the semi State terrorists, not really legitimate States, but still tied to a particular region. Hamas, Fatah, and Hezbollah are certainly in that class, and at present, Israel, at the expense of building hatred has been successful in scaring the hell out of them and reducing attacks. But still, those semi-stare terrorists
are in no danger of losing support, because they all have social wings dedicated to the welfare of their people. But as Israel makes no concessions and gives back no stolen land, that group too bides their time.
(3) The third and perhaps most dangerous are the totally stateless terrorists whose hate of Israel may be infinite. And their funding and technology is growing. Unlike a semi-state terrorists, they don't give a damn how many people Israeli kills and it advances their ends to tempt Israel to attack Arab States and slaughter large groups
of people. If they can trespass on Jordanian land, Lebanese land, or Egyptian land, peg some missiles and sneak out, and cause Israel to attack friendly neighbors, it will give the surrounding Arab States little choice other than to all go on a war footing. And as it is, Israel lost a tremendous amount of international support for their rape of Lebanon and Gaza.
As I have said in this and other posts, is that Israel needs a way to ramp down mid-east tensions and not increase them. Thus far Israel stupidly increases those tensions to avoid making any land for peace deal. Thus far its worked for Israel for 62 years, but its very hard to envision it working all that much longer.
And somewhat like Dickens ghost of Christmas past, I am simply saying where no Israeli changes is very likely to get Israel.
Many pro-Israeli fan clubbers may want Israel to win as a simple gut choice, and I understand that, but the odds of that happening in the fullness of time, is not that high
without many Israeli peace process concessions far higher in price than the deal Arafat declined.
To say that I have every move by move accurately predicted is wrong, but I think I have at least one or more of the general likely progression correct if Israel stays on the present course.
And no, I do not want to see a general bloodbath or nuclear war, I support the Israeli right to exist, but its going to have to be a different Israel that is shared instead of pigged by just one group.
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