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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Prisoner Swap Inevitable after Israel Kills 1000's

Israel has taken the long and bloody route to the solution to the kidnapping of the soldiers, both in Gaza and in Lebanon. There are two points to consider in the onslaught of burnt bodies and mutilated corpses of women and children. First, Israel has historically been unable to unilaterally disengage from any fighting. They never have an exit strategy, just an entrance strategy. Secondly, Israel was the originator of the kidnap your enemies and negotiate a trade policy. So to feign shock or horror that these soldiers, and I did say soldiers, legitimate military targets, were kidnapped and to unleash such a storm of death on women and children afterwards, just shows the level of cowardice that we are dealing with. And I dont think that you will find too many places in this world where you will here anybody refer to an Israeli soldier as having either high morality, bravery, or courage. Bravery and courage in the face of a 3 year old that you drop a bomb on, burn and mutilate, is something every Jew should be proud of.



To look at the first factor, Israel is unable to develop any exit strategy when it comes to killing Arab women and children. It most be something that they just love to do, because whenever they start, they just cant stop. They even go back to places like Qana where they historically have had success killing women and children, just so they can repeat their success. When Nasser declared sovereignty over the Suez Canal in 1956, the French, British and our friends the Israelis, invaded Egypt to protect their interest in the canal. Of course, Israel had no interest in the canal other than to take the opportunity to participate in killing Arabs. With Soviet backing of Egypt and the fear of a greater conflict, the US President Eisenhower demanded an immediate removal of ALL troops that had entered Egypt. The Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs Lester B. Pearson came up with the idea of creating an international force that would act as a buffer between the troops. This was the start of Israels love/hate relationship with the UN. This was the very first UN peacekeeping mission and earned Lester Pearson the Nobel Peace prize and created a force that Israel would despise and attack to this very day. As I had mentioned in a previous blog, Israel was on the verge of crossing the Red Sea and moving into the major cities in Egypt in 1967. Once again, with the upper hand, Israel had made a decision to lie to the international community and hide their intentions of crossing the Red Sea and occupying the major cities in Egypt and kill, rape, and mutilate as many Egyptians as they could get away with. American intervention through use of surveillance equipment on boats on the Mediterranean and through over flights of U2 spy planes revealed their intentions, brought it to the international community for scorn and therefore thwarted their plans. Israel was so upset by the fact that they could not kill any more Arabs, that they attacked the USS Liberty who was in part responsible for the intelligence gathering that stopped their attacks. Let us not forget Sabra and Shatilla massacres. Once again, given the opportunity to watch Arab blood spill, the Israelis help Christian Militia round up and execute 700 to 800 Muslims. Eventhough, Israel had full control of the battlefield at the time of the massacre, they once again, had not received enough blood to relish and found it necessary to spill more. Once again, no exit strategy, just an ongoing strategy to kill as many civilians as possible.



Secondly, lets look at Israels history of kidnapping of enemy soldiers and civilians to use them as bargaining chips. In the case of Ron Arad, Israel went on a kidnapping spree and had kidnapped up to 60 Lebanese, labeled as terrorists. As a whole, Israel was going to release in excess of 400 prisoners for the bodies of the three Israeli soldiers that were being held. Let us not forget that the Mosad, kidnapped, tortured and executed, by their own admission, any suspects that they believed were involved in the 1972 killings of the Olympic athletes in Munich. In the most recent episode, the Attorney General of Israel had to make a determination that all the kidnapped 64 Palestinian ministers could not be used as negotiating chips. If the AG had to rule on it, they were planning on doing it.



In reviewing these facts, it leads us back to a very real and simple solution. Israel could have easily negotiated for the release of the soldiers, implemented tighter security surrounding their troops, avoided another such kidnapping, secured the soldiers release and be working towards a lasting and just peace in the middle east. But instead, the Israelis have done exactly what they have historically done. They have taken a minor situation, blew it out of proportion, took the opportunity to kill at least a thousand women and children, have no exit strategy and are looking forward to killing more civilians. Historically, Israel has been a nation that revels in war crimes, enjoys killing and takes the opportunity to butcher Arabic women and children at will. They will eventually settle on a prisoner swap but they will have taken the opportunity to spread more of their brand of genocide. But what would you expect from a nation of cowards who does their dirty work and hides behind the skirt of America.

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