The Laughing Wolf

The War: Israel, Hammas, and Me

I had intended for this to be a different post, and a part of last Friday’s post, but it rapidly became clear that it needed to be separate. The play on the title still worked, and was still a slap at a certain floating fat man, so I was happy. Then came the weekend, and the new leader of Hamas declaring war on the U.S. So, things changed yet again. Besides, it gives me a chance to correct the impression that some have gotten that I was pledging myself to Bush. No, I wasn’t. Read it again.

But, let’s take a detour to the topic delayed: Israel. Upfront, I am no more Israel right or wrong than I am America right or wrong. I support both when right, and work to correct America when wrong. That said, I think that we have made a big mistake where Israel is concerned. I think there is a double standard in play, and that it needs to stop.

Israel has fought for its modern existence since before it was formally founded. Its enemies surround them, and have sworn to wipe them from the face of the Earth. It is important to note that not one of the Palestinian organizations has ever acknowledged Israel’s right to exist, and most openly call for its destruction. A number of them go so far as to call for the death of all Jews and any who support them.

Embarrassed and impotent on the battlefield, these enemies have turned to terror as a way to try and accomplish their goals. They deliberately target civilians, particularly women and children, for shootings and suicide bombings. Such actions are a way of life, and have been for a generation, if not more.

The “plight” of the Palestinians is ready fodder for The Old Media, and the terror groups play shamelessly to it. The Old Media and certain diplomatic missions buy into it and run with it, and in the process reveal a deep and malignant anti-Semitism. For it is always a justifiable event when a terrorist scatters bits and pieces of civilians over the landscape, but a cowardly attack when Israel strikes back. We had the massive event that was 9-11; Israel, on the other hand, has been dying the death of a thousand cuts for decades.

The problem that is Israel has refused to be fixed not because of Israeli intransigence, but because the opposition does not want it fixed. They do not want a solution because to them the only solution is Israel gone, and her people dead. They want as much misery for their own people as they can, because such is the way they stay in power and generate the cannon fodder needed for their political plan to work.

That time is over, and terror and desperation now drive in the West Bank and Gaza. One such change was pointed out by Steven Den Beste a while back. The fence will change things, and not in a good way for the terrorists. It will settle the two-state issue once and for all, and bring about a host of other changes. The other change is, Israel is fed up of being fed up, and is adopting a page from the U.S. War on Terror: They are taking out their enemies.

Israel has declared total war and is now prepared to wage it no matter what is said in the so-called international community. The people that head up the organizations who attack her citizens are legitimate targets, just as bin Laden and company are legitimate targets for the U.S. Just as we have used a variety of means, including missiles off Predator drones, so too are the Israelis. We can not condemn them for this, lest we condemn ourselves. There is no difference between the two, only similarities.

Many, particularly in the terrorist leadership, have failed to grasp the change. They see it, and they sort-of acknowledge that the world has changed, but they can’t seem to dance to the new tune. The declaration from Hamas this weekend is the best possible example of this.

Terrorists around the world have indeed gotten the hint that the U.S. is serious, and nothing demonstrates this better than the backtracking my Hammas in the Old Media from its first declaration of war. They understood that to not do so would not be wise. What they appear to have failed to understand is that the old way of publicly saying one thing, and privately telling their people another, no longer works. The spotlight is on and there are enough outlets of media, particularly New Media, that will gleefully spread the word when this happens.

So, they want a war. Let’s give it to them. Let’s drop the public concern and condemnation that greets each action by Israel, and give such actions our support. Let’s even go a step further, let’s urge them to take out these people and give them any intelligence and logistic support we can.

It will have no negative impact on our own war, and will actually help. I say that it will have no negative impact because according to bin Laden and other followers of the fantasy ideology, we already are infidels and are already as bad a Jews because we have supported Israel. To those of you who don’t get it, we are all Jews to them. They have already sworn to kill us, destroy our nation, and such, so what difference does it make? It will not invite retaliation, for the attacks against us are already on the books. Those attacks are coming, and nothing we do either way will either encourage or prevent them.

If we are serious about fighting this war, and making it the total war it must be, then we need to act. We need to quit pretending when it comes to Israel, and grant unto them what we have claimed for ourselves: the right of self-preservation and the right to wage total war. We need to let them remove the cancer from their midst, bring about democratic change, and most of all we need to make education in the “camps” real education and not terrorist indoctrination.

Hamas has declared war. Fine. Let’s give it to them. Let’s extend the change begun in Iraq to yet another area in the region. Let’s let the dominos begin to fall, with a wall and with rewards given that are so richly deserved.

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