No Solution to Rocket Attacks, by Eitan Haber (Ynet)
Commentary;
The poster-boy, the apologist for the secular Israeli left has again spoken the absurdities for which he is famous. Nothing can be done?
What are we; poor, defenseless herds of scared Jews??
The truth of the matter is that this regime and its police and military are inordinately too busy bullying, arresting and persecuting Jews when it ought to be doing what a Jewish nation ought to be doing; fighting, defeating and decimating it’s national enemies who are intent on our destruction and nothing less.
It’s not that the government of Israel is “too tired to win.” It is plum scared to win. They are sooo scared of avodah zora US, EU, that THEIR gravy-train — the financial root of THEIR power, their regime, and influence will come to a halt. A Jewish heart scares the begeebers off of them.
“As long as there is no leadership operating on the basis of Jewish morals and justice and the goal of defeating the Arab enemy and driving them out of our land, civilians and soldiers will inescapably be the victims of the leadership.”
MB
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Shas Chair: IDF Deterrence Capacity Can Never be Restored, by Yair Ettinger (Haaretz)
Excerpts;
Beyond the babble and chatter sounded by political leaders, military personnel and commentators, we should immediately face the residents of Sderot and the western Negev and tell them the only real truth, the bitter truth: The State of Israel, thus far, has no real solution to the barrage of Qassam rockets landing in the city and nearby communities. No solution.
We should explicitly tell the residents of Sderot: The entire State of Israel should salute you and do everything in its power to ease your suffering, but it cannot do much: We have reached a dead-end with a despicable neighbor who has no sense and who apparently enjoys suffering. There’s no solution to the current situation.
Cost of fortification
A few years ago when the first Intifada broke out, Palestinian snipers fired into the homes and shop windows of Gilo in Jerusalem. Remember? There was quite a bit of panic then and it was decided to fortify and block the windows facing the direction of fire from Beit Jala.The State of Israel and the Jerusalem municipality set to work only to be shocked: The price of fortification was so high that it would have been more sensible to build a new neighborhood somewhere else with a small supplement of funds.
Through a silent agreement between Avraham Shochat and Ehud Olmert, the process of fortification work was slowed down, and lo and behold, the sniper fire stopped as well.
Now, everyone calling for the fortification of Sderot, and perhaps this is a good thing. But it is not the solution. After spending hundreds of millions in fortifying Sderot, Hamas will laugh at us for milking us dry of our money and will go onto barraging other communities within range in the Negev. What should we do? Should we reinforce those too until we go bankrupt? Where should we stop the fortification? On Yosef Hanasi Street in Bat Yam? (And this doesn’t mean that public buildings shouldn’t be fortified in Sderot – that is mandatory).
What can we do, there is still no magic wand that will lead to a solution. There is none.