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Commentary;
More familiar hot air refrains, delaying tactics to avoid taking serious action. Been there, done that! We’ve heard it all before; countless times before. Barak’s comments to the residents of Ashkelon can be best summed up by the old American TV mortgage loan commercial which opens with an aged mortgage officer answering phone calls from anxious applicants with a no sense shared urgency response; “Any day now, any day now.”
Those who think that Barak’s words were substantive should read these comments from Labor Knesset Member and former Defense Minister Binyamin (Fuad) Ben Eliezer who is indicative of the Israeli government mindset of sacrificing Jewish life and limb in the name of distorted Western morality of protecting enemy lives;
“There would be nothing easier than to end the terrorism from Gaza – but we as Jews take more moral responsibility and therefore exercise more self-restraint than any other nation in the world.”
And then there is prime minister Olmert, who IMRA’s Dr. Aaron Lerner notes;
Admitted that, under his command, Israel has yet to use the IDF “in a serious manner” to defend the citizens of Israel in his welcoming remarks upon President Bush’s arrival in Israel.
An opinion on the Ynet website posits; We forgot how to fight; “Our leaders busy coming up with excuses for avoiding tougher military moves.”
Olmert’s words;
“We hope that we will not have to act against Hamas in other ways with the military power that Israel has not yet started to use in a serious manner in order to stop it.”
This author harkens back for contrast to the chapter of former prime minister Menachem Begin’s (z”l) book “The Revolt” which was entitled; “We Fight, Therefore We Are.”
And then further contrast Olmert’s words in greeting president Bush with his shallow, empty, bogus words of Yom HaZicharon; “Our Existence Depends on Our Willingness to Defend Ourselves.”
Then note how the regime’s equivocation in acting to defend the populace emboldens the Islamics and those who believe their lies; History According to Hamas: Tel Aviv was Arab City [Also, Ashdod, Ashkelon].
What is meant in this context is that which this blog has repeatedly asserted; that if we don’t assert our Biblical, religious, historical and Divine legacy to Hevron, Beit El, Shilo, Homesh, Gush Katif and more, what then makes our connection, our claims to Tel Aviv, Ramat Aviv or Haifa or Netanya, or any part of the Land more valid sovereign property of the Jews, of Medinat Yisrael?
Not being a betting man, this author wouldn’t hold his breath waiting for the current configuration of Israeli governance to get serious in carrying out its solemn obligation of national defense, of defense of its Jewish constituency, of defense of Jewish Sovereignty over the Land of Israel. MB
Barak: Ashkelon Residents Won’t Have to Endure Rockets for Long
Excerpts;
Hours after a Grad-type Katyusha rocket slammed into an Ashkelon mall Wednesday evening, wounding more than a dozen people, Defense Minister Ehud Barak promised residents of the city that Israel will not suffer continued attacks without responding.
“You guys need to bite your lips, but not for [long],” Barak said during a tour of the scene.
“This incident is not simple, and proves that despite the hits that the Palestinians are sustaining in Gaza, they are still shooting,” he said, adding that “if the rocket had hit a roof of a house, I would’ve been going to a funeral.”
Related report;
Here is a first-hand account of the Rocket attack on Chutzot Mall in Ashkelon by former Neve Dekalim resident Sara Layah Shomron, who by stroke of luck arrived early with her son for a doctor’s appointment and had left the mall area shortly before the attack.