MR Attempts an Answe to the Question: How Could They Be So Stupid? (Summer Rain Is Not Just About Freeing Shalit)
What total crap:
Israeli troops and Hamas gunmen clashed inside southern Gaza on Saturday in one of the worst exchanges of fire since Israeli forces launched an assault to free a soldier abducted by Palestinian militants.
Nothing but total myopic, ahistorical crap:
Military planners dubbed their Gaza attack plan "Summer Rain." It's a fitting image for how many Israelis have followed the operations to shake Hamas: watching closely as the storm gathered, then losing interest as it rolled on. Creating much noise but few casualties, the offensive to free a kidnapped teenage soldier has not come close to stirring Israel's collective spirit like the Lebanon invasion in the 1980s, or the wave of Palestinian suicide bombings that tailed off last year.
This passage is like what a good newspaper article would be, if the goal of the article was to give you exactly the wrong idea of what's actually happening.
Read this slowly: Summer Rain is not a rescue mission. Rescuing a single kidnapped soldier is part of it, but that rescue is not the cause of the campaign. Summer Rain did not begin as a rescue mission. Were Shalit to be released today in good health, it would do nothing to vitiate the justice of Israel's impending Gaza campiagn.
"Summer Rain" is the result of months of Hamas and Fatah military and terrorist action against Israel, which included at one point sustained bombings of Israeli towns and villages. Israel - having often been told that it has little to fear from Arab intransigence because it has the region's most powerful military - intends to make use of part of that military to redress these harms. .
This is a military reaction by a sovereign nation state in response to an act of war committed by the sitting party of an internationally recognized government. Israel is undertaking what will hopefully be a full-fledged military campaign. That Hamas kidnapped an Israeli soldier and is holding him captive would certainly justify that campaign. But so would:
* infiltrating an internationally recognized border and attacking a military base
* killing two Israeli soldiers on Israeli soil
* rocket attacks on Israeli civilian targets
Simply freeing Shalit can't resolve "the" crises, because Summer Rain is a response to several independent attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians by the government of the Palestinian Authority. The only way the sophisticates who get their news from the MSM could think otherwise is if the MSM never bothered including all of those other justifications in their stories. Hey, wait a minute...
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
Israeli troops and Hamas gunmen clashed inside southern Gaza on Saturday in one of the worst exchanges of fire since Israeli forces launched an assault to free a soldier abducted by Palestinian militants.
Nothing but total myopic, ahistorical crap:
Military planners dubbed their Gaza attack plan "Summer Rain." It's a fitting image for how many Israelis have followed the operations to shake Hamas: watching closely as the storm gathered, then losing interest as it rolled on. Creating much noise but few casualties, the offensive to free a kidnapped teenage soldier has not come close to stirring Israel's collective spirit like the Lebanon invasion in the 1980s, or the wave of Palestinian suicide bombings that tailed off last year.
This passage is like what a good newspaper article would be, if the goal of the article was to give you exactly the wrong idea of what's actually happening.
Read this slowly: Summer Rain is not a rescue mission. Rescuing a single kidnapped soldier is part of it, but that rescue is not the cause of the campaign. Summer Rain did not begin as a rescue mission. Were Shalit to be released today in good health, it would do nothing to vitiate the justice of Israel's impending Gaza campiagn.
"Summer Rain" is the result of months of Hamas and Fatah military and terrorist action against Israel, which included at one point sustained bombings of Israeli towns and villages. Israel - having often been told that it has little to fear from Arab intransigence because it has the region's most powerful military - intends to make use of part of that military to redress these harms. .
This is a military reaction by a sovereign nation state in response to an act of war committed by the sitting party of an internationally recognized government. Israel is undertaking what will hopefully be a full-fledged military campaign. That Hamas kidnapped an Israeli soldier and is holding him captive would certainly justify that campaign. But so would:
* infiltrating an internationally recognized border and attacking a military base
* killing two Israeli soldiers on Israeli soil
* rocket attacks on Israeli civilian targets
Simply freeing Shalit can't resolve "the" crises, because Summer Rain is a response to several independent attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians by the government of the Palestinian Authority. The only way the sophisticates who get their news from the MSM could think otherwise is if the MSM never bothered including all of those other justifications in their stories. Hey, wait a minute...
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
