Societies dispensing the advice of proportionate response have often reacted with less restraint than countries they warn against "overreacting." Certainly Israel has tolerated insurgents terrorizing civilian populations to a much greater extent than the U. S. (or, for that matter, Canada) ever would. In Canada, prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act in response to a few mailbox bombs and two kidnappings by the Front de liberation du Quebec. Agree with Trudeau or not, it took just one murder (Pierre Laporte), one maiming (Sergeant-Major Walter Leja) and one abduction (James Cross) to send tanks rumbling down the streets of Montreal in 1970.The rest.
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Proportionate hypocrisy
George Jonas puts it in perspective:
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Proportional response is the last gasp of a feble minded liberal.
For Gods sakes, they have been bombing and shooting etc at Israel for years.
Now they are getting their asses booted, we are supposed to swallow the pap about proportional response.
Who makes this shit up, it's gotta be someone from the UN, nobody else could spew this nonsense with a straight face.
A good but short article on what is going on at gaza. http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4909.shtml
It seems to me that every time Israel, the US or Canada becomes involved with the Middle East, it's because of Oil.
There's always a great conspiracy around the corner and the REEEEEL reason is because of oil, gas etc.
Notwithstanding the fact that these muderouse idiots have been killing their own people, killing Israelies and anyone else who happens to be walking by.
It's because of natural gas.
you make my head hurt.
Anon,
Peripheral at best. But don't take my word for it:
In an apparent message to Hamas, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister and the Arab League chief on Wednesday blamed the divisions between Fatah and Hamas for Israel's attacks in Gaza, and urged them to unite to help end the fighting at an urgent Arab League meeting.
"This terrible massacre would not have happened if the Palestinian people were united behind one leadership and one voice," Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said, at the opening of the league meeting in Cairo.
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Pro-US Arab countries - Egypt, in particular - have come under heavy criticism in widespread street protests, as well as from Iran, Hamas and Hizbullah, for allegedly not doing enough to stop Israel or help Gazans.
Officials and pro-government media in Egypt and Saudi Arabia have responded by blaming Hamas for provoking Israel and accusing the Islamist group of being a proxy promoting the power of regional rival Iran.
Faisal's words, aimed at his Palestinian brothers, were unusually harsh for an Arab summit and are believed to be targeted at Hamas, which recently rejected Egypt's attempts to facilitate reconciliation talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Echoing sentiments expressed by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak the day before, Faisal charged that the division between the Fatah-dominated PA and Hamas opened the door for Israel to attack.
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