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This Ongoing War!
25 August '11
http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2011/08/25-aug-11-still-more-rocket-barrages.html
It's hard to look at the reports of incoming barrages of rockets like those we describe below without drawing the inference that the terrorists of Gaza are engaged in deliberate provocation - taunting Israel by firing off rockets that have not the slightest pretensions to fulfilling a military or strategic role. Their strategy is plain: hit anything Israeli - houses, roads, shops, schools, factories, adults, children. And then hope that Israel's response comes. (The cabinet has voted for restraint several times since last Thursday, the day 8 Israelis were cold-bloodedly murdered in this latest chapter of an ongoing war.)
It's a strategy that counts (with justifiable confidence) on the apathy of reporters and their editors who have no intention of publishing news of yet more "home-made" weapons crashing into the desert sands. So long as Israelis are merely terrorized or injured and not killed, it's not headline-worthy.
But Israel's responses invariably are. Visit any of the news photo syndication agencies to see how they dwell on -- and therefore promote -- images of Gazan families bewailing the death of this or that admitted terrorist (or militant or activist, to adopt the language of BBC, France24, AP, Reuters and Xinhua), and of the injured receiving treatment in Gaza's hospitals.
Context is critical in understanding cause and effect. The Gazan terrorists understand well that Israeli military responses to the indiscriminate and increased fire directed at southern Israel for the past week will be what sets the global news agenda.
That's why it's vital for us to communicate to an apathetic world how the fire from Gaza keeps being renewed and escalated. As we've mentioned here, Israeli intelligence assessments are that there are about ten thousand rockets stockpiled in Gaza, every last one of them intended to blow something Israeli up.
This evening's talley so far, as recorded by the Hebrew-language Yeshanews.com website:
6:15 pm - Rocket on its way to Eshkol region
6:20 pm - Rocket crash detected in Merhavim region
6:20 pm - Additional rocket crash reported adjacent to one of the moshavim in Eshkol region
6:25 pm - Additional rocket on its way to Eshkol region
6:35 pm - Rocket crashed and exploded on the outskirts of the southern city of Ashkelon
7:15 pm - Rocket crashed and exploded adjacent to one of the kibbutzim in the Sha'ar Hanegev region
7:40 pm - Rocket on its way into Hof Ashkelon region. (Ynet confirms 3 rocket explosions are recorded in last 30 minutes.)
No one here is predicting a quiet night.
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Sarah Honig is correct, Israel gets no justice from her Arab neighbors and not from the international community or even from out nominal allies and patrons.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet withal, nobody takes any serious actions to suppress Israeli military actions, or impose sanctions, or even threaten intervention to "protect" the Palestinians.
This is because most reasoned observers realize that there is nothing going regarding Israel on that hasn't been going on for decades, and that ther is quite literally nothing anyone can do to make any improvements in the situation as long as the entire Arab world is hostile towards Israel and the Palestinians continue to want to destroy Israel.
So the Palestinians make more unprovoked attacks on Israeli civilians, Israel retaliates, more Palestinian attacks on Israel occur, more Israeli retaliation, and then a tense quiet descends for a few months.
Given the fact that the US and Europe are focussed on the civil wars in Libya and Syria, Israel should keep as low a profile as possible and let these two wars continue to garner the world's attention.
So the Egyptian ambassador claims that Egypt prevented an all out Israeli counterattack on the Palestinian terrorist regime in Gaza, so what?
I would like to think that our Israeli government figured that one out on it's own as being a really counterproductive idea and is sticking to surgical air strikes to kill the Palestinian terrorists and their masters.