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ISRAEL'S WET DREAMS

Today, exactly one week ago, the "prisoner exchange" between Israel and Hizbullah took place.
While Hizbullah claimed it THE MAIN VICTORY for the organization in the last 20 years (*), in Israel - only few hours after the exchange took place - a flood of really extreme strange articles/opinions were published in the (bourgeois) press.
Following you can "enjoy" just one of them, published last Thursday in the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth (**):

Day of infamy

‘Civilized’ is euphemism for weak, helpless; terrorists deserve death penalty

I was a new oleh (Jewish immigrant to Israel) when the PFLP and two Germans hijacked a plane full of Israelis to Entebbe. I remember well those nail-biting days, the moral dilemma of freeing dangerous terrorists for live hostages; the idea that negotiations would just lead to more hijackings. But what other choice did we have? After all, they were in Uganda, so far away.

We found a way.

I will never forget the morning of July 4, 1976, waking up to the news. Our soldiers had gone in, at great personal risk. They had saved almost everyone, and killed the terrorists. We were not helpless victims anymore, the Jews. No, we were clever, and resourceful and courageous. We showed the world how to behave.

We led the way.

I woke up the morning of July 16, 2008 with quite another feeling. Our soldiers, kidnapped on our own land, not across any international border, are brought back to us in caskets after two years of sadistic playfulness with the hearts of their families by Hizbullah terrorists, who led us to believe they were alive. And in exchange for dead bodies, we turn over a despicable baby-killer, Samir Kuntar (***).

Oh, you will hear the boosters of the Israeli government sigh. What can we do? We are civilized and they are not. We care about our soldiers and their families.

No, I’m afraid you do not. If you cared, then you would have a death penalty for people like Kuntar, so that they too can be released in caskets. And if you cared, you would be intelligent enough, seeing our soldiers brought back to us dead, to have put a bullet through Kuntar and then turned him over to his friends.

Civilized is a euphemism for weak and helpless. Civilized is not a moral value, because we all know what Western civilization is capable of. Concentration camps. Civilian round-ups, the gassing of children. All this under the banner of laws and policemen and governments. On the other hand, the moral thing to do to a tried and convicted murderer like Kuntar is to spill his blood, because he has spilled the blood of others. That may not fit in with current civilized niceties, but let no one say it is immoral.
 

Ashamed to be Israeli today

When it comes to immoral, to release Kuntar to a hero’s welcome and the opportunity to murder others is on the top of the scale.
 

My government, the Israeli government, arranged this. They let it happen. They oversaw it and implemented it. I am deeply ashamed to be an Israeli today. And I’m not very proud of being a Jew either, if this is how a Jewish country behaves. To lead the world in ever more despicable acts of appeasement is nothing to be proud of. The torch we always carried, the “light unto the nations” has been blown out by the hot-air of our politicians.

If we cared about our soldiers, we would not be showing our enemies that kidnapping and terrorism pay. We would not be setting the stage for the next murderous terrorist raid and hostage standoff. We would be passing laws with a mandatory death penalty for convicted terrorists with blood on their hands, as well as their accomplices. We would be making these laws retroactive.

Then, we would be cutting off all water and electricity to Gaza until Gilad Shalit is released. If that didn’t work, we’d begin executions within one week, increasing the number convicted terrorists facing firing squads with each passing day until Gilad is returned to us safe and sound. And if that didn’t work, we would begin daily bombings of Gaza, with the same number and frequency of attacks that our own city Sderot has suffered over the past three years from the Gazans. Not civilized? Perhaps. But moral. Extremely moral.

My fantasy is that Israelis will rise up and overturn the political system which has left them with the dregs of their nation as leaders - a bunch of self-serving crooks and sycophants who will do anything to stay in office; an electoral system in which a party like Kadima, with its collection of felons and moral imbeciles, who got only 23% of the vote, is allowed to rule us into the ground. We have Mr. Olmert, and Ms. Livni, and Mr. Peres, and Mr. Ramon (a convicted sex offender, who is now in line to take over from Olmert) and many, many others to thank, for creating this day of infamy.
 

May G-d redeem us from them.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3569608,00.html

* But there are also others in Lebanon who are not really convinced of Hizbullah's so-called "victory"! Referring to the 2nd Lebanon War (Summer 2006) triggered by the abduction of two IDF soldiers (with the only aim to get "bargain chips" for a prisoner exchange with Israel!), a Lebanese Web site pointed out the following "net losses":
- 1200 civilians dead - 400 of them under 13
- 4400 civilians injured - 700 permanently
- one million displaced from their homes
- 125,000 housing units destroyed or damaged
- 80% of some southern villages destroyed
- 38,850,951 sq.m. contaminated by cluster bombs
- 188 wounded by cluster bombs - 67 of them children
- 20 killed by left-over cluster bombs - five of them children
- $5 billion in economic damages
- $15b. in long-term costs to the economy
- $64 million cleanup of 12,000 tons of oil
- 91 bridges destroyed..

** incl. about 90 (mostly mad) comments by readers! Check it out here!!

*** S. Kuntar's "very special" salute (well, I think that everyone knows the real f... meaning of the notoriously salute..) after his release from Israel, during the "Rally of Victory" in Beirut (7.17), organized by Hizbullah:

Related articles (based on interviews with S. Kuntar):

☞ 'The girl screamed. I don't remember anything else' (Guardian, 7.19)

☞ Allah Willing, I Will Kill More Israelis (documented by MEMRI)