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Monday, January 5, 2009 12:00 AM

Why Israelis support the Gaza offensive

Israel's post-traumatic war is not just about stopping Hamas rockets, but about repairing reputations -- and erasing the stain of failure.

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  • Wednesday, January 7, 2009 10:50 AM

    "By any means necessary!" Motto of Israel's 4th Reich.

    Israel does not fight wars. War implies battles between equals. Israel fights only weaker "enemies," usually to steal their land. It "crushes," employs an "iron fist," and uses other Gestapo-like actions against "lessers" it's already weakened. It is a nation of pampered, powerful, pretentious punks.

    >> 1 Dead Jew in, say, Canoga Park or Brussels - for every dead Palestinian.

    > I take it you're volunteering to shoot them, Herr Fuhrer?

    His point was that Israel does what it does because, like WWII Germany, it thinks itself superior... militarily and morally. It forgets that its victims WILL find ways to fight back. Arabs would be fools to use tactics that put them at a disadvantage.

    Suicide bombers, I'm sure, would prefer going mana-o-mano against equally-armed Israelis. The chickenshite IDF won't let that happen (Look how quickly they turned tail in Lebanon!). It only attacks when it thinks it can win. So why should its victims abide by Queensberry Rules when Israel doesn't?

    As for suicide bombings, Americans have always volunteered for missions they knew they'd never come back from. We think them honorable. Why, then, call Arabs ignoble for doing the same?

    As for "terrorists" targeting civilians, the IDF that kills kids today merely repeats the tactics of the Stern Gang and others Jewish thugs during Israel's hellacious founding. They terrorized the "enemy" by killing civilians.

    So again: Why shouldn't Jews around the world be targeted?

    A child's family is killed by IDF cluster bombs. He saw the whole world watch and do nothing. so why wouldn't he want to kill a Jewish family in turn? He can't reach one in Israel, but he CAN in another country. Think he won't? He's seen the glee the IDF takes when killing Gaza's civilians.

    Israel forever yammers about representing all Jews and Judaism. Pampered and US-protected, its IDF Caligulas wax rhapsodic when recounting its killing of Arabs. It makes them feel better about failures... like Nazi camp guards playing "Pin The Bayonet Tail On Jewish Donkeys."

    Why wouldn't "subhuman" Arabs, given the chance for payback, take it?

    Israel says it's more moral than any other country, then whines when its myriad failings are pointed out.

    Time to disappear, Israel. Go the way of other rogue states.

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