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When attacked by a wild animal you don't negotiate or ask what rules it wants to use in the fight. You strike it down without mercy and without remorse. If you are attacked by a pack of wild animals you fight savagely and without restraint until all of them are dead or neutralized. To do otherwise doesn't mean facing ignominious defeat. It means you move down the food chain and become an entrée!
The only way Israel can regain its deterrence in the region after this recent debacle is to make it clear to all that, from this day forward, we will play by whatever rules our enemies are willing to honor.
No Rules = No Restraint.
If our towns and cities are fair game… so are yours. Don't complain that our weapons are better, or more powerful. You should have thought of that before attacking us.
If you portray the killing of civilians as heroic, then we will surpass you in heroism. Don't cry to the world about your precious civilians and then prepare a national celebration to honor a monster who deliberately destroyed a family, and whose final act before being captured was to gleefully crush the skull of a small child against a rock.
If our soldiers won't enjoy the protections of the Geneva Conventions… neither will yours. A dead prisoner will be worth a dead prisoner in any exchange. If we run out of dead prisoners to trade, we will make more. As you've ably demonstrated today, live prisoners can be unapologetically turned into dead ones quite easily.
The above was written as a reaction to the release yesterday by Israel of Samir Kuntar (plus four other criminals and 200 bodies) to Hezbollah in exchange for the bodies of two dead Israeli soldiers that had been kidnapped and held as ransom, along with the national celebration that occurred in Lebanon to welcome this child-killer back home.
Read the whole thing before you comment (I just quoted a section from the middle). Also, read the followup post by the blogger's wife, Zahava: An Elusive Prophecy. Here is its conclusion:
Throughout all this, one thing remains crystal clear to me: Until such time as Israel's existence is finally recognized and her people are accepted as full and legitimate global citizens, Isaiah's elusive prophecy; 'Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more', will remain nothing more than a bunch of empty words carved in stone outside the United Nations, designed to allow apologists for murderer's to sleep at night.
