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Israel Softens Stance on Cease-Fire ConditionsPosted on Jul 17, 2006The Israeli prime minister appeared to drop his country’s insistence that Hezbollah must be dismantled before Israel discontinues its attack. (You have to scan down the article to see the “softening.” Israel is still demanding release of its two captured soldiers, a cessation of rocket attacks on Israel, and the deployment of the Lebanese army along the border.)
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By r, July 18, 2006 at 11:23 am Link to this comment
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It’s the Perin Doctrine being openly embraced by the major Western leaderships. By openly and shamelessly waging aggressive war against civilian infrastructure supposedly for three prisoners of war, and having Western leaders cheer them on, they are all telling the world that they believe Yakov Perin’s claim that a million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail, and the Western leaders are telling us that they believe this too.
I also see that Israel’s excuses for this war are so obviously false and are lies to insult the intelligence of all and yet the media and Western leaders accept them uncritically. If Israel says it, they say, it must be true. I guess the Jewish race is programmed to be incapable of lying, they seem to think.
Report thisBy JSD, July 17, 2006 at 1:47 pm Link to this comment
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Has anyone else noticed that the Israeli leadership cant have been caring too much about their captured soldiers in Gaza and Lebanon. Presumably they did not know where they were but nevertheless started throwing quantities of ordinance any part of which could have killed their own captured soldiers.
My thoughts on the whole are that these overbearing responses by Israel are a reflection of something deeply troubling in the Israelis. And, whatever the nature of this may be, the U.S. has a responsibility to be involved in every case of violence between Israel and its neighbors. Our responsibility is first of all to try to restore peace. Israel is a U.S. client state. Not to respond is criminal on the part of the U.S.
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