Cease Firing
The Security Council of the United Nations has issued a number of declarations pleading for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. These are both elected governments, it should be remembered; one of an established state, the other of a group of people aspiring to become a state. Hamas, which once existed as a terror militia, gained a measure of international recognition as a duly elected government.It has chosen not to abandon its original purpose, of destroying the State of Israel, and recovering the land upon which it was established to re-dedicate it to Islam, and render it back to the Palestinians. Who, in fact, never governed it, nor represented as a nation within it. Arabs governed by Egypt on the one hand, and Jordan on the other, now represent the residents of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, respectively.
Both Egypt and Jordan aspired to ownership of the land called Palestine, now divided into Israel and the two Palestinian territories. Military conquest of joined Arab armies proved incapable of dislodging Israel from existence, and she is now an well established reality. Which has not eliminated the continued hope for her destruction courtesy of Syria, Iran, and their proxy militias.
Hamas, although it has directly and deliberately provoked Israel into finally responding to the continued violent assaults on Israel's people, through a defensive reaction, demands that Israel withdraw its forces before it will stop launching rockets. Eight years of rocket-launching into Israel remains the cause of the IDF offensive into Gaza.
What kind of sense does it make for a terror-inspired government of a beleaguered people to insist that those whom they have compelled to respond, draw back before they will themselves agree to desist in their violence? Hamas, in their delusional aspirations and understanding of reality, insists that Israel and Egypt open all border crossings.
What planet do they inhabit? A full, unimpeded flow of people, humanitarian aid shipments and in effect the opportunity for normalcy could, and would ensue were Hamas to lay down its arms and its intent to destroy Israel. Simple as that. Were it to finally understand that it is incumbent upon it to withdraw from its intent to take the land Israel sits upon, to stop its rocket attacks, peace would be at hand.
Israel, for her part, knows it cannot stop, for to do so, is tantamount to allowing Hamas to continue its destructive intrusions into Israel. Hamas will simply resort to its old tactics of announcing a temporary hudna to allow itself the opportunity to continue smuggling arms into Gaza from Egypt, and resort again to launching more rocket attacks.
Its behaviour is like that of an unteachable adolescent, one who cries foul when its untenable and dangerous behaviour can no longer be tolerated, insistent that it has the right to do as it will, regardless of the deleterious impact on others, as well as itself. An intransigently stupid adolescent incapable of looking beyond its selfish interests, blind to the results of its actions.
So the response to the United Nations resolutions of withdrawal is simple enough and direct enough and self-explanatory. "No country in the world, even those preaching morals to us, would have shown the tolerance and restraint that we have. We have never agreed that anyone decide for us if we are allowed to strike at those who send missiles into our kindergartens and schools and we never will."
That address by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to his cabinet really needs no further explanation.
Labels: Israel, Political Realities
posted by Pieface @ Monday, January 12, 2009
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