What about the soldiers?
Soulmate and I have been closely monitoring the news this morning expecting the "cease fire" to collapse at any minute. We're frustrated and dismayed that several key issues seem to have been forgotten by the international community, the UN, and, surprisingly, the State of Israel:
1) Hezbollah is a TERRORIST group. Since when does ANYONE make agreements with TERRORISTS? By definition, they can't be trusted. Sure, they'll wait it out just long enough for the world to forget about this little "war". Then, as soon as no one is looking and many UNIFIL troops are deployed in south Lebanon (making it a potential disaster-scenario if Israel needs to go back), the TERRORISTS will be up to their old tricks. When the long arm of Israeli justice reaches out to crush them, they will once again cry foul and somehow Israel will come out looking like the bad guys (I can already see Hezbollah using UNIFIL posts as human shields in place of Lebanese women and children).
2) What about the soldiers that the terrorists kidnapped? Is the Israeli government really going to leave them to rot in the hads of the terrorists? Or will they work out a back-door deal with the terrorists and exchange "prisoners" - showing that terror really does pay?
All this said, I don't know how Israel could've come out of this whole debacle unscathed. So they push to the Litani and secure it. So what? What's to keep Hezbollah from launching rockets into Israel from Syria? They'll run and recruit more terrorists. There will always be more. We can't talk with them and we can't realistically wipe them from the face of the Earth. The only option left is to pray that H-shem takes care of it and sends moshiach speedily and soon.
Islamic terrorists remind me a little of a nasty weed we have been combatting in our yard for the past three months: the trumpet vine. This plant, a relative of the mostly-harmless flower morning glory, creeps around underground, sprouting virtually anywhere. It then grows to 20-30 feet in length, up and over whatever is in its path: the antenna of my Subaru, the rose bush, our lavender plants - anything. It will stop at nothing short of world domination. It took three applications of Round Up to even begin to kill some of the vines. Rumor has it that it can grow beneath streets and appear in the neighbor's yard across the street. Pulling it has little effect - a new plant sprouts from every break. There is no getting rid of it. We can only hope to contain it and get it to a level where we only have to lay the smack down on it once in awhile.
1) Hezbollah is a TERRORIST group. Since when does ANYONE make agreements with TERRORISTS? By definition, they can't be trusted. Sure, they'll wait it out just long enough for the world to forget about this little "war". Then, as soon as no one is looking and many UNIFIL troops are deployed in south Lebanon (making it a potential disaster-scenario if Israel needs to go back), the TERRORISTS will be up to their old tricks. When the long arm of Israeli justice reaches out to crush them, they will once again cry foul and somehow Israel will come out looking like the bad guys (I can already see Hezbollah using UNIFIL posts as human shields in place of Lebanese women and children).
2) What about the soldiers that the terrorists kidnapped? Is the Israeli government really going to leave them to rot in the hads of the terrorists? Or will they work out a back-door deal with the terrorists and exchange "prisoners" - showing that terror really does pay?
All this said, I don't know how Israel could've come out of this whole debacle unscathed. So they push to the Litani and secure it. So what? What's to keep Hezbollah from launching rockets into Israel from Syria? They'll run and recruit more terrorists. There will always be more. We can't talk with them and we can't realistically wipe them from the face of the Earth. The only option left is to pray that H-shem takes care of it and sends moshiach speedily and soon.
Islamic terrorists remind me a little of a nasty weed we have been combatting in our yard for the past three months: the trumpet vine. This plant, a relative of the mostly-harmless flower morning glory, creeps around underground, sprouting virtually anywhere. It then grows to 20-30 feet in length, up and over whatever is in its path: the antenna of my Subaru, the rose bush, our lavender plants - anything. It will stop at nothing short of world domination. It took three applications of Round Up to even begin to kill some of the vines. Rumor has it that it can grow beneath streets and appear in the neighbor's yard across the street. Pulling it has little effect - a new plant sprouts from every break. There is no getting rid of it. We can only hope to contain it and get it to a level where we only have to lay the smack down on it once in awhile.
posted by Sarah at 10:40
1 Comments:
You've succinctly captured the situation. I share your frustration over the exact same issues. The ceasefire is such a crock. Hezbollah=weeds with guns and a martyr complex....
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