As most know now, Hezbollah – that sick barbarian culture known to our mainstream media as “militants” – has been shelling Northern Israel. Broadcasting on Al-Manar (Hezbollahvision), they have demanded yet another prisoner exchange. According to Haaretz: The group in particular emphasized the release of Lebanese militant Samir Kuntar, jailed in Israel since a 1979 attack in the northern town of Nahariyah, in which he entered an apartment and murdered three family members and an Israeli police officer. Most societies would already have put a man like that to death but death penalty averse Israel did not. Of course the MSM will not note that either.
What exactly is the point of Hizbellah shelling Israel? It would seem to me that after awhile they would just lose steam and move on to other things, but year after year it goes on.
> death penalty averse Israel
That is the problem in a nutshell, Roger. Israel is desparate to fight their enemies by avoiding death as much as possible. In so doing, they cause just enough casualties to give their enemies a propaganda victory(due in no small part by Hamas/IJ/Hizbullah positioning themselves to draw maximum civilian collateral damage). At the same time, they do not inflict nearly enough pain to make the Pali Psychotic Death Cult reconsider its methods. So the crisis continues unabated punctuated by periodic hot spots like the present. Lather, rinse and repeat.
If Israel really wants the never-ending war to end they have to take the gloves off, give the West the one finger salute, and utterly destroy Palestine like we did Germany and Japan at the end of WWII. Until that happens the suicide bombings, kidnappings and shootings are the predictable contrapunt to Israel’s half-baked military solutions.
Way back in the 19th century the Cherokee were given a choice, either agree to live peacefully with the United States of America, or get moved to where you can present no threat to the U. S.
A few Cherokee tribes took the first option. Most got moved to the Oklahoma territory.
We’re seeing much the same situation with Israel and Palestine. Only this time Israel has no place to but the intransigent Palestinians. They just don’t have the space. The only real option they have is to exile the Palestinians, because the Palestinians have shown they cannot be trusted at all.
For Israel to be safe Palestine must die.
“What exactly is the point of Hizbellah shelling Israel?”.
They get to kill innocent Jews. Very simple, really.
It’s good time to remind people who Samir Kuntar is, and why he’s in jail. From a 2003 Washington Post op-ed:
Wrote about it here.