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Head to head: Is our deterrence gone?
Hagai Segal and Amir Peleg
Published: 24.08.11, 10:18
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31. #26 Solomon Mizrahi
Israeli 2   (08.25.11)
I agree with you 100%.
32. Hagai Segal makes a better case
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (08.25.11)
Too further boost his argument with my own well known position: Destroy Hamas - completely. Expel the Arabs from ALL of Israel including Jerusalem, Golan Heights, Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Annex Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Resettle Gaza with Jews. Build addional Jewish/Israeli cities in Judea and Samaria. Get rid of...the Al Aqsa mosque and build up the Holy Israelite Temple on the Temple Mount. Then turn Lebanon and Hizbollah into a big pile of sand, dust, gravel, garbage and ruins. Finally: completely seal the Israeli-Egyptian border. Problem solved. Case closed.
33. to 32
jasmin   (08.25.11)
innocent question ..are you in your home or in a tent ??
34. Deterrence only works when it is used
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (08.25.11)
Because the Arabs get sabre rattling instead of action, they don't believe - hell I don't believe them. There is much we can do short of invasion that would work, but have we ever attempting any one of them - hell no because we have gutless and sightless wonders ruling the country. The Arabs have never won a war period. They have learned nothing from us, but our leaders have learned to lie as much as the Arabs do. We need to stop learning from the Arabs and regain our deterrence immediately.
35. What deterrence? Israel failed to deliver.
Spencer ,   Israel   (08.25.11)
YES! Our meager response to the bombardment of Beersheba and Ashdod will be interpreted by Gazans as terrible Jewish weakness. It appears that our present Monister of Defence is running scared just as he ran away from a previous incident when some of our soldiers were killed in an accident some years ago.
36. To nr 33 - Innocent question: What are you talking about?
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (08.25.11)
37. Deterence
kevin ,   Seattle, usa   (08.25.11)
Obviously a campaign is needed to take the offensive back from these terrorists, I definitely agree with the writer in the sense that the Gaza strip should be leveled. That sends an unwavering message that Israel will not tolerate any acts of terrorism on its Citizens. That message would kill two birds with one stone, the other being the constant babble coming from surrounding states that Israel is not a threatening force, and I believe the leveling of The Gaza Strip would definitely send a message to the radical islamic republic of Iran.
38. Restraint is Hurting Israel
deborah lurya ,   irvine   (08.27.11)
Yes Israel has been harmed by its policies of restraint in dealing with its life long enemies- restraint has done absolutely nothing for Israel, however it has bought the enemy time, to strengthen its resolve, its armies, to train and acquire sophisticated armaments and to spread the BIG LIE. The arabs are draining israel of precious manpower, while the Arabs increase in military acumen and strength. there is no benefit to putting off the inevitable- we have an enemy who vows to kill us, and is doing so as we speak, in a methodological planned attack- a war of attrition. We are being bled to death- slowly. Weakening us for the final slaughter.
39. To #32 Alexander, very good except ...
John ,   Alaska   (08.28.11)
Large portions of Lebanon and Syria is actually your land. For the same reason you're not going to conduct saturation bombing in Gaza, you won't reduce Lebanon to rubble. You'll have that land soon enough; you were promised it. Do the rest though: annex your land, tear down the temple to the false god and work on rebuilding the real temple to Ha'Shem!
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