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Let's move the war online

If facts in field are not important anymore, why can we not war like David, Goliath?

Our Government tells us that we won the war, the opposition claims precisely the opposite. The Arabs on the other side are equally divided in their evaluation of the results. Let us be honest to ourselves, who won or lost is really irrelevant in so far we gained or did not gain a chance for having some years of quietness and sanity.

 

True, the damage and specially the loss of life on both sides seem to be a terrible price to pay for tranquility, we have learned through human history, peace is achieved only by war. Thus we need wars to give us peace, but why start a war?

 

Our defense is as always: "They started it," which reminds me of my brothers and I sitting around the table, and me complaining to my mother, "I did nothing and he kicked me back".

 

Did you notice, the entire world interfered (verbally) blaming and claiming atrocities on both sides, without trying really to find out, what is true or not, as most of this war was fought in front of the television camera reporting facts and figures that never happened.

 

The reality is not relevant

By increasing the number of victims or publishing faked photos, exaggerated reports of sufferings, etc. made the real situation on the ground irrelevant. We saw the American and British television crews showing anti-Israeli faked reports, while their Governments fully backed Israel's war efforts, both in sending us military equipment and backing us in the UN S.C.

 

If the facts in the field are not important anymore, why can we not war like David and Goliath, which was a duel between two fighters, whereby it was agreed on both sides, that the loser's team lost the war.

 

The battle was between little David (Israel's champion) and the Giant Goliath (representing the Philistines), our biblical correspondents tell us that David (the shepherd) killed the giant by shooting with a catapult and hitting him hard in the eye with a tiny stone, so hard, it penetrated his skull and killed him.

 

The local Philistine press reported the same battle in another version, they claimed that David cowardly used a catapult (instead of a sword or hammer, fighting equipment, acceptable in a duel between two fighters), with which he killed the giant hero before the fight started.

 

Of course they claimed foul play, but they kept to the agreement, and the war was won by the Jews. The duel between David and Goliath was in actual fact the noblest way to conduct a war, by giving the two leaders to duel and according the outcome decide who won the war. It is much more civilized than having two armies bashing each other and killing innocent bystanders.

 

Let's take it online

If we translate this warring system in "up to date" high technology, we could arrange a cyberspace battle with our Northern neighbors. I am sure that we could save many lives and reduce the damage on both sides, and let us be fair, most of the war is today conducted in cyberspace, with remote controlled weapons, airplanes, etc.

 

What is the difference if the pilot feels a little movement of the plane's wing, when he drops a half ton bomb, and kills innocent bystanders, or when the cyberspace player, pushing the same type of button, kills cyberspace soldiers?

 

I suggest to conduct this cyberspace war on the border in Metulah, were once we had our "Good Fence", inviting the entire world to see the battle of Giants. I am sure that this would promote the tourist industry much better than our last war, which we won / lost.

 


פרסום ראשון: 10.05.06, 14:40
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