Hagai Segal
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Searching for the rocket that fell in Eilat
Photo: Yair Sagi, Yedioth Ahronoth
Clearing trees on the Lebanese border
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United by hate for Israel
Op-ed: Effort to catalogue our enemies needles; they all share anti-Semitic desire to expel us
An old routine prompts us, after every hostile act at any hostile front, to invest great efforts in resolving the question of responsibility for the attack: Who did it this time?
The smoke was still billowing Monday morning at the bleeding rocket landing sites in the Gulf of Eilat when radio announcers ruled – based on God-knows-what – that the attacks were the work of Global Jihad, rather than some bored Bedouin in the Sinai or the Gaza-based Hamas.
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Shmuel Gordon
Op-ed: Rockets in Eilat, Lebanese provocation result of weakness detected by our enemies
A day later the fire resumed in the north, prompting our defense establishment to immediately point an accusing finger at some newly appointed division commander in the Lebanese army and explain to us that Nasrallah is currently preoccupied with the findings of the Hariri assassination report and has no time for trivialities.
Simultaneously, we saw the emergence of a fascinating debate on the question of whether Hezbollah is slyly penetrating the Lebanese army, or whether the Lebanese army is growing more radical all by itself.
Meanwhile, the ongoing Qassam attacks targeting the western Negev repeatedly reignite a similar discussion: Was it a Hamas or Islamic Jihad missile? Was it the work of the global al-Qaeda or local terror cells?
Same clenched fist
We are eager to convince ourselves that there is some kind of order and logic in the regional abuse we suffer; we aspire to draft an accurate map of threats, while repressing the rather homogenous makeup of Israel hate in the Middle East.Yet this is ridiculous. From a military standpoint, it may be important to know exactly who fires at us each time and where he lives. However, in terms of the essence of the issue we can spare ourselves the effort.
The despicable people who bombed Eilat and the archenemies who killed the battalion commander on the northern border are merely different fingers in the same clenched fist. All of them hate us equally.
As result of propaganda constraints, they adopt different pretexts for their attacks, yet the overwhelming majority among them are driven by an anti-Semitic desire to permanently expel us from our country. They don’t want us in Eilat, or in a northern border community, or in Ashkelon, or in Gush Etzion.
The time has come to accord all of them the same treatment, in order to minimize the chances of them ever celebrating our defeat in a jointly organized party.
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