Few compare to The Jerusalem Post’s Sarah Honig in terms of her keen analyses of the Middle East. Yes, there are some…but Sarah truly is one of the best out there right now. Something about that name, perhaps…???
In one of her latest, Another Tack: Batman and the Iron Dome http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?ID=264041&R=R1, she points out the futility and extreme expense of fighting–but not to win.
That, in turn, brought back memories of my own frustration with such policies over the years. Given that the region is still business as usual, I’ve decided to share those thoughts from a decade ago (and now also a chapter in my book http://q4j-middle-east.com) with hopefully a new crop of readers. Let’s get started…
A family asleep in their own home gets decimated. Among the massacred, the 3-month old infant gets decapitated and her parents’ and two young siblings’ throats are slashed.
A young father and his infant son are killed while driving in their car, people are murdered on a bus, schools and homes are blasted by rockets, mortars, and missiles, and so forth.
Once again, after allegedly intelligent Jews traded over a thousand Arabs for one kidnapped soldier, Israel is bombarded daily with increasingly more powerful and longer distance weaponry. Many of the released Arab prisoners had blood on their hands and should have never been taken alive in the first place given the history of blackmail tied to such experiences. Even more recently, Israel was pounded by hundreds of Arab missiles in just a few days. The UN and the rest of the world did what they usually do–wag their fingers at the Arabs and then quickly lecture Jews to show restraint.