Israel NowThe israeli Foreign minister Avigdor Liberman claims that a cease fire with theHamas Terrorist organization is a mistake, the cease fire will allow Hamas to re-equip itself with weapons and missiles and get stronger until the next attack.
“What would you do?”:
The question Mr. liberman is posing is quite a difficult one. If one wants peace, one needs to cease fire, but if the other side’s interests are different and they will get more weapons until the next attack – it is a bad idea to stop the fighting.
Unfortunately, experience shows us that whenever Israel stopped the fire, the other side, be it Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hizbollah or whatever terrorist organization we were fighting, instead of striving for peace, they took advantage of the cease fire to buy more weapons and plan the next attack on Israeli civilians.
It is however somewhat frustrating, I am sure that there are Palestinians who really do want the fighting to stop, and really do want peace, but Israel as a country which had it’s share of lies being told and the acting of it’s enemies as if “all they want is peace”, cannot afford to loosen the grip – especially not when the Hamas is now on it’s knees and the IDF is in control, the Israel missile defense system “Iron Dome” made Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s attempts to kill Israeli civilians futile, the missile blow up in the air long before they reach the ground, and those who fired those missiles are often caught or shot dead.
To remember a movie quote from spiderman “…With great power comes great responsibility…” the quote is right but the question – what counts as power?
A high tech defense system shooting down the rockets and missiles? Or those who fire those rockets upon civilians?
