Sudden Fury
Jul. 5th, 2006 03:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
i_kenderThat bloody Israeli cabinet and their goddamned Prime Minister...!! Just when things were gradually getting better...
Israel plans retaliation for rocket strike: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1813199,00.html
"Israel's security cabinet approved the re-occupation of parts of the Gaza Strip today in response to a Palestinian rocket strike...
...Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, called the strike a 'major escalation' and vowed harsh retaliation, while his cabinet colleague, Zeev Boim, said: 'As far as I'm concerned, the people of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya [northern Gaza] can start packing.' "
GREAT! Wonderful idea! That'll end the hostilites! Have you learned nothing from the Cold War about the escalation of violence? Do the words Mutally Assured Destruction mean nothing to you?! These fucking people... why do they have to be the ones with the power to pull the trigger?!
(Just to be clear, I'm not blindly one-sided on this issue. I don't hold Hamas' military arm and Palestinian militants to be blameless in this, and of course I don't condone their kidnapping of Israeli soldiers, young or otherwise. But it makes me *absolutely furious* that in one casual step, the Israeli goverment blithely undoes years of hard-won detente! ARGH!!)
This is why I don't talk politics. It's bad for my blood pressure and the eardrums of those standing nearby.
Israel plans retaliation for rocket strike: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1813199,00.html
"Israel's security cabinet approved the re-occupation of parts of the Gaza Strip today in response to a Palestinian rocket strike...
...Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, called the strike a 'major escalation' and vowed harsh retaliation, while his cabinet colleague, Zeev Boim, said: 'As far as I'm concerned, the people of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya [northern Gaza] can start packing.' "
GREAT! Wonderful idea! That'll end the hostilites! Have you learned nothing from the Cold War about the escalation of violence? Do the words Mutally Assured Destruction mean nothing to you?! These fucking people... why do they have to be the ones with the power to pull the trigger?!
(Just to be clear, I'm not blindly one-sided on this issue. I don't hold Hamas' military arm and Palestinian militants to be blameless in this, and of course I don't condone their kidnapping of Israeli soldiers, young or otherwise. But it makes me *absolutely furious* that in one casual step, the Israeli goverment blithely undoes years of hard-won detente! ARGH!!)
This is why I don't talk politics. It's bad for my blood pressure and the eardrums of those standing nearby.
