July 14, 2006
Ahem
Whenever I write anything about Europe, I get my European friends commenting "not everyone in Europe thinks like that", etc.
Well, Jacques Chirac is speaking for you all:
"I find honestly -- as all Europeans do -- that the current reactions are totally disproportionate," he said in a live television interview on France's national Bastille Day.
And I'll tell you, honestly, that the day Israel cares even a little about what France thinks is the day they can completely surrender to the terrorists.
I can feel myself getting heated when I think about European reaction to what Israel is doing. What part of survival do they not understand? How do they want Israel to live this way? I can imagine if missiles were being lobbed from time to time into various European countries. What would they do? What if their soldiers were kidnapped, tortured, killed? And don't tell me about what Israel does wrong. Israel gave away Gaza and was prepared to give away more. In exchange, the Palestinian people elected Hamas as their government, the same Hamas that refuses to recognize the existence of Israel and whose goal is Israel's destruction. What would you like Israel to do? There is no more talking, any more than there could be for us with bin Laden.
People commented that I sounded glib in my last post on this and that it may have sounded like I was rooting for war. I see that Israel has two options: fight or die. I want them to fight. What does Europe want them to do?
Posted by Karol at July 14, 2006 01:02 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Israel Lebanon Palestinians
Post Chirac's email so your european friends can bitch directly to him for misrepresenting his beliefs as theirs.
Posted by: shawn at July 14, 2006 02:29 PMI can't decide which Sean Connery quote from The Untouchables fits best here.
I think I'll go with both, amended as necessary:
"Isn't that just like [France]? Brings a knife to a gun fight."
"You wanna know how you do it? Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue."
Posted by: Charles at July 14, 2006 02:31 PMWhile I appreciate what Karol is saying, France helped bail Israel out before (where do you think the Mirages that ensured air supremacy for Israel in 1967 came from?) though things have never been the same since the return of de Galle. Having said that,I suspect France remains one of Israel's top trade partners despite all the sneering. I don't think Israel has the luxury of ignoring global opinion until it can stand on its own feet economically. I mean where would Israel be without the hard earned taxdollars of the hardworking American public?
Posted by: Von Bek at July 14, 2006 02:33 PMThe euroweenies are running scared that this will spark the muslim hordes living like vipers in their homelands. Israel has been more than patient as they are bombed daily and then asked by the rest of the west to not retaliate. This has been coming for a long time and I think its needed doing. The islamic cancer can no longer be ignored or appeased. If they (arabs/muslim/whatever) want to be left alone, they need to do the same. The Lebanese are complicit as they have allowed iran to use them for their bitch to fight the Jews. Iran is the head. Kill the head. GO TEAM ISRAEL. God Bless you and Protect you.
Posted by: Theresa at July 14, 2006 04:21 PMI mean where would Israel be without the hard earned taxdollars of the hardworking American public?
Quietly becoming a player on the global technology scene.
np. Rush - Bastille Day
Posted by: Shawn at July 15, 2006 12:23 AMSo Shawn, the billions of dollars of yearly aid are just holding them back? Heh.
Posted by: Sam L. at July 15, 2006 08:15 AMThe destruction of civilians and infrastructure is a war crime. How is blowing up an airport or a bridge going to stop Hezbollah?
I have to say though, that Hamas, Hezbollah and Al-Queada must be delighted with the latest bombings. How else do they recruit?
How is blowing up an airport or a bridge going to stop Hezbollah?
By making it harder to move around and cutting off their supplies.
Posted by: Shawn at July 15, 2006 07:44 PMIf any of you can get past the idea of lumping Europe together as a single enity then you might undesratnd why people say "not everyone in europe thinks like this"
Posted by: at July 16, 2006 09:58 AMgood point bryan,
Also the gov't of Lebanon doesn't have the power to stop Hezbollah, blowing up their military won't help either.
Posted by: Dan at July 17, 2006 11:36 AM
