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AddReply(272937,"Help Gazans return home to Egypt","jew","israel","02/02/08","Genesis10-13&14");
AddReply(272829,"don\'t have a solution is no excuse","Hal","USA","02/01/08","First of all gil might be right if we don\'t believe G-d so \"we\" need to come up with a solution.\nIf we believe in G-d and accept that He gave us \"defensible borders\" in 1967, then we do as Jews have been doing since we became a nation. Find out what G-d has to say about this - by seeng what Torah has to say about it.\nNot to get very technical but Jewish Law states that in a situation that a jewish community is being threatened by intruders even if what they demand is insignificant. we MUST prevent them - even on Shabbat - from entering since compromising the security of the land by acquiesing will NOT bring safety and WILL G-d forbid bring danger to the entire land!\nSo even before talking about bombing the hell out of Gaza -which sounds like a good idea to me - Israel MUST STOP this nonsense of \"GESTURES\" of peace, giving away land, and supporting those CLEARLY say they are going to destroy us - not insignificant! This what the Torah says. So if G-d gave us the defensible boarders then we MUST follow the program, at least to the extent of not making the situation worse as we see that EVERY time we yield we lose! Thanks for reading this far. Shabbat Shalom\n");
AddReply(272705,"Well Cut Off Power","Ralph Levy","USA","02/01/08","As I have been saying till I am blue in the face. What is the moral reason we are providing them power anyway we don\'t occupy Gaza. Why do we have to provide them food and diesal let Egypt do it. A few weeks without power will force a overthrow of Hamas and destroy their fanatism. A shock method is needed just like with Japan in WWII it\'s better than invadeing.\n\nRalph Levy \n\nhttp://ralphsrant1.blogspot.com/");
AddReply(272580,"olmert","darrellepp","Hamilton","01/31/08","has one of the hardest jobs in the world. I wrote about him and the Gaza situation at the top of www.darrellepp.com. I hope you can check it out. How much blame can you really give the guy, weighed against the lack of support Israel always receives from its \'friends\'? My fellow Canadian Louise Arbour, member of The Order Of Canda, UN High Court Judge, agrees with the Arab charter than equates zionism with racism...it\'s a mess. www.darrellepp.com");
AddReply(272496,"Leave Olmert Alone????","Elizabeth","Beit Shemesh","01/31/08","Why is every other government allowed to defend themselves?  Sure we don\'t want to kill innocent civilians, but their spilled blood would be Hamas\' fault, not ours. Olmert should be defending his citizens, he is neglecting them.  We should be reminding the world how quiet they were when Jordan killed Palestinians and when Lebanan very recently killed Palestinians.  Why do we always have to be the nice guys?  It is so pathetic.  When we tried to fix the bridge near the Kotel, the muslims went crazy, so we stopped. W ");
AddReply(272454,"Gil is confused","jimjames","Jerusalem","01/31/08","Thank you for sharing your confusion and frustration with all of us. You need to get to the values that you want to stand on. Drop all the over-emotionalism and deal with the facts as they are! There is no partner for peace! Fatah is not essentially different than Hamas! George Bush had a Nazi-loving grandpa! The road map to peace is the Saudi peace plan.\nWhat to do? Lock \'n load.");
AddReply(272411,"Ditto #3, 4, 8-10, 15, 16, 23, 27, 30, & 33","Victor Passenheim","Orlando, FL","01/31/08","Especially #33");
AddReply(272385,"Just a skeleton of an idea","Annie","Hallett","01/31/08","Here\'s my solution for what its worth, I am a gentile - Noachide - who believes the word of God as written in the Tanach. It is only a skeleton outline,but I am sure people with correct military know-how can build upon it.  God gave the land in its entirety to the Jewish Nation for a reason, it is the only place He gave them to fulfil the task He had given them for the rectification of the whole world.  In effect, the Jewish Nation is the Messiah that brings redemption to the whole world, they themselves being lead by the Promised Messiah - may he be revealed soon.  God gave the land, but told the Jews they had to fight for it, and if they remained true to Torah, He would help them, they have to go out and do the work for God to act, He wants a moving ship to steer. Tell the Arabs in no uncertain terms that ALL the land is to be annexed, if they wish they can leave, if they choose to stay they will have full rights as all others in the land EXCEPT the right to vote.  Those who refuse to do either will have their cities besieged one at a time, with a passage left open for those who have decided they will leave after all. Those who decide to stay and be citizens of the state will be placed in camps until such time as their loyalty is shown true and then moved into decent housing dispersed among the Jewish people with no cities of their own so they do not develop enclaves. They will accept to live by the 7 laws common to all mankind.  Those who choose to fight will be dealt a death blow. It is a biblical method to offer peace and then attack if it is refused.  I know Mr Peres does not like history/shmistory but the book of Joshua was written not as a history but to show HOW to wage war and be successful with it, being faithful to the the word of God. If the world goes bananas ask them if they ever gave their enemies such a choice, stay with us and prosper or leave and find prosperity elsewhere, if you choose death instead, that is your free will choice. I think you will find that many Arabs would prefer to live under Jewish prosperity than go elsewhere, even if it means they cannot vote.  Freed from pressure from terrorism, they would prefer just to live in peace.  As I said, only a skeleton, but look at the blueprint from Tanach and get with God\'s programme.  Israel has tried everything that has not worked, so now try what you should have done in the first place, rely on God and set out to conquer the land, remember what Joshua said, \'As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord\'.  ");
AddReply(272347,"Ziggy, Tsfat","Larry","","01/30/08","Is correct. Arik had the 200 terrorists in the Mukata with Yasir, and let them go.");
AddReply(272343,"Defend YOUR interests.","Yuri","Barcelona","01/30/08","First of all,in order that the receipts of how to deal with the problem were true,they should not necessarily be new.\nSo,the solutions the author calls  “fare dull and unsatisfying” ,like don\'t give up this or that territory; don\'t give up this or that principle; let the IDF win; take back Gaza;, bomb it from the air; don\'t give them guns seem to me quite correct.\nMoreover,I should add to the list of the “old and unsatisfying”  some more messages, like stop immediately to supply Gaza with anything at all,from fuel and water to food and  cellular phones.And –stop support Abbas.\nDeep in his heart,the author understands that these recommendations are right. If according to the author,”Ehud Olmert has no right to discuss giving up Jerusalem”; then he agrees that Olmert by doing so is the traitor of the national interest of Israel. If he agrees that “of course Israel is losing its last shreds of self-respect and deterrence in the way it is dealing with the Gazan bombardment of Sderot;”,then he inwardly agrees that the only answer to any kassam launched on Sderot should be a volley of 240mm mortars of the closest arab village.What?Maybe there will be no terrorists in it?Bad luck for those who will be there.\nAnd if he says that “ of course throwing money at Mahmoud Abbas and his \"moderate\" murderers is no solution to anything”,then he should agree that the solutions are those things he calls “dull and unsatisfying”.\nI can not agree with the “Armaggedon” the author so vividly paints to us in case of Israel´s military strike on Gaza . The President of the USA may say in public that he “strongly condemns”-but will the USA stop supporting Israel because of this?I do not think so.Too often in the past the European and American high-ranking officials “condemned” this or that action of Israel in public – heartily congratulating Israel in private.\nJust recall strike on Osirak.\nOr the Six-Days War.\nOr more recent event-the decision of Israel to stop fuel supply to Gaza.\nAnd nothing happened,you know.\nNobody broke diplomatic relations with us,nobody sent troops ,nobody blamed Israel of “genocide”(except arabs and some-not all –islamic countries.But did we expect something else from Arabs?They blamed us even of delay in NHL matches some 3 years ago).And nobody declared our diplomats and generals “war criminals”.\nThe world despises patsy.\n\nYes,we must enter Gaza-and stay there as much as neede to break to hell all the bones of the terrorist infrastructure(and the bones of the terrorists too,if need be).\nYes,we must stop bowing to any decision of the UN and beg for compassion from the “international community”.\nYes,we must start the process of “pushing” Arabs out of Israel;it´s not their land and it´s too small for two peoples. Reduce their rights ,stop paying them the support for numerous families(one should be a hopeless idiot to help to Arabs procreate; we are helping our enemy to have more children so that they could better fight against ours).\nPay them smaller wages,or better, do not hire them at all.\nReduce their participation in election process.\nPut as many obstacles as you can to their newspapers,political parties.\nREDUCE THEIR RIGHTS TO NO RIGHTS.\nAnd if they do not like it-let them get the hell out of Israel.You are not in your country.\nNow they are feeling that they are bosses in Israel.Convert them in guests, make their life in Israel hard-and they will dream not about obtaining the majority in Knesset or about throwing Jews out of Lod-but about a bit higher wages and a bit easier work.\nLook at Saudi Arabia,learn from the enemy.\nIsrael is too small for being home both for Jews-and Arabs.One of these peoples will sooner or later have to leave.\nDo you want to leave?No?Then-think less about what UN,France,USA or Russia will say about you.Look at how Islamic countries defend their interests;they do not give a damn about who is right and who is wrong;they simply defend their interests.And the world trezsats them with much more respect than it treats us.Defend YOUR interests – and don´t worry about the interests of the Arabs;they have a lot of “defenders”.\n");
AddReply(272339,"Defend YOUR interests.","Yuri","Barcelona","01/30/08","First of all,in order that the receipts of how to deal with the problem were true,they should not necessarily be new.\nSo,the solutions the author calls  “fare dull and unsatisfying” ,like don\'t give up this or that territory; don\'t give up this or that principle; let the IDF win; take back Gaza;, bomb it from the air; don\'t give them guns seem to me quite correct.\nMoreover,I should add to the list of the “old and unsatisfying”  some more messages, like stop immediately to supply Gaza with anything at all,from fuel and water to food and  cellular phones.And –stop support Abbas.\nDeep in his heart,the author understands that these recommendations are right. If according to the author,”Ehud Olmert has no right to discuss giving up Jerusalem”; then he agrees that Olmert by doing so is the traitor of the national interest of Israel. If he agrees that “of course Israel is losing its last shreds of self-respect and deterrence in the way it is dealing with the Gazan bombardment of Sderot;”,then he inwardly agrees that the only answer to any kassam launched on Sderot should be a volley of 240mm mortars of the closest arab village.What?Maybe there will be no terrorists in it?Bad luck for those who will be there.\nAnd if he says that “ of course throwing money at Mahmoud Abbas and his \"moderate\" murderers is no solution to anything”,then he should agree that the solutions are those things he calls “dull and unsatisfying”.\nI can not agree with the “Armaggedon” the author so vividly paints to us in case of Israel´s military strike on Gaza . The President of the USA may say in public that he “strongly condemns”-but will the USA stop supporting Israel because of this?I do not think so.Too often in the past the European and American high-ranking officials “condemned” this or that action of Israel in public – heartily congratulating Israel in private.\nJust recall strike on Osirak.\nOr the Six-Days War.\nOr more recent event-the decision of Israel to stop fuel supply to Gaza.\nAnd nothing happened,you know.\nNobody broke diplomatic relations with us,nobody sent troops ,nobody blamed Israel of “genocide”(except arabs and some-not all –islamic countries.But did we expect something else from Arabs?They blamed us even of delay in NHL matches some 3 years ago).And nobody declared our diplomats and generals “war criminals”.\nThe world despises patsy.\n\nYes,we must enter Gaza-and stay there as long as  necessary to break to hell all the bones of the terrorist infrastructure(and the bones of the terrorists too,if need be).\nYes,we must stop bowing to any decision of the UN and beg for compassion from the “international community”.\nYes,we must start the process of “pushing” Arabs out of Israel;it´s not their land and it´s too small for two peoples. Reduce their rights ,stop paying them the support for numerous families(one should be a hopeless idiot to help to Arabs procreate; we are helping our enemy to have more children so that they could better fight against ours).\nPay them smaller wages,or better - do not hire them at all.\nReduce their participation in election process.\nPut as many obstacles as you can to their newspapers,political parties.\nREDUCE THEIR RIGHTS TO NO RIGHTS.\nAnd if they do not like it-let them get the hell out of Israel.They are  not at home.\nNow they are feeling that they are bosses in Israel.Convert them in guests, make their life in Israel hard-and they will dream not about obtaining the majority in Knesset or about throwing Jews out of Lod-but about a bit higher wages and a bit easier work.\nLook at Saudi Arabia,learn from the enemy.\nIsrael is too small for being home both for Jews-and Arabs.One of these peoples will sooner or later have to leave.\nDo you want to leave?No?Then-think less about what UN,France,USA or Russia will say about you.Look at how Islamic countries defend their interests;they do not give a damn about who is right and who is wrong;they simply pursue what is good for them.And the world treats them with much more respect than it treats us.Defend YOUR interests – and don´t worry about the interests of the Arabs;they have a lot of “defenders”.\n\n");
AddReply(272335,"WHAT TO DO?","SHUVA (Return)","JERUSALEM","01/30/08","BS\'D\n\n   THE ONLY  WAY FOR\nTHE JEWISH PEOPLE TO SURVIVE.,\n IS THROUGHT\n  \'TSHUVA AND SHUVA\'\n ISRAEL CANNOT BE A JEWISH\nAND DEMOCRATIC STATE...SINCE\nTHAT IS THE SIGN OF A\nSPLIT PERSONALITY.\n  ISRAEL MUST BE A JEWISH\nSTATE BASED ON THE MORAL LAWS OF AND TIMELESS WISDOM OF \nOUR HOLY TORAH.....\n WHERE THE WELFARE OF JEWS IS FIRST AND FOREMOST.!!!\n  THEREFORE, ITS TIME TO SEND THE HOSTILE ARABS TO THEIR \n22 SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES..\nAND MAKE ALIYAH AN URGENT\nPRIORITY FOR JEWS IN THE\nDIASPORA.\n  See websites:www\n  victimsofarabterror.com\n  www.shuva.net.\nA NEW EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM SHOULD BE INSTITUTED BASED\nON YESHIVA OF\'THE JEWISH IDEA\nIN JERUSALEM,, OF THE LATE, GREAT RABBI MEIR KAHANE, OF BLESSED MEMORY!\n  H-ASHEM ITBARACH WILL \nTAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING ELSE. \n ");
AddReply(272324,"israel","martin","deming nm","01/30/08","firstly.. get rid of olmert and put a real jew in office");
AddReply(272288,"#30 Well put","mrsk","Baltimore","01/30/08","Beautifully stated. I could not have said it better.");
AddReply(272283,"My Suggested Answer","Simcha Yoel Barag","My Suggested Answer","01/30/08","Gil: You have a good head and obviously a good heart, but you are thinking too much and you seem to have too little bitachon. Let\'s start with first principles. Hashem gave us the land exclusively. It belongs to us. If someone, chas v\'sholom, breaks into your home with the intent to kill you, do you start thinking about the most practical way to respond? If you injure or kill the guy, you may get arrested by the police, sued for damages, or have to deal with his family\'s revenge. No. You go with divrei Torah: When someone comes to kill you, KILL HIM FIRST. Now, I\'m only looking at this from 6,000 miles away, but if Hamas and its terrorist Gaza population is not coming to kill us, who is? When one is in an existential war for survival, one doesn\'t worry about mass carnage on the enemy, one INSISTS on it. That\'s the only way wars are won. As for the feared international reaction, first of all it is doubtful that Jews can wage effective self-defense against terrorist murderers with one eye on world reaction. Second, the world will ultimately respect the Jews for a war explicitly undertaken in defense of our families and our historical \nG-d given homeland (Gaza has been Jewish since at least the Second Temple). Remember 1967? Third, when one is fighting to preserve a gift from the Master of All Works and the G-d of All Souls, one does not flinch. Did Moshe Rabeinu worry about practical difficulties when he hurled demands at Pharoah, the world\'s mightiest ruler? Bitachon, Gil. All we Jews have to do is put a finger to it, and Hashem himself will come to fight for us. This is the word from Torat Chayim and Torat Emet. Israel has been avoiding Torah solutions for its entire existance. THAT is the core problem.");
AddReply(272282,"Israel","Shel Zahav","Jerusalem","01/30/08","Here is my reply: Build, build, build, talk, talk, talk, build, build, build");
AddReply(272278,"Gaza","Wade","NYC","01/30/08","Gil, I appreciate your well thought out analysis. PM Olmert can implement a positive program as well or better than any other current leader. What if Israel allows evacuation of a Gaza neighborhood used for Kassams before reducing it to rubble? The next target will have incentive to stop the rockets or lose their homes.If the deterrent doesn\'t work, then enemy neighborhoods within firing range were eliminated.");
AddReply(272268,"Here\'s what you do","Ziggy","Safat","01/30/08","Israel ended after the Passover Massacre when Arafat and 200 terrorist leaders were trapped in the Mukata and not killed once and for all with a message to the Arabs that newleaders who suborn terrorism will meet the same fate. Israel blinked and the Arabs have had a field day ever since. If the Arabs shoot 3 Kassems at sderot, carpet bomb part of Gaza. What about civilian Casualties, you say? The Nazis blitzed London then cried in indignation as the allies bombed German population centers in return. That\'s war. There are no innocents among the Arabs who all pass out candy when Jews die in Sderot. It\'s not about land,It\'s about tribaims and killing Jews. What if NATO intervenes? Well, the IDF is not Serbia, and the EU can\'t stomach a real fight. We should tell the rest of the world to kissour ass and make it clear to the Arabs--kill a Jew, end up dead.");
AddReply(272240,"a modest beginning","ora","Jerusalem","01/30/08","Even if you rule out the possibility of a major change at this time, there are many relatively small changes that could eventually lead to a significant approval in quality of life:\n\n1) Demographics\n\n-Do not grant citizenship and benefits to non-Jews, with the exception of those with a Jewish father who were raised as Jews and do not practice a different religion.\n-Strip neo-Nazis and terrorist supporters of their citizenship.\n-Allow NGOs to provide Arabs with financial incentives to leave and give up their citizenship.  If Arabs have accepted an NGOs funding in order to leave, don\'t let them back in.\n-When PA Arabs marry Israeli citizens, they can unite in PA areas and not in Israel.  End the trend of Bedouin men taking second and third and fourth wives from Gaza and getting NII benefits for the Gazan wives and their eight kids.\n\n2) Terrorism\n\n-Don\'t release terrorists from prison early, and certainly not as a \"gesture\" to terrorist overlord Abbas.\n-Those convicted of \"minor\" offenses such as throwing Molotov cocktails or planting bombs should be offered the option of taking their families and moving abroad (permanently, of course) instead of serving time in prison.\n-Keep up the pressure on Gaza, it\'s working.  \n-Have counter-terrorist operations in Gaza.  If hundreds die in the fighting, the world really won\'t care that much.  There\'s no reason it should have to be a \"carnage\" with 50% of the dead civilians.  Right now Israel manages to keep the civilian casualties relatively low, and there\'s no reason to assume we couldn\'t continue to do so.\n\n3) Diplomacy/hasbara\n\n-Hire PR people who actually speak English (or whatever other languages are necessary) fluently.  \n-Do not continue making concessions to the PA.  When pressured, stick to three points: 1) The PA must end terrorism, including in Gaza 2) The PA must end incitement, 3) It\'s the PA\'s turn to make concessions.  These are legitimate demands and the US will support us if we stick to our guns.\n\n4) Other\n\n-Allow construction in \"settlement blocs\" in Judea and Samaria, and don\'t bother to enforce the building freeze elsewhere.\n- Provide all Jewish students with at least some degree of education regarding Jewish practice, and not just Tanach.\n- Allow the Jews of Hevron to remain in the Peace House, and respect their right to purchase property. Ditto for Jews in Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem.\n\n\nThat\'s more than enough for now, don\'t you think?  Nothing I wrote will outrage the world, everything will improve Jewish life in Israel.");
AddReply(272234,"To #22:  You still don\'t understand","mike","Vienna, VA","01/30/08","Read what I wrote again and you will discover a rational plan.  A rational plan is exactly what you people trapped in Israel refuse to follow.");
AddReply(272229,"Pandora;s box must be opened !","Rob","USA","01/30/08","Spineless Israeli leaders are delaying redemption.\n\nLight that fuse, lets get it done.");
AddReply(272228,"first do no harm","ora","Jerusalem","01/30/08","The problem with Olmert isn\'t only that he does nothing to solve Israel\'s problems, it\'s that he makes them much worse.  So he\'s not going to provide incentives for Arabs to leave.  Fine.  He could at least not welcome hundreds (or thousands, according to some reports) of \"Palestinian refugees\" into Israeli territory with open arms.  His government could at least not push for \"aliyah\" from non-Jews (54% of new immigrants are not Jewish).  So he can\'t stop terrorism.  Fine.  He could at least not release terrorists and arm the PA AS PA \"POLICEMEN\" MURDER ISRAELIS!!!!  Yes, Olmert has to deal with American pressure to stop building in \"settlements,\" but he could at least allow construction within the city limits of \"settlement blocs.\"  The list just goes on and on and on.  So no, Olmert should not be left alone.  Even if the only long-term practical policy is to do absolutely nothing, it would still be much, much better than what Olmert has done.");
AddReply(272170,"Only thousands?","Charles Wilson","Connecticut","01/30/08","They wouldn\'t even blink at the loss of just thousands. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands might get their attention.");
AddReply(272169,"Who are we? ","S. Heisler","Bnei Brak","01/30/08","Oh yeah? When  Mr. Olmert retires and writes his memoirs, there should be a government based on Torah. The only leader we need is the one who will say, \"Mi L\'HAShem Elai\"It\'s all there, in the Torah, how a Jewish state should conduct itself.  But we are cowards, arent we, always wringing our hands and wondering what the goyim will think of us? When we start remembering and believing in who we are and start relying on the Master of the World, we will regain our self respect and the respect of the other nations and yes, HaShem will come to our aid.   ");
AddReply(272163,"reality proves Gil wrong","Erez","Tel Aviv","01/30/08","Since the early \'80s the Left has said the same thing: we can\'t win so the only solution is Mr. Ronen\'s solution: weaken Israel further.\n\nThe fact is that the hopeless situation we find ourselves in now is a result of the Oslo accords. In 1992 Israel almost lived in peace: Shamir/Arens won the first intifada, Arafat was forgotten and Jews from Russia came back home. \n\nLet us look at an analogy. Thanks to the Oslo accords, Israel is like a man trapped on the top floor of a burning skyscraper. We can take the advice of the Left such as Gil Ronen and wait to die a certain death.\n\nAlternatively, we can jump from the skyscraper and maybe will survive.\n\nOn the practical side, the situation is not so bad as jumping from a skyscraper. All we have to do is make sure there is free passage between Gaza and Sinai and restart intensive Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria. ");
AddReply(272157,"Mike, Vienna","Yisael","P\"T","01/30/08","Your words represent the reality of life during the early stages of mashiach. An armed struggle against the world.\nYour Torah values are true to Torah and involve no \"playing\" to the nations of the world.\nNo relying on \"foreigners controlling our border\".\n\nI hope that we see this leadership through the true eyes of Torah soon. It\'s going to be a bloody mess before during and after your outlines for the future, but then again it\'s going to be a bloody mess if we permit the arabs to gain the upper hand over us.\nThe arabs want us hacked to pieces, we must understand that we will be forced into a civilian versus civilian war whether we like it or not. Every Jew must be trained in national defense NOW and be very heavily armed.\n\nWe are definitely entering the generation of standing up for Torah and H=shem and Israel against impossible (natural) odds.\nThats suicide Mike, isn\'t that against your priciples?");
AddReply(272154,"Great opportunity Missed!","Shlomo","London","01/30/08","Gil sas a point that we cannot do a Dresden or a Hiroshima. What Isarel needs is guts to manipulate situations to ITS OWN interest. Hence a fantastic opportunity when Hamas forced the Egyptian border open. They should have sent in the IDF to push ALL the arabs southwards into Egypt. Aren\'t they all Egyptioans anyway? The few who would stay behind to fight are the ones that deserve to die \'for the cause\' anyway...");
AddReply(272146,"BOMB GAZA NOW = REDEMPTION NOW","JEW","ZION","01/30/08","If we bomb Gaza then this will certainly cost a lot of lives, but the reaction in the West and East will not be the one Gil Ronen expects but it will be:\n\nTipol Aleihem Eimata VaPahad\n\nThey will be scared and \n\nWe will have the Redemption immediately.");
AddReply(272121,"A brilliant commentary","Shy Guy","Jerusalem","01/30/08","Gil Ronen is on the mark. We are constantly attempting to relieve multiple symptoms without identifying the actual disease we are suffering from. That disease is most of Israel\'s Jews not recognizing why Hashem gave us back the land and what our purpose is here and in this world. In addition, we ourselves, the Torah observant public, often lose site of our true objectives and don\'t keep our eye on the ball.\n\nBravo, Gil! Now call up Manhigut Yehudit, ask to present this great article to Moshe Feiglin and hear him out before you publish your Stage Two article.\n\nTo Hershel, #1, read Gil\'s article again. You completely misunderstood him.\n\nTo Yaakov, #2, your response is exactly what I claim is wrong with us. You\'ll treat a symptom but the disease will continue to infect us elsewhere and no less painfully. More needs to be done than military and political Hishtadlut.");
AddReply(272120,"Not falling into a trap of making a suggestion for a solution?  YES, you did.","Aaron","","01/30/08","Your solution is \"DO NOTHING\".  Let the government come up with \"practical solutions\", such as giving up Jewish land.  Is that practical?  Was disengagement practical?  It was a preview of what collective suicide \"Olmert-style\" would be like.\n\nIt is not intellectually honest to present the Sderot situation as a choice between a carnage of poor terrorists and doing nothing.\n\nThe fact is that there are no rockets coming from Judea and Samaria because the IDF and police are patrolling the area.  There are still roadblocks.  There are still arrests.\n \nSo the obvious solution is to retake Gaza and engage the IDF presence there once again.  After that, when things are under control, then find a solution for the Arab population.\n\nAs far as world criticism, Israelis should have developed thick skins by now.  There\'s nothing - and I mean nothing - that Israel can do to please the UN and the Arabs except disappear.  And as far as the USA is concerned, forget it.  They have never been Israel\'s true friends.\n\nAnd finally, don\'t knock Benny Elon\'s plan.  It\'s good, it\'s doable, and it involves no carnage.  \n\nInstead of playing the rebellious teenager and criticize everything that the right wing has proposed, take stock of the fragility of the Israeli situation and work for the strengthening and unity of the nationalist cause.  \n\nBenny Elon has a new booklet on the Arab refugee problem.  No need to take any risks.  A good, creative, positive, well thought out column would do.  \n\nhttp://www.israelinitiative.com/App_Themes/eng/Files/OurPlan.pdf\n  \n");
AddReply(272113,"Peace now for Sderot","Christian Zionist","Germany","01/30/08","Cut off only 5 km of the Gaza strip in the north!. \nDistribute pamphlets to the Arabs, tell them, that they must go for ever. They have no right to exist in the Holy Land any more. Build a new fence at the new border as quick as possible and declare this area as a closed military zone for everybody. Cut off electricity and water in that zone Then go in with minimal risk for each soldier and clear the area of terrorists. Don`t play with them cat and mouse, don`t kill them. Let them flee to the south.You have a lot of time. Give this permanent buffer zone peace for a couple of years The whole world inclusive the Pals will unterstand!\n\n\n\n");
AddReply(272097,"What a dumb column.","sk","USA","01/30/08","\"Let\'s say we bomb Gaza into oblivion . . . What then? Well, here is what happens then: the US administration disowns us in a series of speeches by the American President in which Israel is branded \"a state overcome by fanaticism\" and its government, a \"rogue leadership.\" The UN adopts a series of resolutions condemning Israel\'s genocide and the Hague court demands Israel extradite war criminals Olmert, Ehud Barak and Gabi Ashkenazi, for starters. No Israeli officer can expect to step on British, French, Russian or American soil anymore, or anywhere else for that matter, without being arrested immediately. NATO begins training for bombing Tel Aviv. Iran develops and tests its bomb unimpeded.\"\n\nReally, Gil, what don\'t you understand about how politics is conducted?  There is no \"NATO\" any longer; there is the US.  The US has a serious problem with human intelligence (humint) and relies on Israel--a service Israel need not give.  In addition, Israel is an important high-tech partner.  Israel also has the capability of launching ICBMs most anywhere--including the US.  Israel could easily destroy every single substantial oil well in the Middle East.  North Korea has nothing on Israel for realistic threat capability.\n\nAnd, Israel could decide to work with China in exchange for vetoes in the Security Council.  Then, it could reestablish good relations with France, which would be delighted to thumb its nose at the hyperpower.\n\nBut all of these Israeli threats would not be necessary, because the US wouldn\'t begin to do what you imply.  Why should it?\n\nReally, Gil, none of this is even necessary.  Israel could squeeze out the Pals easily enough.  It could work the tunnels in reverse, shutting down Pal food and energy supplies, killing journalists who do not show what Israel wants to be shown, etc.\n\nI don\'t need to blag about Hashem to make this point.");
AddReply(272095,"I have a different opinion","Yaakov Zelig","New Orleans","01/30/08","The world respects and fears the Jew, when we stand for our rights, not always cowering before the gentile. A little man, Eshkol, ignored, Washington, and launched a pre-emptive strike. Let\'s do it again. I am not proposing a nucleur bomb on Gaza as America did Japan. I am not proposing carpet bombing as the allies did Dresden and Drancy. We can take out those Kassams without sending in the IDF. If we must kill a thousand Gazans, then we are doing what any nation does to protect its citizens. After, we kill a few hundred, the rest of the population will be storming into Egypt to escape those crazy Jews. Furthermore, once we do this, NATO, will not want to tangle with Israel. \nThe alternative is to see this nation dissappear like slices of salami. ");
AddReply(272085,"policy","marcel","","01/30/08","Why is the onus on us. Olmert screwed up the Lebanese war by boasting, hesitating, being foolhardy and not really having a good understanding on what israel has to do to clean south lebanon. Israel has to have a PM that can ensure its safety. Olmert is already botching the gaza campaign.");
AddReply(272083,"Leave Olmert Alone","Thomas","","01/30/08","Then do what the Holocaust generation did in Europe: peacefully walked to the ovens.\nOr do what every nation did including founders of Israel: fight for your country and think less. Impotent, cowards shall not have sympathy.");
AddReply(272068,"Jewish Survival Comes Before Arab Feelings","Norman F Birnberg","Salida","01/30/08","Israel is trapped by its own humanity. It would never do what the Arabs would do the Jews given the chance. But at some point Israel must be cruel to them to beat them the message they will never destroy Israel. To be kind to be people who want to murder you is to invite your own death. The point is Jewish survival takes precedence over the Arabs\' feelings. Israel has done what she needed to do in the past and she will do it again in the future.");
AddReply(272067,"One Last Thing Gil","M.L.","L.A.","01/30/08","The best solution to any problem is not found in asking more questions.");
AddReply(272066,"And Another Thing Gil","M.L.","L.A.","01/30/08","What a smart little article. We now all the choices and all the ramifications. So what exactly do you think your cute little article accomplished? What did you intend for it to accomplish? Perhaps your time would be better spent contemplating what the arabs should do with the terrorists using them as shields and/or pawns. Or maybe you can try to put your time and energy raising money for victims of those who say we just have to grin and bare it because the world will be angered if we dare defend ourselves. Perhaps it is time to ask yourself what your true calling is because based on your column; writing may not be a long term way to earn a living.");
AddReply(272064,"Here Is An Idea Gil","M.L.","L.A.","01/30/08","How about we just give up? After all, no matter what we do we are always made out to be the worst. When we used rubber bullets the world screamed. The wall is a no go. Even a war started by the other side gets the world buy finding ways to describe the evil we do. So my solution is to do what ever we want till the job gets done. If we can do it by spending money, great. If we can do it by fighting, not as good but necessary. If we need to combined all the things that seem to annoy you so, so be it. We can add on a few more things to just to spice it up enough to make it more palatable for your sensitive stomach. I hope our inevitable solutions don\'t give you heart burn but if they do, take a bit of medicine (with a spoon full of sugar of course) and try to learn from those tougher then you.");
AddReply(272049,"Many of us DO have a better idea of what to do.","Chaim","","01/30/08","Many of us do have a better idea of what to do. First of all, admit it was a monstrous mistake to retreat from Gaza, and retake it forever. Eliminate the terrorists using whatever force is necessary. Massively expand our settlements and cities in Judea and Samaria. Their population is growing very rapidly and would soon match the Arab population. How is that for a starter? As for \"leaving Olmert alone\". If we do that, Israel won\'t exist in a decade.");
AddReply(272046,"A practical policy -- change the system","mike","Vienna, VA","01/30/08","First, let\'s admit that the current system is a failure.  It is not enough to switch politicians.  It is necessary to swith the entire system of governance.  To wit, the rotten democracy must be replaced with a Jewish system, a Torah Republic.\n\nIn a Torah Republic, non-Jews would be disenfranchised.  So would be any who did not serve in the armed forces for a full term.  So would be all those under 30.  So would be all recipients of state funds.  So would be those without children.  In a Torah Republic, the head of the household would cast votes on behalf of all those he (or she)supports.  A man from Kfar Tapuach with 6 children and a wife would cast 8 votes.  A liberal from Tel Aviv North with a mistress, a wife and a cat would cast no votes.  In a Torah republic, anyone who disgraced himself by participating in the Oslo process would be, at minimum, disenfranchised.  In a Torah Republic, anyone who advocates surrender of land to Moslems or peace negotiations with Moslems would face charges of treason and a death penalty.  As consequence, there will be no $ha$, no U$TJ, no Meretz, no Pensioners\' party, no Labor and, outside of the Feiglin faction, no Likud.  The extreme left of the permissible political spectrum would be represented by Moledet.  Kach would represent a politically centrist party.  A Torah Republic would have a flat tax burden not exceeding 10% (the mizvah of tzedakkah limits state-imposed taxes).  It would also have a hard currency backed by precious metal (\"an honest shekel you shall have\").  In a Torah Republic, welfare does not exist.  Recipients of state funds must perform demanding manual labor in exchange for these funds, unless they are crippled, seriously ill or too old (\"In the sweat of thine brow...\")  In a Torah Republic, denigration of Jewish values by \"educators\" would result in the execution of the \"educators\" (\"..and if one comes among you saying come, let us worship foreign gods...\")  Needless to say, a Torah Republic has Torah courts.  However, this does not mean the current travesty of Israel\'s corrupt pseudo-rabbis.  A judge must be morally upright and upstanding in mizvot (\"...choose yourself upright men to judge between the people...\").  Above others, this means specifically the mizvah of performing honest labor (\"In the sweat of thine brow...\").  For this reason, no \"rabbi\" who does not qualify to vote and has not made a successful living in the real world as a laborer or businessman is qualified to serve as judge.  A Torah republic is confident in Hashem but does not rely on miracles (tractate Shabbos).  This means that the leadership is required to make rational plans as if there were no Hashem and simultaneously pray to Hashem as if there were no plans. A Torah Republic is, of course, required to fight Islam until all Moslems abandon their Satanic faith and all Syeds (direct descendants of Mohammed bin Abdallah the Agagite) are exterminated (\"...you shall extirpate the memory of Amalek...\").  Finally, the Torah Republic is obligated to wage milkhemet mizvah until the liberation of the entire Land, from the Nile to the Euphrates (\"...I shall give you the land from the great river, the river Euphrates...\").  Of course, temporary truces may be declared as dictated by rational strategy.\n\nNow, let\'s examine the consequences of a Torah Republic.  First of all, a Torah Republic that inherited the entire apparatus of Medinat Yisrael would be a nuclear power.  The first act of the leadership would be to restore deterrence and put an end to the greatest threat by using nuclear weapons to eliminate Iran as a nation.  Following this, the national armed forces would exterminate and/or expel the Moslems from the borders of the current State.  All treaties with Moslem nations would be declared null and void.  At a minimum, a combination of nuclear weapons and conventional ground forces would be used to return Jewish sovereignty over the Sinai and to liberate Jewish lands currently occupied by the squatters collectively known as \"the Jordanians\", \"the Lebanese\" and \"the Syrians\".  The exact extent of the national borders of the republic when the tanks come to a stop would depend on a variety of operational and strategic factors, including the speed with which great powers among the goyim deploy protective forces to Moslem-occupied Jewish territory.  So, what would the situation be when the first long-term truces are being negotiated?\n\nThe army of the republic would be facing off with American and European troops along an extended border near the Euphrates, on the edge of Arabia, the border with Turkey and the Suez Canal.  The Western goyim would impose sanctions, but they would go no further in their actions for fear of a nuclear strike against their major cities.  The Moslem goyim would fear the consequences of displeasing the republic with acts of terrorism, threats or attempts to acquire nuclear weapons.  As result, they would seek long-term truces conditioned on their repudiation of all these offensive activities.  A massive increase in worldwide antisemitism would drive the vast majority of the world\'s Jews to make aliyah.  After that?  The republic would enjoy peace and, after a time, prosperity.  Goy-imposed sanctions would cause initial hardship, but would slowly decay over time and/or be circumvented via smuggling.  The lure of a hard currency would attract clandestine investments of a substantial nature from a variety of goyim who seek a stable shelter for their funds.  Since the republic would care not an iota for disputes among goyim, all non-Moslem money would be welcome, whether derived from Japanese computer chips or Colombian cocaine.  The republic would, of course, remain an \"international pariah\".  But we have been warned of this by Hashem (\"...a people that dwelleth alone...\") and it is not great concern.\n\nHowever, all of the above is fantasy.  A Torah Republic cannot inherit the entire apparatus of the State of Israel.  At best, one could be built in Yesha, alongside Israel.  But the author asked for best-case solutions.  A Torah Republic is the best one.");
AddReply(272042,"why do anything?","Ivan","Milwaukee","01/30/08","    First of all one must recognize what the problem is here. The Israelis have taught the Arabs that everything is negotiable and that there are no bottom lines. The Israelis have taught the Arabs that all they have to do is to kill a few more Jews and then Israel will give them or promise them a little more. Israelis do not seem to understand simple behavior. The Israelis need to own more dogs.  Anyone with a dog knows that rewarding bad behavior only leads to more bad behavior not less.   So first of all whatever Israel decides to do, it must stick to it and never waiver and never give in. \n\n    Secondly, Israel is a very prosperous and successful country that has won every war. The Jews and Arabs started out the same economically 60 years ago and because the Jews chose life and peace, they have been successful. On the other hand the Arabs chose death and war and they have lost territory, lives and treasure. The Israelis are successful and the Arabs are failures. It is the Arabs who need this so-called peace not the Israelis. Israel does not need to do anything and should not do anything. Let the Arabs sue for peace. Let the Arabs give up their demands for peace. Let the Arabs beg for peace.\n\n   Regarding terrorism and rockets, again the best way is the simple way. Israel should tell the Arabs, USA, UN and the world that it is a sovereign peaceful country and any act against it will result in a permanent loss of territory by the Arabs in any future negotiations. Each rocket landing on Israel or every terror attack will cost the Arabs so many acres of land which will be off the table for negotiations forever. \n\n   Again, however, all policies must not be negotiable. Once applied they are not removed until or unless it is the Arabs who give up something first. \n\n  It is clear that just as Floridians have to endure hurricanes and everyone knows that some people will die every year and Texans must endure tornadoes and some people will die, and Wisconsin has its snow storms and some people will die; Israel has its own environmental problems. But just like Flroida and Texas and Wisconsin; Israelis have learned and will continue to cope. \n\nHopefully in time if the Israelis are resolute and intransigent, the Arabs will realize and learn that they will only succeed if they compromise and drop some of their demands. \n\n  However, if the Israelis contiue to compromise while getting nothing in return, then the Arabs will continue to demand more until Israel exists no more. ");
AddReply(272040,"Anti -semitism born from naivete.","BillH","LeecoFl","01/30/08","This article demonstrates well how secular fools like Olmert are digging a deeper and deeper pit for Israel to sink into. \n\nA Torah inspired solution  ( the kind of strategy which worked for Joshua and David) might take the form of a straightforward military takeover and banning of islam as it  is an illegal incitement to intimidate murder and steal organisation. The moslems would mostly leave.\n\n This has not yet been tried along with a hundred other ideas. \nThe point is that it is not just the strategy. It is of equal importance to investigate the Torah have faith in G-d and obey his laws. This sort of commitment by leadership increases discernment to the point when a solution becomes obvious. \n \nAs long as you try to rely only on your own intelligence and vision you will continue to fail.\nSecularists\'  disregard for the Torah  at best unwitttingly turns them into anti-semites. They end up like Olmert who deserves daily criticism for justifying his \nobscene policies such as eviction of Israelis.\n");
AddReply(272039,"Leave Olmert Alone","Isaac","Brooklyn","01/30/08","You must be eating something VERY strong to tell us to keep Olmert where he is.\n\nPutting aside all that you detailed as failures, improbabilities and apocalyptic scenarios.\n\nOlmert is: Corrupt, a liar,a usurper of his position.a Jewish anti-Semite who is bent on destroying the State of Israel.");
AddReply(272038,"\'Voluntary Arab evacuation & compensation\' - Worst suggestion of all.","MED","USA","01/30/08","Didn\'t your Pal-Arabs recently get $7.4 billion into their coffers at the Paris Conference?  Their fairy god-mother (Condi Rice) managed to get a great deal for her \'Cinderellas\' to purchase their own golden slippers to scoot out of Israeli territory.\n\nThat should be more than enough to compensate & transport ALL Pal-Arabs to their natural habitat - in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, or from wherever they sneaked into Israel.  \n\nThese Pal-Arabs can even select some poor Arab nations like Indonesia, Bangladesh, etc. to settle in and live like lords, with the thousands of $$$ they get from the booty of $7.4 billion.  All that money will go a long way for each of them.\n\nLast suggestion:  When our travelling sales-woman comes around to Israel next time, just don\'t accept any fly-by-night deals for peace.  Just send these Western travelling salesmen/women packing without any deals.");
AddReply(272034,"It NOT abou the G-d of Israel..","Jeff","Atlanta","01/30/08","Its about Jewish SURVIVAL over time in a world which periodically tries to obliterate them.\nThe G-d of Israel is the focal point of this REALITY. Its abou the LAND, the SAFE HAVEN. Safe only as long as it is vigantlly and PROACTIVLLY PROTECTED!.");
AddReply(272030,"leave olmert alone?","hershel","jerusalem","01/30/08","Dear Gil Ronen,\n  Worshiping the state Dept.&the UN above the G-D of Israel,wich it seems that what you are doing,by worrying about what they will say is the source of all the tradgedies that have occured in this country since 1948.\n  Olmert gave ordes at amona to the police ,you have billy clubs &you know what to do with hem 300 teenagers with broken arms,legs,heads cracked open&one is permanetly disabled.I met 2 teenage girls from \"Amona\" who have been pushed out of a second floor window,by soldiers because of olmerts insane orders.A doctor who visited the o u proclaimed after looking at the x -rays its a miracle no one got killed.Leave olmert alone?Dear Gil,mabey you should leave us alone.");

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