How many bombings make a war? It depends upon whom you ask. But one thing is clear: Never in recorded history has any sovereign nation sustained such a steady and large onslaught of attacks and not declared war.
In the case of World War I, all it took was one small bomb to throw the planet into ?the war to end all wars.? In the case of the United States, two bombings and one crashed plane precipitated the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the overthrowing of both governments. In the latter case, there was no waffling, no appeasement, no consulting other countries on how best to protect Americans.
According to Fox News (10/04/03) Israel has sustained 105 genocide bombings since September 29, 2000. And that statistic doesn?t include the hundreds upon hundreds of shootings, rocket attacks, home invasions to commit mass murder, knifings, axe murders, etc. Nor does it include the thousands of foiled attempts.
While diplomats call the situation in Israel a ?low level? war, there is no such thing. There is either war or there is peace. Almost daily rocket attacks, bombings and shootings are all the symptoms of war in anyone?s lexicon. The reason Israel continues to suffer such unrelenting, genocidal attacks on its civilian population is its government?s refusal to acknowledge that a state of war exists. This must change if Israel is to survive. Here is what the Israeli government must do:
First, the Israeli government declares that due to the unrelenting attacks, it is now in an official state of war. According to the customs and conventions of war, Israel has had this right for a long time.
Second, in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 2444 (which affirms resolution XXVIII of the 20th International Conference of the Red Cross held at Vienna in 1965), the Arab populations in the disputed areas will be protected as much as possible.
To accomplish this, they will be moved out of harm?s way (i.e., the lands where the enemy combatants emanate from) to a safe country, since the majority of Arab combatants use the physical structures and territories occupied by said population in which to hide. Wherever possible, civilians will be sent or repatriated to the country of their origin or heritage.
Third, the Israeli army will do whatever is necessary to make sure that this war is definitively won, no matter how long this takes. The enemy will be definitively eradicated and any present or future war-making capabilities thoroughly eradicated.
Fourth, once the war is finished, any living combatants or collaborators can be tried for war crimes. These crimes, as first outlined in Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague, IV), October 18, 1907, ARTICLE XXIII, and ratified in subsequent international treaties, states (in part) the following, which has come to be known as ?crimes against humanity?:
?ARTICLE XXIII
?In addition to the prohibitions provided by special Conventions, it is especially forbidden:
(a) To employ poison or poisoned weapons;
(b) To kill or wound treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army;
(c) To kill or wound an enemy who, having laid down his arms, or having no longer means of defense, has surrendered at discretion;
(d) To declare that no quarter will be given;
(e) To employ arms, projectiles, or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering.?
Since the beginning of this most recent war of genocide by Arabs against the people of Israel, they have violated almost every section, including using bombs with projectiles dipped in rat poison and targeting such non-combatants as infants, children, mothers and the elderly.
For the Israeli government to pretend that a state of war does not exist is to aid and abet those who would murder defenseless Israeli citizens. And lest the powers-that-be fear that declaring war might enrage the Arab world, not to worry. The Arab world is already enraged by your very and continuing existence. And they prove it on a daily basis, not merely in the relentless onslaughts, but screaming from the tops of mosques, in the Arab classrooms and all over the Arab media.
And if the Israeli government is fooling themselves into thinking that the non-Arab world likes them, they must merely review all the anti-Israel UN resolutions. Or perhaps the boycott of Israeli goods. And if the Israeli government erroneously thinks that it?s ?friend? America has its best interests at heart, I pose the following questions:
What friend asks you to allow your civilian population to be Scudded without putting up a defense? What friend asks you tolerate an ?acceptable level? of genocidal attacks? What friend blackmails its ally by the threat of withholding loan guarantees when said ally tries to implement such benign self-defense measures as a fence?
If Israel doesn?t declare war and then follow through with what any other country would do to preserve its civilian population, Israel will be destroyed by the peace she has deceived herself into believing she is maintaining. And history will look back upon the current Israeli leaders as being complicit in the murder of thousands of their own people, and the destruction of their very country.
In the case of World War I, all it took was one small bomb to throw the planet into ?the war to end all wars.? In the case of the United States, two bombings and one crashed plane precipitated the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the overthrowing of both governments. In the latter case, there was no waffling, no appeasement, no consulting other countries on how best to protect Americans.
According to Fox News (10/04/03) Israel has sustained 105 genocide bombings since September 29, 2000. And that statistic doesn?t include the hundreds upon hundreds of shootings, rocket attacks, home invasions to commit mass murder, knifings, axe murders, etc. Nor does it include the thousands of foiled attempts.
While diplomats call the situation in Israel a ?low level? war, there is no such thing. There is either war or there is peace. Almost daily rocket attacks, bombings and shootings are all the symptoms of war in anyone?s lexicon. The reason Israel continues to suffer such unrelenting, genocidal attacks on its civilian population is its government?s refusal to acknowledge that a state of war exists. This must change if Israel is to survive. Here is what the Israeli government must do:
First, the Israeli government declares that due to the unrelenting attacks, it is now in an official state of war. According to the customs and conventions of war, Israel has had this right for a long time.
Second, in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 2444 (which affirms resolution XXVIII of the 20th International Conference of the Red Cross held at Vienna in 1965), the Arab populations in the disputed areas will be protected as much as possible.
To accomplish this, they will be moved out of harm?s way (i.e., the lands where the enemy combatants emanate from) to a safe country, since the majority of Arab combatants use the physical structures and territories occupied by said population in which to hide. Wherever possible, civilians will be sent or repatriated to the country of their origin or heritage.
Third, the Israeli army will do whatever is necessary to make sure that this war is definitively won, no matter how long this takes. The enemy will be definitively eradicated and any present or future war-making capabilities thoroughly eradicated.
Fourth, once the war is finished, any living combatants or collaborators can be tried for war crimes. These crimes, as first outlined in Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague, IV), October 18, 1907, ARTICLE XXIII, and ratified in subsequent international treaties, states (in part) the following, which has come to be known as ?crimes against humanity?:
?ARTICLE XXIII
?In addition to the prohibitions provided by special Conventions, it is especially forbidden:
(a) To employ poison or poisoned weapons;
(b) To kill or wound treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army;
(c) To kill or wound an enemy who, having laid down his arms, or having no longer means of defense, has surrendered at discretion;
(d) To declare that no quarter will be given;
(e) To employ arms, projectiles, or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering.?
Since the beginning of this most recent war of genocide by Arabs against the people of Israel, they have violated almost every section, including using bombs with projectiles dipped in rat poison and targeting such non-combatants as infants, children, mothers and the elderly.
For the Israeli government to pretend that a state of war does not exist is to aid and abet those who would murder defenseless Israeli citizens. And lest the powers-that-be fear that declaring war might enrage the Arab world, not to worry. The Arab world is already enraged by your very and continuing existence. And they prove it on a daily basis, not merely in the relentless onslaughts, but screaming from the tops of mosques, in the Arab classrooms and all over the Arab media.
And if the Israeli government is fooling themselves into thinking that the non-Arab world likes them, they must merely review all the anti-Israel UN resolutions. Or perhaps the boycott of Israeli goods. And if the Israeli government erroneously thinks that it?s ?friend? America has its best interests at heart, I pose the following questions:
What friend asks you to allow your civilian population to be Scudded without putting up a defense? What friend asks you tolerate an ?acceptable level? of genocidal attacks? What friend blackmails its ally by the threat of withholding loan guarantees when said ally tries to implement such benign self-defense measures as a fence?
If Israel doesn?t declare war and then follow through with what any other country would do to preserve its civilian population, Israel will be destroyed by the peace she has deceived herself into believing she is maintaining. And history will look back upon the current Israeli leaders as being complicit in the murder of thousands of their own people, and the destruction of their very country.