I was listening to my favorite morning show on the radio the other day and heard the newsman say that the UN was stepping up negotiations in this latest episode of Israeli aggression. I know that this newsman works very hard to do a good job, so I have to believe he was quoting the UN terminology.
Am I the only one who actually knows what aggression means? I was always under the impression that an aggression was the attacking of an innocent group by another group. If that is the accurate definition of aggression, then the UN thinks that Israel started firing rockets at the poor citizens in Gaza who were just there minding their own business. Nothing could be further from the truth. In 2005 Israel completely evacuated all of their citizens from Gaza in exchange for Hamas and the Palestinians leaving them alone. What Israel got for their effort was a steady stream of rockets being fired at their innocent citizens by Hamas.
After holding back returning fire, Israel finally fired back. As far as I am concerned, the only thing I want to know is: What took them so long?? It is about time that Israel stopped being the wimpy pansy to the playground bully and flattened the little twit.
I know that the situation in the Middle East is more serious than a playground bully, but the concept is the same. Israel has not attacked first since it was reformed in 1946, yet they have been consistantly attacked. What other country on the planet would allow it's neighbors to continually attack it without retaliating? None that I can think of, yet that is what Israel is expected to do.
If the UN wants to negotiate real peace in the region, they are going to have to clamp down on the arab nations and the terrorist groups and defend Israel.
The chances of that happening??? A snowball in a very hot place.