Thursday, July 13, 2006
Great post at Seraphic Secret. A snip:
...A few hours after the incident the three young men were arrested by the British police. They gave themselves up without any struggle. "Despite the fact that not a single drop of blood was shed at Rosh Pina and despite the fact that the police knew very well that the three young men had only fired into the air in order to discourage the Arabs from passing through the settlement, the British decided to create a big "terrorist" incident out of the Rosh Pina affair. The very fact that Jews had resolved to withstand an Arab attack made them feel afraid. Their plan to frighten Jews from coming to Palestine would be endangered if Jews were to fight back. They knew very well that the Jews could put an end to the Arab "revolts" in a few days." (Triumph on the Gallows, Itzhak Gurion, 1950)
On June 29, 1938 Ben Yosef was hanged on the gallows by the British authorities. His last words in a conversation with friends were, "Havlagah" (self-restraint) is fatal."...
Yes, absolutely. Olmert labeled it correctly as an act of war, not "mere" terrorism. Utter and undeterred resolve, single-mindedness, forward thinking and the application of force which is commensurate with that thinking. By contrast, when the anemically pontifical Kofi Annan, the NYT, et al. talk about "restraint," or "proportionate" responses, they are not addressing the real world, they are addressing their own imaginings and maunderings, they are announcing themselves as shallow and ineffectual and worse.
"By contrast, when the anemically pontifical Kofi Annan, the NYT, et al. talk about "restraint," or "proportionate" responses"..........
What they are really discussing is the fact that Jews should not be allowed to defend themselves.
Precisely, that encapsulates it. They'd never put it in those terms, they'd maunder and tergiversate a great deal indeed, but that's the gist of it.