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FREEMAN CENTER BROADCAST- January 5, 2009 FREEMAN CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES P.O. Box 35661 * Houston, Texas 77235-5661 Phone or Fax: 713-723-6016 * E-mail: bernards@sbcglobal.net OUR WEB SITE (URL): http://www.freeman.org THE MACCABEAN ONLINE: URL:http://www.freeman.org/online.htm Freeman Center Blog http://www.freeman.org/serendipity/ ============= ==================== To Make a tax deductible contribution to the Freeman Center's important educational work, mail check to address above or go to our website www.freeman.org to pay by credit card or paypal.  ===================   They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. - Plato   "The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." -- Ayn Rand ##########  Ignorance Is Weakness - Know The Truth Self-Inflicted Ignorance Is Suicide The Freeman Center Is A Defense Against Ignorance ====== Any attempt by the U.S, Europe or the UN to limit Israeli military freedom of action should be prevented! ========== IF ISRAEL HAD ZIONIST LEADERSHIP, THE TERRORISTS WOULD HAVE BEEN DEFEATED LONG AGO THE PRESENT WAR WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN NECESSARY  ========= APPEASEMENT BREEDS VIOLENCE AND TERRORSISM ===========   ISRAEL'S WAY FORWARD IN GAZA by David Basch January 5, 2009 According to the Geneva Conventions, a fighting force that hides behind civilians bears the responsibility of hurting civilians, not the other side's combatants. Yet, Max Boot, a senior fellow on the Council of Foreign Relations, never brought that point home in his long article in the Wall Street Journal this morning (1.5/09). It is an important point of fact not to neglect since it would do much to bolster Israel's belief in her righteous self-defense against those who want to destroy her. Israel needs every such edge it has. The Six Day War provides a good precedent for how Israel must proceed in her present condition of embattlement. The 67 response was quick and decisive. And though even Israel's supporters had put pressure on Israel to remain passive and accept the enemy dictates, Israel unilaterally took the action she had to and ended up leaving at the doorstep of the world a victorious fait accompli. For a long time, no one argued with Israel's success -- a good lesson to learn from. Max Boot (and maybe Israel's leftist government) is satisfied with the current stalemate in Gaza that Boot describes. In this, Israel ties her own hands and lets the enemy escape to rocket Israeli cities another day. However, given the implacability of the enemy and its mono-maniacal desire to destroy Israel, the situation of stalemate and quagmire will inevitably lead to the withering of Israel's southern cities and, ultimately, to Israel's collapse and destruction. That condition of quagmire is hardly a condition for a proud nation to settle for. Certainly, Mr. Boot, the US would not allow that for a single instant coming from Mexico. The fallacy indulged in by Boot in his analysis of Israel's Gaza situation is that, were Israel to enter Gaza with her forces, she has no clear exit strategy -- a perhaps "unavoidable" situation, declares Boot. But Boot is wrong. He (and no doubt Israel's incompetent leftist government) in this case wallows in a nine-dot-puzzle dilemma. This is a puzzle in which the puzzle cannot be solved if those who try to do so stick to the narrow confines of the puzzle's square box. Somehow these guys believe that -- come heaven or high water, come Israel's destruction or not -- Israel must guarantee the Gaza enemies full possession of the territory they are using to rocket Israel. Even Israel does not have such an ironclad guarantee for any of her own lands and existence. (What is ironic is that the Gaza territory was set aside for a Jewish homeland under the Mandate of Palestine, but Israel had turned over to the Arabs for peace.) The situation seen with clarity, if an enemy persists in shooting at your head, then no one -- but one with a mental level of a Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy fame -- would ask whether you should, if you could, wrest the gun from the shooter. Nicole Simpson would not have made that mistake with OJ if she had had the strength. In that context, the outlines of Israel's response in Gaza is clear. It points to quick, decisive action. One part of this is to cut off the tail of Gaza next to Egypt, creating a ten to twenty mile corridor north-south along Egypt cleared of Arab residents (quibble over its extent if you must). This would prevent the continuing weaponry and fighters supplied to the Gazan enemies from Iran and other Arab nations. That traffic, through tunnels or overland, would be permanently cut. Its control should stay in Israel's hands only -- the only party with the motivation to maintain the cutoff. Thus, Israel would declare her intention to carve out this corridor as a vital military zone and would command all Arab civilians to depart or face the consequences of an air bombardment to commence the next day. The bombardment,commenced, should then progressively extend to blanket the entire zone. This would be followed by Israeli forces taking permanent possession of this strategic zone. The moral here is that, when a nation is militarily attacked, it is the belligerent that places on the chopping block the lands it has used for aggression, to be liable to being taken possession of by the victim in pursuing its self defense. The liberated corridor can then also be used, if necessary, to project power northward into the remaining portion of Gaza. What is more, this foothold should be widened northward, cleansed of Arabs, in response to subsequent attempts by the enemy to inflict harm on Israeli forces. The progressive loss by the Arabs of their hold on land to prosecute their attacks will be a painful message to this vile enemy, who will sue for peace, the way they did when Shamir and later Rabin came to power. (This time the peace should not be squandered as the leftists did then by insane Israeli surrenders, who trusted without verification.) From that time on in Gaza, only one-way traffic of civilians outside to Egypt will be allowed, although heavily monitored relief caravans could be permitted coming through the Egyptian border. The Arabs who elected Hamas to destroy Israel will be made to suffer the consequences of their choice. Were the world really interested in peace, they would allow this Arab community to emigrate to outside lands and no longer serve as pawns in the Arab war against the existence of Israel. Sure, in this action there will be Arab civilian casualties. But when Arab fighters hide behind their civilians, this becomes the Arab responsibility and is nothing that Israel ought to apologize for, any more than Nicole Simpson should say I am sorry to OJ were she to have inflicted a cut on that murderer. If these actions are taken massively and quickly, the better the results will be for Israel's survival. The supporters of the Arab savages who clamor to save their terrorist fighters must be presented with an Israeli victory as a fait accompli, after which Israel should agree to talk to the negotiators to their heart's content.