Comments on: Language of Death http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/01/language-of-death.html The irreverent, activist, often-inappropriate Arab-American (and others) blog. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:19:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Arno http://www.kabobfest.com/2009/01/language-of-death.html/comment-page-1#comment-1035 Arno Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:50:00 +0000 http://kabobfest.yamansalahi.com/?p=384#comment-1035 With the first wave of bombing that lasted some four minutes, Hamas received a lesson, which should have been enough to understand where things were going. A proper response should have been: "We will stop the rockets, no more bombing, too many innocent people will die".<br /><br />But no. They wanted to start a pissing game with Israel using their population as pawns in a gamble that is not going to pay off. A lot of innocent people will die for nothing and Hamas will be stripped from power are arms.<br /><br />For Israel, ME and the rest of the world the question is much bigger than just stopping the inefficient rockets. The arms race and hatred fueled by Iran was growing at an alarming rate. It had to be stopped now. The price would have been much bigger later. With the first wave of bombing that lasted some four minutes, Hamas received a lesson, which should have been enough to understand where things were going. A proper response should have been: “We will stop the rockets, no more bombing, too many innocent people will die”.

But no. They wanted to start a pissing game with Israel using their population as pawns in a gamble that is not going to pay off. A lot of innocent people will die for nothing and Hamas will be stripped from power are arms.

For Israel, ME and the rest of the world the question is much bigger than just stopping the inefficient rockets. The arms race and hatred fueled by Iran was growing at an alarming rate. It had to be stopped now. The price would have been much bigger later.

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