Friday, May 06, 2005

Just thinking out loud after reading this article by Caroline Glick - Wake up Washington!

On a psychological level, the images of an Israeli retreat from Gaza and northern Samaria will be footage for jihadi recruitment videos for years to come. In Iraq, a large proportion of the insurgent groups’ energies are devoted to producing images that portray them as strong and the US forces as weak. Al-Jazeera and its clones – along with cameramen employed as stringers by Western news networks and agencies – work hand-in-glove with the terrorists to produce just such images. The point, of course, is that in at least one central respect, Arabs are no different from Americans. Both like winners. Videos showing the decapitation of hostages are meant to mobilize supporters.

Yet there can be no doubt that, as attractive as watching helpless hostages getting beheaded may be to potential recruits, the spectacle of Hamas and Fatah flags being foisted onto Israeli homes in Gaza and Samaria is even more alluring. And footage of Jews attacking one another as Israel comes apart at the seams will also serve the terrorists’ purposes wonderfully well.


It's too bad Israel can't evacuate it's civilians, yet keep those lands as occupied territory and prevent the Palestinians from taking over. I still say that once the attacks from Gaza into Israel proper start up, Israel is just going to go in anyway and bulldoze everything within 10km of the border.

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