Jack Cohen – In the Shelter!
It’s midnight and I’m sitting in my shelter (mamad)in Beer Sheva after the sirens have gone off. Today 300 rockets were fired at southern Israel by Hamas from Gaza. I’m thinking, why do we put up with this when we could bomb these barbarians to dust? Why do we put up with this month after month, year after year? Because we don’t want to be accused by the world of killing poor innocent Palestinians? Yes, there would be civilian casualties, but they would be minimized. Our armed forces would make sure that the guilty are hit, we have excellent targeted killings. Yet, they can try to kill us almost without criticism. If you ask me it’s gone on long enough, we need to give them a taste of shock and awe. When they come up out of the rubble they won’t have the ability to fire any more rockets!
The Israeli Government has avoided making war and destroying Hamas for two reasons, not only the casualties, on both sides, but then if Hamas is destroyed who will be responsible for Gaza and its 1.2 million Arabs. In principle the Palestine Authority should be in control there, but the PA is an avowed enemy of Israel and also uses terrorism against our civilians and furthermore it’s on the point of financial collapse. Why should we help them, when they wouldn’t be able to stop Hamas anyway?
When I was a child I hid in a shelter from the bombings in London carried out by the Nazi Luftwaffe. Now in old age I have to shelter from rockets from Hamas. As far as I am concerned there is no difference between the Nazis and Hamas, they both want to kill all Jews. If the Allies exacted “unconditional surrender” against the Nazis in WWII, and “shock and awe” against Saddam Hussein, why don’t we use the same tactics against these terrorist murderers. Let the chips fall where they may, but this continual bombardment has to be brought to an end!
