Self-defence "a strategic mistake"?

Submitted by Ianus (Poland), Oct 29, 2009 at 06:33

Dear Anthony , you wrote :

>The Gaza war was a strategic mistake on Israels part. It is time to admit it. <

Your statement seems to imply that it was Israel's deliberate choice to unleash a war against Gazastan. If this impression is correct , then may I kindly remind you that Israel was actually forced by incessant rocket attacks against the Israeli territory from Gazastan to act in self-defence ? The anti-Semite jihadists get better and more precise weapons from their Iranian allies. They test these weapons and the victims happen to be the Jews. So what should Israel have done in your opinion to avoid ' a strategic mistake' and keep a few false friends and dubious allies? To put it more generally, would you call self-defence "a strategic mistake" ?

> Israel is losing friends faster than anything we've seen before. <

Or really? Have the Jews ever had friends among Moslems and anti-Semites? The Turks were no friends of Israel at all and their anti-Semite record is remarkable. They abused Israeli politicians' wishful thinking and naivety to promote their own agenda. The Turks needed modern Israeli weaponry as they can't produce it themselves. And so they got it in exchange for a phantom of Turkish "friendship". Second, they badly needed to have the Jews on their side in their hateful genocide denial campaign and the Jewish leaders were easily hoodwinked to parrot in public the Turkish lies. Themselves the victims of a genocide the Jews through their leaders prefered to belittle, deny and ignore the suffering and genocide of the Armenians to make your new 'Turkish friends' satisfied. Unfortunately, the price the Jews had to pay for this was quite disporortionate to the meagre and ephemeral profits they got as a result of this scadalous behaviour.

The Jews allied themselves with Turkish fascists and defended them against historically unassailable charges and criticism. Thereby they have inflicted upon themselves hardly reparable moral damage. I know a few Armenians who can't stand the Jews for this reason and for nothing more. Well, if I were Armenian who knows how I'd think about those things? The Jews in their myopic madness supported after all the mortal enemies of the Armenians , abused and discredited their own unique status as a genocide victim ... And now to cap it all it turns out that unwittingly they have fed and supported not only the Armenians' but their own enemies.

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