Ignoring reality

Submitted by Noah Wilk (United States), Jan 3, 2007 at 20:56

Salsabeel, you're clearly ignorant of the reality of the situation.

First, let's turn the clock back to 1948 shall we?

Israel declared its independence, and what happened? It was attacked by Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan (now Jordan), and the Arab Liberation Army (set up by the Arab League). Israel was not yet a power in the region as it is now, yet Israel won that battle with the cowardly Muslims and handed 7 Muslim nations a humiliating defeat.

Now let's turn the clock ahead to 1967 and the Six Day War. Once again, little Israel was attacked by Islamic bullies Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, and Syria. once again, tiny Israel won the war and captured Gaza, the Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, and the West Bank. Egypt was the most powerful Arab/Muslim military int he world, and was utterly humiliated. To this very day, the Muslims are crying about their loss.

We move forward once more. Not able to learn its lessons, Egypt again launched yet another war with Israel, the War of Attrition, in 1968. Once again, the Israelis devastated the Egyptian army and wiped out its airforces, air defenses, etc. Only the intervention of the Soviet Union (a superpower at the time) was Egypt able to continue to survive that war. Even then, it was a victory for Israel.

As we move ahead a few years, we come next to the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Egypt, which seems to have a bizarre fetish for being manhandled by Israel, once again initiated a war, this time with Syria's help. Once again, Israel beat its enemies. In fact, Israel stood by and waited for the attack to happen instead of launching a pre-emptive attack which would have been even more devastating to the Muslims. Israel wanted to show the world who the true aggressors were. If not for that bit of mercy, the Muslims would not have even enjoyed that first 48 hours of advantage before the Israelis turned the tables and humiliated them.

Finally, in 1982, sick of the continual attacks on Israel by Muslim terrorists based in Lebanon, Israel attacked and defeated Lebanon. Lebanon had help from Syria and the PLO, but that didn't matter.

So, Salsabeel, does Allah enjoy having his faithful humiliated? Because it certainly happens often!

Now, you are referring to the so-called "intifada", which is nothing more than an extended terrorist campaign. Your claim that Israel has not won that is both deceptive and inaccurate. That is not a conventional war. It's a war between a civilized country (Israel) and a psychotic death cult ... On one hand, Israel takes great pains to minimize civilian casualties. They go to the insane extreme of calling terrorist leaders on their cell phones and warning them before bombing their headquarters, which gives them time to escape. The Muslims on the other hand, target civilians.

If the Israelis had the same depraved disregard of life that the Muslims exhibit, they would have wiped out the so-called "Palestinians" a long time ago.

So trying coming back to reality. The Muslims have never been able to defeat tiny Israel, and likely never will.

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