The absolute racism in this thread sickens me. Let's consider a few things here shall we.....
1) In the six day war, the Soviet Union started a rumor about Israel. The rumor was that Israel was going to attack Syria. The result of this rumor was an Egyptian military movement of tanks towards Israel to show Arab solidarity. Furthermore, Egypt announced that the Straits of Tiran would be closed to "
all ships flying Israeli flags." The result was an Israeli military measure to destroy Egypt's air power and to eventually address Syria.
Six-Day War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Of course, many people like to only concern themselves with this history as if it started with the Isreali attack on Egypt. Attempts to show that the rumor was true just because Israel reacted to Egypts aggression and eventually attacked Syria is supposed to prove the rumor correct. (Even America and the Soviet Union used to travel the seas in what is called "Gator Squares" to avoid setting off an enemy reaction to aggression.)
2) The Battle of Jenin was quite a display of how unified human monsters and anit-Semites everywhere can be when there's a chance to bash Jews. It was a terrible dissapointment to people that the "massacre" at Jenin turned out to be a Palestinian hoax. Can anyone produce a German newspaper article that retracted any of their brutal articles that celebrated the "evils" of those Jews in Isreal before the UN revealed the truth?
Battle of Jenin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And now we have a situation where the Israelis are being chastized for their protection measures. Are people this ignorant of the world or are they so consumed with shame, hate and resentment that they would surrender their integrity to lies, rumors, hoaxes, and basic survival tactics when it comes to Jews? Perhaps this sentiment that Israelis aren't supposed to protect themselves against tyranny will again spur up violence.
Being a U.S. Marine of 15 years, I can attest that our country has attack plans and defense plans for alomost every contingency. These plans do indeed include the use of nuclear weapons. Are people so stupid that they can't fathom that a defense plan against China doesn't have a nuclear index in the book? I guess we "
plan to nuclear strike" Beijing. This is true for every nation of good sense in the world. Wherever there is a perceived threat the government in questions has the right and the duty to form a plan to protect its people.
I guess such things are an accepted truth of reality until we include a Jew into the equation. People around the globe, especially in Europe, seem to cling to a shred of hope that if they convince themselves that others are as loathsome now as some of them once so recently were that all of history will be forgotten. Explicit Arab calls for the massacre of Israelis are downplayed while Germans speak indignantly of Israeli "genocide" against Palestinians. Words of nation destruction and genocide by an Iranian leader on international television are downplayed while Europeans and Arabs everywhere stand back and scoff at an Israeli response to defend itself.
The truth is that many Europeans resent historical events not for what occurred, but for what did not. Many wish in vain that Germany had gotten to finish the job they set out to do (while America preserved the self-righteous French). No matter what Israelis do or fail to do, they will be blamed. Europeans, especially many Germans, need to believe that Israelis are every bit as bad as their own grandparents were when they murdered Jews all morning, sat down for lunch, played some cards, and then murdered Jews all afternoon.