Is there any reason why Likud (spelling) doesn’t get out of the ruling coalition and force elections? Have the Israelis lost their nerve?

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, MSM.

I pretty much think of reporters like I do car thieves and burglars, these days. Same moral level, most of them.

I mean, why ISN’T this news, other than gross anti-semitism on the part of the “news deciders?”

This would be a bad thing.

But I worry about things like this pushing them to think that it would be less bad than what they’re currently going through.

Those kind of choices seldom turn out well.

there is no animal as vile as the Jihadis.

I quite agree with this. Using the term animals-while emotionally appropriate – ie: how do we convey in a word how we, civilized people, feel about these barbaric murderers? In the end, it actually does a semantic disservice, reducing the actions to primitive, or somehow instinctive behaviour. There is not a single animal who sends its own young to commit suicide and take others with it. Not a single animal that delights in the news or sight of their dead young. The jihadi does.

And, actually there have been several press reports of Palestinians wanting the IDF back in Gaza. Gazans certainly had more freedom under Israeli occupation than under Hamas occupation.

The 1967 war was one of the greatest disasters to have ever hit the Jewish people-why? Instead of dealing with the Palestinians then (ie: get out and stay out), they were left in the West bank and Gaza to fester.

That’ll make the nightly news.

Disengagement wasn’t a good idea. But I could see where Arik and the Israeli government was coming from. For years, everyone talked about how the barrier to peace was Israel “occupying” Gaza. There were unrelenting terrorist attacks against the Kibbutzes in Gaza. Arik and the government basically said, “We don’t want to deal with this anymore.” And they pulled out. Arik said the only time they’ll ever go back into Gaza is to deal with terrorists. It’s a shame he had a stroke because, for all his faults, the people who launch these rockets would have Arik and the IAF to deal with.
That said, the situation in Gaza is exactly what Ariel Sharon said it would be. He said that the people in “charge” (the PA at the time) have no interest in actually helping their people. Rather, they are only interested in killing Jews. And look at the complete unrest in Gaza as a result and the resulting chaos in Sderot, etc (and what happened to the greenhouses 24 hours after Israel left). Of course what the press is not telling us is that many Palestinians want the Israelis back in Gaza to deal with the murderous thugs now running their government and their lives.

The really ironic part about the Gaza thing is that in 1967 after the Six Day War, the Israelis offered Gaza back to the Egyptians who had been in charge of it since 1948. Egypt basically said, “thanks but no thanks.” Leaving Israel to deal with the abject poverty and squalor the Palestinians live in. All those apartment buildings and hotels built in Gaza (the ones with water and electricity)? Built by Israel. Makes you think.

Perhaps then they’d get a CLUE about appeaseing terrorists and surrender.