tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11999524.post115004384413861402..comments2023-06-11T15:56:20.459+01:00Comments on The Scribbler: The Truth Will OutThe Scribblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03161162947929359393noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11999524.post-1150172718781331202006-06-13T05:25:00.000+01:002006-06-13T05:25:00.000+01:00Ittay,Thank you for this. Reading your comment and...Ittay,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for this. Reading your comment and blog, I note that we come to the table from opposing sides of the political spectrum. However, at the end of the day, we are both Jews who care passionately about Israel, irrespective of how we approach the situation.<BR/><BR/>What happened WAS an abomination and if the IDF is responsible, then justice must take place and those responsible must be brought to task. <BR/><BR/>I am writing from the UK and you I see are chronicling your ideas in Australia. Neither of us was on the Gaza beach and neither of us is sitting right now in Sderot, wondering if another barrage of Kassams will hit our houses and destroy our families.<BR/><BR/>I don't condone in any way the death of innocent civillians but on the other hand, I won't sit there and criticize an army who is doing its best to protect its country's citizens. <BR/><BR/>We would both like to believe that what happened on Friday was a tragic accident - but if it wasn't, as my blog title suggests, the 'truth will out' and those responsible will and should face the full force of Israeli Law.<BR/><BR/>The Torah tells us in the sixth commandment "Lo Tirzach" - "you must not kill" and this applies to every <B>innocent</B> human being on the planet we both inhabit.<BR/><BR/>Please keep posting your comments and kol tuv, all the best.The Scribblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03161162947929359393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11999524.post-1150157228244842202006-06-13T01:07:00.000+01:002006-06-13T01:07:00.000+01:00Teacher,What happened on the Beit Lahiya beachfron...Teacher,<BR/>What happened on the Beit Lahiya beachfront in Gaza where 7 Palestinians were killed was an abomination. According to the IDF front commander for Gaza, Major General Yoav Galant, "the picture is unclear. The artillery fire has been well-analyzed, and the question marks are multiplying as to whether the artillery fire was the cause of the incident." But even so, that does not absolve Israel. Bradley burston from haaretz comments...<BR/><BR/>"Say he's right. Say it wasn't our fault. Say we dismiss as irrelevant the fact that five IDF shells landed nearby at the same time, and that the trajectory of the sixth is unaccounted-for.<BR/><BR/>For every Mohammed Dura, there have been hundreds and hundreds of Palestinians killed by the IDF in error, in conjunction with the killing of terrorists, or because overwhelming force and remote technology was applied in order to minimize the risk to Israeli troops.<BR/><BR/>There was no news crew to film them, so the world cares nothing for them. And neither do we. Their tragedies are no less unbearable, surely no less unbearable than the hundreds of our own the world cares nothing for.<BR/><BR/>We can live with it, as we live with the idea of sending thousands and thousands of artillery shells into one of the most crowded districts on the planet, in order to try to hit three-man mobile crews firing a rocket not much bigger than a broom - the equivalent of going after a fly with a pile-driver.<BR/><BR/>We live with it because we Can't Just Do Nothing, as if thousands of shells, many of them directed at open spaces calculated precisely to hit nothing, are the only possible alternative.<BR/><BR/>We can live with it, fundamentally, because we don't know what else to do, and because the only thing left for us to believe, is that it's wrong to negotiate.”Ittayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02508597128498611055noreply@blogger.com