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Costs And Risks

Writing about today’s events on the Israel-Lebanon border and the start of the 2006 war,  Jonathan Steele says,

After all, three Israeli soldiers had been killed by Hizbullah in a similar raid in October 2000 and Ehud Barak, the then prime minister, had not started a war.

Indeed he didn’t and Hizbullah drew the obvious conclusion that launching raids across a UN-recognized border with the aim of capturing and killing Israeli soldiers was a tactic free from all but the most minor risks. When they tried it again in July 2006, the Israeli government decided that there had to be an end to  risk free, cross border raids and to impose heavy costs on Hizbullah.  It was right to do so.

Steele, as well as being an apologist for Omar al-Bashir, belongs to the vast tribe of minor key antimsemites who think that only acceptable way for Jews to behave when attacked is to apologise for existing and beg the aggressor not to do it again.