WarSclerotic

Ahmadinejad of Iran taunts Israel as vulnerable.

While inaugurating the Mideast’s biggest iron palletizing factory, Iran’s President Ahmadinejad warned Israel not to renew combat in Gaza.  He taunted Israel as being vulnerable now, and everybody knows it.  He buttressed his claim by citing Israel’s last, two, mini-wars in Lebanon and Gaza.  He accused them of looking for an excuse to attack Gaza, in order to recoup its deterrence.  He said another war would add to Israel’s load of sin  (IMRA, 4/3  http://www.imra.org.il/  ).

It is not a sin for Israel to fight back after thousands of rockets had been launched against it.  The sin is to have launched those rockets in the first place.  That sin Ahmadinejad does not address.  The whole world disregarded it, until Israel fought back.  So much for the distorted morals of the world, whose distorted notions on international law are cited against Israel, too.

Israel’s sin is in its defeatist governments fighting half-heartedly in Lebanon and Gaza, so that although it got the better of its adversaries, it did not destroy their military forces.  Militarily defeated, but not destroyed, the Muslim side claims victory.  War is one of those things that if worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Constant withdrawal gives Israel’s enemies the notion that it lacks the fortitude to make any military victory sweeping.

If Iran is warning Israel not to defend itself from rockets fired by its Hamas proxy now, imagine the warnings against self-defense from attacks all over by its proxies once Iran possesses nuclear weapons!

This entry was posted on April 4, 2010 at 9:34 PM and is filed under Iran / Israel War. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site.