{"id":14,"date":"2006-07-30T12:28:27","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T09:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/index.php\/2006\/07\/30\/14\/"},"modified":"2006-07-30T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T09:51:26","slug":"14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/2006\/07\/30\/14\/","title":{"rendered":"History Repeats Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maj.-Gen. Amiram Levine<\/a> declared: “The residents in south Lebanon<\/a> who are under the responsibility of Hezbollah will be hit harder, and the Hezbollah will be hit harder, and we will find the way to act correctly and quickly.”[6]<\/a><\/sup> On April 11<\/a>, after initial strikes against Hezbollah positions, Israel, through SLA<\/a> radio stations, warned residents in forty-four towns and villages in southern Lebanon, to evacuate within twenty four hours.[7]<\/a> <\/sup>(wikipedia, Qana Shelling<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This was ten years ago, during operation “Grapes of Warth” which was meant to protect our north. Today, we realised that history tends to repeat itself<\/a>. Kafar Qana had a symbolic meaning to it, it was the event that stopped the ‘Grapes’ Operation and started a ceasefire, which lasted for a short time. ‘Grapes’ was also the last military action which the IDF initiated before i was drafted to the service. A year later, in 1997, i was there as well, not as a combatant, but still, i was there.<\/p>\n

During my three years in service, i did my best not to participate in any war crimes; and luckily enough, the IDF was not involved in too big massacres or “mistakes” such as Kafar Qana<\/p>\n

The major problem with this “mistake” is that it revokes israel’s legitimacy to act in Self-Defense. this was not self defense, even if there were terrorists in that building (and i believe there were). If i observe the matter in an objectivistic approach, without trying to blame the lebanese, i might say that the civilians are hostages of the Hizbullah.<\/p>\n

Now, let’s try to imagine this scene: A Terrorist holds fifty people or so hostage at a nuclear facility. he threatens to kill them and to blow up the place unless his demands are met; his demands are problematic since they require the revokation of your right to exist. Do you negotiate in the price of killing yourself? do you kill the terrorist in the price of killing the hostages (since you do not negotiate with terrorists)? or do you infiltrate and try to kill the terrorists selectively?<\/p>\n

Should israel had a better intelligence force, it might have had the chance to do it right. however, now the blame is on us for this murder, which unlike other murders we’ve committed in Lebanon, we cannot justify with any cause.<\/p>\n

Will this stop the war? I don’t know; now i think that the parties are too far away to make peace, mostly because of my country.<\/p>\n

However, there might still be a chance, but only if Israel maintains ethical war standards, though Hizbullah ignores them. Fighting ethically, without killing civilians, may cost more on the Israeli soldiers, but will gain more on the long term. Not only in public opinion, but also in the outcomes of this war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maj.-Gen. Amiram Levine declared: “The residents in south Lebanon who are under the responsibility of Hezbollah will be hit harder, and the Hezbollah will be hit harder, and we will find the way to act correctly and quickly.”[6] On April 11, after initial strikes against Hezbollah positions, Israel, through SLA radio stations, warned residents in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2jk.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}