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Old 07-20-2002, 10:36 AM  
falafel
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Ramat Gan, Israel
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I love human rights.
Actually, I'm a human rights fan.
I strongly believe that Israelis has the human right not to be massacred by a suicide bomber in the middle of the street.
I know it's comfortable to sit in your air conditioned room, eating pudding, drinking a Heineken and complain about this awful human rights abuse by Israel.
Well guess what ?
Terrorism can not be beaten by appeasing the terrorists.
It requires fierce action, aggressive measures, hard work & intelligence.
Terrorism can only be stopped by defeating the terrorists and their senders with force.
The US knows it by now.
The UK is starting to understand it.
The rest of Europe will learn it unfortunately the hard way, after the 9/11 scenes will reach its soil - and it will.

Who is more innocent ?
an ordinary Israeli man, woman, kid, baby who just wanted to buy some Ice cream or the family of a suicide bomber ?
Well, this is the choice we're required to take here these days.
Is it moral to leave your citizens to the hands of suicide bombers ?
If the destruction of 5 terrorist's homes and the deportation of their families will deter 50 others from murdering innocent Israelis isn't it my obligation to try and save these hundreds of Israelis that otherwise will be killed if those 50 terrorists will continue terrorizing Israel ?
Is there a different, realistic, functional method of fighting terrorism (and I don't mean running away) ?
If you had a phenomena of suicide bombers in your countries wouldn't your governments have taken any possible measure in order to prevent further terror attacks ?

I'm sure that at the long run the solution to the middle east conflict can only be reached by political means.
As for the short run, meaning right now, the only thing we can do is fighting terrorism with all our power.
90% of the terror attacks are being prevented thanks to the excellent work of our security services who work day and night.
The unfortunate 10% do succeed, but since the the beginning of the new military measures we can identify a sharp decrease in the number of attacks.
I know the attacks will not stop 100%, but I'm sure we can decrease the damage dramatically.

Whenever a serious, realistic, terror free Palestinian leadership will emerge, I will be the first guy in Israel to go out to the streets to demands political dialog, and I'll vote for different leaders if necessary.
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