Israel at 60

Happy birthday, Israel.

Since the 1948-49 War of Israeli Independence, the Jews and Arabs have been almost continuously fighting. The 1956 Saini War and 1967 Six Day War are high points, or increased activity times, of an ongoing conflict from 1948 to the present. In all instances the Jews have taken the measure of five or six Arab nations and found them wanting. Heap big smoke but no fire, worth mentioning anyway. Arabs have repeatedly shown behaviors that are characterized by cowardly actions. Hiding behind women and children is not the meaning of a man. Neither are car or suicide bombers. Nor are unguided missile launches onto civilian areas, ambushes and traps characteristic of military power. The Arabs are cowards, growing a population unsustainable at any humane level then provoking retaliation and crying "Human rights!" The techniques of guerrilla war are used because the Arab powers, Saudi Arabia and Iran, are too cowardly and comfortable to actually fight for their desires and risk defeat. Total political sniping.

America has been in the lead in supporting Israel. Egypt and Jordan have done the proper civilized action in establishing diplomatic relations. The others use Lebanon and Palestinians as cats paws. For sixty years this situation has continued. Mostly because America has been cowardly, too. But Israel has the bomb. And Arabs are too CS to provoke them.

We are the nation with hydrogen bombs and ICBMs. We faced down USSR with numbers and accuracy. The Arabs are sure we won't use them so thumb their noses and use economic war with impunity; on the whole world since 1973. The Arabs still want to get Israel but won't mind if a few other prizes fall into their pot as well. There is a real war in 2008 and it is worldwide. The US is being a co-conspirator with the Arabs and it must stop. With twenty five years of appeasement, it will take a strong blow to get their attention. Riyadh, Mecca or Medina in Saudi Arabia and Tehran in Iran with an air burst will be a minimum to do the job. (For you "forever" folks, look at Hiroshima and Nagasaki today.)

The Russians will shout and scream but privately shake hands with each other. The Chinese will make noises less loudly but be as pleased. Nobody else counts. But another twenty or thirty years of relative peace and prosperity (a generation) will follow. Peace thru superior firepower does work as was shown in 1991. And Israel can look forward to a much more peaceful 80th or 90th birthday. Historians of 2100 will applaud the insight and courage of 2008.

Thanks History Guy