London Bombing

Answering his critic, Ehud Asheri of Haaretz, Yaron London wrote this:

In my opinion, the "relevant problem" and "real question" are different: Is it possible to maintain a state in which tens of thousands of people are subjected to daily attacks, and can this situation be changed by inflicting harsher penalties on the Palestinian population, which is indifferent to the terrorists and even supports them?

I argued in my article that this present state of helplessness will result in missiles falling in large urban centers; that there is a way to foil it, and that we must take it, despite the aversion it arouses. A truce with Hamas will cost us and the Palestinians a higher price than we are paying now.

Let me add that measures of the kind we have taken recently will spare us the need to use draconian steps. Tightening the siege on Gaza and threatening to tighten it more have raised loud protests, but reduced the rocket fire and helped to write a different set of rules in the campaign against people with no moral inhibitions whatsoever.

If the relative calm continues, it will be further proof that harsh, clear vision is better than sympathetic blindness.

What did he write previously?

Here's one example:-

We don't know what's in the hearts of 1.5 million people living in the Gaza Strip, but we do know that they democratically voted for a leadership that strives to destroy us, "the sons of pigs and apes." In so doing they took upon themselves a moral responsibility, with those who became enslaved to a tyrannical rule being exempt...

And another:-

This is one of the benefits of a border: An occupying power must distinguish between innocent civilians and hostile ones; between masked men bearing arms and open-faced ones; between motor mechanics and missile mechanics; between "ticking bombs" and sleeping ones. Now, because we are not occupiers, we have freedom of action. If we are attacked, everyone on this side of the border is one of us, and everyone on the other side is one of them. If innocent people are harmed, we might well be sorry, but we will bear no responsibility. ("Border Policy Needed," Yedioth Ahronot, 16 October 2005)

But on Galei Tzahal, the IDF Radio, in January 22, he was interviewed and said that Israel should carpet bomb whole neighborhoods in Gaza if the Qassam rocket attacks continue and should assassinate the entire Hamas leadership.

You can listen to the original Hebrew-lanuage broadcast here.

I don't know about Hamas but London is driving the Left crazy.