RE: Benjamin Netanyahu on Bush's Speech

[Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM]

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> Van: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: Monday, September 24, 2001 5:22 PM
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> Onderwerp: Re: Benjamin Netanyahu on Bush's Speech

> > > > Let's say that Syria fears an Israeli missile attack, and
> > > > launches a preemptive strike in which it destroys Israeli missile
> > > > launchers. Syria will call it "defensive measures", but Israel
> > > > will not see it that way, even though they call their own 
> > > > preemptive strikes "defensive measures".
> > > 
> > > Nope.  This is an act of war by one state on another state.  It has
> > > nothing to do with terrorism.
> > 
> > OK, change "Syria" to "Hezbollah". Hezbollah will call it
> > "preemptive measures" (because it will prevent Israel from attacking
> > them), but Israel will not see it that way.
> 
> Hezbollah is not a state.  Hezbollah does commit terrorist acts against
> civilians. "preemptive measures" defending whom?

Defending themselves and their bases of operations, of course. If you want
to keep your bases operational, it makes perfect sense to make it impossible
for your enemy to destroy them. In this particular scenario, by destroying
the enemy's missile launchers.


Jeroen

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