Anda yang berdiam di USA tentu lebih tahu. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dwi Soegardi" <soega...@gmail.com> To: <wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [wanita-muslimah] Krauthammer: Those troublesome Jews
> Ini Krauthammer si juru bicara Israel-Zionis? > (minimal seminggu sekali kolomnya dimuat di koran lokal saya, bikin eneg > aja) > > Analogi yang aneh: > - blokade AS terhadap Jerman, Jepang pada PD II, blokade AS terhadap Kuba > dan Soviet tahun 60-an, > dibandingkan dengan > - blokade Israel terhadap anak-anak Gaza > ??? > > Jerman, Jepang punya kemampuan militer, punya kapal perang, ... > Soviet punya kapal selem yang bukan pempek, punya rudal nuklir, ... > > Anak-anak Gaza punya apa? > > opo tumon? > > Biadab! > > > > On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:47 AM, sunny <am...@tele2.se> wrote: > >> >> >> >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/03/AR2010060304287.html?wpisrc=nl_pmopinions >> >> Krauthammer: Those troublesome Jews >> >> Charles Krauthammer >> Friday, June 4, 2010 >> The world is outraged at Israel's blockade of Gaza. Turkey denounces its >> illegality, inhumanity, barbarity, etc. The usual U.N. suspects, Third >> World >> and European, join in. The Obama administration dithers. >> But as Leslie Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, >> writes, the blockade is not just perfectly rational, it is perfectly >> legal. >> Gaza under Hamas is a self-declared enemy of Israel -- a declaration >> backed >> up by more than 4,000 rockets fired at Israeli civilian territory. Yet >> having pledged itself to unceasing belligerency, Hamas claims victimhood >> when Israel imposes a blockade to prevent Hamas from arming itself with >> still more rockets. >> >> In World War II, with full international legality, the United States >> blockaded Germany and Japan. And during the October 1962 missile crisis, >> we >> blockaded ("quarantined") Cuba. Arms-bearing Russian ships headed to Cuba >> turned back because the Soviets knew that the U.S. Navy would either >> board >> them or sink them. Yet Israel is accused of international criminality for >> doing precisely what John Kennedy did: impose a naval blockade to prevent >> a >> hostile state from acquiring lethal weaponry. >> >> Oh, but weren't the Gaza-bound ships on a mission of humanitarian relief? >> No. Otherwise they would have accepted Israel's offer to bring their >> supplies to an Israeli port, be inspected for military materiel and have >> the >> rest trucked by Israel into Gaza -- as every week 10,000 tons of food, >> medicine and other humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to Gaza. >> >> Why was the offer refused? Because, as organizer Greta Berlin admitted, >> the >> flotilla was not about humanitarian relief but about breaking the >> blockade, >> i.e., ending Israel's inspection regime, which would mean unlimited >> shipping >> into Gaza and thus the unlimited arming of Hamas. >> >> Israel has already twice intercepted ships laden with Iranian arms >> destined >> for Hezbollah and Gaza. What country would allow that? >> >> But even more important, why did Israel even have to resort to blockade? >> Because, blockade is Israel's fallback as the world systematically >> de-legitimizes its traditional ways of defending itself -- forward and >> active defense. >> >> (1) Forward defense: As a small, densely populated country surrounded by >> hostile states, Israel had, for its first half-century, adopted forward >> defense -- fighting wars on enemy territory (such as the Sinai and Golan >> Heights) rather than its own. >> >> Where possible (Sinai, for example) Israel has traded territory for >> peace. >> But where peace offers were refused, Israel retained the territory as a >> protective buffer zone. Thus Israel retained a small strip of southern >> Lebanon to protect the villages of northern Israel. And it took many >> losses >> in Gaza, rather than expose Israeli border towns to Palestinian terror >> attacks. It is for the same reason America wages a grinding war in >> Afghanistan: You fight them there, so you don't have to fight them here. >> >> But under overwhelming outside pressure, Israel gave it up. The Israelis >> were told the occupations were not just illegal but at the root of the >> anti-Israel insurgencies -- and therefore withdrawal, by removing the >> cause, >> would bring peace. >> >> Land for peace. Remember? Well, during the past decade, Israel gave the >> land -- evacuating South Lebanon in 2000 and Gaza in 2005. What did it >> get? >> An intensification of belligerency, heavy militarization of the enemy >> side, >> multiple kidnappings, cross-border attacks and, from Gaza, years of >> unrelenting rocket attack. >> >> (2) Active defense: Israel then had to switch to active defense -- >> military >> action to disrupt, dismantle and defeat (to borrow President Obama's >> description of our campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda) the newly >> armed terrorist mini-states established in southern Lebanon and Gaza >> after >> Israel withdrew. >> >> The result? The Lebanon war of 2006 and Gaza operation of 2008-09. They >> were met with yet another avalanche of opprobrium and calumny by the same >> international community that had demanded the land-for-peace Israeli >> withdrawals in the first place. Worse, the U.N. Goldstone report, which >> essentially criminalized Israel's defensive operation in Gaza while >> whitewashing the casus belli -- the preceding and unprovoked Hamas rocket >> war -- effectively de-legitimized any active Israeli defense against its >> self-declared terror enemies. >> >> (3) Passive defense: Without forward or active defense, Israel is left >> with >> but the most passive and benign of all defenses -- a blockade to simply >> prevent enemy rearmament. Yet, as we speak, this too is headed for >> international de-legitimation. Even the United States is now moving >> toward >> having it abolished. >> >> But, if none of these is permissible, what's left? >> >> Ah, but that's the point. It's the point understood by the >> blockade-busting >> flotilla of useful idiots and terror sympathizers, by the Turkish front >> organization that funded it, by the automatic anti-Israel Third World >> chorus >> at the United Nations, and by the supine Europeans who've had quite >> enough >> of the Jewish problem. >> >> What's left? Nothing. The whole point of this relentless international >> campaign is to deprive Israel of any legitimate form of self-defense. >> Why, >> just last week, the Obama administration joined the jackals, and reversed >> four decades of U.S. practice, by signing onto a consensus document that >> singles out Israel's possession of nuclear weapons -- thus >> de-legitimizing >> Israel's very last line of defense: deterrence. >> >> The world is tired of these troublesome Jews, 6 million -- that number >> again -- hard by the Mediterranean, refusing every invitation to national >> suicide. For which they are relentlessly demonized, ghettoized and >> constrained from defending themselves, even as the more committed >> anti-Zionists -- Iranian in particular -- openly prepare a more final >> solution. >> >> letters@ charleskrauthammer.com >> >> This Story >> a.. The world is angry. Why doesn't Israel care? >> b.. Krauthammer: Those troublesome Jews >> c.. 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