Pat Buchanan and the Israeli Blitz

It is always a nice touch when the word "blitz" can be used to describe a military action carried out by the Jews. That Pat Buchanan can do it in his current description of the Israeli offensive against Hamas in Gaza is almost delicious. Pat has, after all, become an apologist for the Third Reich over the past few years, and his latest column offers us the same sort of historical revisionism we have come to expect from a man that wishes the Jews would go the way of the dinosaurs or, at the very least, stop fighting so hard to get off of the endangered species list.

There is no crime too great that the Jewish state should not tolerate beyond a very measured response, and there is no response big enough to end Hamas launched terrorism that is justifiable. Striking back with too much vigor is so off putting. Better, I suppose, for Israeli children to routinely play in rocket bombarded fields launched there by people who send their children to terrorist camp the same way we parents send our children to summer camp.

After all, that is exactly how we Americans would act if a horde of crazy Canucks started lobbing both home made and Iranian made rockets at us from across Lake St. Clair. "Kids, remember your umbrellas if you go out to play."

Pat does give Israel a leash, one long enough to do exactly what I am not sure. He admits that Hamas had it coming, but then qualifies his tepid statement by surmising that

[...] crass Israeli politics seems to be behind this premeditated and planned blitz.

Pat pines for the day when nations (well, at least Jewish ones) would forget about the hundreds of rockets launched at its territory by sworn enemies, even if the launchings take place in the midst of a so called cease fire.

It is the only way to guarantee a response as pristine and unplanned as the freshly driven snow. Totally ineffective, of course, but short of surrender and marching into the Mediterranean voluntarily, it is the best, if not the final, solution.