What use is the IDF if Israel is not prepared to use it ?

What is required is a transfer of fear - a strike so massive that Hezbollah etc, as well as Syria, think twice before doing it again. The options are numerous and achievable.

What is Israel waiting for ?

No massive strikes or anything like that until Iraq stabilize.

And TedD, what's the point of such strike ?

Better finish the wall than another wasted airstrike.

How many SuicideBombers are they recruiting with this PrisonerSwap? Just curious.

The point is to end the terrorism, Dody.

The target is the Bekaa valley and the regime in Damascus.

The tool is the IDF.

This would also do a great deal to stabilizing the situation in Iraq.

TedD,

How do you see it play out? Because I don't see it as possible.

I don't think israel has the will to go head to head with Damascus right now. They'd have to chop away for several long days of round the clock sorties just to get through the AD network on Syria's side of the Golan Heights. The Bekaa, a possibility, southern Lebanon, more likely. no grand strategy, still in the tit for tat stage. For now.

What amazes me is the perpetuity of the situation. Each side continually rubs salt into the wounds of the other and the peripheral parties participate by encouraging/discouraging behaviors and no party has the wherewithal to either accept a reasonable solution, or on the other extreme, just whomp the other and be done with it. It's like this sort of relations has become normal business and if things quiet down, it is intentionaly stirred up again, but never sufficiently to end it.

It is like some liberal friends that continually have "issues" and if they don't, they create them so life is always "exciting".

If they want to live this way, so be it. None of my business.

And so it remains fertile grounds for an ongoing stream of Nobel prize handouts (Carter, Arafat, Peres, Rabin, Anwar al-Sadat, Begin ...) for creating, then non-solving issues that yield nothing in the end. At least George Marshall (Nobel, 1953) resolved issues by flattening then fixing them and being done with it.

Max

>>If they want to live this way, so be it. None of my business<<

I guess it is my business, the collective U.S. aid ($ outta my pocket) to the participants in this unending "issue" is SIGNIFICANT.

sigh.

Max

The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs just released a very graphic video of a recent suicide bombing aftermath

http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/home.asp

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