Hey Kadima Voters, Do You Ever Take a Plane?
The Jerusalem Post has an article on a campaign stop by Bibi Netanyahu today in the settlement of Beit Aryeh. It turns out that they will be "outside" of the security fence, according to the Supreme Court ruling. Bibi wants to change this, and move the fence eastward.
Why is this important? Well, it turns out that Beit Aryeh is situated in the hilltops overlooking Ben Gurion airport. And most thinking people would say that from a strategic point of view this area is crucial to our security.
Then again, it is only important to those who fly in and out of Ben Gurion. If you don't have family abroad, or you never fly anywhere on business, or you never plan on taking a vacation outside of Israel, then you should be ok.
All five of you.
The Jerusalem Post has an article on a campaign stop by Bibi Netanyahu today in the settlement of Beit Aryeh. It turns out that they will be "outside" of the security fence, according to the Supreme Court ruling. Bibi wants to change this, and move the fence eastward.
Why is this important? Well, it turns out that Beit Aryeh is situated in the hilltops overlooking Ben Gurion airport. And most thinking people would say that from a strategic point of view this area is crucial to our security.
Then again, it is only important to those who fly in and out of Ben Gurion. If you don't have family abroad, or you never fly anywhere on business, or you never plan on taking a vacation outside of Israel, then you should be ok.
All five of you.
posted by westbankmama at 2:42 PM
4 Comments:
I'm not sure of all the considerations regarding Bet Aryeh; I've only been out there once, to retrieve my sniper rifle from a Civil Guard colleage after it was inspected. It certainly seemed like a nice place, for whatever that's worth.
All other things being equal, I'd like to see Bet Aryeh become an "official" part of Israel; but I'm not well enough acquainted with how it relates to Palestinian population centers, what its land-ownership status is, and so on.
IMO the best solution to securing Ben Gurion Airport (and the rest of Israel) is for us unilaterally to declare Palestinian independence - and at the same time we congratulate the Palestinians on their nationhood, let them know very clearly that any cross-border attacks will be considered acts of war subject to full-strength retaliation.
you know, i keep wondering, if the "palestinians" don't recognize israel, then how could they possibly recognize land given to them by israel? it's an impossibility on their side.
hey, it's just a thought....
don - Why do we always have to wait until all of the i's are dotted to launch a full-scale retaliation? Over a thousand innocents dead and many more thousands wounded isn't enough?
Tovya - you never know
bec- not much makes sense around here lately!
Hey Don - the Palestinians have a state! Just ask Jimmy Carter and all the others chattering about the "free and fair" elections.
The overwhelming majority of Arab residents of the West Bank have not lived under Israeli "occupation" for almost a decade - the Israeli checkpoints that exist were *restored* in response to Arab terror.
Sorry, Dan - your saber rattling is as empty as Rabin's vow that we'd give the Arabs what for if they *dared* to turn the arms we gave them upon us. That "outrage" has been exceeded a dozen times over, the Pali's true intentions have never been clearer - and yet Israelis spouting your line still can't seem to justify retaliation.
It's a smoke screen, an empty threat. People who start out wanting to do the right, humanitarian thing by the Palis have wound up bound and shackled by the notion that somehow they have a bottomless coffee cup of grievance. Of course the root of all this is the radical-left notion that Israel is illegitimate, but many people who are just striking the PC pose find themselves "stylistically constrained" or otherwise unable to summon the will to justify Israeli self-defense - because they've already absorbed the perspective that Israel is somehow wrong or the cause of the problem.
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