I Love Israel: It Won’t Surrender to Hatred

This is the first time I can ever remember agreeing with Susan Estrich. She is coming out loud and clear in support of Israel's actions in Gaza. She pretty well sums up my view of the situation but is able to put into words.

It is time the Stand Up And Be Counted.

The Global Jihad is on a roll and it's rolling right down our throats in broad daylight. Israel's action to crush Hamas is becoming a catalyst and call to arms to the West to support Israel and declare that Islam no longer has a free pass in it's efforts to dominate the world with Sharia.

As we can see, Israel standing firm instead of immediately falling back into the old self defeating cycle of negotiate and give concessions has forcing nations to openly choose sides, thereby clarifying the battlefield.

Well said, Ms. Estrich.

FROM NEWSMAX.COM:

I Love Israel: It Won’t Surrender to Hatred
By: Susan Estrich
Friday, January 9, 2009 9:40 AM

"Go back to the oven," the woman in her hijab in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., yelled to the Jewish Americans demonstrating their support for Israel. "You need a big oven, that's what you need."

This is why I love Israel and always have. It is because Israel will never surrender to its enemies’ hatred.

Israel is tiny. If you live in Massachusetts, as I did when I traveled there two decades ago, imagine Rhode Island being in the hands of those who are committed to destruction, sending rockets over your common border. If you live in Los Angeles, as I do now, imagine San Diego being not only a different state but also a committed enemy whose official government has long been listed as a terrorist organization.

How do you live like that? How do you raise your children knowing that, when they graduate from high school, they will go to war against those who do not place the same value on human life as you do, fighting people who send their children to be suicide bombers?

Amid the violence in Gaza, Israel stopped shooting for three hours the other day to allow the people to get food and supplies, to allow trucks with medical supplies to deliver them in safety. Imagine Hamas doing the same thing to help Israeli civilians. I cannot. Not for a minute.

I do not always like everything Israel does. I do not always like everything my own country does. But I love Israel for the determination and courage of its people in standing up to the terrorists who would destroy it. And I detest those who traffic in anti-Semitism and then seek to excuse their hatred of me by saying no, it isn't Jews they hate. Just Israel. Liars.
The world is busy condemning Israel. The media are busy doubting its future. Time magazine goes on for pages about why Israel can't win. Maybe it can't, but it also can't lose.

Dick Morris says this is the doves' war, the last chance for the left-leaning government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak to beat back the prospect of defeat by the more hard-line Benjamin Netanyahu. Politics is relative. From what I know, there are no doves in Israel. How can you be a dove when the rockets are landing 17 miles outside of Tel Aviv? You can fight or you can fight more. If Hamas can get away with murder, why should Iran fear at all?

No one likes seeing civilians suffer and die. No one likes seeing hospitals overrun, supplies running out, doctors near exhaustion. But terrorists who use schools and hospitals as launching pads for attacks should not complain when the bombs hit the targets they have created. No one likes to see children die, but so-called leaders who use their children as pawns and train them to kill should not expect sympathy when the lives they risk so carelessly are then lost.
If I knew the answer, I would tell you. I don't. But I know what isn't the answer. It is not the answer to sit back and let the rockets rain down. It is not the answer to let terrorists attack you and not fight back.

We will not go back to the ovens. Israel was the answer to the ovens, and if Israel is your enemy, so am I.