Israel's Active Capitulation

Hamas ends its so-called truce and pounds the Jewish state with a Kassam and mortar barrage. Terrorists hurl missiles, Israel returns rhetoric. Israel's leaderless leaders have allowed puny Islamist murderers from Gaza and Lebanon to claim victory for far too long. A state with the resources but not the national will to use them to defeat this threat is likely doomed to the greater existential threat of Iran. Even if Iran is stopped, Israel may fall to pan-Islamism under the weight of her own corruption. President Katsav, Prime Minster Olmert, and even Minister Hiam Ramon have all come under criminal charges. A country as small and vulnerable as Israel even lost some of the small amount of international support she enjoyed due to the Madoff scandal. A nation that readily dispossesses Jews from near Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs, but permits a sustained terrorist bombardment from Gaza will soon perish.