Israelis: Don’t make me stop this car!
Posted by Ron Coleman on December 25, 2008
That Ehud Olmert is some hothead!
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a direct appeal to Gaza’s people to pressure their leaders to stop the barrages. But the attacks showed no signs of ending. By nightfall, three rockets and 15 mortar shells had exploded in Israel.
Olmert issued his appeal in a rare interview with the Arabic language satellite channel al-Arabiya, saying Israel would not hesitate to respond with force if the attacks continued.
Isn’t a little hard to say you “won’t hesitate” when you’re in the middle of an extended bout of hesitation? It gets even worse — you might think the Onion wrote this last part:
“I am telling them now, it may be the last minute, I’m telling them stop it. We are stronger,” he said.
On the other hand, I think the Onion already did write it…
UPDATE: Car stopped. How much of this could have been avoided, though, had a generation of deterrent credibility not been squandered in a decade?
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