[singpilot]

Left TelAviv at midnight thirty this morning. Spent the night over the North Atlantic. Am recovering from the 12 hour flight in 99F NYC.

Funny how the forums here, and the non-local press have all these theories about who is doing what, and are usually wrong.

The more 'international' the press outlet is, the farther from the truth the story usually is. The bottom line is;

Israel did everything they could to 'appease' their neighbors thru the 'peace process'. Withdrawing from the Golan Heights, withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, pulling their remote (difficult to protect) settlements, and destroyed the remains so they could not be used as bases against them.

Thru all of this, there are forces surrounding Israel that do not wish for peace with the Israelis there, and they have taken Syrian support and Iranian arms and attacked Israel precisely to derail any attempts at peace.

I would hope that there was enough backbone left in this country to retaliate against an attack of this type on this country.

Oh wait. This has happened here, and even that is being debated ad nauseum. This is read in our enemies camps as a power vacuum. God (whoevers) help us if the enemies of this country act on this.

The enemies of Israel read the attempts at the peace process thru trading land for peace as weakness on Israelis part. The utter and complete failure of this process has lead to the present situation.

What now? Back to the past. Repeat of 1982. Maybe even 1968. Buffer zones, armed diligence at the sealed border. Hey, maybe that could work here too.