It’s ridiculous to talk about the Palestinians like this. The land they are (walking towards with no weapons) that you want to fire artillery at them on is… theirs.

“…Gazan border provocations…It is just like dealing with a bully in real life…”

The Palestinians as bullies??? You’re off your rocker. Jews have no respect for the lives of anyone but themselves. I’m not a part of the Palestinian glee club but Jews act the exact same way in the US and Israel and everywhere else. They show nothing but hatred for everyone not Jewish and justify it by proclaiming everyone else the aggressor. Kirk’s blatant mind warp thinking about the Palestinians is a perfect example. Let’s look at a map and see what’s happened to the Palestinians land.

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Of course they will say that they lost the land because of “aggression” but the Israelis take the land from them no matter what or when.

Let’s not forget the Jews are responsible for 9-11 or at least covering it up…actually they are responsible. Building 7 fell the same speed as a rock dropped in air. So the building HAD to have only been supported by AIR when it fell to fall at that speed. Meaning it had no support. No amount of fire could have boiled away the bottom 11 floors til it was the density of air. The Jews owned the building that was bombed, owned the security in the building, owned the security companies where the planes took off from, conveniently have people who worked for a moving company who were explosives experts filming the WTC when it went down and own the media where they conveniently fail to notice buildings dropping like rocks in air. I mean what the hell is needed to prove the obvious.

If they ever get complete control of this country they will treat us just like the Palestinians.

Effective ROE that enable commanders to use lethal munitions as appropriate, and the enemy’s certainty that they will be used on them as appropriate.

All this half-hard “less lethal” bullshit actually manages is to convince the enemy that we lack the certainty of our convictions, and won’t really fight when it comes down to it, thus actually serving to encourage their intransigence and belligerence.

If the Israelis answered the Gazan border provocations with a full-scale artillery counter-strike upon the very first breaching attempt or launch of incendiary kites, the Palestinian appetite for such activities would evaporate. It is just like dealing with a bully in real life–You try the half-hard approach, and that just encourages them because they see your weakness. You want the bullying to stop, utterly? You have to make the price high enough that the bully is afraid to escalate, and the price has to be real. I am reminded of the little guy in high school who finally snapped one day, and took a baseball bat to the “football hero” who’d been tormenting him. Day ended with assault charges, an ended athletic career, and that being the last time that kid got bullied…