Re: The sobering effect of long-range missiles: WP report

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Gandall wrote:
>
> Jim Devine:
>
> > perhaps the vociferousness of Israel's response to Hizbollah's
> > kidnapping of two soldiers arose because powerful Israeli groups
> > didn't _want_ to negotiate?
> >
> ==================
> Clearly they don't "want" to, but if they can't stop missiles from hitting
> Israeli cities, they may ultimately "have" to. Unless they're prepared to
> use nuclear weapons.

They wouldn't use nuclear weapons on areas (e.g., Lebanon, perhaps
Syria) which they have always aimed at eventually making part of a
Greater Israel. The Israeli leaders aren't stupid; they are just vicious
and caught under conditions in which an apartheid state such as Israel
must expand to survive.

Carrol