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In a Order viagra online, recent post, Philip Weiss denounces Americans for Peace Now and J Street for "equivocating" about the assault on Gaza. He believes they have not been emphatic enough in their opposition to Israel's behavior because they have not come down hard enough against Palestinian civilian casualties.

His conclusion: "It is very difficult, buy viagra pills, nigh impossible, Colorado CO Colo. , to be in a Jewish or Zionist communal organization and take a strong position against the destruction of Arab lives or for Arab human rights. It just won't happen. It's in the water."

Sadly, köpa rabatterade viagra, Weiss is correct that the American Jewish communal world finds it much too difficult to criticize Israeli human rights violations or express concern about Palestinian suffering. I have made the same point many times on this blog, order viagra online. Oklahoma OK Okla. , But he is picking the wrong enemies and the wrong examples in this particular fight. He subsequently wrote something positive about J Street so I'll take issue with his bromide against Americans for Peace Now.

Here is the specific APN language that Phil finds equivocal and problemmatic:

Over the past weeks, acheter viagra discount, Israelis, Ordering viagra no rx, Palestinians, and the world have once again witnessed the unfolding of a serious and dangerous military escalation between Israel and Hamas. APN and its Israeli sister organization, Nebraska NE Nebr. , Peace Now, Ohio OH , have repeatedly expressed solidarity with the residents of communities of southern Israel, who have been subject to the terror of incoming fire from the Gaza Strip. Order viagra online, Israel has the right – indeed, the obligation – to take measures to bring these attacks to a halt... However, Um viagra online, simply escalating the violence is not going to resolve the situation.

These paragraphs were part of a larger statement that responded to the prevailing view within the organized Jewish community that Israel's Gaza operation is entirely justified. Order viagra online legally, That is the community that APN must try to galvanize. Weiss not only left out the rest of the statement; he omitted the context, which was a specific question posed to APN:

"Why is Americans for Peace Now pressing for another ceasefire, cheapest viagra, when the last ceasefire was used by Hamas, Comprare viagra, predictably, to shore up its forces and prepare for even steeper violence against Israel. Israel is fighting a war against an organization dedicated to wiping it off the map, order viagra. Given this reality, APN should be supporting Israeli efforts to defeat Hamas, not putting pressure on Israel to establish self-defeating, short-lived ceasefires with it?"

The answer was a cogent analysis --yes, from Israel's perspective, sorry if that bothers you, Phil-- that is a welcome contrast to much of the blather eminating from the organized American Jewish community:

Israel's military leaders know that while the IDF can achieve short-term tactical gains in Gaza, the Israeli military cannot destroy popular support for Hamas, stop all rockets from falling, or force the release of Gilad Shalit, order viagra online. Indeed, North Dakota ND , this escalation of violence risks playing into the hands of extremists, while increasing dangers to both soldiers and civilians, and risks getting Israel bogged down in an open-ended mission in Gaza, viagra prices. It also raises the specter of a two-front war, Oregon OR Ore. , should Hizballah decide to renew conflict on Israel's northern border, with all the challenges to the IDF and danger to Israeli civilians that this would entail.

Many would argue that this is precisely what Hamas wants, ordering viagra online legally. We would argue that these are yet additional important reasons to seek to avoid an escalation and move quickly to a ceasefire, Wyoming WY Wyo. , recognizing the extreme difficulty Israel faces in achieving any sustainable ceasefire agreement, formal or informal, with an extremist, buy viagra cod, ideologically-motivated organization like Hamas. Order viagra online, The breakdown of the recent ceasefire does not prove that ceasefires are futile. Kansas KS Kans. , Rather, it demonstrates the danger of treating a ceasefire as an end unto itself. As we have warned repeatedly in the past – indeed, viagra, every time we have called for a ceasefire – a ceasefire is useful and desirable only as a means to halt violence and chaos in the immediate term, Generic viagra, creating the space to facilitate improvements in the humanitarian situation, stabilize the political situation, and get the process back on track to achieve a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, halvalla viagra apteekki.

Absent improvements in the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the re-emergence of a serious, Cheapest viagra, productive political process, any ceasefire risks becoming merely an intermission to allow those attacking Israel to re-arm, re-trench, viagra without prescription, and enhance their military capability. Sadly, this is exactly the situation today.

Looking ahead, the only way out of the current crisis is to re-establish the ceasefire, but this time not as a short-term fix but rather as part of a serious, longer-term strategy to deal with the core issues at play in Gaza, order viagra online. In this way, and only in this way, it can allow the sides to avoid the re-emergence of violence in the longer term. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is, at its heart, a political conflict. Palestinian terrorism against Israel – including Hamas-fired rockets from Gaza – is a horrendous aspect of this conflict that cannot be brought to an end simply by increasing the harshness of the Israeli response.

Finally, the lessons of the 2006 Lebanon War should not be lost here. Order viagra online, Any realistic, sustainable resolution to this crisis will require Israel and Hamas to engage, directly or indirectly, to achieve a ceasefire. The only questions then are: how many more Israelis and Palestinians will die or be wounded in the interim; how much less international sympathy Israel will have when the ceasefire is being negotiated; how much bigger will the disaster on the ground be, both in Israel and Gaza, once a ceasefire is achieved; and how much damage will have been done to the credibility and viability of the peace process and the Israeli and Palestinian peace camps.

And perhaps most importantly, will a ceasefire this time be accompanied by both the kind of changes on the ground and the establishment of some sort of political process necessary for it to succeed.

What is equivocal about that. Now, there is much in that APN statement that I am sure some of the regulars here will dispute.I don't quite follow the last paragraph, for example. But castigating APN because its closely argued statement does not devote more space to the victimization of Palestinians is like objecting to a bill calling for prison reform because it does not devote many provisions to "unequivocably" condemning the death penalty.

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Order viagra from canada, When discussing Israel, one of the most difficult challenges that confronts passionate moderates like me is criticism that holds the Jewish state to a different moral standard than the one that is used to judge other nation states. By and large, I am suspicious of people who are obsessed with singling out Israel and the Israelis for supposedly immoral behavior, who spend their spare time combing the Internet ONLY for stories of injustice perpetrated by Zionists and then spreading the word about them, viagra cheap.

One common response of Israel's defenders is to ask these people why they aren't spending just as much energy denouncing the Sudanese government for Darfur, or Somalian war lords, Viagra online cheap, or the Lebanese who bombed a Palestinian refugee camp and killed innocent civilians in order to root out Islamic radicals. Horrific things happen in war, according to this argument. The Americans firebombed Dresden and Toyko, Acheter en ligne viagra, look what the Russians did in Chechnya...Why single out Israel.

In general, that argument is appropriate when Israel's attackers are Westerners who have little personal connection to the conflict, and whose arguments are so vituperative that their motives deserve to be questioned, order viagra from canada. It is not hard to detect those who lack all sense of proportion, Ordering viagra no prescription, who have decided that there is something singularly evil about Israel or Jewish self-determination, and who cannot fathom that there are two sides to most of the stories they choose to tell. One wonders where all their rage is coming from. Perhaps it is derived from that portion of the collective unconscious that always blames the JEWS, buy generic viagra. Perhaps it comes from a simple need to hate something or someone, to transfer all wrongs into one, Buy viagra c.o.d., totemic hate object and focus on it to the exclusion of everything else. Order viagra from canada, On the other hand, the argument that "other people do bad things" is not a defense when Israel does them. It makes sense when it is used to call the motivations of reflexively belligerent Israel-bashers into question. It falls apart when it is used to justify Israeli behavior that is simply WRONG.

Last month, Florida FL Fla. , on the Americans for Peace Now web site, Leonard Fein had a great post on the cluster bombs that Israel scattered throughout southern Lebanon in the last 72 hours of the war two years ago. Arizona AZ Ariz. , (See "A Modest Proposal: Pay the Bill to Clear Cluster Bombs," Sept. 8), order viagra from canada. All of the complex, nuanced arguments in the world can't obscure the fact that Israeli military officials took actions that they knew would jeopardize the lives of civilians AFTER the end of an armed conflict, Missouri MO Mo. , in order to stop Hezbollah from becoming entrenched once again. The end was understandable; it did not justify the means. Ohio OH , Fein proposes that Israel pay for the cost of removing the "bomblets" because the UN can't afford it. I won't repeat his arguments. Order viagra from canada, Check them out yourself. For a contrary view, what follows is an essay that Tom Mitchell sent to me, osta alennus viagra. I think he is wrong.

Among other points, Wyoming WY Wyo. , Tom writes: "While..[cluster bombs] may be against international agreements—I’m not an international lawyer—it is a fairly common military strategy used by the U.S. in the Vietnam War and France in Vietnam and Algeria. I contend that Israel should be held to the same standard of conduct as Western democracies in similar situations, and not to the standard of blind compliance with paper agreements that many of the signers had no intention of complying with."

I think his casual dismissal of international law in this case implies that Israel should never be bound by international law, order viagra from canada. His casual acceptance of killing civilians in order to stop the movement of enemy troops when no war is being waged implies that Israel can and should ignore basic standards of human decency. I disagree, lowest price viagra, passionately. Here is his essay:

CLUSTER BOMBS AND MORALITY IN WARFARE
by Thomas Mitchell

Leonard Fein has a rather interesting piece on Israeli use of cluster bombs during the Second Lebanon War and who bears the responsibility for the cost of their cleanup on his “The Conversation” blog at the APN website (www.peacenow.org). Order viagra online, Fein relates that Israel used cluster bombs extensively in Southern Lebanon during the last two days of the war when plans for a ceasefire were imminent. Order viagra from canada, He also claims that the munitions used were older American-manufactured bombs with a much higher failure rate than those experienced with Israeli-manufactured cluster munitions. Fein suggests that this selection was due to cost consideration...I would suggest that price was probably not the main consideration involved, and that deterrence rather than revenge was the proper motive.

Neither Israel nor the United States signed the anti-land mine treaty of the 1990s, generic viagra, as both rely extensively on land mines for defensive purposes. The U.S. Kaufen viagra, Army uses them along the DMZ in Korea to defend against a North Korean invasion. Israel uses them on the Golan and in northern Israel to defend against both invasion and terrorist infiltration, order viagra from canada. From the time of the 1936-39 Arab Revolt, the Zionists/Israelis have used a strategy of reprisal raids against villages and countries hosting, either voluntarily or involuntarily, cheap viagra tablets, insurgents who have infiltrated into the yishuv/Israel. Israel practiced this on a small scale during the Arab Revolt against Arab villages and on a much wider scale from 1953-56 and in 1966-67 and in Lebanon since 1972. Viagra ordine on-line, The idea is to signal to the Arab governments that there is a high price to pay for allowing terrorists to operate from their territory. This same strategy was copied by Rhodesia in 1979 against economic infrastructure targets in Mozambique and Zambia and by South Africa in the 1980s. Order viagra from canada, I would argue that Israel probably deliberately used old cluster bombs as a sort of aerial mine dispersal system so as to deny economic use of swaths of Southern Lebanese territory. Since 1969 Israel has faced a war of attrition from terrorists in Lebanon: first the Palestinians (Fatah, PFLP, viagra online, etc.) and then from 1982-83 from Hezbollah. Both sides in the conflict consider themselves to be fighting a prolonged war of survival. Cheapest viagra online, Fein argues that Israel or its supporters should pay the cost of cleaning up the mines. I argue that cleaning up the mines while the conflict continues is a waste of money as Israel is likely to remine the area as long as Hezbollah continues to act against Israel. One respondent argued that this creation of a cordon sanitaire was a war crime, order viagra from canada. While it may be against international agreements—I’m not an international lawyer—it is a fairly common military strategy used by the U.S. in the Vietnam War and France in Vietnam and Algeria, Kentucky KY Ky. . I contend that Israel should be held to the same standard of conduct as Western democracies in similar situations ,and not to the standard of blind compliance with paper agreements that many of the signers had no intention of complying with. Idaho ID , In a recent three-part PBS program British historian Niall Ferguson, who teaches at Harvard, argued that the Allies won World War II by using the same basic tactics as the Axis powers. Order viagra from canada, The Allied governments argued that the initial use of such prohibited practices as sinking of merchant vessels by submarines without prior warning or bombing of civilian targets by the Axis powers first allowed them to also violate the agreements in a similar fashion. The democracies did not shoot prisoners of war or run death camps (although the Soviets certainly did), cheapest viagra. But copying German submarine tactics allowed the U.S. Navy to win a guerre de corse against the Japanese Empire and the British RAF to mount a bombing campaign against German cities with its inaccurate bombsights. Order viagra overnight delivery, In the Second World War both the British and Soviets felt that they were fighting for their survival (or the survival of their empires) and thus allowed themselves to take measures that they would not normally take. The United States was not even fighting a war of survival but merely a war to avenge Pearl Harbor in the Pacific, order viagra from canada. Similarly Israel feels that it is involved in a struggle for survival against terrorists who do not recognize its right to exist. Average Israelis feel that Arab terrorism allows Israel to use similar methods against those same terrorists and their host governments, even if Jerusalem does not make this same argument out loud, Wisconsin WI Wis. . I argue that Israel should be held to the same standards of practice as France in Algeria, the British in Northern Ireland, and the British and Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq. President Bush claimed that the U.S. Order viagra from canada, was involved in a global war on terror (GWOT); Northern Ireland is, and Algeria was, an integral part of a national homeland.

Leftists and pacifists may argue that either war should be outlawed or that multilateral agreements create a “customary law” prohibiting certain activities. I think that Israel should model its conduct after the actual conduct of the leading democracies. This may violate the Biblical principle of “or l'goyim” (a light onto the nations) but it is in line with the Zionist principle of creating an “am kakol ha’amim” i.e. a normal state. The trick is to define the standard of normality according to Western norms, rather than the norms of Israel’s neighbors and enemies. Although, as Niall Ferguson would argue, in a crisis the two meld seamlessly.

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