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...Twenty boys is all we need to defend this base," he says with a glance around his embattled domain. "Plus a couple of rocket launchers and a machine gun. We can also call on fire support from tanks back at the second line." The boys come up for four or five days at a time, then rotate with a brother or cousin...
...Muslims. Yet all evidence speaks to the contrary. Consider for example, the Charter of Privileges to the monks of the St. Catherine Monastery in Mt. Sinai, in which the Prophet swears to “hold out against anything that displeases them” and promises that Muslims shall defend the monks. Property and freedom of access were guaranteed protection. There are at least a handful of “democratic” allies of the U.S. that do not grant the same protection to mosques...
...Palestinians hand over the criminals for trial in Israel. In light of Arafat’s failure to arrest and imprison those terrorists who find sanctuary under his regime, we support Israel’s ability to seek out those responsible for the attack. Israel has a right to defend its citizens, especially given that the PA seems to have little interest in combating terrorism...
Nevertheless, the tanks that have rumbled into Palestinian towns over the last week cannot stay indefinitely. Israel must defend its citizens, but it also must realize that the Palestinians will eventually have to take charge of their own affairs. Perhaps with more pressure, Arafat will realize that his only option is to stop inciting his own people and to destroy the terrorists who work in their midst...
...hard to defend that kind of balance,” Zollei said. “When one guy is scoring all the goals, the other team can focus on that one person. But when we show them we all can score, there is little they...