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Cease Fires: After the Goal is Accomplished
By Micah Halpern

Wednesday December 31, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is planning to come to Jerusalem.
He intends to mediate and negotiate a cease fire between Hamas and Israel.

There is a conceptual problem with racing toward a ceasefire in the midst of this conflict. Europe, the United Nations and at times even the United States subscribe to the theory that the quicker a cease fire is reached the better, but that is not always the case.

In this conflict with Hamas, Israel is attempting to destroy the terror infrastructure and create a new status quo. It is premature, even dangerous, for Western states to even raise the idea of ceasefire until the new status quo has been achieved and essential goals have been attained.

The thinking goes that the longer there is conflict the more innocent bystanders will be hurt so let's end it all with a ceasefire.
That is where the fallacy lies.
As long as the terrorists are able to act freely innocent lives are at stake, both at the hands of the terrorists and by the retaliatory strikes against the terrorists.

Hamas terrorists are using human shields in order to jack up the numbers of innocent causalities.
International law is clear on this issue: those people are no longer innocent if the terrorists act behind them.
Unfortunate, but true.
Sarkozy needs to think this through before lunging ahead with plans for a cease fire.

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4 June 2017 12:13 PM in Thoughts


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