A Point of View: World leaders need to act on Gaza

I suggest that Israel should announce to the world and Hamas in Gaza,that as soon as a rocket is launched from Gaza in 15minutes time,a preaviously nominated public building in Gaza,will be destroied,the 15 minutes is the time in which the civilians in this building must
be avacuated,if it is not done,the responsibility for causulties will rest with the Gazan authrities.

Look at the bright side : The inevitable blowup in Gaza may save Israel from making long term, strategically suicidal concessions stemmong from the Annapolis process.
You really want Bush to address the Gaza rockets seriously? As long as he has Ms. Rice the Appeaser by his side you can forget that.

This is a very sad column to read, written by a Jew who wholeheartedly supported the expulsion of many wonderful Jewish families from Gush Katif, Gaza only because they are Jews.

By any standard of measure, this is anti-Semitism at its worst.

Mr. Foxman seems overly pre-occupied with world opinion. Perhaps this is why he supports negotiating the land of Israel away to our jihadist enemies, dedicated to our destruction. Favorable world opinion.

Very sad.

Security in Sderot is primarily the responsibility of the Isreali government. They, unfortunately, are the ones abandoning the wonderful people of Sderot.

David #2 is right. If this stops Annapolis from destroying Israel, then it is a good thing.
Hamas in the West Bank is where it will end up.

Foxman and many others do not realize that the intention of the rocket attacks is to provoke Israel to invade Gaza in force, with the hope of scuttling the peace process. Additionally, it might force Israel to become responsible for the day to day administration of an ungovernable territory. For too many this rationale is probably to subtle to fathom.

It is profoundly sad, but very clear, that when your neighoring territory is ruled by a regime that only believes that "a good Jew is a dead Jew", you have to do whatever needs to be done to neutralize them. They are never going to become peaceful neighbors in the long run, so Israel might as well control the situation, rather than the terrorists.

No way UN troops will go in as long as Hamas considers whomsoever is in the Gaza Strip as occupier. In no way comparable to what ended Lebanon War II.
NATO? No obligation whatsoever, no NATO country attacked. Probably up to every country to make its own decision if NATO troops could engage at all.)
Only solution: getting the two-state-solution agreement asap, including the questioning of the Palestinian people (elections or referendum): my opinion. Would take the wind out of the Hamas sails!

HAMAS is a fanatic organization supported by Mullah's of Iran. They must be driven out of Gaza. They have their Mullah's in iran. Let them go there. When the regime change of Mullah's come, they will be dealt with also. The civilized world can no longer tolerate fanatic organizations.

A seperate gov't in Gaza can not be sustained. It would be a parasite on the world needing constant money from the very western world it scorns while attacking Israel and supporting terror worldwide. Israel must rule up to the Egyptian border to guarentee security both for itself, the world and the 'palestinians' living there.

Many times I can't help, but wonder, what's wrong with the Jewish psyque.
Seem that we lived in a perpetual denial of reality.
Why we expect to be helped by the rest of the world? To the world "leaders", Terrorism is only something that happen to them.They have another definition of terror.
To then, the terrorism suffer by Israel daily is not terrorism.
In their opinion, Fatah, Hamas, Hizbolla Inc. are products of the Jewish Zionist, they are not terrorist, they just do the "dirty" work, that the UN can do for itself.

Abe Foxman is one of those Jews who wants Israel to win without killing the enemy. He wants to attend the liberal parties on the Upper West Side without people asking him why those Israelis kill those nice Palestinian children. He wants to collect money from Reform Jews without having to explain Israel to them. Foxman might be OK with an invasion of Gaza but only if enough IDF are killed in the process to balance things out.

G-d save us from liberal Jews.

The land of Canaan was given to Abraham and his seed. No less than four times in your own Torah, is Ishmael described as Abraham's son. Why is it then that Jews think that the land belongs to them exclusively?

Sorry, but maybe you mean from the Nile till the Euphrates river. That´s what the Arabs are trying to take and let nothing to Israel. The Arabs have more than 50 countries, some 100 times bigger than Israel (like Iran and Saudi Arabia). Israel has 70% of desert. So, if you want more territory, I mean, seriously...

Israel should NOT give up 1 inch of land to Arabs who seek its destruction.
Arabs/Moslems are teach eachgeneration to hate Israel/Jews and to destroy israel.They DO NOT seek peace with Israel. They seek its destruction and havea great PR campaign to weaken Israel. All Jewish leaders should be publicizing thesefacts. Leaving Southern Gaza has led to these Kassam attacks. Giving arms to the Arabs in Judea/Samaria will lead to similar disasters.
We Jews must act likeMaccabbees NOT Hellenists. We must stand up to Bush/Rice and refuse to alllow them to weaken Israel.

Generalissimo Foxman was a chief cheerleader for the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, which proximately--and forseeably-- caused the rocket barrage he now decries. This gave him the photo ops he craves; view if you can his earlier smiling photos with Arafat. Before granting Foxman's strategic pretensions any shred of credibility, shouldn't he acknowledge he was dead wrong about Oslo and dead wrong about Gaza? Joel J. Sprayregen, Chicago (former ADL National Vice-Chair)

Those who argue for restraint ( like Mr. Peskin) do not have a solution to the ceaseless rocket bombardment of Sderot. There are innocent civilians being killed, injured and terrorized and the Israeli govt. considers them to be expendable. Do the advocates of negotiating with Abbas really think he has the power or the will to stop the rockets?

Joel #16 wrote: "Before granting Foxman's strategic pretensions any shred of credibility, shouldn't he acknowledge he was dead wrong about Oslo and dead wrong about Gaza?"

Yes.

Talk, talk, talk. It's so simple!

If they send two unsophisticated rockets into Israel, Israel should send two sophisticated rockets back.

What country could complain about tit for tat?

The residents of Gaza will themselves stop the rocket fire when their actions bring reactions of much greater consequence.

Israel cannot invade Gaza. Who needs that headache? And as far as international forces acting as a buffer zone, that can go on forever.

One for one . . . two for two, etc.

I just say Google "Iraq, PNAC, Where Do All Roads Lead?"

Joel #16 wrote: "Before granting Foxman's strategic pretensions any shred of credibility, shouldn't he acknowledge he was dead wrong about Oslo and dead wrong about Gaza?"

Yes.

Once again, Foxman NOT speaking in the interest of Jews, especially those in Israel. You really want a UN or Nato force in Gaza to disrupt society like they did in the Balkans? They will serve as the new excuse as to why Israel is "not allowed" by the international community to fight back and respond to terror attacks. "you might hurt the UN troops that are on the ground." "They are working diligently to solve the problem"... Right. They provoked Bosnian Muslim Terrorist acts against the Serbs and they'll provoke more terror on Israel. Foxman, you are out of your league.

Yehuda ben Mei - put yourself in the arab's shoes, would you not fight if someone took away your land. give the land back to palestine then you will not get rocketed. FREE PALESTINE

I am so tired of the typical American Jewish Leaders, they still are living in 1970. Wake up, the self righteous and self appointed leaders so concerned over a christmas tree or a book in school that they are miss the big picture of survival. The EU that they so want to please will never back Israel or the Jewish people. We need a leader that will lead in peace and war. We did not get to Israel from Egypt by passing out candy and gifts, not should we today.

To no. 21
Israel isn't on Arab land.The Arabs are just mad that they people there are Jewish.When there wasn't a jewish state they had liitle intersest in Palistine.The Arabs look for excuses for violence and bullying.Make up lies about land belonging to them when it doen't to excuse violence.

why does the world standby silently while Israel has nuclear wepons,why does it standby and tolerate apartheid in Israel, why are we so quiet when Palestinians are treated like animals and kids are denied medical treatment?????
The racist wall is built, and no one says anything...?????
Please write about this stuff...

The united states needs to stop backing the aprtheid regime of Israel. As Ron Paul mentioned last night in the debates, Israel is being treated like the stepchild of the US. Mr. Foxman is so evidently concerned about influencing the debate in this country -- and opinion by policymakers generally -- that he fails to acknowledge that, even though Israel is a so-called "democracy" -- it engages in actions that run counter to U.S. security and our national interest.

a seperatist government in Gaza would be a "parasite" on the world? Funny you use the word parasite: considering that Israel sucks 1/6 of all US Foreign Aid and is the 29th largest economy, I'd attach that label to the country that harbors 300 illegal nuclear weapons and has always been the force of destabalization in the region.