The Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae killed tens of thousands more of the enemy than their own losses. How inhumane of them - The Greatest Disproportionate Response in History.
How far would you go to defend your family from an armed thug?
The Indo-Bangladeshi barrier is a 4,000-kilometer fence that India is presently constructing to seal off the Indian-Bangladeshi border to prevent Muslims from entering India.
Muslims conveniently ignore the fact that the Sabra and Shatila attacks were in retaliation for the Damour massacre where Palestinians killed Christians in the city of Damour where over 4,000 people died. Whether Israel was there or not the Sabra and Shatile attacks would have happened anyway. Palestinians in Lebanon should never have involved themselves taking the side of Muslims against Christians. They brought this on themselves.
The lessons of history are lost on Liberals. When a normal person reads of the Battle of Thermopylae, he comes away with respect for incredible heroism in the face of an overwhelming enemy force. When a liberal reads of the same battle, he comes away with disgust at the Xenophobia of the Greeks and disproportionate response of the Spartans, who killed hundreds of thousands of Persians while losing only hundreds of their own men.
Imagine if I fired home-made bullets into your home 300 times a week. When the police come, they ask if anyone was killed; you reply that one of your children died a few weeks ago, but since you have barricaded yourself to protect against further deaths, no one was killed this week.
Here are the typical complaints we hear from anti-Israeli whiners regarding the situation in Gaza:
- "Gazans are living under brutal occupation - what can they do but resist?"
- The poor dears are without food, gas, electricity, or medical supplies.
- They are just innocent shlubs who just want to live in peace.
- Israelis are killing weaponless civilians.
Nazi Germany bombed London between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941 in what is widely known as the Blitz. The purpose of course was to demoralize Britain into submission. And while it must have been hell for Londoners to endure air raid sirens for 8 months in a row, it's nothing compared to the 8 continuous years of rocket attacks, now more than 50 a day, that Israelis had to and continue to endure.
Here's the problem: your house is surrounded by 100 thugs who throw grenades into your home every day. Because you have a good security system, you are forewarned that a grenade is coming your way so most of the time you are lucky. You take your family into the cellar and during the course of a year two of your children are killed.
If Palestinians valued life at all, if they held any Arab life as sacred, if a Muslim soul were worth anything at all, they would have gladly given Schalit back in exchange for one Arab prisoner.
