A JUST RETALIATION - AND MORE

A JUST RETALIATION

Back in the 1980’s the U.S. Catholic bishops convened and decided to draw up the conditions for determining whether a war is just or not.

In Yves Chauvire’s opinion their time would have been much more profitably spent in weeding predatory homosexuals from the priesthood, and, from their own ranks, cover-up administrators that propagated the faggots and the damage. They would have saved their Church 100’s of $M’s, if not $G’s and, more importantly many, many individuals from years or lifetimes of anguish.

At any rate, though, they arrived at a set of criteria for deciding if a war is just, though, if you read them, you’l find that it would be effectively impossible for a person objectively to arrive at a yes/no answer for any of the conditions.

Their exercise, though, made me wonder what constitutes a just retaliation. For example, Pearl harbor precipitated a retaliation the Japanese could not possibly have contemplated; the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole and murder of several crew went unchastised, as did North Korea’s seizure of the incompetently-commanded U.S.S. Pueblo and subsequent torture of crew members; and the infamous events of 11 September 2001 resulted in our large-scale operations in Afghanistan. What is condign retaliation?

I’ve been thinking about Israel’s late retaliation against Palestinian militants. The latter could hardly expect a country, unless it would be the U.S., to ignore a rocket assault, but how much retaliation was justified? The rocketeers were all the more culpable, because they know from experience that Israeli retaliation is generally orders of magnitude beyond the provocation; that many of their own, innocent people would be killed and maimed as a consequence.

It seems to me excessive, for example, that Israel destroyed an ambulance seeking to aid the injured and that they repeatedly shelled a U.N. outpost in the wretched area.

Israeli counter-attacks are too often of the rabid, unbridled sort. Consider the case of the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967. In international waters our clearly-identified ship had been monitored FOR HOURS by Israel’s warplanes, which suddenly mounted an unprovoked, murderous assault on the “allies,” there only for the purpose of observing. This unprecedented aggression continued for hours and resulted in the sinking of the ship, the deaths of 30-odd crew, and the injury of over 100 others. On your search engine look up “U.S.S. Liberty” and read all about it.

“Well, it was a mistake,” offered the Israeli liars. “We didn’t know it was your ship,” and the impossibly impotent, spineless, kow-towing U.S. did NOTHING, whereas it should have bombed that excuse for a country back into the stone age, whence it came. Thanks to our carte blanche giveaways the chances are great that our personnel were murdered and wounded with our own munitions! They don’t have any airplane factories over there, do they?

Broach this topic with 1000 Jews, and 999 will set up a greater wail than in a couple of millennia at the Western Wall. You’d think you’d threatened to saponify them, and the number of anti-Semitism bleats will be uncountable. (Say, isn’t that a term to be used only by illiterates? Arabs, if you haven’t noticed, are ALSO Semitic people!) Criticize a Jew, and you must despise the lot of them, right? One would be forgiven for believing they care more for Israel than for their own country. Well?