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Mercy for the Enemy, No Mercy for your Own

Posted: 14 Jul 2009 07:32 PM PDT

On July 25th, 2006, Company C of the Golani Brigade's 51st
Battalion entered the Shiite town of Bint Jibeil in Lebanon. In biblical
times Bint Jibeil was the city of En Hazor where the Tribe of Naphtali had
once dwelled, before the Assyrians drove them out into captivity. The
Jewish residents were gone, and when the Assyrians had passed on, it
became Phoenician and then Greek, to be renamed Daughter of Byblos or in
the Arabic of its final conquerors, Bint Jibeil.

In the present day, Bint Jibeil was known as the Capital of
Hezbollah. The majority of its Christian residents had long ago departed.
What remained was a terrorist nest from which Iran's Lebanese proxy armies
plotted and staged attacks against Israel.

As Company C and its
deputy commander, Major Roi Klein, advanced into Bint Jibeil, he sensed an
ambush. He had made repeated requests for air support and asked for
permission to stage a direct assault on the town. Permission was denied on
the grounds that Bint Jibeil had a large civilian population, and civilian
casualties, even of Hizbollah supporters, were more important than the
lives of IDF soldiers.

Instead Company C was ordered to advanced
into the ambush. The terrorists who were waiting inside civilian
residences and dressed in civilian clothing, attacked from the upper story
of one the houses. A grenade was thrown. Major Roi Klein uttered the final
prayer of "Shema Yisrael" expressing his faith in G-d, and fell on the
grenade, protecting his unit with his own life.

10 members of C
Company died that day in Bint Jibeil, including Major Roi Klein, because
the Israeli government placed a higher value on the lives of terrorist
supporters, than on the lives of their own men. The dying Klein expressed
his bitterness at this government policy. And he was not the only
one.

The father of Corporal Ohad Klausner, who also died that day
in Bint Jibeil blamed the Israeli government for trying to transform the
IDF from a force dedicated to fighting enemy states and terrorists, to
armed police focused on expelling the Jewish residents of the Judea,
Samaria and Gaza, in order to appease the international community and pave
the way for a Palestinian state. "My son had not been trained to fight
terrorists," Klausner's father said. "He had been trained to expel
Jews."

Captain Amichai Merhavya was one of those settlers that the
IDF had been repurposed to fight. He had personally attended a protest
against the forcible expulsion of Gilad Farm. There he was beaten
unconscious by the forces sent out by the government's new priority of
dealing with "settler extremists", rather than with Islamic terrorists. In
the army, Amichai was temporarily suspended from his unit for writing a
letter to the Chief of Staff objecting to the use of the army to expel
Jewish residents of Gaza, Judea and Samaria from their homes. He died at
Bint Jibeil along with 30 other men who didn't have to die.

And Major Roi Klein himself, who died at Bint Jibeil, who
posthumously received Israel's second highest medal, the Medal of Valor,
and had two schools named after him... was a settler too. The previous
government rejected a monument to Major Roi Klein in his hometown of Eli,
because it is considered a settlement. A Knesset bill to modify that
refusal was also defeated.

And the Israeli and American left which
viewed him as an extremist and a subhuman monster in life, were determined
not to leave him alone even in death.

And so the expulsions are set
to continue. And the residents now set to be expelled from their homes
include his widow, Sara, and Gilad and Yoav, the children of Major Roi
Klein, whose own expulsion order has now been signed by the left wing
judicial activists of the Israeli Supreme Court.

At the behest of a
petition filed by the Anti-Israel Pro-Terrorist "Peace Now" organization,
their home is to be demolished, and the widow and children of one of the
greatest heroes of the Second Lebanon War are to be left homeless. Peace
Now, like Obama, is dedicated to the ethnic cleansing of Jews. They are
part of a movement that views Zionism as evil, patriotism as despicable
and Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria as a cancer to be wiped
out.

Amos Oz, a founder of Peace
Now, and a noted left wing writer, shrieked at a Peace Now rally, that
the Jewish residents of these towns are "a messianic junta, insular and cruel, a bunch
of armed gangsters, criminals against humanity, sadists, pogromists and
murderers." Another founder of Peace Now, Yigal Tumarkin wrote,
"My true contribution would be if I
grabbed a sub-machine-gun, instead of a pen and pencil and killed
them." This seemed appropriate enough as Tumarkin's father and
uncle had both in their time, put down pen and pencil, to grab a
sub-machine gun and kill Jews as members of the Nazi SS.

With his
name changed from Peter Heinrich Hellberg, Yigal Tumarkin became
famous in Israel as an artist creating works that included an upside down
triangle as a Holocaust memorial and a pig engaged in Jewish prayers while
wearing Tefilin. The sort of work that would truly have done his uncle
proud.

Naturally in 2004 he was awarded the Israel Prize. When
Israel's Parliament attempted to rescind the award, the same Supreme Court
which ruled for the expulsion of Major Roi Klein's family, ruled that
Tumarkin should get the prize.

As one of Peace Now's founders, Yigal Tumarkin exemplifies the
ugly antisemitic face of Israel's left, and its drive to ethnically
cleanse the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria, to make way for a
terrorist Palestinian state. Their hate of organizations such as Peace
Now, is a visceral hatred for anything and everything Jewish and the
obsessive need to stamp it out. A hatred that is fundamentally Nazi in
nature. And had KKK member Micky Louis Mayon enlisted in Peace Now, and
cloaked his hatred of Jews, as pro-terrorist activism, instead of being
deported he would no doubt have received the Israel Prize too. As
Tumarkin, or rather Hellberg, himself said, "When I see the black-coated Orthodox Jews with
the children they spawn, I can understand the
Holocaust."

Peace Now's war against the family of Major Roi
Klein, against the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, and against
Israel itself can only be seen in that light. A mini-Holocaust to make way
for a much larger Holocaust. The Two State Solution for the Final Solution
that Tumarkin's father and uncle failed to fully implement. But it is the
Israeli government itself that has allowed the combination of the
international community, the left wing radicals of Peace Now to compromise
their values and the safety and security of all Israelis. It has placed
the lives, families and homes of Israelis beneath those of Arab Muslim
terrorists and terrorist supporters.

Major Roi Klein and 9 soldiers
died, because the IDF had become so politically twisted that it was too
afraid of launching a frontal assault on a terrorist stronghold, lest
there be civilian casualties. So the assault was not launched. Instead
Company C walked into an ambush. As a result the Battle of Bint Jibeil
raged for 3 days, instead of being over in a day. The Israeli advance
slowed down dangerously and the war began to seem like a quagmire. Israel
was forced to pull out without accomplishing its
objectives.

Hizbollah used that to claim victory and boost its
morale, and obtain more funding and weapons for a future attack against
Israel. Israelis lost faith in the ability of their military to achieve
victory against terrorism. It has learned that hiding behind civilians
works. That using human shields is the best way to achieve victory. That
Israeli will send its soldiers to die, rather than risk the deaths of
enemy civilians. In any future conflict with Hizbollah, even more enemy
civilians will be placed at risk by being used as human shields--
precisely because Israel's refusal to launch a frontal assault
demonstrated the strategic worth of using human shields.

Finally
despite all of Israel's great efforts to avoid civilian casualties,
efforts that Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in
Afghanistan labeled as going beyond and above that of any military-- there
were still inevitably civilian casualties in the Battle of Bint Jibeil.
Israel sacrificed 10 men and lost the war-- only to nevertheless be
condemned by human rights groups because 4 enemy civilians had
nevertheless died in the fighting.

As a result Israel lost the war and lost 10 men to prevent the
inevitable, the deaths of enemy civilians in a war in which terrorists
hide behind their own civilians. All to appease the unappeasable demands
of the left and the international community. All for nothing.

Now
Israel will demolish the home of Major Roi Klein's widow and his children,
for those same unappeasable demands. Yet the homes of many terrorists
still stand, and when Israel does demolish the home of a terrorist,
organizations like Peace Now and Human Rights Watch, both backed by George
Soros (who unlike Tumarkin actually was around in time to do his part to
help the original Nazis), cry out "Don't demolish terrorist homes,
demolish Jewish homes." And so Israel is complying, and Major Roi Klein,
even in death, will once again be forced to pay the price for the
cowardice and treachery of Israel's left and the international
left.

That is the final result of valuing your enemies above your
people, a situation not unique to Israel, and now commonplace in the First
World.