[doctorzlo]

But what's worse JPOST prints it.

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/201...-jpost-op.html

Svein Sevje said in an Israeli newspaper interview Tuesday that while the Norwergian bomb and gun rampages that killed 76 people and Palestinian attacks should both be considered morally unacceptable, he wanted to "outline the similarity and the difference in the two cases."

Palestinians, the ambassador told Maariv, "are doing this because of a defined goal that is related to the Israeli occupation. There are elements of revenge against Israel and hatred of Israel. To this you can add the religious element to their actions."Sevje also conveniently ignores incidents like this 2009 incident in which a Norwegian diplomat used a discredited photo to compare Israel to Nazis and a 2010 Aftenposten report that claims that Norwegian UNIFIL troops helped two Hezbullah terrorists in Lebanon escape from Israel and the SLA. A Wikileaks cable released in 2010 claims that Norway actually sympathizes with Hamas' positions, and does not just have a tactical desire for talk with the terror organization.
Repeatedly the Norwegian foreign minister has emphasized Israel’s right to defend itself, but he has also called for proportionality in the Israeli military responses and respect for international humanitarian law. He stated that the killing of unarmed demonstrators in the Golan Heights on June 5 could not be justified, and Norway is among those who strongly criticize Israeli building of illegal settlements on occupied territory.What did Mr. Gahr Store propose that we do with all those Syrian 'demonstrators'? Let them all infiltrate into Israel and claim a 'right of return'? Our border with Syria is not exactly Norway's border with Sweden or Denmark, and those people were far from innocent Swedes or Danes. Besides, the attempt to breach our international border is an act of war and should be responded to as an act of war.

[TorryJens]

In fact, Israeli responses to Palestinian terrorism are "un-proportional" only in the sense that they are much more restrained than the could be and, in fact, should be. There is no doubt that the terrorosts have no restraints at all and will use every means at their disposal to murder Israelis. Should they get access to weapons of mass destruction, they will certainly use them. The Israelis on the other hand, respond only with a very tiny fraction of their might. Can anyone doubt what would happen if Israel decided to respond "proportionately", in the sense that it would use all the means at her disposal? The conflict would end very quickly.

The idea that Israel should adopt "numerical" proportionality at 1:1 ratio (one dead terrorist for each dead Israeli) would give the terrorists an easy victory. They are obviously happy to sacrifice many of their own to inflict a single Israeli casualty.

I have always believed and continue to believe that Israel should have the death sentence for deliberate murder of civilians, particularly children and carry it out. The laws of war have always sanctioned this. Israeli prisons are the incubators of Arab terrorists, who often commit murder, get released or exchanged and turn into more sophisticated and more dangerous terrorists. They should all have been executed after the first murder. That would represent honest proportionality.

There is no need to worry that this policy would "create martyrs", as the terrorists have already quite enough of these. Norway and most of the EU would disapprove but could do nothing about it and would have to accept it. In any case, unless Israel frees itself from this sort of pressure, there will never be peace.