Wither Peace

As of this writing the ceasefire in Gaza holds.

Some in Israel are not pleased:

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman announced Wednesday that he would be resigning as defense minister and called for the government to be dismantled and for new elections to be set. “I am here to announce my resignation from the government,” he said at a hastily organized press conference at the Knesset after a Yisrael Beytenu party meeting, during which he told MKs of his decision. “What happened yesterday, the ceasefire, together with the deal with Hamas, is a capitulation to terror. There is no other way of explaining it,” he told reporters on Wednesday.“What we are doing right now is buying quiet for a heavy price with no long-term plan to reduce violence toward us,” he said of the deal, which wasn’t officially confirmed by Israeli officials. He also slammed the military’s response to the rocket fire. “To put it lightly, our response was drastically lacking to the 500 rockets fired at us,” he said.

Liberman's move is political but also understandable. People in southern Israel are no doubt wondering how long they're going to have to put up with the threat of Hamas rocket fire.

As we have asked before, what is the end result of another war? With that question asked it seems large swaths of the Israeli public actually want a war. 

This is the end result of the Oslo process. Twenty-five years after the agreement with the PLO, Israel finds itself with two terrorist groups on its border and a looming existential conflict with Iran.

Also Israel has imported a million Russians in the last generation, so no wonder the best solution to problem seems to be to take problem and crush it beneath treads of tanks.

Forget the Jew being clever. The Jew is bellicose.