The Fields Doctrine

Forget the Bush doctrine of preemptive strikes against enemies. If that policy was really operative, the Israelis would have toppled Hamas the day after the election. On the Lebanese front, they would have bombed the rocket batteries and sites the day after their installation. The operative doctrine in the Arabs’ mind these days, the doctrine the Muslim fanatics have laid down, is the “Fields Doctrine,” loosely translated as never give an occupier an even break.
Into the vacuum of the Gaza and South Lebanon security zone withdrawals came armed menace with cross-border ambitions. Instead of peaceful societies joyous at their liberation, angry jihad-bent fanatics decided to use the newly acquired territory as a forward line to punish the Israelis for their naivete. The Western mind often does not learn from experience. Recall the images played a thousand times on our TV screens of the Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. What did anyone think they were training for? What did anyone think the thousands of rockets in Lebanon were for but to be used against the Israeli North? Why did no one take Hamas at their word when they called for the reclamation of all the Wafa lands.
So now we can see the results of this denial…war. It’s Israel against Hamas and Hezbollah, who are now stronger and better armed then ever. It’s as if a cancer was growing on your nose, and after it reached the size of a walnut you were shocked that it spread and you were going to die. How foolish for the Israelis not to have warned the world years ago they were not going to tolerate thousands of missiles on their border.
That was then, this is now, so what is really going on? In Gaza, it’s the IDF version of “shock and awe”: They are trying to shock Hamas into understanding that they have absolutely no regard for anyone's life at all. Men, women, and children who are adjacent to the homes, offices, or workshops of the jihadists can and will be killed instantly and without remorse. The recent IDF press conference where they blamed Hamas for “hiding behind civilians” was more than an explanation, it was a warning. The awe part is to instill in Hamas and their supporters that there are no limits to this campaign. The half-ton bomb dropped on the “foreign ministry” must have made even Mahmoud al-Zahar a believer that this is serious. It’s doubtful that he will be having any more press conferences out in the open, as foreign correspondents are not big on martyrdom’s future attractions.
What about Lebanon? The brilliance behind the airport airstrike is impressive if you understand Beirut. There are thousands of Caucasian prostitutes working day and night there; the city is Vegas with white slavery. Courtesy of the late Soviet Union and its ex-satellites, desperate but stunningly beautiful white women are now servicing petro-rich Saudi, Kuwaiti, and other Arab men. This is a huge, lucrative business for the Lebanese. The Israelis figure that if one sultan gets pissed off that he can’t have his doggie-style threesome with his Natashas his anger will turn to Sheik Nasrallah. He will want to kill this idiot for ruining his fun. These Saudi sultans and their mafia-style brothel owners have a good thing going in Beirut, and Hezbollah may just pay for ruining it. This is a more powerful force than the feckless Lebanese army.
The attack against Israel on two fronts was all completely predictable, the logical outcome from not listening to what people are saying and doing. Over and over again the West refuses to believe that what the Islamists are saying will be translated into reality…until it is. The Israelis are now in no mood to listen to words; they want their soldiers back, and if they have any good sense left they will destroy all those who participated in the attacks upon their sovereign nation.
The Islamists only understand force; words are indicators of weakness. The very act of negotiating signifies capitulation and fear. If Hamas and Hezbollah return the men alive and well, then the Israelis will have proved their point and won a round. If the men are not returned and Gaza is destroyed and Hamas toppled, if Lebanon is a wasteland and Hezbollah shattered, that too is a victory and one that came sooner rather than later.
This is unfortunately only an opening act in the larger drama, as the West is not listening to what Iran is saying, and when the time comes to respond to them not with words but with actions, millions may have died, with the world brought to the brink.