Israel And The 6th, 7th Principles Of Incompetence

Violence is the last refuge of incompetence - The Sixth Principle of Incompetence

This is what one looks and sounds like when drunk with power and warmongering:

After second rocket volley, Israel warns of war against Lebanon

June 2008 Israeli wargame simulated two-front war with Palestine, Lebanon

Lebanese daily newspaper al-Nahar reported Friday the Israeli government has said it will bring war to Lebanon should there be a repeat of Wednesday's three rocket volley that landed on or short of Israel's northern border.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack carried out on the 19th day of a massive Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. The Lebanese government condemned the rocket salvo, insisting it would not allow the Gaza conflict to drag it into a new war with Israel.

"This gives Israel an excuse to attack Lebanon," said Information Minister Tarek Mitri. "Someone is trying to drag Lebanon into a conflict and is moving rockets from one area to another."

The "excuse" is one for which Israel is ready. In June 2008, Israeli forces participated in a wargame which simulated simultaneous fighting in Palestine and Lebanon.

"The drill, codenamed 'Shiluv Zro'ot III' (Crossing Arms III), was the second largest of its kind since the end of the Second Lebanon War in 2006," reported Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

"The exercise drilled the Israel Air Force and the Home Front Command in dealing with protocol and problem-solving missions under the simulated firing of thousands of rockets and missiles into the heart of Israel's population centers," wrote correspondent Amos Harel.

"In addition to the Northern Command, the air force and the home front command, Crossing Arms involved the IDF Military Intelligence directorate and the general staff. Unlike headquarter-level exercises from the past, Crossing Arms entailed the deployment of troops on the ground, comprising mainly reservists.

"Additionally, helicopter gunships and airplanes were sent on mock raids and evacuation missions. The aircraft did not fire live ammunition, according to army sources."

Brink of war?

"Tel Aviv had formerly notified the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) that it was about to attack the country after the rocket attacks came but it had changed its mind upon international advice," said Iranian network Press TV, which carried the al-Nahar report.

While the situation has not escalated, Israeli forces returned fire and troops have been called up to the border.

"The Israel Police initially said that the rockets had struck open areas in Kiryat Shmona, but after combing the area concluded that two of the three rockets had actually exploded inside Lebanon," reported Haaretz. "There were no reports of damage or injuries. Residents of northern Israel were instructed to go into bomb shelters."

The rockets were fired from the El-Hebbariyeh district, some two and a half miles from the border. Three more rockets which had been booby-trapped were later discovered by Lebanese and UN peacekeeping troops before being made safe.

The Lebanese government also deployed special forces commandos to the border region to try to stop any further rocket fire.

"'We don't want another war with Israel,' said Suhair Hammoud, a 36-year-old teacher,' in a Wall Street Journal report.

Immediately after the rockets landed near the Lebanese border, Israel began sending telephone warnings through south Lebanon. Agence France-Presse received one such call.

"Launching rockets from southern Lebanon against innocents in northern Israel harms your own interests ..." the wire service reported. "If you allow groups like Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah to launch rockets against innocents in northern Israel as you did before, remember what happened to you last time."

UN peacekeepers could not confirm that any rockets landed on Israeli territory, reported Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. However, they said, debris was found on the Lebanese side.

Bring it on, byotches!

And not to appear biased or anything, here's another example of utter incompetence:

Last week Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah warned that "all possibilities" were open against Israel amid its deadly offensive in Gaza.

All options on the table, indeed ...

Here's the thing - when you are supposed to be a democratic and responsible nation, what does it say about what you really are when you lower yourself at the level of boastful, madhating incompetents like terrorists?

Where is the moral high ground here?

Assuming, of course, there ever was an actual, genuine one to begin with?

So - here's looking forward to a sequel of July 2006 folks - thanks once again to incompetence.

Which brings me to the Seventh Principle of Incompetence:

Incompetence is nothing but consistent with itself

Yup - that sounds about right.

And never you mind those silly and unserious cooler heads that keep wasting time arguing for competent solutions.

"... and round and round we go, running in circles to our very last throes."