{"id":303,"date":"2006-07-18T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2006-07-18T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:33:00","slug":"we-are-safer-than-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/we-are-safer-than-before\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Safer Than Before"},"content":{"rendered":"

So…those emails. People are wondering if it’s safe to come now. Students are wondering if they should. Others are inquiring about whether there will be a fall semester at IBEX. Here’s how I see it:<\/p>\n

Hezbollah has shot off some thousand rockets to this point. The Israeli air force has destroyed who knows how many more. The terrorists’ ability to strike Israel is much more difficult now because of the destroyed bridges and cleared strip near Lebanon’s southern border. Many Hezbollah members are dead (yes, some of those “civilian” deaths are actually terrorists; remember that terrorists don’t wear name tags), and others will die as Israel’s campaign continues. Israel is saying, and I believe them, that they won’t stop until Hezbollah’s ability to attack is destroyed or greatly reduced.<\/p>\n

Therefore, Israel will be much safer and you should come. Before this offensive, there were 13,000 missiles aimed at Israel, but few thought it dangerous to come (as attested by the hoards<\/a> of tourists here this summer). Why it is suddenly more dangerous now that there are fewer rockets aimed at Israel? You certainly can’t say that now we know that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, willing to destroy innocent lives. We’ve known that all along (I actually wrote a research paper on Hezbollah in 1990; the teacher gave me a B- in the class; I suspect he was a Hezbollah sympathizer). Really – there is no doubt in anyone’s mind here that Israel will be much safer after this campaign than before. Hezbollah just gave Israel the necessary incentive to give them their “just rewards.” Just as al-Qaeda finally motivated the U.S. to action with 9\/11.<\/p>\n

The curious reality is that while the snake is alive but quiet, everyone is happy and merry, convinced of their safety. But when the snake is being systematically hacked to bits, everyone freaks out.<\/p>\n

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So…those emails. People are wondering if it’s safe to come now. Students are wondering if they should. Others are inquiring about whether there will be a fall semester at IBEX. Here’s how I see it: Hezbollah has shot off some thousand rockets to this point. The Israeli air force has destroyed who knows how many\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}