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Israel Is Fighting for Its Survival in Lebanon
(Spiked-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - Thought experiment. You were the leader of a small democracy with enemies committed to your destruction visible to the naked eye on the other side of your border to the north. They had already fired many hundreds of rockets onto your towns, claiming lives and causing mass evacuations. The enemy in question had been ordered by the UN to withdraw from the border and lay down its weapons back in 2006 and it had totally ignored that UN Security Council resolution, with no consequences whatsoever. Your country had already suffered the worst terrorist atrocity imaginable three years ago, bringing you face-to-face with the folly of turning a blind eye while your enemies prepare their attacks. With no alternative in sight, you made the only reasonable decision: to send in your troops to degrade the northern enemy and allow your people to live their lives in safety. Yvette Cooper, Britain's foreign secretary, responded by demanding that you halt your "military escalation," while also bleating that your enemy must "disarm" but offering no ideas for how to make that happen, nor any commitment to enforce it. How would you respond? Has Yvette Cooper ever had to go to bed in fear of air raids during the night? Or worrying that her children will be murdered by jihadis stationed just a few miles away? No. Everyone tells Israel what it cannot do, but nobody offers a realistic alternative.