A mantra of the Left is that war never solves anything and in the end we always have to negotiate for peace and for a political settlement…blah, blah, blah.

You know what?

I agree.

In a Left-wing government, war won’t solve anything because you simply aren’t fighting to win, and if you are supposedly fighting to win, those goals are so watered down, even when you lose by a knockout you can still declare a victory with your last breath.

Meanwhile Hizbollah is proof-positive that the mantra is false. They went to war, and they achieved their goals for this round.

Next time a leftist says that wars don’t solve anything I’ll send him to Nasrallah for a chat on victories and goals.

Just a quick math test for my readers.

If the disengagement cost $2,000,000,000 (US), and this war cost $7,000,000,000 (so far) for a total of $9,000,000,000.

Assuming we exaggerate and say there are 300,000 Palestinian family units in Yesha.

If we were to pay each family a $100,000 emigration stipend to leave Israel (including flight), how many Palestinian families could we afford to pay (this year) to start a new life in the West (or East, or North, or South for that matter) if we didn’t have to fight this war or had thrown out our own citizens out of their own homes?

How many years would it take to relocate all the Palestinian families in Israel (not just Yesha) at this rate?