"I was at Nir Oz after the last mortar attack and I told the kibbutz members that I am from Jerusalem and I did not come claiming that the residents of Nir Oz abandoned Jerusalem at the time that 800 of us were killed. You have to know how to fight. I recently returned from the United States and I was impressed that they are a fighting nation. More than 4,000 of them were killed in Iraq and more in Afghanistan but they understand that they are at war and behave accordingly. We have to return to the spirit of being a fighting nation. The army already is at this point, the time has come for the civilians to also understand that this is the situation." Deputy Minister of Defense (Labor) Matan Vilnai interviewed by Amir Rappaport - Maariv 13 June 2008

But this is the attitude of the ruling so called elite in Israel, is it any wonder we have the problems that we do when it comes to terrorism.