“You have not been blogging lately,” a regular reader dug.
“I have nothing
new to say,” was my response.
פונדעסטוועגן
Nevertheless. Alright.
For
those of you just returning to the Milky Way Galaxy, I have been making the same boringly consistent points since October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel
with butchery, rape, and pillage. And I am happy - in a manner of speaking - to reiterate.
Israel’s mission in
this war of no choice needs to be to defang Hamas and make it improbable for it
– or any other Palestinian force in Gaza or the West Bank – to pose a military
threat to Israel. The rest is commentary.
***
The November 24
to November 30, 2023 ceasefire in which Israel exchanged violent incarcerated Palestinian
prisoners for kidnapped civilian captives was a mistake. We lost precious time.
The enemy regrouped and reinfiltrated areas that had been cleansed.
All the while,
the international “community” grew more restless over the fate of Hamas. As a
matter of course, the time Jews are given to defend themselves, much less go on
the offensive, is limited. Some of that valuable time was irretrievably spent during
the moratorium.
Like all Israelis,
I was relieved to see the return of captives – children, women, the elderly,
and some men. That said, the war’s goal should not be to free captives but to
crush the enemy.
Exchanging
Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israel for some of our captives, I warned,
would raise the morale of the enemy and strengthen Hamas. It did. Like previous
prisoner deals, I warned that more lives would be lost than saved. Sure enough,
when combat resumed, the pressure on the IDF to fight under impossible
constraints (not imposed on any other army) only intensified.
***
This morning, the
Washington Post complained that we were not using the type of bombs its
editors would employ were they responsible for battling Hamas.
***
Aside from the Rabin-Peres-initiated
September 13, 1993, Oslo Accords, the worst self-inflicted strategic damage
done to Israeli security was implemented by Binyamin Netanyahu on October 18,
2011, when he released some of the most blood-thirsty killers in Israel’s
prisons in exchange for one captive IDF soldier.
This same Netanyahu
is culpable for the October 7 catastrophe. Being amoral, he has shirked all
responsibility. Watch the old wizard accuse those of us who opposed his regime
change putsch for what happened. He will blame the general staff, the Shin Bet, the Mossad, and IDF Intelligence. He has already reproached Yitzhak Rabin. Likud
cult members remain under the spell of his enchantment and, with the help of Channel 14 agitprop, will lap up his lies.
Now, Likud and its Hardal and Haredi confederates have passed a national budget laden with patronage as if the
times called for politics as usual. For example, the country will now spend
more on Haredi schools than any other educational network.
From Start-Up
Nation to Dumb-Down Shtetl.
Many of the sociopathic
brutes Netanyahu set free went on to rebuild Hamas in Gaza, including Yahya
Sinwar, who was serving four life sentences. Others proceeded to conduct terror
operations in the West Bank. Still, others have played a role in Hamas
“outside” operating from Turkey and Qatar.
Today, Netanyahu
talks about Gaza as if he has just arrived on the scene. As if someone else has
been shtuping Hamas with satchels full of Qatari money.
***
Since October 7, Israeli soldiers - young men and women just out of high school hoping to maybe one day see the world and later study at university, reservists who have left their jobs as doctors, principals, software engineers, grocers, and tour guides - have fought and died for our survival.
How it pains us that even as Israeli blood is spilled, callow Jewish
American and Jewish British turncoats have been marching for the enemy "as Jews" נאָך.
I have no
interest in changing their minds only to express my opprobrium.
They have made their
morally relavatist beds. And they will be tarred forever by their October 2023
choices. These wretched, juvenile-minded quislings are so desperate for acceptance in the woke
world. To march with the masses. To chant, “From the
River to the Sea, Palestine will be [Jew] Free.” They were raised, educated, and acculturated in a sea of woke. They have little, if any, Jewish education. What precious little Jewish
literacy they do have has accentuated the Holocaust and Tikun Olam. Either their
teachers were themselves ignoramuses, or they willfully misunderstood the
significance of the Shoah and the meaning of Tikun Olam.
***
An automatic UN
majority votes against Israel in the General Assembly. Britain abstains. France
sometimes abstains but mostly votes with the Arabs. Emmanuel Macron and Rishi
Sunak talk the talk, but when push comes to shove, they thrust the Zionists
under the bus.
UN chief António
Guterres’s brownnosing of Hamas didn’t happen in a vacuum. He’s done his
arithmetic. There are 56 Organisation of Islamic Cooperation members who also
hold UN seats. Twenty-two of whom are correspondingly member states of the Arab
League. Add in assorted shithole countries. Then factor in Putin’s Russia and
Xi’s China and their satellites.
If you were Guterres,
whose side would you be on?
***
Some closing
thoughts:
Joe Biden is already
the most pro-Israel president in the history of the relationship. That amazes
me, but it is the case.
Yet his agenda and Israel's priorities are not congruent. He wants us to finish off Hamas to save the PLO. No matter what, though, he wants to end the war before the 2024 US Presidential Election season begins in earnest.
We need to do what is best for us.
***
Speculating about what happens next is premature because victory is far
from assured. That said, it would be daft to turn over the Gaza Strip to Mahmoud
Abbas and his PLO (again).
There can be no peace with security that is dependent
on the corrupt Palestinian Authority.
The PA has allowed the towns and cities of the West
Bank, which it is supposed to administer, to fall into a Hobbesian state of
nature. Since 1993, it has not dismantled one refugee camp. Its UN-funded
schools taught hate and antisemitism.
***
Israel, it is true, failed to come up with a consensus
strategy to protect our security interests in the West Bank. While we dawdled, the
ethos of the Hilltop Youth permeated the national religious settler community
and metastasized into a messianic strain of fanaticism that has seen the old-line
Dati Leumi vanquished by Hardal. But let me leave this fashla for
another jeremiad.
While the craving for “peace now” brought us Oslo and
the second intifada, Hardal’s messianic parties are in their own La-La-Land of
the Apocalypse (with Red Cows grazing, goats and sheep ready for Temple sacrifice - and caravans hitched
to resettle the Gaza Strip).
All that, too, for another time.
***
For the foreseeable future, Israel is deeply mired in this war. Thousands
are dislocated on our northern boundary with Hezbollah-occupied Lebanon. We
know that sooner rather than later, Hezbollah will have to be pushed back beyond the Litani River and
that the UN won’t do it for us. Thousands more are dislocated along our frontier
with Hamas-Gaza. Both Hezbollah and Hamas continue to attack our civilians with
rocket fire and anti-tank weapons.
Our country is traumatized. Though "life goes on," a dark cloud hangs over us. It is hard to concentrate. We dread the 6 AM news when the names of the fallen are made public. More and more, we are hearing about soldiers who have suffered life-changing wounds. Virtually every extended family (in the population that serves and pays taxes) has someone who has been doing reserve duty.
On top of it all, Israelis and pro-Israel Diaspora Jews are dumbfounded by the tsunami of anti-Israelism and antisemitism sweeping the world, by the power of intersectionality that neatly pulls together all our enemies: white Nazis, Black chauvinists, Islamists, socialists, craven university presidents, and woke things.
The worst of the worst are the quislings of Jewish ancestry who slither into the enemy’s rancid bed, expecting that collaboration will buy them acceptance.
What a torment, 69 days long...
***
On the dawn of Day 70 of our ongoing collective nightmare, victory remains as imperative as on day one. Israel must come out of this conflict as the Strong Horse. Otherwise, the
days of the Third Commonwealth are numbered.
December 17, 2023
Addendum.
Netanyahu I signed
Oslo II. Netanyahu II opposed Oslo. Netanyahu I formerly accepted the establishment
of a demilitarized Palestinian state. Netanyahu II opposed it.
Netanyahu I allowed Hamas to finance its tunnels and weaponry. Netanyahu II opposed it. Netanyahu I and his confederates tolerated and even
glorified Elor Azaria and made excuses for Aviad Frija. Netanyahu II opposed such behavior and had his
heart broken when he learned that undisciplined IDF units shot dead Israeli
captives who held their hands up, waving a white flag, and when one survived, lured
him out and shot him too.
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