Posted on 05/25/2021 4:06:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
In outlining the goal for winning the Persian Gulf War against Saddam Hussein for invading and occupying Kuwait in 1991, Gen. Colin Powell, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said, "Our strategy to go after this army is very, very simple. First, we're going to cut it off, and then we're going to kill it."
The ceasefire announced last week between the terrorist organization Hamas and the state of Israel is the opposite of that strategy and solves nothing. As with previous ceasefires it simply gives Hamas an opportunity to regroup and reload in time for the next assault, perhaps with even more sophisticated and deadly weapons supplied by Iran.
Some critics of Israel said that it did not respond "proportionately" to the Hamas attacks. Was proportionality a consideration after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor? President Truman ordered nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki because Japan refused to surrender at the end of World War II. Did we respond proportionately to the threat from Nazi Germany when we carpet bombed German cities, especially Dresden?
Winston Churchill put it best when he stated the goal of Allied forces: "What is our aim? ...Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
The Biden administration has pledged to help rebuild Gaza with money we don't have. Yes, we rebuilt Germany under the Marshall Plan following World War II, but that was after we won the war. We did the same for Japan, after achieving victory.
Israel should never have withdrawn from Gaza. It did not take a prophet to know what would follow its unilateral decision. At the time, I wrote that Gaza would become one more base for terrorists to launch attacks against the Jewish state. Under pressure from the U.S. and Europe to withdraw from Gaza, Israel gained nothing, but instead lost another level of security.
As U.S. blogger Larry Levine has written: "Israel needs to take over Gaza, kill all Hamas terrorists and demilitarize it. This time when the world rebuilds, it will not be with Hamas at the helm. There will be casualties, but no country in the world can live like this."
President Biden has withheld direct criticism of Israel, possibly because of his longtime friendship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but others in his administration, who are veterans of the Obama years, have a track record of favoring Israel's enemies.
Still, Biden has said a "two-state" solution is the best approach to resolving the conflict that existed even before Israel's re-establishment in its ancient homeland in 1948. The problem is and always has been that radicals desire a one-state solution that doesn't include Israel or the Jewish people. Since these radicals believe their motivation is rooted in their religion, it is impossible for them to make peace with a nation and a people they believe their god wants destroyed.
The Economist magazine gets it. In its May 20 edition it said, "Even with a ceasefire, Israel and Hamas will not stop fighting each other. The agreement to restore calm is welcome. Pity it won't last."
The response to this continuing warfare should not be a false sense of satisfaction about a ceasefire, or a pledge to rebuild Gaza while the terrorist occupiers re-arm. Rather, Israel should be encouraged to wipe out the terrorists who do not even put the interests of their own people first.
A ceasefire is worse than a truce and even a truce is no substitute for victory.
Sadly, nuclear technology had already been stolen by the Soviets, before Truman even knew they existed, a couple weeks after FDR died.
A ceasefire only gives your enemies an opportunity to rearm.
Sadly, nuclear technology had already been stolen by the Soviets, before Truman even knew they existed, a couple weeks after FDR died.
By the time the bomb was tested at “Trinity” the Soviets knew almost everything the Americans we doing and were working on their own bomb.
Stalin knew before Truman announced it.
The Soviets (and today’s Russians) are master spies.
As U.S. blogger Larry Levine has written: "Israel needs to take over Gaza, kill all Hamas terrorists and demilitarize it. This time when the world rebuilds, it will not be with Hamas at the helm. There will be casualties, but no country in the world can live like this."
Well, yeah.
A ceasefire is like clamping a lid on a boiling pot, but leaving the fire turned on.
“Israel needs to take over Gaza, kill all Hamas terrorists and demilitarize it.”
The envy & hatred runs deep, too deep.
I have heard that the term “cease-fire” means “reload!” in both Hebrew and Arabic.
The ceasefire announced last week between the terrorist organization Hamas and the state of Israel is the opposite of that strategy and solves nothing. As with previous ceasefires it simply gives Hamas an opportunity to regroup and reload in time for the next assault, perhaps with even more sophisticated and deadly weapons supplied by Iran.
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The thesis I propounded here last week which was then heavily attacked by various posters.
The destruction of Hamas is a sideshow to the reality that is control of Jerusalem.
Israel will take greater and greater control of Jerusalem and the West Bank with the tacit approval of the PA who can survive no other way.
Gaza is for the present crippled during the prolonged reconstruction.
Meanwhile, the continuing war with Iran continues on other fronts
The Soviets (and today’s Russians) are master spies.
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but have been eclipsed today by Chinese spies
You’d be surprised at how many here are totally against that proposition deeming it (erroneously) genocide.
Gaza is for the present crippled during the prolonged reconstruction.
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Hardly - they still have the bulk of their missiles (10,000) remaining and all of their elite troops weathered the storm unscathed, while the most senior commanders hid in their underground cites (not tunnels) or in other countries. The Israelis got only the ‘expendables’ in their non-serious responses - lack of commitment of ground troops gives the lie of seriousness.
Anytime Hamas chooses they could begin again with even more fury. For them, I suspect this was just practice for the future storm they intend to bring - once they have GPS units for their missiles and some sort of air defenses to counter the IAF. They have proven that their middling barrage of missiles cost Israel serious money to defend against and could easily be overwhelmed with more concerted and massive effort using GPS guided missiles.
Reconstruction just means building more hardened buildings, tunnels, missile launching positions to serve as expendable targets for the next war. Next time may have far more devastating consequences for Israel, with the liberal suicidal wing of its weak-kneed politicians getting their wish.
The traitors who gave atomic secrets to the Soviets were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, American communists.
“Israel needs to take over Gaza, kill all Hamas terrorists and demilitarize it.”
That is stating an impossible task, and ignoring the fact that Hamas is an extension of Islam.
The US spent 20 years in Afghanistan and we did not eliminate the Taliban, another extension of Islam.
Really? His actions say otherwise.
but others in his administration, who are veterans of the Obama years, have a track record of favoring Israel's enemies.
You don't say.
I believe your premise is flawed. You assume the past will be resumed as the future.
Hamas may have rockets and the rockets they have are almost certainly under miles and miles of rubble destroyed tunnel structure.
Further, the political morass will be a different morass in which Israel takes increasing hegemony over the West Bank thus increasing the political bifurcation already existent. Bad as it is for Fatah/PA, an alliance with Israel that insures existence is far preferable to kissing Hamas ass and death.
Rather than a two state solution, the result is going to be two states and Gaza.
You assume the past will be resumed as the future.
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Well, the past ventures against Hamas have all had the same result - only against Hezbollah has Israel prevailed. So its a good bet that the future Hamas attack will be stronger and Israel will fare worse.
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under miles and miles of rubble destroyed tunnel structure.
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Hamas will rebuild all of that within a year or two. No major damage done.
Fatah will never ally with Israel in any meaningful way. Two Palestinian states means two fully armed enemies, and if the leftist Israelis get their way, it is just a harbinger for Israeli suicide.
Donald Trump........ he changed everything
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