Caroline Glick: Ending Israel's losing streak [MUST READ!]

carolineglick.com; originally published in The Jerusalem Post. ^ | May 31, 2010, 4:21 PM | Caroline Glick

[giotto]

These words are being written before the dust has had a chance to settle on Monday night's naval commando raid of the Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla of terror supporters. The raid's full range of operational failures still cannot be known. Obviously the fact that the mission ended with at least six soldiers wounded and at least ten Hamas supporters dead makes clear that there were significant failures in both the IDF's training for and execution of the mission.

The Navy and other relevant bodies will no doubt study these failures. But they point to a larger strategic failure that has crippled Israel's capacity to contend with the information war being waged against it. Until this failure is remedied, no after-action investigation, no enhanced training, no new electronic warfare doodad will make a significant impact on Israel's ability to contend with the next Hamas flotilla that sets sail for Gaza.

[giotto]

The link also contains a video showing demonstrators aboard the Mavi Marmara using violence against Israeli navy soldiers.

[GOP Poet]

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[Tzimisce]

Ever notice how the followers of the “religion of peace” are constant states of war with their non-Muslim neighbors?

[luvbach1]

Good analysis of entire situation.

[Captain Beyond]

bflr

Good piece thanks for the link.

[EternalVigilance]

Every American should read this.

Admin Moderator or JR, could I PLEASE prevail upon you to add [MUST READ!] to the end of the headline? There is critically important information in this piece from Caroline Glick that NO ONE should miss.

[EternalVigilance]

Ping to this really important piece.

If you don’t know about the things Caroline Glick is writing about here, you really don’t understand what is going on.

PLEASE help spread this everywhere.

[giotto]

Thank you, EternalVigilance. I will try to keep this thread bumped to the top, so that more people will see it.

[Halgr]

Another PRO ISRAEL Bump

;-)

[hennie pennie]

Overnight, I happened to turn on the radio at the top of the hour, and CNN radio was reporting about the violence perpetrated BY this terror flotilla upon the IDF.

And at some point on CNN, I heard a woman point out that if ONE U.S. Navy Seal had EVER been thrown overboard that ALL the occupants of the boat would have been killed post haste.

I think that Barry & Hillary & Janet & Rahm are the ones with the information hangover problem, and NOT Bibi.

Europe can be expected to spout virilent antisemitism, but that's their norm, hey?

[onyx]

“Hamas is a genocidal terrorist organization ideologically indistinguishable from al Qaida.

International law requires all states and non-state actors to take active measures to defeat it.

Israel is the frontline of the free world.”

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Read Caroline Glick’s entire column BTTT

Pray for Bibi and pray for Israel.

[Carley]

The only failure on the part of the IDF is that there were any survivors among the pali sympathisers.

[raybbr]

Obviously the fact that the mission ended with at least six soldiers wounded and at least ten Hamas supporters dead makes clear that there were significant failures in both the IDF's training for and execution of the mission.

Unless this is sarcasm I don't see how this is a pro-Israel article. Preparing to train for an action that has probably never before envisioned is spotty at best.

The rest of the article is more clear - Israel is letting her guard down and attempting to "get along" with people that want her destruction.

The parts about Obama and the U.S. are frightening. It has become clear to those of us who can look at this objectively. This admin is turning a blind eye to the forces gathering against Israel.

[RoadTest]

Yup. Propaganda war has been very effective ever since it won the Vietnam war for the Viet Cong here in the Statesafter the Viet Cong had lost the war in Viet Nam.

[stevie_d_64]

Why is this being touted as a failure???

10 dead terrorist supporters sounds like a success to me...

Maybe the gooberheads will think twice before doing something as stupid as this again...

But I doubt it...Word is another flotilla is on the way...

Idiots...

[ddk632]

Obviously the fact that the mission ended with at least six soldiers wounded and at least ten Hamas supporters dead makes clear that there were significant failures in both the IDF's training for and execution of the mission.

Unless this is sarcasm I don't see how this is a pro-Israel article. Preparing to train for an action that has probably never before envisioned is spotty at best

I would say in a "hindsight is 20/20" / "tough love" sort of way, if you are only looking at the first part of the article. I think it's very insightful, but nothing new. Israel has always been on the wrong end of the propaganda war, no matter what she does.

[Mrs.Z]

Her assessment is a good secular listing of the opponents of Israel and their connections.

However, the real power behind the attacks on Israel originate from the pit of hell and have the master designer satan as the author.

Our nation, under Obama, is headed toward calamity by siding with satan.

Any groups who try to harm “the apple of God's eye” will suffer the consequences.

[EternalVigilance]

I completely agree.

[rogue yam]

ping

[giotto]

Pray for Bibi and pray for Israel.

Amen. At this point, they are losing the propaganda war.