Posted on 10/28/2024 6:39:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Netanyahu's actions have neutralized more Western adversaries responsible for decades of bloodshed than NATO, the CIA, FBI, or Interpol, combined, yet he’s often met with rebuke rather than gratitude.
Ordeal
After the October 7 massacres, the obituaries of the long political career of Benjamin Netanyahu, published both in Israel and in the West, became orthodox. He was considered as politically inert as Donald Trump once was after January 6, 2021.
The conventional wisdom speculated not if, but only when he would be forced out of office.
Western leaders and the Israeli left, and indeed even the Israeli non-left, as well as American and European pundits, claimed that the laxity of the Netanyahu government was entirely to blame for the grotesque massacre of October 7.
Indeed, last fall, there arose almost a competition of critics to assert all the ways in which Netanyahu was played by Hamas.
Accordingly, Netanyahu’s sweeping Supreme Court reforms had supposedly needlessly split the country, demoralizing the military and eroding Israeli deterrence in the eyes of Palestinian terrorists. Or his purported strategy of playing off the more lethal and toxic Hamas against the Palestinian Authority was supposedly proof of his reckless naivete.
Still, other opponents argued that his 16 years as Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and his age of 75 made him a Joe Biden-like relic of the past, simply too old and too familiar to be any longer effective. He was told it was well past time to step down and let a new generation break out of the old toxic Middle East mindsets.
And indeed, after October 7, Netanyahu faced a bleak regional and global landscape—analogous to what a 65-year-old Churchill faced in June 1940 when all of Western Europe was in the hands of the Nazis and a lonely Britain was without a single...
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I really don’t understand the pro-Palestine protests and the antisemitism here in the USA.
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Excellent article.
Recommend a full reading at the source.
Indeed, not since the infamous days of the 1950s, when the CIA overthrew Latin American regimes, had America so brazenly interfered in the internal politics of a foreign nation as it now overtly sought to replace or undermine the Netanyahu government—by strategic leaks of shared classified information, slow-walking and suspending arms, threats of holding back financial aid, opening back-channel relations with its political opponents, and by nonstop loud jawboning.
Another simply great article by Prof Hansen! Worth your time to click thru.
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Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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You answered your own question if I may say
Antisemitism of USA and it’s allies.
They are blood thirsty heathens their idea of a good day is murders.
I remember frequently seeing Netanyahu as a guest on CNN, before and during the first Gulf War, and thinking “there’s something about that guy...”
There is now only one strong horse in the Middle East, and that horse is Netanyahu.
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So, Israel systematically neutered Hamas, eliminating its leadership, destroying its tunnels, and warning civilians this time around to vacate buildings that served as armories, storehouses, and safe houses and thus would be leveled. And so they were.
As if out of some science fiction novel, years ago Israel booby trapped thousands of Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies. And when they now finally exploded, they wounded or killed in a few seconds many of its ruling echelon while identifying the terrorists among the Lebanese population and revealing their strategic locations at the moments of their demise.
A thousand yeas from now people will still be studying Netanyahu... and if he's given the chance to use his peace initiative - that'll be studied too. Netanyahu is easily the most intelligent creative leaders in the world at this time.
Mohammed said, essentially, God is on the side of the winning armies.
They are bought and paid for by George Soros et al “Rent-A-Mobs!”
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IIRC: BIBI IS THE ONLY CURRENT WORLD LEADER WITH ANY MILITARY EXPERIENCE.
I have secular friends in Israel who detest Bibi and Trump. But they are terrified by the rockets overhead.
I don’t get it.
Mental illness and/or cognitive dissonance.
Some( SOME)Reform, conservative and Orthodox Jews do not believe in Israel being a nation again. They just don’t for a variety of reasons. If Jewish people don’t like Israel then the animosity and hatred spawns exponentially from there.
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