Ten
Jewish soldiers were killed yesterday. They didn't have to die. They
died because our leaders are so desperate to show the world that we
aren't bloodsuckers. How did that experiment go? Are ten dead Jews
enough? Now the Jewish death toll has climbed to 53.
CNN
will still report that we are ghouls. The BBC will portray us as baby
killers. The European blood libel in 2014.
While
families across Israel spend their remaining summer days and nights
in bomb shelters (if they have them), Netanyahu sends humanitarian
aid to Gaza. Ceasefires?
How
about mini ceasefires while Hamas fires rockets at us? Bibi's new
policy would certainly make Ghandi proud. (Gandhi
thought it moral to sit passively while someone stomps on your
skull.) We were told that the IDF would only return fire. I
wondered how many
Jews would have to die to provoke a response.
We
are witnessing the premature end of
Operation
Protective Edge,
even in the event that Israel resumes the offensive. Netanyahu's
cabinet rejected the ceasefire, but Bibi (on his own) instituted what
amounts to a ceasefire. For all practical purposes the war is over.
And yet each time Netanyahu decides to end the war, Hamas forces his
hand for awhile. Until Kerry's next trip or Obama's next angry phone
call. I don't know about you, but were I Prime Minister, I'd slam the
receiver
so hard he'd be bleeding from the ears.
Obama
will not mourn these ten murdered Jews. He will enjoy his
after-Ramadan feast, and cozy up with his Islamic brothers. Ten dead
Jews means nothing to Obama. But he will sit shiva for Hamas.
Normal
countries study sophisticated philosophies of warfare. “The Art of
War” by Sun Szu. The theories and tactics of classical battles
throughout
history. Netanyahu
uses the war strategy
of Chelm.
- Only Chelm would repeatedly warn the enemy in advance. Tell them precisely when and where they intend to attack.
- Only in the land of the lost, would they feed, cloth, and treat the enemy's wounded.
- Only screwballs would pay for their electricity and keep their water running
- Only those with a lesion in the brain would grant the enemy time to regroup and refortify.
Despite
clever pilpulistic attempts to spin the tale, Hamas is still very
strong. Morale is high on their side. They don't need to destroy the
IDF or Israel, Heaven Forbid, in order to garner a victory. Anything
short of their destruction is a victory for them. They have put the
entire
country under siege. Our economy
is suffering, and tourism has been bled dry. And they have murdered
Jews. They only need to make us bleed. In the meantime, untold
numbers of rockets remain in their possession,
along with a network of tunnels that probably haven't even been
identified. The Hamas leadership is alive and well inside their
fortified hideouts. Laughing at us, as we bury the dead.
World
approval. As if the Jewish people ever experienced such a miracle.
Naked Jew-hatred parades the international stage. Obama has
sanitized Hamas. The U.N. shrieks when Jews defend themselves. The
world wants us to die. Nothing more needs to be said. More speeches
from Netanyahu using the cliche of the olive branch
in one hand and the sword of David in the other. What a joke.
Wonderful. We know Bibi can speak well. But the image is flawed. If
only we had a King David to wield the sword. Judaism doesn't offer
the olive branch to those who march under the banner of Amalek.
And
what sort of peace is it that Netanyahu proposes to those who show us
the sword? The typical liberal Jewish notion of peace. We give up
territory, they collect it. We send them money, water, and
technology. They print more copies of The Protocols. They send us
death, either directly or indirectly. This isn't the Torah's
definition of peace. (A topic I will address in the future.) This is
the demented peace of Shalom Achshav.
Ten
more dead Jews. Sacrificed on Bibi's altar of appeasement and
capitulation.The U.N. isn't impressed. Not enough of a body count.
Much
like his repeated failures to deal a terminal blow to Oslo, Netanyahu
lacks courage to rectify Sharon's sin and set the country straight. A
ceasefire not only gives Hamas a victory, it will destroy the morale
of the IDF and the country at large. Remember, Israel has not secured
a true victory since The Yom Kippur War. (Despite Golda Meir's insane
refusal to preemptively strike.) And even that saw the prestige of
the IDF take a battering.
In
Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Forefathers), we are told, “who
is wise, he who can foresee the future.”
If Hamas is not destroyed, many more Jews will die the next time
around. At first Hamas could only hit the southern periphery. Then
came Beersheba
and her environs. Now the entire country can be hit. The next war
will be unimagible.
I
read a heartbreaking account yesterday, (they are all heart-breaking)
of the funeral of Chief Warrant Rami Chalon, age 39 (May G-d avenge
his blood) who fell in battle. A description of his 16 year old boy
Yosiel kneeling on his Abba's grave, bawling like a baby.
“Aba, I am still crying.”
One whose Jewish heart doesn't bleed at this image should check his
lineage.
And
now we have a new minyan
of the dead. Ten Jewish soldiers died because Bibi wanted to show the
world that we tried another ceasefire. Bibi
is unfit to lead. He better step aside. There's a war going on,
dammit. And I'm sick and tired of seeing my Jewish brothers lowered
into the ground.
“Aba,
I am still crying.” Ribono Shel Olam.
Never
forget these words. Let Gaza burn until
yovel (jubilee).
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