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Truce or Dare
It seems like the world — including those who were solidly behind Israel just a few weeks ago — are calling for a ceasefire. It isn’t going to happen.
The reasons are simple:
- Every time Israel has agreed to a ceasefire with promises from the international community to constrain her enemies, those same enemies expand their power exponentially. After 2006, Hezbollah was supposed to have no weapons south of the Litani River. The UN and Lebanese Army were supposed to safeguard that reality. Instead, they have 150,000 rockets — many precision-guided munitions — aimed at Israel. In retrospect, we should never have trusted the promises that were given by the world and Hezbollah alike.
- The pressure for a ceasefire is driven by an ‘international’ media the world should now know is a propaganda arm of Hamas. Reporters for CNN, Reuters, the New York Times, and the Associated Press (not to mention the likes of Al Jazeera) are Hamas members. There’s even a great picture of one (Hassan Eslaiah) being kissed by the mastermind of the attacks. Just yesterday, there were photos of ‘journalists’ for these organizations providing photos from within Israel as they were ’embedded’ on the murder orgy. One of them even provided the recent storm-raising photo of an ambulance bombed (because Hamas uses them to transfer fighters). Local journalists are like North Korean minders. As one concrete example, everybody has been reporting that al Shifa Hospital has been hours from running out of fuel … for almost a month — yet here’s a live feed with clear signs of electrical activity — including from behind blinds covering windows in the hospital. This sort of lying will continue until Hamas is no more and doesn’t control the journalists.
- Israel can erase Hamas. Some have said Hamas is an idea, and that is partially true. But an idea can be squashed when it is both unbelievably costly to try to implement and certain to fail. The IDF is demonstrating both to be true as I write.
- The people Israel really cares about get it. We need to get weapons, so the U.S. matters. For now at least, the US is an ally. But our neighbors also get it. Saudi Arabia wants to see Hamas crushed. The Egyptian government won’t say it, but they are hoping for the same. Basically, everybody who doesn’t belong to an Iranian or Muslim Brotherhood militia (or isn’t directly allied with the mullahs) secretly agrees. This needs to be done and Iranian militias have to be dealt a devastating hand to bring peace to the region. This is one reason the Saudis have been so open about resuming normalization afterward.
- The Israeli people won’t accept a ceasefire. You can’t simply ignore some crimes and survive as a nation. For us, ‘not surviving as a nation’ means genocide. We aren’t going to let that happen. Even the return of the hostages wouldn’t, and shouldn’t, but Hamas more than a day or two. They can’t be rewarded for their crimes.
- Israel is successfully getting civilians out of the area. This will reduce civilian losses while enabling us to continue to focus on our core objectives. We aren’t going to restart this process again — and let Hamas build on what they’ve learned about our methods. It is time to bring this to a close.
Hamas crossed a line.
Israelis agree, the ceasefire will come when Hamas has no choice but to cease fire — forever.
Published in Foreign Policy
I thought Hamas chose to cancel the cease fire on Oct 7th.
The last one that was forced on us. Of course that time (really, 2014) our army was not nearly as prepared as they were this time around.
Israelis agree, the ceasefire will come when Hamas has no choice but to cease fire – forever.
The “cease fire” comes when hamas is vanquished, eliminated, annihilated completely.
A clear and concise description of the reason behind this decision, Joseph. Thanks.
Indeed, that is what ‘no choice but to cease fire – forever’ means.
Hamas have fired 36,000 rockets at us in the last 18 years – after we withdrew from the territory. It was kind of annoying, but seem contained due to the Iron Dome.
Now it is no longer contained.
It is kind of like a little kid smacking a big kid again and again and again and the big kid basically batting away the attacks, but never really engaging. After all, it wouldn’t look good to flatten the little brat.
Then the little kid then gets out a baseball bat and takes a swing.
At this point, a flattening is in order.
Until the Palestinians elect another group to kill all the Jews.
Hamas is not as important as those who support them.
In 6 months, leftists will be saying that current Palestinian leadership is equivalent to America’s Founding Fathers. Those crazy Hamas psychos from 6 months ago were obviously evil. I mean, c’mon dude.
But if you don’t support the current Palestinian leadership, then you’re a racist Republican bigot. Again.
And again and again and again.
Hamas is not as important as those who support them.
Leftism is so easy…
AMEN.
https://ricochet.com/1502046/israel-victory-conditions/
This is what worries me. Not today, but in ten years and twenty years. These are children.
Oh, it should worry you today. It has already been going on for 20 years.
The response is multi-faceted and quite complex.
I mean for the future; that the war can end tomorrow but the children don’t just unlearn what has been instilled into their minds.
Thus:
Yup. Unpopular truth about humans once again re-discovered, and will not stop being true: the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
It’s Time for a Humanitarian Pause to the Violence in Gaza Los Angeles Times I didn’t read it. It would nauseate me. What could this editorial possibly offer? Think of the children? Well, I do. I think of them celebrating the murder of a Jew or any infidel by distributing “sweets”. I think of them trying to kill me next after this “river to the sea” genocide. I think of how little distance there must be between Hamas and a garden variety Gazan, if any.