- Attribution: Albert Einstein (or Samuel Langhorne Clemens or Ben Franklin, or ...)
Once more they have been conned into a ceasefire guaranteed to last only as long as it takes Hamas and other jihadists to rearm.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Netanyahu and his sycophantic political and military associates, by the definition of “insane,” must truly BE insane.
Crazy.
Also derelict in their sworn duties to protect Israel and all its citizens, residents, and visitors.
I’m not sure if “Crazy Eddie”1 or “Madman Muntz”2 controls Netanyahu’s decision making process, or if it is one of all of the six (!) Stooges who advise him, but to agree once more — in face of repeated “cease fires while we rearm” appeals from Hamas et al — is the height of irresponsibility.
Normally I keep silent re Israeli politics.
I’m not there.
But when I see, again and again and again the “modern” Likud’s caving to terrorists while leaving Israeli citizens, residents, and visitors in danger from a “stray” missile or a few hundred stray missiles — it is too much.
What frightens Netanyahu?
The UN?
Leftists?
The UN will condemn Israel no matter what. The only way the UN will have kind words for Israel is when it disappears; when the Israelis — Christians, Jews, Muslims, and whomever else — surrenders their lives as Gandhi proposed during the holocaust. (Gandhi also proposed that the English surrender, telling them to invite the nazis to take over their island, live in their homes.)
Knowing the people condemning Israel now for failing to die at its enemies’ hands will continue to condemn Israel regardless, why don’t Netanyahu and the generals let the army do what armies are trained to do: WIN WARS.
When President Harry S. Truman ordered the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima to end the war with Japan, the world gasped and then got on with life.
When the U.S. and English firebombed Dresden into ashes, the world gasped and moved on. (The fire bombing followed nazi fire bombs on England’s tiny island; just as Hamas missiles fall on Israel from the south and Hezbollah missiles are launched from the north.)
Someone needs to inform Netanyahu and the generals that war is NOT fought by Marquis of Queensbury rules. Germany’s Erwin Rommel had much to say about warfare, words that, along with U.S. Gen. Geo. S. Patton’s thoughts, should be studied in Israel. Neither man would have settled for a cease fire — ESPECIALLY knowing it would be broken by the rearmed enemy in the near future.
It is not mere speculation that Hamas, once rearmed, will again rain missiles on Israel. Next time — and there WILL be a “next time” — Hamas’ missiles may be joined by missiles from Hezbollah. Both are, after all, funded by Iran.
If I recall correctly, Netanyahu sneered at Gen. Ganz, noting he had no political experience. Netanyahu has political experience, but only managed a captain’s rank in the IDF. Perhaps it is time for Israel to follow the American Indian’s practice of having different chiefs for different times; most had a war chief who was in control when, and only when, the tribe was at war. In Israel, let the Ramat Kal — the ranking general — drive the military action.
I suppose the real question is: Is there a general in Israel that the soldiers will follow. I’m not there; I don’t have a clue.
What I DO know is that Netanyahu, by failing to finish the job in Gaza, it giving carte blanc to Hamas to shell and kill more Israeli civilians whenever Hamas feels ready.
No one seems overly concerned with Israeli “collateral damage.” Perhaps Israel should be less concerned about “collateral damage” in Gaza. Alternatively, figure out a way to arm Gazans who want to depose Hamas and similar terrorist organizations. Israel may be reluctant to arm Gazans, recalling that the Afghans, armed by the U.S. to fight the Russians, now use those same arms to kill Americans.
Hammer and anvil; rock and a hard place.
Sources
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Eddie
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_Muntz
3. http://tinyurl.com/y3bco53n
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