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The myth that Israel’s tactics not its existence is at issue died with the murdered Jewish families on Oct 7 and the Hezbollah terrorists taken out by pagers on September 17 and 18.
No sooner did the encrypted communications devices handed out to members of the Islamic Jihadist group begin exploding than human rights experts and the UN began condemning the single greatest targeted attack on a terror group as a violation of international law. Those same organizations and activists had nothing to say about the Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli towns and villages that turned tens of thousands of Jews into refugees in their own country.
There is no legitimate way for Israel (or any non-Muslim country) to take out an Islamic terrorist. No amount of warnings, phone calls and dropped leaflets and roof knocking warning bombs were enough of a precaution. Even hostage rescue operations were condemned for killing terrorists who in the usual Hamas medical department parlance turned into innocent children.
And there’s also no such thing as an illegitimate Muslim way to kill Jews. Oct 7 proved that. Nearly a year later, Islamic groups are celebrating the orgy of butchery, kidnapping and rape. The Democratic Socialists of America, which boasts 5 allied members of Congress including Rep. Rashida Tlaib, has taken to arguing in favor of “armed resistance” and Hamas.
More Democrats have taken to social media to condemn a Detroit News cartoon which implied that Rep. Tlaib’s support for terrorism may have led her to worry about her pager than two recent Muslim terrorist plots to massacre Jews in synagogues in Vegas and New York City. The Democrat political establishment can’t seem to get around to condemning the Islamic groups attacking synagogues and marching through the streets praising the rape and murder of Jews.
The liberal establishment accepts the Islamic terrorist cause but rejects the Israeli one.
That’s why when it comes to Islamic terrorism, it emphasizes the cause over the tactics, but when it comes to Israel, it emphasizes the tactics over the cause. Every Israeli tactic is illegitimate because the cause, a Jewish State, is illegitimate, but no Islamic tactic is ever truly illegitimate because its cause, replacing Israel with an Islamic state, is legitimate.
No matter how often the Arab Muslim invaders occupying parts of Gaza and the West Bank pledge their allegiance to terror, we are told that their ultimate cause is just and inevitable. And that the killings, kidnappings and rapes don’t truly represent the moral righteousness of it.
While every time Israel takes out a terrorist, the media links it to the Jewish ‘occupation’ of those parts of Israel that the terrorists demand for themselves. Since Israel’s existence is wrong, any tactic that it uses to fight the terrorists trying to take it over is a human rights violation.
The Marxist mobs in the street are at least honest about their ideological orientation. They define all Jews living in Israel as “settlers” who are fair game for genocide. Whether Israel takes them out with drone strikes, exploding beepers or Barney songs played on a loop doesn’t much matter except as it’s useful for propaganda materials calling for the destruction of Israel.
The liberal anti-Israel establishment in D.C., human rights groups and the media have played a cynical game of focusing on Israel tactics as if they actually cared how Israel takes out terrorists and as if there were any means of taking out terrorists that would win their approval. A generation of the Israeli military jumping through every possible hoop has yielded only angrier and more sanctimonious condemnations every time another terrorist bites the dust.
Israel has wasted a lot of the lives of its soldiers and civilians on its side in the hopes of achieving some phantom ‘purity of arms’ that included an extensive approvals process for strikes that crippled its aerial response on Oct 7. Afterward things got better and worse. The pager attack was brilliantly calculated and yet crippled by an obsessive need to take out specific targets rather than inflicting as much damage on the Hezbollah terrorists as possible.
The painstaking efforts to monitor the terrorists to minimize collateral damage and to focus on specific targets did not change the inevitable condemnations that came rolling Israel’s way.
The real lesson of the pager attacks was that an innovative Israeli attack on Islamic terrorists will be cheered by the right people and condemned by the wrong ones. Israeli Hasbara is a fundamentally misguided effort to explain the need for a war whose hand wringing signals weakness and guilt. What makes people cheer for Israel are accomplishments, winning a war in six days, rescuing hostages from Africa, taking out an Islamic nuclear program on July 4th, and detonating the communications devices of a terrorist group responsible for killing Americans.
No one except the occasional military expert who tours the battlefield is impressed by Israeli restraint. And restraint will win not a single concession from the same establishment that can’t bring itself to condemn by name the mobs waving Hamas flags and assaulting Jewish students.
Israel has been held hostage trying to win over those who cannot be won over. Much of the liberal establishment has either become radicalized into permanently opposing Israel or has become complicit with those who do. The only narrative it will accept is the same demands that Israel be dismantled piece by piece and parceled out to Islamic terrorists in exchange for peace.
That the peace has never come, that the negotiations are worthless and that the only product of two generations of concessions is endless war will not change a single mind. Just as the implication of the revelation that Hamas planned to murder Israeli hostages before handing them over in exchange for live Islamic terrorists was hardly even discussed in the media.
After nine months of demanding a deal with Hamas at any cost, the Biden administration has belatedly decided that the terrorist group is not serious about a deal, but that news hasn’t changed Kamala’s set talking point about the urgent need to end the war and cut a deal. Nor will it change her policy should she be in a position to stop talking and start making the rules.
Israel has been divided by the need to balance winning wars against winning over public opinion, but the public opinion of the establishment was never winnable and if it is winnable, it can only be won by winning wars. The Biden administration’s policymakers will never admit it, but they were far more impressed by the pager attacks than by 9 months of negotiations. The same is more obviously true of Arab Muslim countries who despise Hezbollah and fear Iran.
No one cheers weakness, they only respect strength.
Israel will never have even the grudging acceptance of those who believe that rape is resistance and beepers are genocide. Accommodating military tactics to their accusations has led to a loop of defeatism that culminated in the deadly infiltration, invasion and massacres of Oct 7. But it can best be a player on the world stage by showing its strength rather than its weakness.
One Pagergeddon was worth a hundred Nova documentaries and exhibitions about the unhappy victims who were assaulted at the dance festival to morale, national security and the reputation of a nation built on repudiating the helplessness and victimhood of its long exile.
Oct 7 incited the dark glee of a movement that believes it can taste Israel’s destruction. Protestations of innocence and victimhood only feed its triumphalism. What it fears isn’t a documentary about the atrocities of Oct 7, but the destruction of its Jihadist armies.
The issue was never Israel’s tactics, but Israel’s existence. The only way to win… is to win.
The world has become so small due to modern transportation and communication that Israel’s enemies have gathered like the audiences in the Colosseum demanding to see Jews submit to Dagon in Gaza. However, the Jews have not all been blinded like Samson and they have not only strength to resist the Sirens, but the modernity to defeat multiple enemies.
In an ironic twist, I think all the liberal extremist unhinged raging about the cartoon of Rashita Talib’s pager exploding has given that cartoon much more exposure and many more views than it otherwise would have had.
Folks emailed the cartoon to me, although I’d previously seen it. That kind of distribution probably isn’t measured or counted. So, I think it likely that more people have seen that cartoon than the media can acknowledge.
That said, the louder the liberal extremist unhinged raging is only reinforces how good and right it really is. So KEEP IT UP!
All terrorists are cowards, from the IRA who bombed pubs and shopping centres to the islamic hamas, cowards one and all.
Israel should be proud of what it has achieved.
Would you consider the fact that Irgun carried out 60 “terrorist” attacks against the British and Arabs in the then Mandate of Palestine cowardly acts in the same vein as the IRA etc? Were they terrorist attacks or was the King David Hotel bombing an act of resistance and necessary as part of the Jewish right to reestablishing their homeland?
BTW. I fully support Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself from all terrorists who want to see the destruction of Israel and its people.
The point you make is historically and undeniably true. The downvotes come from those whose narrative / mythos does not allow a full-orbed historical truth on the matter of Israel. And this kind of behavior is very human and not limited to any group of people. We like to have flat, untarnished heroes and 2-dimensional enemies.
A perfect example occurred yesterday when Allan Goldstein commented to Michael Brown’s article. He said, “It would be a lot easier to support Christians if Jimmy Carter’s ‘christian’ family wasn’t a parcel of deviant nazis.”
As sinful, flawed human beings, we tend to excuse our own failings and require perfection from others.
For the record, I find Christians to be much more likely to publicly acknowledge our own failings as well as the failings of our community. I am Christian and have LOTS of company among my Christian brothers and sisters who find Jimmy Carter’s obvious hatred for Israel to be repugnant.
Is not wanting to be killed by islamic terrorists “Islamofobic”?
The Brits WERE WARNED ABOUT THE KING DAVID HOTEL BOMBING and told to leave. The Palis don’t warn when they are about to commit massacres.
The Irgun and the Lehi were the only ones defending Jews against attacks by invading arabs who were backed by the damned british administrative filth.
Perhaps you should do some reading around what the treacherous british scum did to the Jews and what they openly and deliberately encouraged and enabled the arabs to do to us before you start spewing your vile lies, and hurling accusations of cowardice about. Those men were warriors, and any Jew with a working brain cell should be thanking G-d every day for their existence.
And while we’re on the subject, multiple warnings were issued to the british military regarding the King David Hotel, and they were too stupid and arrogant to listen. The british were using it to conduct military business in, and that makes it a legitimate military target.
You miss the point. They were on the correct side and fighting the British. Can there be a more evil bunch at that time and in that setting than the British? No! Current definitions and squeamish modern leftwing anti Semitic, anti Israel, double standard judgements applied to a past era is soy boy BS.
The Urgun attacked the King David Hotel because it was the military headquarters of the British military.
Yes laws should be applied. Every terrorist from the Sept 7 attack needs to be executed for war crimes, either aiding or committing war crimes, not held as prisoners of war.
Every Bolshevik descendent should be made to pay reparations for the murdered innocents in the former Soviet Union. Many who now reside in israel.
Many also reside in Poland and the satellite states of the former USSR.
Excellent article.
The world is ready to accept a certain Jew, the dead Jew. We don’t need another documentary or another cement marker to murdered Jews. We need Israel’s genius it’s unending ingenuity. We don’t need the acceptance of the deplorable organizations like the UN. We need to recognize that Tlaib and her ilk will only be satisfied with one outcome, Israel’s enemies only understand one outcome, submission by military and violent means. Then she can obtain peace under the current administration.
The world could barely stomach that the Trump administration had achieved peace through dialogue and diplomacy. That’s because the goal as stated in these pages by Israel’s enemies is its destruction or submission. Never again indeed.
There is no diplomatic solution to the non-negotiable desire to destroy Israel.
I think the only diplomatic solution arrives in the form of a barrage of Jericho IV missiles on Iran…preferrably those that could turn it into a shiny green sea of Trintite!
Those on the far left seem to aid the Islamists in the same way a fool feeds an alligator, hoping it will eat him last. I have no pity for the hurt feelings of Rashita “Rash” Tlaib.
We will with Hashems strength destroy Amalek
Amen! Am Yisrael chai!
As these leftist shitheads can’t actually voice the phrase “Israel should knuckle under and surrender”, they say the alternative – “There must be a cease fire!”
Conservatives have a better idea. Miserably seek out and destroy all islam in Gaza, and since chickenshit Hezbolla wants in, we can add the North and areas of Lebanon to future Israeli control.
Blame the Jews when they live.
Blame the Jews when they die.
Blame the Jews when they are stateless and powerless.
Blame the Jews when they have a state.
Blame the Jews when they are rich.
Blame the Jews when they are poor.
Blame the Jews when they succeed.
Blame the Jews when they fail.
Blame the Jews because they are communists.
Blame the Jews because they are capitalists.
Blame the Jews when they are defenseless.
Blame the Jews when they defend themselves.
Blame the Jews when they are slaughtered.
Blame the Jews when they refuse to be slaughtered.
When in doubt, blame the Jews.
It has worked for thousands of years.
Why stop now?
Blame the jews for communism and its poisonous results. Marxism anyone?
Those Jews, like Marx and Bernstein (Trotsky), who played a role in creating communism, were all atheists who have nothing to do with Judaism or the observant Jewish community.
To the Neo-Nazis, Skin Heads, Jew haters and muslims of this world… they don’t care if Hess, Marx, Trotsky or Lenin were practicing Jews or not… they’re Jews and out to take over the world with their communism…
Which is why America is being duped to believe communism is taking over America… it feeds the narrative… and garners support…
Especially with satanic islam pushing the idea of how the Jews are stealing land in their fake Palestine…
Jews take a capitalized *J*
You putz
Thankfully, Netanyahu is steadfast and serious. The world needs more leaders like him.
Churchill said it best: Never give in, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Much as I admire Churchill it’s a damn shame he gave in and took 78% of the land promised to Israel and gave it to the Arabs for their support. If anywhere is a Palestine, Jordan is it. Funny how all the Arabs living in that part of the area called Palestine are quite happy to be called Jordanians and not Palestinians. It figures then that all the Arabs living in Israel should call themselves Israelis but of course that would never do. Israel will never know peace until the muslim squatters are tossed out of the country. It can be done. After all the Arabs did it to 700,000 Jews after the 1948 war And there was crickets from the rest of the world (as usual!).
I didn’t know Stalin was Jewish? When did you decide this?
Terrorists understand the language and actions of terrorism… celestial virgins or not. Palestinians who align themselves with terrorists are aiding and abetting them and therefore deserve what befalls them. Only their children, who are being raised to hate Westerners and their values, are innocent victims of retaliatory actions.
Excellent article.
The world empathized with the Jews when they were defenseless against the Nazis and exterminated by the millions.
Now that Israel is fighting back, all of a sudden she’s the “bad one”. Keep being a “bad-ass”, Israel. You got this!
AM YISRAEL CHAI!
“The world empathized with the Jews when they were defenseless against the Nazis and exterminated by the millions.”
That empathy came after WWII not during it. WWII was never fought to save European Jews from extermination although that has been the prevailing narratives post-WWII.
“Keep being a “bad-ass”, Israel. You got this!”
Totally agree!
The left are evil. They don’t bother to hide it anymore.
” … or Barney songs played on a loop”
absolutely love your sense of humor Daniel.
Thank you for the article … always look forward to reading your work!
There’s no way the Israelis would be that cruel.
“The issue was never Israel’s tactics, but Israel’s existence. The only way to win… is to win.”
Exactly. eat your hearts out (supposing you have got them) you followers of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, of the Palestinian myth, or of any other ridiculous nonsense produced for the past 60 years by the islamo-leftist media. The Jews started to return to their ancestral home, now called Israel, in the 1880s, and home they are. For ever, like it or not.
Israel should do whatever whenever however and wherever it is necessary to eradicate Islamic terrorism