Hamas/Gaza War Musings #58: A "Deal" Won't Bring Peace-- Just More War

 

This plan/deal Bibi and Trump are cooking up won't bring Israel peace. It's a Trojan horse. It will only leave Israel more vulnerable than before. It doesn't take care of the real problem and leaves us even more dependent on the United States. I'm a realist, a pragmatist.

The key to peace is settling the Land, not policing it with new businesses. Donald Trump isn't in the real world of war and Bibi, our failed Prime Minister has never had the guts to really lead. He's just a master of oratory.

At first I was going to simply say that Bibi should have stayed in America and not returned. For those who either don't remember or are too young to know, Bibi had started a very successful career in the USA where he had gone to high school and university. He even changed his name to Ben Nitay.

A few years after his brother Yoni was killed in the legendary Entebbe rescue, he returned to Israel and his name. Then the more I thought about it, I realized that staying in the USA wouldn't have been a good idea. He'd be worse to Israel than Kissinger was. Henry Kissinger had tried to get Golda Meir to follow American "advice" during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which would have left us in a dangerous position. The Americans had been hiding their involvement with the "surprise*" attack on Israel. Even then, during that war I had suspected that Nixon and Kissinger had planned for Israel to reach a stalemate, not a victory. Then they'd come in and take over. They were sure that Kissinger could control Golda and the rest of the government. He was "one of us;" wasn't he? Couldn't a Jew convince them?

We must stop consulting with foreign rulers. They won't give us peace!

*Bruce Brill's memoir of the Yom Kippur War when he was with the NSA spills the beans about American involvement and passed censorship.

Hamas/Gaza War Musings #57: Important Pre Rosh Hashannah Message- SOVEREIGNTY & VICTORY

 

I really should have gone to bed already, but there's something important rattling around my brain. It has me very worried, so I'll just blog the simple message, and then Gd willing I'll feel better.

As my readers, friends and Facebook followers know, I'm very concerned about the lack of victory in Bibi's lexicon. He doesn't mention total victory, and his voiced plans for after the war are awful. We'd basically just police Gaza, which won't give us peace. It'll only cause our soldiers death and give the Gazan terrorists time to prepare for the next war.

Some of the other "plans" is to expect peaceful Gazans to make it a safe place. Duh?!?! Is he going to perform lobotomies on them for a permanent personality change?

There's only one thing that will bring us peace... that's declaring Israeli Sovereignty ריבונות on Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley plus resettle Gaza with Jews and then annex it, too. In the history of the world, that's a very normal action of a victorious nation. We should have done it in 1967. 

Who cares what "the world" says? If we had done it immediately after the Six Days War, we wouldn't have suffered through the Yom Kippur War and the subsequent ones and terror attacks. But we've had a series of weak ghetto Jew leaders. They've actually gotten worse since after the Six Days War. We won that easily, because we had no allies to "help" and "advise." 

The "world" condemns Israel for "breathing," for fighting our enemies, because we act weak and scared and especially because we try to "please" them so they'll like us. The State of Israel must act as a strong confident independent country. That's the key to survival, not "allies."

Sorry that this ended up wordier and longer than I had planned, but it has been sitting on my heart and mind for too long. Please feel free to comment and of course share.

Hamas/Gaza War Musings #56: VICTORY Prayer Haiku #3

Here in Israel we're just a few short weeks from two years since the heinous Gazan terror attack on thousands of innocent Israelis, men, women, children, infants and the elderly. The victims were tortured, murdered and kidnapped. They were raped, decapitated, incinerated and in many cases forced to watch their loved one suffer before they all died. The survivors and those who survived trying to rescue them are so emotionally scarred, their lives will never be the same.

This was a cruel immoral pogrom. In many cases the victims were the same people who had aided those very Gazans who attacked and guided terrorists to unarmed, undefended peace-beliving civilian homes. 

So many words are being written about it, some based on truth and mercy and others on hatred and lies. I don't have the strength for long wordy arguments, explanations and personal prayers. That's why I like the simple haiku, just seventeen 17 syllables in three lines, 5, 7, 5. Here are a few more of my Morning Coffee Haikus. I hope they speak to you. They're posted most mornings on my Facebook page. I've posted two other haiku posts, 1 and 2; please click and enjoy.

sound of the shofar

fills the air to remind us

DAY OF JUDGEMENT soon....

many sorts stormy skies

no VICTORY soon forecast

but Gd willing rain

Learning Tanach* helps

understand what should be done

yes, even today

--*Bible

grateful for blessings

even when mourning and war

survival demands...

evil dominates

media, schools, Hollywood

must be defeated

normal life's struggle

surviving when danger's near

unpredictable

for better future

we need more than prayers to Gd

our actions crucial

we need VICTORY

our enemy's SURRENDER

no deal will do it

good news: we're alive

bad news: VICTORY not close

we need brave leaders

clouds hide rising sun

life's not always so easy

pray for strength to cope

Chodesh Elul Tov

Gd willing VICTORY soon

only Gd will help

Shabbat's survival

for my mind, soul and body

Jewish medicine

SOVEREIGNTY's key

plus strong Jewish SETTLEMENT,

VICTORY make PEACE

Hamas/Gaza War Musings #55: Who's Whitewashing Gazan Civilian Attack of October 7, 2023?

 What really happened on October 7, 2023?

On October 7, 2023 and for awhile afterwards there were lots of photos, videos/YouTubes and reports of Gazan civilians-- even those considered friends and had been employed by Israelis who unabashedly, enthusiastically guided the Hamas terrorists and joined in attacking, their naïve Israeli friends. These Gazan civilians knew their way around the kibbutzim and knew their victims. These terrorists, who didn't wear uniforms, proudly took pictures and videos of their cruel acts, sending them off to their families and the wider world via the internet. Some stole phones of the victims  and got perverse pleasure showing their "victories" to their victims' families and friends.

Strangely the articles I read about this in October, 2023 can't be found online. At least I couldn't find any, nor did anyone I asked on Facebook. One friend said that she had saved the links of the articles, but the links are as dead as the victims...

In my searches I found the report that the Israeli Government has on its site. That's what I screenshot above. Even Bibi's government is masking the true story. They give the impression that Israel was invaded by uniformed soldier terrorists, not a ragtag group of Gazans of all ages, uniformed and not. I guess the government wants to hide the fact that the IDF and civil defense were defeated by amateurs. Volunteers came from all over the country to defend the innocent Israeli citizens, from infants to the elderly, while the army waited for orders and transportation.

The cruelty of the Gazans was worse than what the Nazis had done. Nazis had herded Jews of all ages into buildings, and then gassed them dead. They didn't butcher, decapitate the Jewish victims like the Gazans, read this. 

Now I can't find the articles. I asked on Facebook, and even people who had saved links, say that the links no longer function. Why has this happened? Why protect Gazans? Is this a conspiracy to rewrite history and invent the Myth of "Innocent Gazan Civilians?" If you have functioning links, please add them in the comments.

While hostages, Israeli citizens, still rot and starve, some alive and some long dead, as prisoners in Gaza, Bibi keeps sending food to Gaza. The Gazans don't need our food or any other aid. It's an agricultural area; they can grow what they need. They don't need medical supplies, when there are over two dozen hospitals there. It doesn't make us look moral or magnanimous; it makes us look guilty and foolish. The same must be said for Bibi's fokokt woke "moral" fighting. He warns Gazans to leave their homes before we bomb them. Duh!?! These are the terrorists and their supporters who've been cheering the deaths of our precious soldiers and the victims on October 7th. Coddling the enemy won't give us victory, and a "deal" won't give us peace. 

Only a TOTAL VICTORY and resettling Gaza with Israelis will give us peace.

Hamas/Gaza War Musings #54: VICTORY NOW! Bibi, Stop Your Games!

 

This is what I wrote last night. Maybe it's not polished enough, but it's the truth. 

Gnite

Sometimes being too smart isn't smart at all. No doubt Bibi Netanyahu can memorize things better than me. He's a great orator with an impressive voice and can charm people. No doubt that his IQ is phenomenal. I'm not any of that, but I see the bottom line and the big picture.

It's clear that as Prime Minister Bibi hasn't a clue as to what it means to win this war for our very survival. Clever daring things like the beeper attack or assassinations of terror leaders don't make for a victory. It's like putting a few chocolate chips on a cake and calling it icing.

The fokokt woke warnings before bombing, feeding the enemy and other ridiculous "humanitarian" #$%#$ just make us look guiltier and utterly idiotic. That's besides wasting our weapons on empty buildings and making us into laughing stocks. Gaza Arab terrorists have started about a dozen wars since Bibi became PM. Just because he refuses to call them wars, doesn't mean they aren't. Or simply say that this one has been going on since Disengagement and has only gotten worse since Bibi took over. Not only haven't we destroyed the enemy, gotten them to surrender, but they've gotten progressively stronger and more confident. Our idiotic generals, who've been sent to "war college" in the USA failed in real life. They totally misread the signs before October 7, 2023 and chastised the young female observers who insisted that the Arabs were planning an attack. Bibi's responsible as Prime Minister along with all the IDF's upper echelons. I'm a pragmatist. Look at the facts, not theories nor dreams.

Gd willing a better tomorrow.