Hamas/Gaza War Musings #65: I'm Terrified of The Next Round of The War

 

I guess this is a continuation of the previous Hamas/Gaza War Musings post, #64: Nu? Where's The Victory? Has It Flown Away?

The "ceasefire" is endangering Israel. All it's doing is giving more time and opportunities for our enemies, all over, to rearm and train to attack even more of Israel. Here's a recent headline In One Day: Hamas Terrorists Violate Ceasefire Three Times.

Please remember:

CEASEFIRE ISN'T PEACE

Any study of world history will make it clear, that a total, absolute undeniable VICTORY, meaning that the enemy has surrendered, there won't be peace. The aim of Hamas, Fatah, Hizbolla and their international backers is the total destruction, Gd forbid, of the State of Israel. If you think that I'm exaggerating, then what do you think they mean by "from the river to the sea..." They've fantasized and invented a totally false perverse history and narrative of this part of the world. 

Unfortunately, most Israelis, including the government, are plagued with what's called "Ghetto Mentality." They fear complete Jewish sovereignty here in Israel. Close to sixty, yes 60, years ago when we miraculously defeated three neighboring countries, Egypt, Syria and Jordan, in the 1967 Six Days War, we didn't react as strong proud, sovereign victors. 

Instead of happily and proudly expanding our borders to the very defensive ceasefire lines, as any normal country would do, the government of the time sent messages to the defeated enemies that we'd be willing to return the vast majority of the Land for peace. Immediately after the Six Days War, the Arabs recognized us as strong victors, but those messages made Egypt and Syria think they had a chance to destroy us and attacked on Yom Kippur, 1973. The United States was involved, knew about it and lied to Israel about suspicious activity on the Egyptian border. Read Bruce Brill's Deceit of an Ally. It was only because Arik Sharon refused to obey government orders that we were victorious in 1973. Yes, he saved the State of Israel. 

When Menachem Begin of the Cherut Party, of the pre-state Etzel, became Prime Minister they feared a stronger Israel. After Begin's enthusiastic embrace of American leadership and the Camp David Accords. Yup. Menachem Begin made a deal with Egypt's Sadat, destroyed the nascent Jewish communities in the Sinai and handed it over to Egypt. The Arabs saw how weak aka Ghetto Mentality, we are, and things have just gotten progressively worse. Long time serving Prime Minister Binyamin Bibi Netanyahu is even weaker than any other prime minister. He likes talking tough, but he has never won a war. There have been many attacks on Israel since he took office, and all he does is get things to quiet down a bit, until the next attack. I don't understand how people can trust him.

Also, Israel still hasn't declared full Israeli Sovereignty on the Land liberated in that very just, defensive war, the 1967 Six Days War.

I'm disgusted and frightened. To me this isn't history. I remember all of this happening. I graduated high school in June, 1967. I was already and Zionist and mentally packing my bags. We made aliyah only three years later.

In recent years, especially since retiring, I've been studying Tanach/Bible. One thing repeated many times is that we're not to trust foreign leaders. Only trust Gd. 

Gd gave us Free Will, and we're not puppets. When we do the right thing, Gd helps.