No rush. Plenty of time.

In Israel, many awaiting Israel’s major ground incursion to crush Hamas are concerned that the delay by the Benjamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu–Benny Gantz unity government to invade Gaza reflects a hesitancy and second-guessing. Netanyahu has a history, despite his image in the West as a strong and bold leader, of talking the tough talk but not always walking that walk. In election campaigns, he promises massive new building of Jewish homes and communities in Judea and Samaria but then announces construction freezes after elections. He has promised annexing the Jordan Valley, a section of Judea that almost all the country supports absorbing, but never has followed through.

Therefore, many who want that ground invasion, because they know there is no other way to exterminate Hamas, are concerned by the delay in the ground attack. But this time they are wrong about Bibi. He absolutely will green light an invasion into Gaza.

They have a special guarantee to assure them Bibi will invade in due time: Bibi’s voter polls have plummeted to ground zero, as his electoral support has collapsed. If elections were held in Israel today, Gantz remarkably would garner 48 percent of the vote to Bibi’s 28. As if it needs to be added, the 20 points are beyond the polling margin of error. Likewise, elections today would see Bibi’s government fall and the opposition gain huge advantages.

That polling is the guarantee that Bibi will authorize an invasion and this time keep his word to the Israeli public that he indeed will crush Hamas. Whereas he traditionally has settled for “mowing the lawn,” the expression used in Israel for bombing Hamas just enough to set them back three years at a time until Hamas is rebuilt enough to launch its next war to destroy Israel, this time Bibi and Israel mean business. How to be certain? Simple:

The polls. His career ends in ignominy and catastrophic political defeat unless he roots out, crushes, annihilates, and exterminates Hamas. If he leaves dental records behind, it will be a military failure.

So why is Bibi taking so long? Is it pressure from Biden to be humanitarian? Is it a need to wait for American aid or personnel to arrive? Is it because Thomas Friedman of the New York Times asked him to be a sweety-pie and let Hamas be as they are on a promise that Hamas will never do it again unless they do? Is it because he fears a comparative handful of 20-year-olds at Harvard, half of them non-American foreign-exchange students from Muslim countries that hate America, or the Nazi-like chants of “Students for Justice in Palestine”? (READ MORE: Liberal Punditry II: Tom Friedman Stands With Israel, but…)

Nope.

The delay is because Jewish lives are more precious to the Jewish country than citizens’ lives are in any other country, sadly including our own here in the United States. Even one Jewish death in Israel is a national catastrophe. Americans would be shocked to read Israel’s daily newspapers during “peacetime.”  If a woman gets gang-raped by three drunk teens at a party in a hotel during a vacation week, the country practically closes down, as 7.5 million Jews bemoan, “How could this happen in our land, in a Jewish country, that someone would be raped and that teens could even get that drunk?” Can you imagine that happening here in America? Women here get raped every day. Probably some have been raped as I write this article. So little attention is given to rape in America unless it is a Hollywood scandal or an accusation against a conservative public personality.

Likewise, when a husband shoots his wife, even Hamas has to stay out of the way as the country goes berserk: “How could this be? A Jewish husband would kill a Jewish wife? In our land?” Yes, that could be an opening for a hundred Henny Youngman jokes, but not in real Israeli life.  It is a country where Chicago Saturday nights never could happen because, unlike the Nazi “Black Lives Matter” communist organization that our woke corporations and sports leagues and universities pay to advocate for the murderers of Jews, in Israel all those lives matter.

Once that Israeli national sociology is understood, the delay in Israel’s ground game becomes clear. To root out and exterminate Hamas, Israel will face a Fallujah/Bora Bora situation that we Americans know all too well: fighting terrorists in world-infamous dirt holes amid narrow streets, with snipers in houses on rooftops and behind windows, with Iranian IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and land mines, with Russian-supplied Cornet anti-tank missiles, and now with anti-tank drones dropping serious payloads from above. Moreover — something America barely ever experienced — hundreds, perhaps thousands of these criminal terrorists are based underground — truly like rats — in a network of tunnels that they truly have constructed underground beneath all of Gaza. That is where all that European Union and United States “humanitarian steel and concrete” have gone all these years “under strict controls.”

So if Bibi and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) go in prematurely, the boys of IDF will face terribly adverse circumstances despite their strength. That is why the ground invasion has waited and may further wait weeks or even a month or more. Israel meticulously is bombing the smithereens out of Hamas’ terror and criminal infrastructure. Every day the IDF locates more tunnels and bombs them to close off both sides, entrance and exit, also suffocating those inside. Every day more Hamas leaders are assassinated. They are bombing every single building where the criminals hide along with their weapons: their missiles, rockets, drones. If in residential apartment buildings, this time IDF finally is bombing the buildings. If in schools, the schools. If in mosques, the mosques. If in ambulances, the ambulances.

And, yes, if the IDF learns that Hamas is hiding Cornet anti-tank missiles, drone anti-tank attackers, rocket launchers, and grenades in a hospital, that hospital indeed will disappear, and let the Socialist radical and lifelong Portuguese political failure António Guterres, U.N. secretary-general, complain all he likes. Because this time, once Israel begins the invasion, all bets are off. They are not going in “on holiday for a fortnight” to sample the smells of Gaza. They will be going in to eradicate Hamas. (READ MORE: The UN Is a Delusional and Dangerous Old Man)

In America, people make it their business to get the heck out when they are warned of an impending hurricane or volcano eruption. The people of Gaza have had many times that advance warning. If they remain behind, this time that is their decision, like the fool, Harry R. Truman, who adamantly remained behind in Washington state when everyone else left, and he indeed got himself incinerated when Mount St. Helens blew. And everyone knew he brought death on himself by staying behind in the face of countless warnings to evacuate.

So Israel now is gathering its troops and reserves, training them for the invasion and ground game ahead of them, assembling the weapons, assuring all firearms are in excellent working condition, planning out the supply lines, and biding its time while it protects the ground troops by bombing out as much of Gaza’s terror criminal infrastructure, above ground and below, as it can. Hamas chose the day it would strike into Israel without anyone outside pressuring them when to come to rape, behead, mass-murder babies, and burn corpses. And now Israel will take its own sweet time. It will pick its day. Maybe today. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe on Arafat’s birthday. Maybe on Arafat’s death day. And maybe even on Rashida Tlaib’s birthday or on the wedding anniversary of the day Ilhan Omar married her brother.

Biden will be unable to stop it once it begins. Nor will the U.N. As one European country after another starts changing sides from outrage over Hamas murder, rape, and beheadings to “humanitarian” concerns over the “plight of the innocents in Gaza,” Israel will not stop until she has annihilated and exterminated Hamas. Anything less than complete victory over Hamas will mark not only the end of Benjamin Netanyahu’s political career but the trashing of his lifetime legacy.

The polls guarantee it.

Rabbi Fischer’s two memorial programs and prayer services for Israel in the face of the Hamas–Gaza massacre may be found on YouTube here and here. Because they contain video and photos taken by Hamas at the massacre, YouTube is restricting viewing of the service exclusively to individuals over 18. What they lack in production value, they make up for in heart and soul.