Israel is fighting our fight.
For civilization.
Against the barbarians.
Yet — Biden/Harris, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Lloyd Austin, Senate/House Democrats publicly urge Israel to ramp down, even stop its military in Gaza. Imagine FDR in newspapers (read by the Nazis) — scolding Churchill — “Not victory, Winston, it’s stalemate, stupid!”
Consequently, as Israel modifies (the U.N. will condemn Israel anyway), IDF casualties mount, and the war is prolonged. IDF reservists include teachers, professors, doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, artists, musicians, chefs, store owners, and more. Should they die to placate the intellectual frauds who dominate our schools and universities? DEI ideology: its Jew-hating coalition discards reality; Iran and its proxy Hamas are hardly bastions of women’s rights, gay rights, the environment. (READ MORE from Arnold Steinberg: How Conservatives Can Start a Youth Revolution)
Palestinian genocide? Gaza’s population has grown exponentially. The Hamas playbook, not Israel, puts noncombatants in harm’s way. Note: The number of Arabs killed by Israel in all wars and conflicts since its founding in 1948 is dwarfed by the number of Arabs killed by Arabs. No outrage or demonstrations. Akin to BLM’s indifference to black-on-black murder. (Does anyone care, for example, about how many Christians have been killed by Islamists in Africa? The Vatican reported that 52,250 Christians have been murdered by Islamists over 14 years in Nigeria alone.)
Especially in the Middle East, Bad Guys respect strength. Biden, after the Afghanistan fiasco, is perceived as weak. His policies enrich Iran: higher oil prices, relaxed sanctions, billions released. Is Biden’s team of Obama holdovers arguably traitorous? (One outed so far). The good news is most are just stupid!
Biden’s patron Obama was obsessed with Muslim outreach; Obama’s deep proximity to his spiritual guru, America/white/Jew-hating Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was not incidental. Anti-Zionists claim Jews used the Holocaust to justify stealing Arab land. Obama obliged, publicly basing Israel’s existence on the Holocaust, yet Zionism predated it. In effect, Obama deprecated the historic claim of Jews to their ancestral land.
“Some say that anti-Zionism isn’t tantamount to antisemitism,” Joshua Muravchik recently wrote. “If so, it’s worse … Anti-Zionism can only mean the destruction of Israel … some seven million Jews.”
Enabled by the UN, Hamas and the so-called “moderate” Palestinian Authority (PA) nurture children in hate to exterminate Jews. Thus, a “Palestinian state” was a nonstarter, a farce absent resolving the prerequisite as told by Golda Meir: “They say we must be dead. And we say we want to live. I don’t know of a compromise.”
The “compromise” — a “two-state solution of a Palestinian state living in peace” alongside Israel — remains oxymoronic, a fallacy because too many Palestinians addicted to genocide still want Israel off the map. You don’t reform a lying alcoholic who says he’ll quit drinking by giving him a liquor store.
That’s why for decades the unrealistic expectations for a Palestinian state foster disappointment. The “Palestinian leadership” continues to groom Jew-killers from childhood. The next generation is already poisoned. To undo their indoctrination, if possible, would take generations — before any Palestinian state can exist.
After Israel’s supposed “hardliner” Ariel Sharon repudiated his political base and forcibly removed Israeli settlers and exited Gaza nearly twenty years ago, Gaza could have prospered; instead the people chose Hamas which diverted billions of development aid into a terrorist infrastructure. The presumed “Palestinian state” (pick your poison: Abbas-PA/West Bank or Sinwar-Hamas/Gaza) has been on life support for a long time; if it’s dead now, blame Hamas, not Israel.
The Biden team — while Israel is at war — errs profoundly in still promoting a Palestinian state, a non-sequitur.
Indeed, the immediate official U.S. Embassy online statement (then removed) urged Israel not to respond to the massacre. Just days ago, an agitated Biden demanded Netanyahu release funds immediately to West Bank Palestinians, then hung up on Netanyahu. Not as solid on Israel as Trump, Biden is better than Obama.
In his first trip abroad as president — the apology tour — Obama groveled to ingratiate himself with “Islam.” He then promoted Iranian regional hegemony. He sidestepped Senate approval for his Iranian deal to slow-walk, rather than to end, Iran’s nuclear program, now more dispersed, harder to degrade. Iran’s stated purpose remains to annihilate Israel, the nuclear fallout contaminating neighboring Muslims callously incidental. (READ MORE: Israel Isn’t Prepared for a Three Block War)
The inmates are in charge of the asylum: Vice President Kamala Harris doubles-down abroad — in an Arab country nonetheless, she rebukes Israel (reading from a teleprompter, to avoid her customary ad-lib cackles). Meanwhile Lloyd Austin, who surely knows better from his combat days and as head of Central Command, flies to the war zone where — in effect — he implicitly apologizes for Israel’s conduct. When he and Administration officials keep urging Israel to observe “the rules of war” they imply Israel does not.
Would Austin sacrifice American troops to satisfy CNN and MSNBC? I think not. To simplify, heavy but still focused Israeli air attacks on Gaza were indispensable to soften and demoralize the enemy; recall the U.S. “shock and awe” bombing in Iraq. In past Israeli incursions in Gaza, casualties mounted in going door-to-door in this notoriously ultra-dense urban environment. In later years, blowing holes to move through side walls lessened risk somewhat. This time, Israel opted for bombings to kill terrorists still in buildings or force them into the open, and surely to eliminate snipers. And with destroyed buildings, the notorious booby-traps are compromised or gone. And air support must continue to wipe out any real-time threats to IDF ground troops.
An Israeli infantry officer protested that in response to U.S. pressure, areas are not “cleared from the air before allowing our soldiers to enter … [because] our leaders may have started prioritizing the enemy’s lives over the lives of our soldiers.”
Deprivation of food, water, electricity was needed to destroy viability, even in the tunnels. The U.S. has backed “humanitarian aid” that has been diverted to Hamas fighters; thus, more IDF deaths, a prolonged war.
Bibi, on whose watch Oct. 7 happened, will and should have his own (dare we say) “come to Jesus” reckoning. At least he’s coherent, unlike Biden, who criticized Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing” and, thus, sanctified Hamas propaganda. Biden’s line then is recycled by the Fifth Column of Hamas sympathizers on America’s streets. These include “progressives” who block streets, airports, train stations, and until recently, without arrests. (We know MIT skirted its expulsion rules to avoid termination of Arab student visas.)
How simple for Biden, Harris, et. al to stay on message — something like: “We cannot trust casualty figures released by Hamas. Besides, numbers include terrorists and collaborators. Gaza voted in Hamas and still supports Hamas. They cheered Oct. 7, just as they celebrated 9/11. Yet, Israel struggles to minimize the toll on noncombatants. But Hamas uses apartment buildings, schools, and hospitals to store ammunition and launch rockets and prioritizes expendable human shields to maximize civilian casualties. We blame Hamas entirely for these deaths. Demonstrators who want to stop destruction and death should chant, ‘Return the hostages, surrender and stop the war.’ Signs should say, ‘Free Gaza From Hamas.’”
Could it be Team Biden is concerned that the Arab Muslim voters his party cultivated, and who remain key to his electoral health in battleground state Michigan, will not turn out? Are party leaders worried about low support from its “progressive” base, especially its alienated younger voters, brainwashed by Jew-hating K-12 teachers and university professors into believing the DEI hoax that classifies Jews as oppressors and Palestinians as victims?
Sen. John Fetterman, recovered from his stroke, thinks clearly now — declaring he is no longer a “progressive” because he favors Israel and opposes Hamas. He is telling you that progressives support Hamas. Indeed, his Democrat colleagues, led by self-hating Jew Bernie Sanders, want to limit U.S. military aid unless Israel, in effect, leaves Hamas in power. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has long-NDS — Netanyahu derangement syndrome; he insists that Israel declare victory, leave Gaza, and let Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar emerge unscathed from the tunnels, because Sinwar, Friedman writes, will risk the wrath of outraged Palestinians. Wishful thinking, though not entirely absurd.
Sure, it would better if Sinwar were killed by disenchanted Palestinians, not by Israelis as a martyr in death. But either way, his death is a trophy kill that sends a message. And then, over time, as Golda Meir did after the 1972 Munich massacre, Israel will liquidate Oct. 7 enablers, including Hamas leaders living elsewhere in five-star luxury hotels. Israel must bring closure to restore deterrence. (READ MORE: Muslim Women Visit Israel to Show Solidarity Against Hamas)
Israel did not want this war. The longer it goes, the more the Israeli economy contracts. Its sustenance is now threatened by the Iran proxy-Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping. Sooner or later, an Egyptian-inspired coalition will motivate the feckless Biden to act.
Ominously, Israel is threatened on seven fronts — not just Gaza and Yemen (Houthis) but also the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Unless Hezbollah retreats, Israel’s military will enforce a buffer zone in the north. Given the multi-front threats, Israel must crush Hamas as soon as possible. Any ceasefire that increases IDF casualties, prolongs the war, or — worse — leaves Hamas standing is unacceptable, even if AOC and the Squad want Hamas to live to fight and rape another day.
Yes, there is an international chorus for a ceasefire. In the U.S., major Democrats in every state join if not lead the Israel-bashers. In other words, let Gaza regroup, though Hamas has said it will do Oct. 7 again and again. For years, it has been problematic for any state Democratic convention to pass a pro-Israel resolution. Polls show that Democrats are deeply conflicted on Israel, with key groups like younger voters and blacks most opposed to Israel. Meanwhile, Republicans across the board overwhelmingly support Israel. (READ MORE: Israel Must Obtain an Unconditional Surrender)
Where does all this leave us?
At Israel’s founding, Arab nations expelled Jews, who eventually resettled elsewhere, including in Israel. In contrast, Israel opted to include Arabs living there, but the Arab countries urged them to leave so that the Arab League, declaring war, could more efficiently exterminate Jews. Many Arabs remained, and Arabs now constitute about one-fifth of the Israeli population. Leftist folklore aside, Israel is not apartheid. Of those Arabs who left Israel in 1948, most are deceased. But the U.N. preposterously considers succeeding generations as “Palestinian refugees” — kept by their fellow Arabs in permanent squalor. The occupier is not Israel but Hamas, its terror regime requiring a blockade causing further economic hardship.
The so-called West Bank is the historic Judea and Samaria, parts of Israel long before Islam even existed. Revisionists call this area “occupied territory” when it more properly is “disputed territory.” It is run by Mahmoud Abbas, aka president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), which, like Hamas, is corrupt. Abbas has a Ph.D. in holocaust denial (not a joke, as Biden would say).
Israel has secured PA funding to facilitate permits to work in Israel because PA security enforcers inform Israel of some West Bank terrorist plots, as dramatized in the Israel series Fauda. Yet Abbas provides bounties for the families of terrorists, especially suicide bombers. Abbas, like his pedophile predecessor Yasser Arafat (who, in a major U.S. blunder, was resurrected by President Bill Clinton), talks peace in English but in Arabic tells his people another story. The 88-year-old Abbas, who does not submit to elections, even praised the Hamas Oct. 7 massacre, which West Bank Palestinians overwhelmingly approved. PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh calls Hamas “an integral part of the Palestinian mosaic.”
Nonetheless, the Biden Administration recognizes Abbas as a “peace partner” and still now, in the middle of a war, promotes the discredited PA to administer Gaza. Even Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reject Hamas and the PA.
The “West Bank” (i.e., Judea and Samaria) meant that it was on the west side of the Jordan River. In 1967 Israel in a daring “Hail Mary” strike preemptively destroyed the Egyptian air force before Egypt could attack. Jordan had ignored Israel’s warning to stay out of the conflict. In this defensive Six Day War, Israel captured the “West Bank” (including Eastern Jerusalem) from Jordan; Israel also captured the Golan Heights from Syria, and Gaza and Sinai from Egypt.
When the “West Bank” was Jordanian territory and Gaza was Egyptian territory, they were not called “occupied territories” — there was no international movement against Jordan and Egypt for these areas to comprise a “Palestinian state.”
Almost exactly a half century before the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, Egypt staged a surprise attack on Israel which, with Nixon’s massive airlift, eventually won this 1973 Yom Kippur War. This set the stage for the 1979 peace agreement. In return for Egyptian recognition, Israel returned the vast Sinai to Egypt, which refused to take back Gaza. Perhaps Egypt recalled how Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1970 tried to overthrow Jordan King Hussein, who then killed many thousands of Palestinians in just a few days. (READ MORE: Muslim Women Visit Israel to Show Solidarity Against Hamas)
And in the current situation, do you wonder why Egypt prevents Palestinians from leaving Gaza from going into the Egyptian Sinai?
The Egyptian deal was the backdrop for the delusional “land for peace” rationale: that the Judea and Samaria of biblical Eretz Israel (“West Bank” nomenclature aside) should be part of a Palestinian state (that might also include Gaza). But Israel returned Sinai to Egypt, a sovereign nation. In contrast, “land for peace” was reinvented to claim that Israel should return Judea and Samaria, and not to Jordan, a sovereign nation, but instead to create a new country.
As time passed, more and more Israelis became part of this “land for peace” movement for a “Palestinian state,” indeed many Israeli peaceniks lived (and were killed) in kibbutzim near Gaza. Hamas also massacred Arab Israelis and foreign workers from Thailand. Israel is a Jewish homeland, but Israel respects Christians, Muslims, and other religions. The Hamas massacre has made Israel’s Arabs more loyal to Israel, joining Israel’s non-Jewish loyalists.
The parallels are unsettling. Not all, but too many Palestinians are open to a Final Solution, just as “ordinary Germans” participated in the Holocaust. Netanyahu thought he could moderate Jew-hatred in Gaza by issuing 20,000 work permits into Israel. Instead, these Gazans gathered information to choreograph the Oct. 7 massacre. This betrayal of trust alone may doom a Palestinian state. (READ MORE: In Their Words: The Families of Hamas’ Victims)
For more than a half century, the world community pushed four cliches — “peace process” with a “peace partner” to bring about the “two-state solution” to “the Palestinian problem.”
State Department Arabists made their career, their traveling expense accounts, and their retirements based on relentless pursuit of this nebulous “peace process.” Almost like DEI, the “two-state solution” spawned an entire trendy industry. When Israel began sponsoring settlements in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, the Arabists insisted Israel was sabotaging this “peace process.” In fact, just as Arabs have lived in Israel since its founding, Israel argued that this disputed area does not have to be Judenrein (a Nazi term meaning free of Jews).
President Donald Trump, rejecting Syrian claims, recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. He unilaterally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. He rejected the absurd U.N. recognition of Palestinians as permanent refugees and challenged Hamas-allied U.N. schools that inculcate Jew-hatred. With the Abraham Accords, Trump gained normalization of relations between Israel and several Arab nations. And with their collaboration, Jared Kushner proposed a Palestinian state (with a kind of Marshall Plan for economic development and technology to benefit residents), and a travel corridor connecting the West Bank with Gaza.
Israel Foreign Minister Abba Eban said long ago, “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” Palestinians immediately rejected this Trump plan, as they have rejected every two-state plan. And that’s because this is not a land dispute, but a war, religious and otherwise, to terminate the Jewish state. There are Palestinians who want peace, but too many want Israel gone, Jews dead.
The myth of the four cliches is that as long as Palestinians say they “recognize” Israel, then Israel must return to its insecure, indefensible pre-1967 borders. But here’s reality: Palestinians in the disputed territories first must end “from the river to the sea” indoctrination and stop inculcating Jew hatred in children, even tutoring them to become suicide bombers.
Back in 1967, Israel took possession of Gaza, Syria and the West Bank as the spoils of war. Unlike other countries who keep land gained in a defensive war, Israel — after the Egyptian accord — was seduced into the “land for peace” panacea. In international affairs, as in politics, expectations can be dispositive. So for nearly a half century, American presidents of both parties and career diplomats have pursued this illusion.
Contrary to biased reporting, the Hamas attack was not to “kick-start progress towards an enduring two-state solution.” Fetterman counters his Democrat colleagues, saying, “Without destroying Hamas, there will be no enduring peace and a stable two-state solution.” (Actually, destroying Hamas is necessary but not sufficient.)
Instead of pressuring Israel, Biden should have negotiated with Egypt to accept Gazans, mostly multi-generational descendants of Palestinian refugees. Now the Egyptian government has proposed that a “Palestinian government of experts administer Gaza and the West Bank.” That’s window dressing. Egypt fears the influence of Hamas, which has roots within the Muslim Brotherhood that has tried to overthrow the Egyptian government. Nikki Haley notes that Syrian refugees were resettled throughout the world and questions why these descendants of Palestinian refugees cannot be integrated into Muslim nations in the Middle East.
If Palestinians are too radicalized for Arab nations to accept them, how can a Palestinian state next to Israel be acceptable to the Jewish state?
The Palestinians have been ill-served by fanatical and corrupt leaders who act in bad faith. “When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons,” former Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir said. “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” In this Gaza war, Meir’s words resonate. The U.N. schools must stop teaching Palestinian children to hate Jews. It will take years of deprogramming the population before any Palestinian entity can emerge, and it may not be a state, but perhaps a federation of sorts.
Here is the paradox. To help the Palestinians, the U.S. must fully abandon (as Trump did) the mantra of the State Department’s Arabists — that the U.S. must be an even-handed “honest broker.” Trump’s Abraham Accords demonstrated there’s more to the Middle East than the “Palestinian problem.” For example, Saudi Arabia wants rapprochement and partnership with Israel. The kingdom is frustrated with Biden’s courtship of Iran. But the Saudis and the UAE want a vision of something “Palestinian”; for their buy-in, the U.S. must move ahead without Hamas or the PA. It will take a long time for new Palestinian leaders to uproot the culture of hate, but their abandonment of Jew killing syndrome is the sine qua non for any version of Palestinian autonomy. (READ MORE: Achieving Victory in Gaza: Some Questions)
Palestinians must repudiate anti-Zionism, which is anti-Semitism, as we see here in the U.S. “The good news is that the poison is being exposed,” wrote David Suissa about the DEI in American universities. “The bad news is that it will be difficult to dislodge.” And, similarly, how long will it take for Palestinians to abandon their “from the river to the sea” mindset? If the Palestinians wanted a state, they would have stopped teaching their children to kill Jews, thus poisoning their new, and now lost generation. The international community, pretending otherwise, enabled this two-state hallucination, without-the-antecedent.
Obviously, Israel cannot have adjacent a Palestinian state fixated on exterminating the Jewish homeland.
Even if American college students don’t get it, the 21st century Arab world does: Israel is here to stay. Is a seismic shift possible? Arabs embrace Israel for a new collaborative Middle East, there is a revolution in fundamentalist Iran, and Gaza and the “West Bank” revolt against Hamas … and the PA.
Then maybe, we can talk about the future.
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