The heroic Prime Minister Netanyahu has set a date for the invasion of Rafah. In doing so, he is cocking a snook against the Biden Administration of the US and against much of the rest of the world. If this is not courageous, nothing is courageous.
Walter E. Block 04-11-2024 13:57
All literary people have heard of “Waiting for Godot.” (Don’t ask me; I’m not a literary man.)
All men of good will are now waiting, with bated breath, for Rafah. We have been waiting for Rafah for quite some time now. What is meant by “Waiting for Rafah?” It means we are waiting for the IDF to smash into this city, the last powerful redoubt of Hamas, located in Rafah, in the south of Gaza. There, waiting like rats in a trap, are some four battalions of Hamas, comprised of about 1000 terrorists, for a total of roughly 4000 of these scum. If they stay as intact as they now are, if Israel can be persuaded to leave them in situ, they will remain a serious threat to engage in yet another atrocity of the October 7, 2033 level. It is thus imperative that they be completely neutralized.
Why is Netanyahu waiting to attack and pulverize them? The IDF is way more than a match for these murderous scoundrels. One reason is that there are some one million civilian Gazans also located in that metropolis. An all-out invasion would spell the deaths of many of them, at least some of whom are innocent. The Biden Administration of the United States (with friends like these who needs enemies?) is adamant that no such offensive take place; if it does, dire threats will endanger Israel at the hands of its erstwhile ally. Egypt is adamant that the women and children in this beleaguered city not be allowed into the Sinai Peninsula under any circumstance. The usual whiners in Europe, and, to be fair, all around the world, are equally determined to turn Israel into a pariah state if it proceeds with its self-defense in this manner. The United Nations, as is its wont, is engaging in apoplexy at the prospect that Israel will invade, capture its hostages, and end this war.
This will not be an easy task, as Hamas is a master of use its civilians as shields, something the rest of the world does not fully consider.
Thank goodness to two Israeli patriots, who keep the ship of the Israeli state on the correct defensive posture. Itamar Ben Gvir, the national security minister, warned Mr. Netanyahu that if he “decides to end the war without a broad attack on Rafah to defeat Hamas, he won’t have a mandate to continue serving as prime minister”. And in the view of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, “we have to increase the pressure on Hamas in Gaza, which is the only way to bring back the [Israeli] hostages and destroy Hamas”.
The heroic Prime Minister Netanyahu has set a date for the invasion of Rafah. In doing so, he is cocking a snook against the Biden Administration of the US and against much of the rest of the world. If this is not courageous, nothing is courageous. Let that date be sooner rather than later. The hostages can only hold out for so long. Let that date be yesterda
The article seems to have been written by two different people. In the first part, the author demonstrates his writing capabilities and I found it to be very good and to the point. The second part beginning with “The US has not won a war displays a very different style which was not so informative. I liked the first part…
In all fairness to Bibi, he has shown a greater willingness to defy the dictates of “Uncle” during this crisis than than he has at any time s since his “glory day” when he openly derfied Obama and his Secretary of State at the time (who was it?James Baker?) in an address to a joint session of Congress. And he has certainly shown more willingness to say “no” to Uncle than his colleagues in the “unity” government, whom he most unwisely invited to join the government after October 7. They are all only to happy to be stooges for Blinen and his entire pro-Iran gang.
There is no solutionunless Israel is willing to break with “Uncle.” Thatwould be an extremely risky move. But it ps the only way it could acquire the “tactical flexibility” it needs to destroy Hamas.
If Israel has sufficient intelligence information to carry this out, it should definitely eliminate Iran’s supreme political-religious “guide,” Khameini.,Also, if possible, all members of his “supreme guidance council,” of about 30 members. With evidence accumulating that the regime is already unpopular with the people (or rather peoples) of Iran, as witnessed by the 30 percent drop in the value of its currency even before its present assault on Israel, eliminating its top “spiritual leadership now would probably lead to the overthrow of the regime, The leaders of Iran’s regular army, who have never had much affection for the regime in any case, and who have long resented being sidelined by the regime’s “revolutionary guards force,” could be persuaded to stage a coup, which in turn would be welcomed by most Iranians. Best of all, with the nation-state most responsible for supporting the nternational islamic -jihadist movement taken down, radical Islamism in generalwill experience a loss of support throughout the Islamic world.
There are virtually no “innocents” in Rafah at this point.
Any citizens who do not support Hamas, have had more than 6 months to relocate out of the inevitable carnage of rightful revenge the IDF will inflict on thse Arab hillbilly.
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