Yossi Baum | X | Mar 18, 2025
Iron Swords” – And This Time For Real
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A wonderful surprise. Now we understand why, specifically tonight, it was permitted for publication that Hamas intends to carry out another massacre. This serves to prepare public opinion so that people won’t ask: “Why are we going back to wallow in the Gaza mud?”
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Interesting that, unlike in the past (who said “Beepers Operation”?), this time there was no leak to Ronen Bergman…
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And not just because the identity of the Chief of Staff (and Defense Minister) has changed. The White House is also staffed by people who, if they expressed their opinions in Israel, might stand trial Ben Gvir-style. This will be reflected in weapons supplies, bulldozers (D9), and a long list of security capabilities.
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The political timing is perfect: On the eve of the budget vote, this allows Ben Gvir to return to the government, and simultaneously deals a painful blow to the protest movement, which had planned a dramatic disruption.
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Notice that unlike previous days, over the last 24 hours, the chatter about the hostages and Gaza has dropped significantly. Not for nothing.
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It can be assumed that such intense attacks will encourage the relocation movement from Gaza that Netanyahu and Trump are hoping for—more than any warm reception in the White House for some Arab leader or another. From hell, people just want to escape.
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Now’s the time to say—unrelated—that there has been progress in recent days around the relocation.
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The Houthis and Iran’s hands are tied—three American aircraft carriers are making their way to the Middle East. As for Hezbollah—no need to elaborate.
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In short: Unlike the stalling in Gaza during Herzi’s and Gallant’s time, this time it’s a different opera. A war as war should truly look—sophisticated, planned, with all necessary tools, and backed from every direction.
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There’s a feeling that suddenly European and Arab mediators are coming out with offers for a ceasefire in exchange for X number of hostages.
It’s hard to predict exactly how this will end, but from this act alone, we’ll probably gain a few more hostages back. After the gates of hell open, you’re ready to strip yourself of everything just to get them to close.
Shut out the eu completely
Thank G-d the time has come for Israel to go in and finish the job. Hamas are Amalek and cannot be allowed to continue their murderous regime. And at last some of the MSM are giving us a truer picture of Gaza and the way that Hamas is deeply embedded in the civilian population.
Given that the Gaza War has returned the population to being refugees in camp conditions, Israel should consider sorting out all the families named Masri or Misri alias Egyotian, and put them across the Egyptian frontier first.