Kedar: Only the weak, sue for peace

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1. Clearly, North Vietnam also used this strategy very effectively.

   “Here Come Da Judge”. PIgmeat Markham. 1968.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRS62nccwmw

2. @ Sebastien Zorn:
   Quatar is engaged in (2) right now.

   BDS is an example of (3).

   (1) is every “peace” initiative requiring Israel to make incremental concessions anybody tries to ram down Israel’s throat.

   And then the endless protestations that from TSS advocates that they support Israel as the great ally it is remind me of this classic joke which is explicitly forbidden in the Torah, I might add, it’s a biggie and one I agree with on the merits (you know if you look at the rules concerning animals, nearly all of them, clearly are about compassion and avoiding unnecessary cruelty.).:

   “Farmer Jones got out of his car and while heading for his friend’s door, noticed a pig with a wooden leg. His curiosity roused, he asked, “Fred, how’d that pig get him a wooden leg?”

   “Well, Michael, that’s a mighty special pig! A while back a wild boar attacked me while I was walking in the woods. That pig there came a runnin’, went after that boar and chased him away. Saved my life!”

   “And the boar tore up his leg?”

   “No he was fine after that. But a bit later we had that fire. Started in the shed up against the barn. Well, that ole pig started squealin’ like he was stuck, woke us up, and ‘fore we got out here, the darn thing had herded the other animals out of the barn and saved ’em all!”

   “So that’s when he hurt his leg, huh, Fred?”

   “No, Michael. He was a might winded, though. When my tractor hit a rock and rolled down the hill into the pond I was knocked clean out. When I came to, that pig had dove into the pond and dragged me out ‘fore I drownded. Sure did save my life.”

   “And that was when he hurt his leg?”

   “Oh no, he was fine. Cleaned him up, too.”

   “OK, Fred. So just tell me. How did he get the wooden leg?”

   “Well”, the farmer tells him, “A pig like that, you don’t want to eat all at once!”

3. There’s that but there’s also this and its enduring legacy should not be underestimated. My italics {SZ}:

   beginning of:

   “Sadat’s Strategy; History in the Making” by Professor Paul Eidelberg. Israel. 1979.

   “Chapter 1:
   THE MODEL FOR CONQUEST
   The preponderance of evidence indicates that Anwar el-Sadat, the
   President of Egypt, is engaged in a plan to destroy the state of Israel, and
   that he has patterned his method after the Nazi model of conquest. The
   model is a war-and-peace strategy synchronized to facilitate the eventual
   destruction of the enemy. It is suitable for use by dictators against
   democracies, that is, against regimes based on the primacy of public
   opinion—what Hitler called “the mightiest factor of our time.” Sadat, who
   taught himself German while imprisoned by the British during World War
   II for his pro-Nazi activities, has studied Hitler’s diplomatic tactics and
   methods of psychological warfare. He is applying them with cunning and
   effectiveness in his war against Israel.
   The strategy has three interrelated objectives, the achievement of
   which depends very largely on the oratorical ability of the dictator to:
   1) Shift the responsibility for war onto the enemy (while posing as the
   apostle of peace).
   2) Divide and demoralize the enemy (by courting opposition party
   leaders and peace movements in the enemy’s country).
   3) Alienate the enemy from his friends or allies (by raising the
   spectre of war and economic catastrophe).
   These three objectives may be pursued simultaneously by means of
   semantic subversion, and most effectively by using the language of
   democracy against democracy…”

   Read the rest here:

   https://afsi.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SadatsStrategy_Eidelberg1.pdf

   It just occurred to me that “using the language of democracy against democracy” is also a Communist tactic, the one that Gramsci, who is a contemporary of Hitler, his notebooks were written in the 20s in Mussolini’s dungeons, made primary.