IF THE JERUSALEM (nee “Palestine”) POST IS CORRECT then Israelis need to consider treason in high places.
ACCORDING TO THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE POST, the IDF struck
SOMEONE NEEDS TO ASK
If Israel — IDF commanders and their political masters — KNEW of these sites before Hamas once again broke cease-fire agreements, WHY didn’t Israel “eliminate” the targets before Israeli civilians and soldiers were endangered?
I will NOT accept as a satisfactory answer “Because of worldwide public opinion” or “Because the UN would criticize Israel” — the world and the UN do that anyway even when Israelis are murdered by terrorists.
One word comes to mind.
TREASON
Treason at government level. Treason at IDF command level.
This lack of pre-emptive strikes is as treasonous as Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s allowing the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, despite ample evidence that the Japanese were planning the attack.
- 2403 people — military and civilian — perished on the “Day that will live in infamy” (albeit all but forgotten by the current generation of Americans, already forgetting the 2,977 innocent Americans murdered by 19 Islamists on 9-11-2001).1
Fortunately for Israel, if not for its citizens, the attacks came only from Gaza; unlike the Yom Kippor attacks from multiple Muslim-dominated states.
However, akin to Yom Kippor, the Muslims of Hamas, the PLO, and PIJ opened their attack on the Jewish Shabat (Saturday). Unlike Kippor, incoming missiles loudly alerted the IDF so any surprise was short lived. Had the highly touted Israeli intelligence been awake, perhaps the attacks could have been stopped after the first series of missile launches.
It seems obvious to this scrivener that both government and military intelligence knew where the Hamas-PLO-PIJ targets were located; it is not reasonable to believe the IDF “discovered” the targets after the missiles began falling.
Israel just had an election and, basically, returned the same people who served in the previous governments.
Perhaps it is time for Likud, once a party of strong people, to rethink its current philosophy. Likud no longer is the party of Began and (David) Levy, men of decision and action. The current leader changes his direction more often than the wind and, in doing so, gives Israel’s enemies — both political (UN, leftists inside and outside Israel) and military (Hamas, PLO, PIJ, et al) — confidence to attack with impunity.
Israel does strike back, but at what cost? Loss of civilian lives and property. Loss of IDF lives.
Israel still cannot recover soldiers lost in previous battles.
Israel has reverted back to the days of Labor governments when Israel repeatedly was attacked by multiple enemies that, although it managed to prevail, always paid a high price.
GAZA, A UNIQUE PROBLEM
Both the IDF and the Egyptian military could go into Gaza and crush Hamas et al.
Thousand’s of civilians would be killed — “collateral damage.” That is unfortunate, but it is the price of war.
The real problem of Gaza is “Who is willing to control Gaza until it can establish a government that is willing to have peaceful relations with both Egypt and Israel?"
Neither country wants so take over Gaza, yet sans control by one, or both, countries, Gaza will slip back into the hands of despots and flunkies of Iran.
Gaza once had a thriving, growing economy. When Ariel Sharon kicked the Israelis out of Gaza, the local Muslims promptly destroyed the infrastructure, including profitable hot houses, and sent the strip’s economy into decline. It’s on-going battles with Israel, and to a lesser extant, Egypt, allowed Hamas to oust the PLO, itself never a valid peace partner, and to take a more aggressive stand against the one country that could, had it been allowed, have helped Gaza return to a reasonable economy.
- There are those who will argue that forcing Jews out of Gaza was Sharon’s second major mistake; the first being his “incursion” into Lebanon.
One final thought: It is almost noon on Sunday May 5th, 2019.
Aside from a few Israeli on-line “news” outlets, I have heard nothing — zero, nada — about the attacks on Israel civilians or missiles falling on Israeli communities. More interesting, I have heard very little about Israel’s retaliation against Hamas & friends. A mother and her baby were killed, but by what and by whom is questionable. For Hamas & friends, they are just (a) “collateral damage” and (b) good PR.
Why is the world silent?
Does “the world” finally realize that Hamas & friends are the instigators of death and destruction?
Doubtful.
1. 9-11-2001 was not “treason,” it was territorial stupidity on the part of government agencies, notably the FBI, that refused to share information that might have prevented the disaster.
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
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