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In the six months since terrorist supporters successfully branded their campaign to save the Hamas terrorist group as a ‘ceasefire’, the term was embraced by state governments, the Biden-Harris administration and now a growing number of American Jewish liberal groups.
Even formerly pro-Israel figures and organizations are trying to sell the idea of saving Hamas and leaving it in control of Gaza as the right thing to do and even a ‘victory’ for Israel.
Depicting an Israeli surrender to Hamas in which the Jewish State retreats from Gaza, trades thousands of terrorists for perhaps a dozen hostages, and billions in international aid pour into the coffers of Hamas while Yahya Sinwar holds a parade as a ‘victory’ takes a lot of chutzpah.
Chutzpah and utterly delusional thinking are sadly not lacking.
Some in Israel are willing to trade anything, including national survival, in exchange for the slim chance of getting some hostages back. American liberal Jewish organizations are focused on electing Kamala Harris and are willing to trade Israel for Dearborn, Michigan’s votes to do it. And the same breed of establishment hacks in Israel responsible for Oct 7 are selling the same security snake oil and making the same false promises that they have for the last 30 years.
Writing in Foreign Affairs magazine, retired Israeli Gen. Amos Yadlin, a Labor Party figure who had backed the Iran Deal, and Graham Allison, a Clinton defense official, claimed that, “A Cease-Fire Deal Now Would Be a Victory for Israel”. Yadlin and Allison blamed Netanyahu for failing to accept “a historic strategic victory for Israel” by surrendering to Hamas.
According to the two men, all of “Israel’s 13 previous prime ministers” would have also surrendered to Hamas and Israel’s negotiating team “would have accepted the terms of any of the deals that have emerged from the last three rounds of negotiations.” Why even quibble?
“At this point, what more is Netanyahu waiting for?” Yadlin and Allison demanded, before falsely claiming that the only reason there’s no deal is Netanyahu’s political ambitions.
What is Netanyahu waiting for? The same thing that FDR was waiting for in 1943.
“No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory,” Roosevelt declared after Pearl Harbor.
“Our terms to Italy are still the same as our terms to Germany and Japan – unconditional surrender,” FDR then vowed in 1943. “We have taken the initiative, and we’re not going to let go of it. We shall not settle for less than total victory.”
The D.C. political establishment and chunks of the Israeli one mock the idea of “total victory”.
Echoing the familiar Foggy Bottom meme, the op-ed dismisses that as “an elusive ‘total victory’. But that’s the thing about victory, it’s hard to come by, yet there’s nothing ambiguous about it. Actual victory, not a defeat dressed up in victory drag, is what actually ends wars and secures peace.
The proposal that Israel declare a worthless “mission accomplished” victory and surrender to Hamas is more of the same “mowing the lawn” philosophy that led to Oct 7. Hamas will regroup, rebuild and rearm, and attack again under the shield of whatever worthless deal is signed.
But it’s even worse than that.
Hamas is not looking to make a deal. An entire network of D.C. and Israeli officials, media and activists have taken to lying about it. Instead, Hamas is using the hostages as leverage to tear apart Israel and destroy its will to fight. The leftists rioting in Tel Aviv demanding a deal, any deal, and the op-ed, are all examples that show it’s working. Key security establishment figures like Yadlin have taken to foreign media to argue that the problem is Israel, not Hamas.
Just like Arafat, Hamas has scuttled every deal while directing the blame at Israel. Murdered hostages and selectively released videos are strategically calculated to further divide Israel.
The prospect of a deal has become the best weapon wielded by Hamas,.its Qatari and Iranian backers, and its political allies from D.C. to Dearborn. The reality of any deal is that Hamas is not offering to free all the hostages. All it will propose is the release of some hostages in exchange for thousands of Hamas terrorists, including the perpetrators of Oct 7, and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, and then extended negotiations that will twist the knife deeper.
Hamas will celebrate its victory, reclaim control over Gaza, and retain many of the hostages, while Israeli protesters clash with the government demanding complete appeasement in the hopes that Hamas will release the remaining hostages. That’s what a deal with Hamas means.
After turning the Democrat leadership of Michigan, California and Illinois into its personal lobby, followed by the media and the D.C. political class, Hamas has also captured a chunk of the Israeli and American Jewish liberal political establishment which now use its talking points.
Israeli security types offer the same worthless assurances that they did during the Oslo accords (“if a Palestinian autonomous territory engages in terror, the accords give us the right to shut it down”), the withdrawal from Lebanon (“we can go back in anytime”), the destruction of the Jewish communities from Gaza (“this way we’ll able to strike wherever we want to”) and recognizing Hamas autonomy over Gaza (“we have Iron Dome and we’ll build a wall.)
The promises that Israel will be able to go into Gaza once it withdraws after the first stage of a deal are agreed on are equally worthless. Once a deal is underway, it becomes a bear trap that Israel will not be able to escape until the next Hamas attack is underway. Just like Oct 7.
The same D.C. security assurances did not allow Israel to dismantle Arafat’s terror statelet, did not allow Israel to defeat Hamas on any previous rounds, will not allow Israel to go back into Gaza in full force, only an occasional airstrike that takes it back to the same ‘mowing the lawn’ strategy as before Oct 7. Once Israel withdraws from Gaza, there will be no reason not to allow in the billions in foreign aid that will rearm and enrich Hamas even more than before Oct 7.
The remaining hostages will become leverage and may never be released. And without Israeli operational control over Gaza, the odds of finding and rescuing them will drop catastrophically.
Hamas will emerge from Oct 7 victorious. It will have demonstrated that it could carry out a devastating attack, survive a year of fighting, and reclaim control over Gaza. It will win the acclaim of the Arab Muslim colonists in Gaza and the West Bank, and of the Muslim world. Hamas will have demonstrated that just like the Taliban and Al Qaeda in Iraq, it could wear down and defeat a non-Muslim power, and be on a pathway to creating an Islamic state.
And Israel will emerge from Oct 7 defeated. There will be bodies to bury and crushed morale after the recognition that the Islamic terrorists had accomplished their goals and we did not. Israel will be a divided country in the throes of a circular firing squad as Hamas rejoices. Soldiers will ask themselves why their friends and family members died for no reason.
As the election continues, Israel has a window of opportunity to finish off Hamas. Once the election is done, and especially if Kamala wins, Israel will face a partial arms embargo. The new administration will hold out unilateral recognition of a ‘Palestinian state’ that will include Hamas as leverage. By then, Iran may have a nuclear weapon, and Israel will have more worthless security assurances from D.C. which will be limited to providing purely defensive weapons.
And Israel will be in the worst position it has been in since before the Six Day War.
The Iranian coalition is mounting its campaign to shield the race to a nuclear bomb. Israel has few good options to stop the bomb, resettle the north and destroy Hamas, but it has one very bad option and that is a deal with Islamic terrorists.
American Jews and Israelis are being lied to by a corrupt and feckless establishment that is willing to make any promise in exchange for an end to the war. Those promises are all false. They lied when they claimed that previous deals with the terrorists came with U.S. security guarantees and assurances that would allow Israel to deal with them at any time. They’re lying now when they promise that Israel will be allowed to go back into Gaza and attack Hezbollah.
And most of all the same people who did not see Oct 7 coming are lying when they claim that it can never happen again. It can and will until Islamic terrorist groups are driven out of Israel.
Returning to the same twilight zone of deterrence, occasional air strikes, a week or two of fighting after a major attack followed by another ceasefire, is how things got so bad.
Oct 7 showed that Hamas had a bigger vision. Israel’s establishment still does not.
Hamas is fighting to destroy Israel, and kill or drive out all the Jews. What is Israel fighting for?
A few security guarantees, temporary deterrence, a negotiated release of hostages, and then business as usual? If Israel is fighting for business as usual, then it’s setting the stage for the next Oct 7. And that attack will, like all the previous ones, will be worse and more devastating..
Netanyahu’s call for total victory is the closest thing to a vision for something more than management or appeasement any Israeli prime minister has articulated in a generation.
The alternative to total victory is defeat. A deal will mean Israel’s moral and strategic defeat. It will advance the Hamas vision of the end of Israel much closer. And those advocating for a deal at any cost, dividing and undermining Israel in a time of war, are bringing on Israel’s destruction.
Unfortunately this is just the established pattern of behavior when Israel is on the verge of winning. It began when the USSR made Israeli victory unacceptable and has continued ever since most likely due to the likely unfounded fears of universal Shiite uprisings … along with the unnumbered useful idiots.
It is unconscionable for Israel to have a deal with Hamas in which only some
of the hostages are released. Israel should repeatedly tell the world that the
only deal possible is one in which all the hostages are released.
Then again, even if that happened (unlikely with all the ‘establishment hacks’
in Israel and abroad) and with the release of thousands of terrorists – Hamas
could still regroup and receive billions in aid to continue attempts to annihilate
Israel.
I wouldn’t want to be in the agonizing position of either a hostage or their loved
ones. But at least if Israel relentlessly insists on release of all hostages – it will
have tried to get them out and been fair to all of them. And meanwhile, Israel
could continue its mission to obliterate Hamas.
So why won’t Hamas ever release all the hostages? Because then with the
support of the communist lefty international media and those establishment
hacks – it can keep hammering away at the supposed genocide against Gaza
being perpetrated by Israel. The whole goal of this is Israel’s destruction alright –
only not just by Hamas.
“It is unconscionable for Israel to have a deal with Hamas.” Period.
Beware of Ham-A** Bearing Gifts
Another great article from Daniel.
God’s view on Israel: “I will bless those who bless you (Israel and the Jews), and I will curse him who curses you” – Genesis 12:3
VP Harris wants a two State solution after the war is over – this will greatly harm Israel. Therefore, if we don’t want God to curse America, we have to keep Harris out of the white house on Nov. 5.
Those calling for a “two state solution” should be educated that Gaza met the definition of a state, an area surrounded by a distinct border with its own (elected) government.
ceasefire = alternate (political correctness) spelling for “ISRAEL SURRENDER”
Then the hamASS arab terrorists regroup and rearm to perpetrate an even more heinous Oct 7 type terrorist attack.
The reason Israel had to fight this war is because they surrendered (ceasefire) and didn’t finish the job last time.
The reason Israel had to fight the last war is because they surrendered (ceasefire) the previous time.
The reason Israel had to fight the previous war is because they surrendered (ceasefire) the time before that.
Keep on repeating the above line – you get the idea.
This was all made possible by the oslo surrender about 30 years ago.
Blockade and starvation have been the main and most effective ways of winning wars all through military history. The left has cleverly inserted bans on that into international law. So now wars never end.
Daniel as an American, Israel, Jew who fought and survived in 2 wars in the IDF it is past the time to turn Gaza, and southern Lebanon into parking lots, and help the youth of Iran overthrow the Ayatollahs. How many times can a people be given a chance for a peace and reject it. Oct. 7th 2023 was the Arab answer to peace and Israeli’s and Jews worldwide had better learn that lesson.
Some Arabs are Jews… other Arabs are Christians…
These Fake Palestinians are satanic worshiping muslims who worship a false god… commanded to kill all non-muslims…
Call them for what they are… MUSLIMS…
Mama don’t allow no Beema seat round heya.
Mama don’t allow no Beema seat round heya.
Ah don care what mama don’t allow
Gonna play mah Beema seat anyhow.
Mama don’t allow no Beema seat round heya.
Beema Bop a looma she’s mah baby
Beema Bop a looma I don’t mean maybe
Beema Bop a looma she’s mah baby,
Beema Bop a looma she’s mah baby
Mah baby now, mah baby now, mah baby now!
It’s got a great beat and you can dance to it.
If your knickers are still in a wad, just sing the lyrics.
So… the One True Living God of Abraham , Isaac & Jacob is a joke to you…
You need your head examined…
There is no peace with Islam. Period.
All that’s missing in the article pic is these old men yelling “Sig Heil”
I’ve been wring almost from the beginning that these negotiations as structured were fatally flawed. The US and others, starting on October 7, were calling for restraint and a ceasefire, never mind there was a ceasefire in place on October 6 that Hamas had violated. And since Hamas and Israel could not discuss the other’s surrender directly, three “mediators” stepped into the dispute, but each with their own agenda which included a ceasefire. None of those interests included Israel defeating those who had just attacked it. Aggressor and victim were put on equal terms.
And here’s how the process worked: The three “mediators”, which include Hamas’ patron Qatar, would put a proposal on the table. The US, including Biden and Blinken, would pressure Israel to accept it. Israel, under constant pressure from the hostage families and their allies, would say yes, Then the proposal would go to Hamas, which after extensive delay, would say no. Then the mediators would come up with a proposal including more concessions by Israel, which Israel would be pressured to accept. Israel’s own negotiators, including security personnel who don’t believe in victory, would demand more “flexibility” to accept ever harsher terms. Israel would say yes. Hamas would eventually say no. Again and again. It’s why the current proposal (of Israel’s surrender) is so much worse than the terms of the interim deal of last November.
The only discussions that should have been pursued would have involved the terms of Hamas’ surrender, and the release of ALL of the hostages. But that would have violated the unspoken rule of the conflict: Israel is never allowed to win, and the Arabs are never allowed to lose.
The Camp David Accord was achieved because Sadat and Begin were able to agree to the dismay of Carter who demanded more concessions from Israel than Sadat accepted. The usual pattern of Arabs is to accept concessions which then become the new insufficient terms to start negotiations over.. If an agreement is arrived at, Arab violations persist with some denials based on those being done by a group not a party to the agreement. The surest way to get peace is victory and then that is not permanent.
Or as the great old militarty dictum has it: “If you are not winning, you are losing. “
Daniel says…
“…Israel will have more worthless security assurances from D.C. which will be limited to providing purely defensive weapons.”
So true… the islamic loving Luciferian Globalist government of America has been backstabbing Israel for decades…
It’s so sad…
THE MUSLIM MENACE IS HERE!
CAIR Objects to L.A. Proposal to Protect Synagogues from Harassment
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/16/cair-objects-to-l-a-proposal-to-protect-synagogues-from-harassment/
LOS ANGELES, California — The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is objecting to a proposal by the L.A. City Council to bar anti-Israel protesters from the entrances to synagogues.
The proposal is a response to a rise in antisemitism in the city associated with anti-Israel protests, especially several incidents in June in which pro-Palestinian activists targeted local synagogues, obstructing entrances in one case.
Convincing explanation on why anything short of a total victory over Hamas, would be a defeat for Israel.
Excellent article, Daniel.
Given the brutality of the Oct. 7th cowardly sneak attack on unarmed civilians, my expectations for surviving hostages is very low. Why is Hamas adamant about not releasing all hostages? I suspect it’s because there are few if any still living.
Hamas may believe they have overwhelming support around the world and hold the upper hand but when the truth comes out and their brutality is shown, that support will dry up. I’m convinced their evil will be exposed in the end.
An existential threat is just that and I simply cannot understand why the many traitors within the Israeli government, intelligence agencies and IDF upper management.have not been muzzled and jailed for Israel’s safety!!
The constant thundering of the left there is apt confirmation that they are a suicidal group incapable of protecting themselves, other Israelis and the nation.
These leftist malcontents in the government are daily saying things that should never be said..these are war plans to be executed without the enemy getting advance notice.
Make no mistake, the successful raid on Entebbe to rescue the hostages, most of whom were Jews, would have never been completed with the idiots in charge today!! Yoni Netanyahu, the officer in charge and the only one who died during the execution of this rescue must be horrified from the grave at this obsequious behavior!!
These are the self-righteous, virtual-signaling submissive who are telling Israelis and worldwide Jewry that they value their asinine, multicultural image over our survival.
To any still-rational person this behavior is conclusively a pathological, mental illness, and all those embracing such suicidal thinking should be confined while all rest of Israel fights to win!
The left, regardless of country, always seems to care more about their party then their country. Whether intentional or not, they are effectively traitors.
Israel needs to prepare to use the Samson Option (see Wikipedia) if Harris the Hamas Harlot is elected.
Great evaluation.