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While Israel’s performance against Hezbollah in the past several weeks has been amazing, the only solution to the problems the country is facing is to deal directly with Iran.
There is a story told in the Talmud of the passing of a great rabbinical sage. His many students tore their garments at the passing of their teacher. After the burial, the students sat to eat near a river. Naturally, they began to discuss Torah subjects. At one point, they reached a sticking point regarding the ruling in Jewish law on a certain topic. No matter how hard they tried to come to a resolution, they could not. Then, one mentioned that if their late teacher had still been alive, he would have solved their problem in a jiffy. The rabbis tore their clothes again at the realization of losing their teacher and guide.
Maybe we should rend our garments because we lack Eisenhower, Napoleon, MacArthur, Grant, or Washington. Israel had an amazing week last week against its implacable foe, Hezbollah. The exploding beepers and walkie-talkies killed minimally dozens and seriously wounded thousands. AOC and Hezbollah honcho Hassan Nasrallah bellyached that not all of the devices were necessarily in the hands or on the bodies of the terrorists. Maybe their kids were playing with it when it went boom. A recent report claims that Israel detonated each device individually and was aware if the owner was alone or with other people. Never have so many combatants been killed and seriously wounded, with so few civilians harmed in a modern urban battleground. The thinking was out of the box and out of the stratosphere. The beauty is that it was Nasrallah’s idea to move backward to beepers as he felt cell phones were too easily hacked and tracked. He has nobody to hang in downtown Beirut for being the guy who suggested beepers for the terror group. And then Israel blew up a meeting of the top Radwan commanders in Beirut, killing 16 terrorists. Since then, Israel has been pummeling Hezbollah positions on the ground, including many ready-to-fire rocket launchers. Even so, these actions will not be enough to destroy Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is facing challenges with its leadership and its methods of communication. During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the Syrians and Egyptians were communicating via landlines that Israel could not penetrate. So, a Mossad agent was sent to blow up a military cable running off the coast of Beirut. When he arrived at the spot, there were two cables, and he could not figure out which one was right. So he pushed them close together and wrapped the explosives around both. After the detonation, the Arab generals had to use radio communications that the Israelis could intercept. Also, the Lebanese lost their telephone cable for calls to Europe.
Hezbollah would very much want Israel to enter the country on the ground. They have tunnels that are far more sophisticated than those of Hamas. Also, they have a home-field advantage. Even if Israel could push Hezbollah above the Litani River, the terrorists could fire over the buffer zone and into northern Israel. They would also terrorize the soldiers in the buffer zone as they did before Israel ditched southern Lebanon under Ehud Barak. No matter how hard Israel hits Hezbollah, they can’t make it go away to the point where over 100,000 residents of the north of the country would willingly and safely return home. If Hezbollah decides to stop firing on its own, Israel will be pressured to lay off to make for “quiet.” The terror group would be given years to replenish its leadership and weapons stocks at that time.
If Napoleon were around, he might suggest to Binyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu that he needs to be like JFK. The turning point in the Cuban Missile Crisis came when the young president gave a nationally televised speech from the White House: any attack from Cuba would be treated as a direct attack from the USSR, with a full retaliatory response against it. Kruschev got the missiles out, and Castro, two decades later, was still furious that he removed the weapons without even consulting the Cuban dictator. Why hasn’t Iran sent a volley of projectiles against Israel for the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran? They understand that the possible Israeli response would destroy their oil sector, their military, and their nuclear facilities. Israel has to announce that any attack from Hezbollah or the Houthis starting this Wednesday will be considered a direct attack by Tehran, and Israel’s response will be against the Islamic Republic. There can be no quieting of Hezbollah or the Houthis without Tehran being taken out of the equation. It is a unique time when these terror organizations have only one supplier: Iran. In the past, many Arab potentates would have also been providing weapons, but times have changed. If Israel can incapacitate Iran and/or help its people get rid of its dictatorial leadership, then the client terror groups will be left high and dry. However much Ireland and other European states hate Israel, they will keep their hatred to the UN and not provide weapons in the place of the mullahs.
And while we are bringing back dead generals, I would imagine that Ike would ask Bibi why he is feeding his enemies in Gaza. Eisenhower was a genius of logistics and for this reason was catapulted over dozens of other high-ranking officers to be given the command of the landings in Normandy. Israel is still feeding the Gaza Strip, and as Abu Ali Express has pointed out on Telegram, Hamas’ grabbing of the aid trucks is one of the most potent levers of power that they hold over Gazans. Even with most of their leaders killed, the Egyptian border cut off, and much of the Strip looking like a set from Death Wish, Hamas is still firmly in control Stop the aid and let an internal revolt end Hamas from within. If the West gets fussy about no food going into Gaza, then Israel must demand release of abductees for food trucks: one hostage a day for continued flow of food.
Nasrallah’s move to low-tech has precedence in the region. In 2007, Israel saw satellite images of a Syrian nuclear reactor approaching completion. They were in shock as they knew nothing about the program. With Ehud Olmert wanting to bomb the site, George W. Bush demanded evidence. Israeli commandos took samples of earth from around the building, and it contained low levels of radioactive elements. Israel bombed the site, and one knew that it had hit pay dirt when the first country to denounce the attack was North Korea: they were the ones building the reactor based on their own designs. The Israelis missed the program because Bashar Assad decreed that all communication on the program be on paper and with trusted delivery people. There were no electronic communications on the subject. Hamas did something similar when they broadcast to channels that they knew that the Israelis monitored, that life was wonderful in the Strip, and that there was no need for any violence against Israel. And on 10/7, Israel paid the price for believing them.
Israel will have to deal with Iran if it wants to quiet the multiple fronts of Lebanon, Yemen, Gaza, and even Iraq. When the sugar daddy can no longer supply money and weapons, then Israel can destroy these groups for good.
That’s the right thing to do in stopping extreme Religious bigotries hijacking government machinery to propagate militant/terrorism in religious faith politics.
There’ lets take aim at their despot leaders and not the Peoples a neat little song which gose BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN we need to take out their terrorists supporting Leaders like Israel’s g doing
Israel is going to destroy Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, using Nukes if necessary
I have noticed regarding the history of Israel that facts that change everything are never said.The first partition plan was the Peel Commission one of 1937. Did you know the report was for the deportation,ethnic cleansing of all the Arabs of Galilee,in what is now northern Israel.
225,000 Palestinians to be thrown out by force.In a region where almost all the land was owned by them. In 1937 there were 1.1 million Palestinians.So 225,000 is 20% of the population.Ben Gurion,leader of the Jews in Palestine said yes. The report even said it would be like the Turkish-Greek deportations of 1923.By force. Rightfully the Arabs said no.
The Arabs accepted the UN Partition Plan of 1947 two years later in 1949.In the Lausanne Agreement of May 12,1949.Signed by Israel,Egypt,Syria,Jordan,Lebanon. Signed.By it a Jewish state was accepted and Israel agreed to take back the 250,000 Palestinians who had fled. Not the 750,000 who had fled in total. Only those who had fled from the territory assigned to it in 1947. Shortly after, Ben Gurion rejected it. He rejected peace.
Not only a real Jew Hater, but a longwinded verbose moronic Jew Hater.
Do you really think you are going to change minds with these silly historical lessons?
I am for a two state solution.That means a Jewish state.Is that being a Jew-hater? Iran,Russia,Hezbollah are for it also.The war is a war of attrition,like in Ukraine.
Wearing down the enemy by a thousand cuts. Economic war more than military.To collapse the Israeli economy and so force Israel to accept the independence of the West Bank and Gaza.
In July 2024 Israel’s parliament passed a resolution rejecting a two-state solution and declaring the establishment of a Palestinian state “an existential danger to the state of Israel”.
The Knesset motion, which has no legal weight, was passed with 68 votes in favour and nine against.
The move rejected the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, even as part of a peace agreement.
Already 550,000 Israeli Jews have fled the country,joining 1 million Israeli Jews who live outside.About 900,000 Israelis have dual citizenship,of which 300,000 are American Jews with a double nationality.
Putin himself is for a two state solution.He uses his influence to restrain Iran.Today thousands of Russian experts are managing the best air defense system which they have installed in Iran. For defense.Part of a military alliance between Iran and Russia. Putin,they say,has told Israel that if it tries to attack Iran with a nuclear bomb, then Russia will attack Israel. Putin doesn’t want an economic collapse of the world.
Let Egypt give a parcel of land for the Palestinians. There is the 2 state solution. Won’t happen because they hate the Palestinians/Hamas.
What you are proposing is ethnic cleansing.It is a war crime according to the Geneva Convention of 1949.
Today Israel began a limited attack by its soldiers into Lebanese territory.It is a face saving gesture. To enter, destroy something,retire, call it a victory.
Hezbollah has 140,000 missiles. Do you think it can’t destroy invading Israeli soldiers in vehicles?
The invasion is for the internal Israeli public.Netanyahu knows Hezbollah can easily kill all those soldiers. Hezbollah uses DECOYS. Israel says it has destroyed such and such a military target. Destroyed a decoy of no military value. I believe that is what the Israeli army will destroy,decoys. Leave, call it a victory.
Then Hezbollah,Iran,Russia,China will take their case to the UN.For a ceasefire. To de-escalate. To prevent a wide war that would destroy the world economy.
A wide war that would make crazy Netanyahu use the Samson Option. Destroy themselves and the region since they can’t win,using nuclear bombs. Samson in the Bible killed himself in Gaza but also killed 3,000 Philistines.
Two-State Solution: euphemisms for “annihilation of the Jewish People and the State of Israel.”
Your two state solution is really a Final Solution. What makes you think the Fakestinians will actually stop attacking Israel and Killing Jews
Jew Haters only get more stupid with time.
This is in gross error. For nearly a century, when the Arabs had the land, it became barren, No one there. Mark Twain and one of Queen Victoria’s men both reported that and yearned for the day the Jews would return and bring the land back to fruition which they have done. Ask Bibi. He ran this down for us the other day in a simple speech. We need to be reminded of accurate history.
In Israel the Palestinians have citizenship but there is a case of major discrimination against them by the Israeli system. There are 2 million in Israel.There is a city called the ”Arab capital of Israel”.
It is in northern Israel.In the region called Galilee.It is the city of Nazareth ( 78,000).In reality there are two Nazareths,an Arab one (30% Christian) and a Jewish one. Totally separated.
The Jewish Nazareth is some distance away.The 78,000 figure is for the Arab Nazareth.Since becoming part of Israel Arab Nazareth has tripled in population.Three times bigger.Yet the Israeli government has always refused to allow the inhabitants to buy land next to the city to expand.The city is congested. However the inhabitants of Jewish Nazareth are allowed to buy extra land and it has tripled in size. Total discrimination.
Maybe you should go to Israel and teach them “what fer”. I’m sure Netanyahu will sit right down with you and listen to what you have to say.
What’s next, military advice for Gaza and southern Lebanon?
Tell the Arabs to move to Egypt. Islam has no standing in Judaism.
All that matters is the truth.Ben Gurion,founder of Israel,decided,in the 1960s to academically show to the world this: that in the 1948-1949 war there was a general order of evacuation by the highest Arab leaders,military and civil. That they had told the Arabs of Palestine to leave for a few days.What happened?
Ben Gurion charged a director of the Shiloh Institute,part of Hebrew University to publish a study proving it.His name was Rony Gabbay. A Jew from Iraq,spoke Arabic. Expert on the Middle East.He did it.Later,very old he said it was a lie he told.False history. In a long article published in 2013 by Haaretz journal.
Repetition.Ben Gurion thought the study by Gabbay was not convincing enough.He charged another Jewish expert on the Middle East to do it.One of the best experts.His name was Moshe Maoz. He did it. Later in life he also admitted his study was false. He regretted it.
You couldn’t find “truth” with two hands and a flashlight.
How does Netanyahu mean the RED ARROW on his map of “THE BLESSING”?
I CAN ONLY THINK OF THE NUCLEAR BOMBS AT BOTH ENDS: ISRAEL & PAKISTAN:
THE MAIN THREAT THAT FORCES IRAN INTO PERMANENT DEFENSE!
HERE WE GO AGAIN… BREAKING NEWS…. IRAN SHOOTING MISSILES AT ISRAEL!
Why T-F has Iran been setting fires around the world since 1979 and all the World does is send the firemen to put out the fires…. INSTEAD OF GETTING RID OF THE ARSONIST!
Now you have Americans screaming “From the River to the Sea!” Speeches on campuses are blaming Israel and are attacking Jewish students with little to no penalties on the attackers even breaking many Code of Conduct Rules and even getting away with HATE CRIMES!
MASSIVE PLANNED PROTESTS FOR OCTOBER 7TH AND ARSON AND ATTACKS WILL TAKE PLACE! TO THEM… THEY ARE THINKING IT’S THEIR PATRIOTIC DUTY WITH SUPPORT FROM DEMOCRATS! (CAPS IS ME SCREAMING!)
NETANYAHU’S UN speech, and a live on yesterday, pleaded to the Iranian people that Israel was not against them… “THE PERSIANS.” THIS IS A SIGNAL THAT A MAJOR ATTACK ON IRAN IS ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE! He also said, “No part of Iran is beyond our reach! If you attack us… WE WILL ATTACK YOU!”
TIME TO RID THE WORLD OF THE MULLAH’S GIVING WAY TO THE PEOPLE OF IRAN!