Israel Analysis
Pressure cooker
By Jim Fletcher
One theme I won’t move from is, no matter how dire Israel’s situation becomes…we’ve been down this road before.
Israel is not going to disappear.
First, the Word tells us that, and that’s unassailable. Secondly, part of the enemy’s strategy is to get inside your head. Yes, Satan has psyops.
It’s been this bad in 1948, 1967, and 1973. And that’s just what we know about.
It seems worse now because we’re living through it. Am I right? We are watching horrifying, demonic mental and emotional stress on Israelis, who are doubled-over about many hostages, not just a single soldier (Gilad Shalit).
But Israel won in 1949, 1967, and 1973. Additionally, they pushed the PLO all the way to Beirut in 1983.
What feels different this time—because it is—centers around the betrayal by former allies. I also won’t stop saying that Joe Biden is a rogue, corrupt grifter bent on destroying the righteous. He’s a monster. His constant pressure on Israel has reached breathtaking levels. As of this week, he is holding press conferences in which he simply makes up his own facts about the (unworkable) negotiations with Hamas. Benjamin Netanyahu has been forced to counter with his own statements that Biden’s remarks are not accurate. At least Netanyahu continues to say he is committed to the original war goals of the war cabinet: The complete destruction of Hamas.
The terrorists have no intention of ever releasing the hostages willingly.
I read a fascinating and infuriating report this week that the IDF planned to insert two new divisions into Rafah, but the Americans told them only one. This both slows down the offensive, and gets IDF troops killed. Of course, the third outcome is that the hostages (if alive) are continually subjected to horrors none of us will want to know about).
All this at a time when the IDF and IAF are operating throughout the Gaza Strip, because a counter-insurgency always ties down an invading army. May God avenge Israel, and judge her enemies—even the “friendly” ones—harshly.
As always, the only sane war strategy is that once spoken by Colin Powell: Bring overwhelming power to a war, so that your enemy has no real chance to win. You bring massive, unrelenting, and unmerciful power. Remember, Japan and Germany haven’t started any wars since 1941.
I was interested in a Twitter post this week by Marc Zell:
Whoa! Yoni Ben Menahem writes on Newsrael that if Israel wants to destroy Hamas, it has to eliminate its leadership not only in Gaza but all over the world. He says the Mossad has the “intelligence and the operational capacity to meet this task.” He goes on to say that this “is the moral duty of the political echelon towards the Jewish People. It is necessary to eliminate all of the leaders of the new Nazis who are responsible for the terrible massacre and the crimes against humanity committed in ‘Black October'”.
Total War. Plenty of smart people know what Israel must do, should have done last year: obliterate the enemy and don’t be nice about it. This is probably an historical engagement, in which an invaded people feed their enemies while they prosecute an existential war against them.
This was forced by moral degenerates in diplomacy and executive branches bent on hamstringing Israel’s efforts. All of this against a backdrop of a world community that simply doesn’t care that Jews were butchered on October 7. That’s simply where we are.
Not all is lost internationally. Look at another Twitter post:
The Swiss people get it: The Swiss parliament voted yesterday against a bill to recognize Palestine as an independent state. Swiss Foreign Minister: “The state of Palestine is existential damage to the free world. Now I ask the countries of the world, do you want Iran 0.2? Think before you make terrorist statements.”
Yes, Switzerland gets it. Incidentally, they were among the few countries in Europe to put a hand up to the Nazis during World War 2 and say, Not here. It’s why Switzerland wasn’t invaded. Someone stood up to the bully.
As of right now, it is not clear how the Hamas War will end. One major problem is the opening of a second front in Lebanon. Hezbollah’s uptick in rocket fire in the north virtually guarantees an Israeli invasion there sooner rather than later. One Israeli commander said recently that their capabilities are such that if they choose, Beirut will disappear. They have also publicly let Sheik Nasrallah they literally know where he is all the time and can send him to hell anytime.
So let us remember that as the pressure intensifies, God is the General. He will smash and shatter Israel’s enemies, and as we know, that includes governments that don’t value Jewish life.
The real pressure is all on the other side.
