by Gerald A. Honigman
I just read Ambassador Friedman’s comments about the proposed cease fire and temporary “deal” to bring surviving and slaughtered hostages home.
https://search.app/dfNjXDrB4vG2XNLD6
I have his wonderful book, Sledgehammer, which documents the issues and problems leading up to the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal capital, moving America’s embassy there, and forging a peace between Israel and at least some of its former Arab adversaries in the Abraham Accords.
I’m proud to say that my forever timely book, http://q4j-middle-east.com
has been adopted by at least one of the main Arab participants that I know of, the main library network of the United Arab Emirates.
I can only add what friends and I have previously been debating, that I have very serious misgivings about the existential nature of the potential threats to Israel’s security a withdrawal from Hamas’s main supply route, the Philadelphi Corridor and adjacent Rafa will pose, giving the barbaric bastards time to regroup and resupply… knowing full well that Egypt’s al-Sissi, scared of the wide popularity of Hamas’s big brother, the Muslim Brotherhood, among the Egyptian Arab Street, will lead him to continue to allow “business as usual.”
Israel categorically needs at least an 8-10 mile wide buffer that it will man and fortify seriously, in the north of Gaza. The alternative would be too costly—total annexation.
Recall that Gaza was part of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine where Jews, Arabs, and other inhabitants were free to live.
Keep in mind that long before the 7th century C.E. Arab Jihadi imperialistic, colonizing, settling, and subjugation of scores of millions of other non-Arab native peoples in those lands of conquest, Jews had over 30 centuries of history in Gaza.
Israel lost Gaza when Egypt joined a half dozen other Arab nations in attacking it in 1948.
What was lost then was regained when that same latter day Pharaoh threatened Israel’s very existence in 1967, imposing a tight naval blockade, a casus belli.
Syria, with Russian prodding, joined in, and they convinced a young King Hussein to foolishly jump on the bandwagon as well.
Nasser ordered the useless, pansy, United Nauseating Nations alleged peace keeping force out of Sinai and Gaza, and shouts of itbach al-Yahud (slaughter the Jews) were chanted daily in Cairo and elsewhere.
In 6 miraculous days, beginning on 6/5/67, it was over— at least for the time being.
Nations which viciously attack innocent neighbors have prices to pay for such repeated aggression. And that cost usually includes territory lost.
Borders routinely changed in numerous previous wars fought over reasons far less important than what a minuscule Israel continuously faced/faces vis-a-vis its assorted, rejectionist, supremacist, genocidal Arab and Iranian enemies.
How, as just one example, can Great Britain, 8,300 miles from the Falkland Islands, justify waging war to obtain them when they sit just a few hundred miles from Argentina? Great Britain had the largest empire that ever existed.
Or Russia’s acquisition of Chenya, the Crimean Peninsula, previously all the Central Asian “stans,” etc.?
American Samoa…but no Judaeans (Jews) allowed in Judaea and Samaria ? Really ….?
Bull manure…
This currently proposed deal Israel is being forced to accept by its alleged friends will only lead to many more dead Jews down the road. The prisoners being released include clones of Yaya Sinwar, and should never have been taken alive in the first place. Butchers deserve to be butchered. And left to vultures to feast upon.
Moronic Israel still doesn’t even have a death sentence for such sub-animals. And non-Hebrews think Jews are smart. A pathetic joke.
Arabs laugh at this, some even getting conjugal visits in prison.
Trump was supposed to be better than Obama and his marionettes. So far, I don’t see a rat’s hair’s difference.
I’d love to eat my words later, since I penned several widely published articles in time to help drum up support for his candidacy, and got friends and family to join myself to vote for him.
His VP’s either naive or stupid, unbelievable threat to Israel during the very week of the election (when some of us were trying to increase Jewish support for Trump’s chances) regarding its NOT going after the genocidal Islamic Republic’s nukes made me want to regurgitate and opt for another NPA Independent like myself.
But here’s one reason I chose to stick with The Donald, besides some others like the Abraham Accords, and such:
“The Rivers of Babylon—President Trump’s New Jerusalem Policy”…
Source: The Insight International
https://search.app/d3YnG6aJzen2zEzb7
I hope he doesn’t pull a Neville Chamberlain on the sole Jewish nation in existence, like Czechoslovakia had done to it supposedly for a greater world peace during World War II.
That nation’s important Sudetenland area was forced to be ceded to Nazi Germany because ethnic Germans had also moved into Czech lands.
Does ANOTHER state for Arabs, forced upon Israel in historic Judea and Samaria, in the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine, besides Jordan, which received almost 80% of the entire area in 1922, seem eerily analogous to what you just read above here?
Now let’s see what the morrow brings…I hope I’m very much mistaken.
Adding (hopefully) some weight to your method of dealing with Jew-killers: Each of the prisoners now released from the comforts of Israeli jails, would DEARLY love to be the one who kills ALL Jews. This in itself sets the scene for how to handle them before, during or after battle.
As for dancing around the US as a “good friend”. We should know better than anyone that even “good friends” can become very bad friends. In other words, it behooves Israel to make up its OWN mind and continue to do what it perceives be the best choices for dealing with both the terrorists and “the world” (AKA America). Only Israel is in a position to shut out the various usually nonsensical viewpoints about this little country, with respect to what it can and cannot do.