by Gerald A. Honigman
Donald Trump speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. on February 10, 2011. Photo by Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia
I recently received the fourth of roughly ten text messages daily allegedly from you or someone on your team soliciting me for funds under the guise of answering some questions or such which you also include. I happen to be a NPA Independent.
This latest text asked me to help you get to Heaven. I’m flattered, but no comment…
Right afterwards, I received notification that you are pressuring Israel, once again, to act in ways extremely detrimental to its own existential security interests.
This latest exercise in Jew arm twisting by the American leader who keeps insisting that, short of the Messiah (yourself ?), he’s the best friend Jews and the tiny, embattled, resurrected, Jew of the Nations has ever had is unbelievable…
Meanwhile, Hamas is laughing at your threats, is already producing more rockets and other weapons, is being resupplied, and because you pulled the rug out of Israel’s hard won momentum, which could have prevented Hamas from reasserting its power and killing all Arabs who challenge its rule, the war will extend far beyond what would have happened had Israel actually been allowed to seek victory instead of being forced into what Arabs see as merely a hudna ceasefire, which stalls for time and allows them to fight once again in the future…
Before I unveil the link to this surreal treatment of the best ally America probably has anywhere, let me remind you about a similar episode in Middle Eastern history. I’ve done extensive doctoral work in both Middle Eastern and National Security Policy Studies.
After being viciously attacked on the holiest day on the Hebrew calendar, Yom Kippur October 1973, and coming close to total annihilation, a few brilliant Israeli generals managed to turn the tide with the
help of a an amazing friend, Secretary of State General Alexander Haig.
Earlier. Secretary of State Henry Machiavelli von Bismarck purposely withheld resupply of Israel, while the Soviets were fully rearming Syria and Egypt, because he wanted to make Israel bleed more to be more pliable in future negotiations…Not only that, but it turns out that President Nixon and Kissinger knew of the combined Arab attack but refused to allert Israel about it until the very last moment……WHY?
With G_d’s help, and General Haig’s decisive actions, Israel survived. Hamas timed its October 7, 2023 almost fifty years to the day on another sacred Jewish Holy Day, Simchat Torah.
Tank Commander, General Ariel (Arik), Sharon, crossed into Egypt over the Suez Canal, and wound up encircling the entire Egyptian Third Army.
After losing some three thousand IDF troops (equivalent to about 140,000 American soldiers) and huge quantities of tanks, jet fighters, and so forth, victory was at hand—or so it would seem.
The insidious Kissinger struck again and then forced Israel to forfeit victory to allow the resupply of the very enemies who were crying “itbach al-yahud”—slaughter the Jews—in their battle cries.
Many, if not most, of the Egyptian soldiers were closely affiliated or enamored with Hamas’s big brother, the Muslim Brotherhood. There’s no doubt what Israel’s Jews would have suffered had the circumstances been reversed.
Let’s now fast forward to the recent news I received right after your own text message to me, or at least someone sending these in your name. See below:
“The US and others are pressuring Israel to release Hamas fighters…”
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Notice any resemblance between what you’re expecting Israel to do now, after you also already forced it to halt its hard won momentum against a barbaric enemy dedicated to its total annihilation and butchery of all Jews anywhere, and what Kissinger shamefully did in 1973?
You’re forcing Israel to allow Arab butchers which it finally got trapped in tunnels to go free to be able to slaughter Jewish innocents yet again in exchange for dead Jewish bodies which were already supposed to be returned.
Is this what you consider to be a good “deal?”
Are your real estate interests with your Qatari and other autocratic Arab oil potentate buddies worth what you’ve been repeatedly doing to Israel over the past several months, including forcing Prime Minister Netanyahu to embarrassingly eat crow before millions of people watching on television because he did in Qatar, targeting the Hamas masterminds of October 7th butchery, what we did in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq after 9/11 going after Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida? Did we ask anyone for permission?
Would any other sane country agree to what you’re expecting Israel to do?
I have written several widely circulated articles praising your accomplishments, so I’m not an “anti-Trumper”…
and…
But, again, how can you explain what you’re now expecting a 9-15 mile wide Israel to do after suffering the equivalent of 40,000 American civilians slaughtered and another 40,000 IDF soldiers killed as well?
Is this a way to treat an ally?
In responding to “The Answer To “Itbach al-Yahud” Is Not Ceasefire But Victory…”,
the article didn’t exactly mention that the Egyptians and the Syrians were defeated militarly in the Yom Kipur war of 1973, but that was the case. However, they did not get to pay for their crimes…
Responding to “Thinking ‘Palestine’”, it would be wonderful if Jews all over the world that were denied their property and often their lives could be compensated for their losses, but don’t hold your breath. On the other hand, if the Arabs were finally denied their allocated property in the Arabian Peninsula, the world movement to disinherit the Jews might die down a little. On the other hand, they may try to take revenge for the Arab losses, should that ever occur.
Just think: if the Iranians were to test a nuclear headed rocket and it landed on Saudi Arabia, who would they all blame?
Responding to “Reversing Kissinger, Realpolitik, and Henry Machiavelli von Bismarck”, Henry (kissing her when he met Golda Meir) Kissinger needs some catholic treatment. He must be excommunicated post hum because not even the devil wants him. He may have been a useful tool for somebody but he was no friend of his own people.
Responding to “By The Rivers Of Babylon…President Trump’s New Jerusalem Policy”, we know-it-all Jews should never forget that we were so clever back then in Medina, that we had to teach Mohammed that his roots are from Abraham too, although it was a bastard son of Hagar, his wife’s servant.
Remember that the Romans had to rename Judea to “Syria Palaestina” in order to try to help people forget that the Jews ever lived there. That must be the basis for the Pope’s claim to at least part of Jerusalem. Now that everyone is allowed access to the Temple Mount, at least some of the time as far as Jews are concerned, everybody wants to divide it up again and ensure that Jews, once more, have no access to their holiest place on earth. SHAME ON THEM!!
Actually, if memory serves well, he did acknowledge that Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel. Let’s hope that he is not encouraged by yet another golden Boeing to think otherwise.
Ah… the Romans, the Romans.
Did everything they could (and still do) to demonize the Jews. This includes setting up the Roman Catholic church with a view to superseding the Old Testament of the Jews (whom the Romans hated because they were such a nuisance when it came to fighting back).
Most Roman Catholics had no idea the Jesus was a Jew, because that was part of the plan…
Nonetheless, the real answer is for Israel to do what it must do, irrespective of other peoples’ orders.
The question: What would Trump do if Israel now went ahead for its own lasting protection? I submit that he would do nothing except get angry. No US “boots on the ground”. And Israel would have somewhat compensated for all of its dead civilians and brave soldiers.
I’m not at all anti-Trump, but I have no fear of him getting angry. It’s part of life.
Well said… Very well said…
Responding to “President Trump: Your Thinking Out Of The Box Has Been Good…Now Make it Great”, looking towards the Kurds sounds wonderful but would it work? Would the Turks not immediately attack them and try to absorb this new neighbor? My guess is that they would run a false flag to get NATO to help them reabsorb the Kurds, including , as good friends and neighbors, those regions of Syria, Iraq and Iran that would want to be part of Kurdistan too. Just think of all the oil they could get control of for a while till President Putin takes over.
Actually, President Trump should be considering moving Incirlik and Al Udeid Air Base to the Kurdish region as soon as feasible, meaning today. Sure, some infrastructure is needed but Trump is an expert.
And while we’re on the subject, would the friendship with Israel improve or suffer from these dramatic changes?
BTW, for those who missed the references, these articles were linked in the article above.