Peloni: Exactly!
Avi Abelow
Photo by Hudson Institute – https://www.flickr.com/photos/hudsoninstitute/30498881961/, CC BY 2.0, Wikipedia
Let me be clear: I totally stand by our people, our soldiers, and our leadership as they are defending us with strength, clarity, and a vision rooted in Jewish destiny in this war, overcoming the deep state powers in the military, legal establishment and media that have made it harder to fight this war. But today, I write this with a heavy heart, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom I’ve explained and defended many times, is making two critical mistakes that I wish he wouldn’t be making.
Mistake #1: Entertaining Another Ceasefire Deal
We are at war with a barbaric enemy that rapes, tortures, and burns Jews alive. The very idea of negotiating another ceasefire, that they use to rearm, regroup and booby trap areas previously cleared by our holy IDF soldiers, while our hostages are still held in tunnels and cages, sends the worst possible message: that our pain is negotiable. That our justice is delayed. That evil can outlast us and emotionally manipulate us, and incentivizes future kidnappings in the future.
Publicly affirming that more ceasefires for partial deals are possible doesn’t pressure Hamas. That helps Hamas. What pressures Hamas is overwhelming military force and the moral conviction that we will never stop until every last terrorist is buried or in chains. You don’t win a war for your people’s future against an evil Islamonaz*i enemy by managing it. You win it by unleashing your will to victory.
Mistake #2: Entertaining Another Arab Self-Rule in Gaza
If we’ve learned anything from Oslo, from the 2005 Gaza expulsion, from every failed two-state fantasy, and pullout, it’s that giving Arab self-rule in any part of our land is a setup for the next massacre. Now there is talk, dangerously tolerated by Netanyahu, of letting the some “moderate” Arab-led structure govern Gaza “the day after.” Have we learned nothing? This is a 1,400+ year old religious agenda to destroy us, and giving any off them Gaza, again, ensures a future of conflict with the enemy population there, whether in 1, 2, 5 or 10 years. There is no deradicalizing a 1,400 year old agenda to destroy us, with the support of the Western progressive left.
We can never allow Arab self-rule to take hold in Gaza. Ever again. The only solution that ends the war and ensures peace is for Gaza to be Jewish again, with the implementation of Trump’s emigration plan. That is the only deterrence. That is the only justice. That is the only reality.
This Isn’t About Vengeance. It’s About Survival.
Netanyahu says he’s prioritizing the return of hostages. Of course we all want them home. But you don’t prioritize a few, as painful as it is, over the safety of millions, over the future of our people, over the prevention of the next October 7th. That’s not leadership. That’s short-term emotional politics masquerading as morality. I know, and explain, that Netanyahu is prioritizing waging this war slowly, and not convincingly, to try to save the remaining hostages in order to keep unity of the nation, as the deep state manipulates the hostage issues to tear our national unity apart, each week with a new demoralizing media campaign. Regardless, we must return to the Jewish moral leadership of the Entebbe and Sabena hostage rescues. Never negotiate with evil. Prioritize national security, to prevent future kidnappings as well.
I say all this not as an enemy of the Prime Minister, but as someone who wants people to better understand the full picture of our situation.
I am deeply disappointed by these decisions of Netanyahu. But I’m still hopeful, because I believe in the people of Israel, the soldiers of Israel, and in truth. And the truth is simple: there is no other way forward but total victory. No other way forward but Jewish sovereignty in all of our land. No other way forward but making Gaza Jewish again.
Not because of ideology. Because of reality.
We are in a war for our future and we will win, even if total victory is delayed due to these latest decisions.
Netanyahu is the best Prime Minister we have ever had, but we are still waiting for better, true, Jewish leadership who can go all the whole way, without these mistakes.
Extract from Wikipedia where the responsibility of the Israeli bosses and israpundit bankrupt leaders is exposed which will become evident as we go through commentt
“The Israeli government’s response to the October 7 attacks has multiple aspects, including a military response leading to the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. In October, the Knesset approved a war cabinet in Israel, adding National Unity ministers and altering the government; Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz froze non-war legislation, establishing a war cabinet with military authority.
The IDF’s subsequent large-scale bombing and invasion of Gaza led to a humanitarian crisis, mass detentions, and famine. Israel’s response was criticized as resulting in war crimes, and it was charged with genocide by South Africa in the International Court of Justice. Settler expansions and officials’ controversial remarks heightened unrest, leading to protests in Israel. The Knesset’s law criminalizing “terrorist materials” consumption drew criticism. The Israeli government’s response prompted international protests, arrests, and harassment.
Background
The Israeli government faced criticism after it was revealed intelligence agencies had been aware of an attack plan for over a year.[1] Yair Lapid, a centrist Israeli politician, called the failure of the government and intelligence agencies to prevent the attack an “unpardonable failure”.[2] Netanyahu blamed Israel’s intelligence chiefs.[3]
Egypt said it warned Israel days before the attack, “an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big”.[4] Israel denied receiving such a warning,[5] but the Egyptian statement was corroborated by Michael McCaul, Chairman of the US House Foreign Relations Committee, who said warnings were made three days before the attack.[6]
Israeli intelligence officials initially stated that they had no warnings or indications of the 7 October attack by Hamas, despite Israel exercising extensive monitoring over Gaza.[7] Furthermore, the United States warned the Israeli government of the possibility of a surprise attack from Hamas a few days before the incident.[8] In July 2023, a member of the Israeli signals intelligence unit alerted her superiors that Hamas was conducting preparations for the assault, saying that “I utterly refute that the scenario is imaginary”. An Israeli colonel ignored her concerns.[9] According to the Financial Times, alerts from the signals unit were ignored because they came from lower-ranking soldiers, contradicted the belief that Hamas was contained by Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, bombing, and placation via aid, and the belief that Hamas was seeking to avoid a full war.[10][11]
(Wikipedia …Israeli government response to the October 7 attacks) ”
The above confirmed my analysis of the situation facing the Jewish people and Trotskyists like myself (and Trotskyism is the same thing as Marxism as is Leninism) after the murderous attack by Hamas on October 7.
As I did immediately I demanded on Israpundit that the Jewish State must not fall into the trap set for it by Hamas, and that above all it must organise a full scale (open to the Israeli public) public inquiry, paying close attention to the betrayals carried out by every branch of the Israeli rulers (the Israeli ruling class) and that firm conclusions resulting in action be enacted. So the inquiry and actions be the first priority and army reserves to the border definitely a second, and to stay away. Indeed as they waited 7 were blown up by Hamas.
I said to summarise “Israel and it’s army must not fight (be forced to fight) on the ground that has been prepared by the enemy.”
Exactly words. I talked much also and continually about preparing the ground for a war.
I was totally ignored. But that also meant my concern at not separating physically and geographically the civilians from Hamas was ignored and the wheels were set in motion for every blood libel by Hamas.
So the contrast of above positions was sharp and deep going in it’s implications.
Unlike the Israeli leaders representing the Jewish ruling class who are the elites, and israpundit tops who always serve those boss classes, I said the first action was not to rush into a war, but to prepare the ground for war by instituting an immediate and ongoing inquiry that had plenipotentiary power of action, in other words it has to take action.
For example: arrest and keep in prison all members of the judiciary who were in actual fact responsible for October 7
Fire Netanyahu and close associates because if he didn’t know the above from Wikipedia he definitely should have known.
Imprisonment of all those in media and state, like ex PMs, who undoubtedly sided October 7
Ensure that the many Governments in the world understanding be charged of their particular responsibilities in causing October 7. They laid the ground just as such as the Papacy had laid the ground for the Holocaust. This applied especially to Europe and America…and most especially the latter.
And so my abiding conviction is that Israel because of its anti working class and anti people bias just never did level with it’s own people and those people, including the relatives of the hostages were betrayed and stranded by the Israeli bosses, and israpundit leadership is part and parcel of that betrayal.
Carried on to today…by Netanyahu…still running the show!!!
What I have written here and my recollections of what happened going back a long time, including the withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, is above all relating to how Lenin and Trotsky fought in the Civil War, and what I learned from that, lessons forever both fresh and valid. The alternative to that Trotskyist approach is the bungling of Israpundit apeing the Jewish boss class, leading to a level of Jew hatred worse than, arguably, anything we have seen before.
@fquigley
Wrong. I explicitly remember you making this point and I did respond. I told you you were wrong then and I tell you that you are wrong today.
The time for public inquiries is not while rockets are being fired overhead, and as armies are waiting for an advantage to strike, but after the war has been won, which we are still waiting to see.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with trotsky linen marxs or any Other ideology. It’s just simple strategy, Regardless of the ideology involved.
In any event, the claim that I ignored you was and is entirely false. I just didn’t give you the answer you wanted, and that is because I don’t agree with you.
I think that if Israel were to try to ‘make Gaza Jewish again,” the entire world would come down on us like a ton of bricks. Certainly many of Israel’s major trading partners, and the closest thing we have to an ally, the United States, have repeatedly warned Israel about the severe reprisals they, and the “international community” as a whole, would take against us if we would dare to return Jewish settlements in Gaza and/or force the Arab population to leave. Israel is constantly forced to acquiesce in unjust constraints on our ability to defend ourselves by the constant bullying and threats by the “international community.”
Adam… What kind of “Ton of bricks” would they use against Israel? And what reprisals would the “international community” impose?
Western Europe is creaking under the weight of Muslim overpopulation and it looks as if they would be hard pressed to do anything meaningful to Israel.
So bearing this in mind, what did you have in mind for this tiny place in this tiny country?
@keelie
For one, they could pursue policies which are as damaging to themselves as they are to Israel, as is the situation with the German arms embargo, but on a broader economic plain.
Also, Israel is in large part able to defy Europe because they recognize that the US has its back. There is a question in my mind at least if the US would allow Israel to make Gaza Jewish Again without responding. And if the US did oppose it, it would leave Israel in a difficult position. Of course, should the US oppose it, it would also be difficult for Trump, politically.
But the projection of the US-Israel alliance has never been so strong, and it benefits both the US and Israel in many important ways, so any real difficulties between these two partners/allies will likely be handled behind closed doors with only the conclusions being shared openly.
Having said this, of course, I am as curious to hear Adam’s thoughts on this topic as you.
Amen to Avi, have followed him for a long time. He always makes sense! I also agree with both comments from frrankadam and dreuveni.
Perhaps PM Netanyahu is just trying to smooth the waters, but he knows they must eliminate the Palies and Hamas and regain control of THEIR LAND.
In politics one has to often choose between bad and worse. Better to say things to please the powerful in the gallery and let the opposition collect the egg on their face by rejection. That is how Israel collected with the Tower and Stockade Campaign in the 30’s when the Arabs rejected the Peel Report and ditto in 1948 and after 1967.
Hamas will continue to reject and though it will be a painful loss of hostages Israel will still be in Gaza and the Arabs stuck on the beach. Before Oct ’23 many managed to leave and now many more will manage to go rather than stay in what is left of Gaza.
Avi makes good points. There can be no negotiated cease fire, only submission of Hamas. There can be no Arab rule in Gaza that can help them restore their boldness to attack Israel again.