Peloni: Is Bibi not assertive enough of Israel’s rights among the nations of the world with regards to the US? Is this why the US is at ease demonstrating an arrogance with Israel which it fails to apply to any other nation? I would agree with the former, but not the latter. What do others think?
By Sha’i ben-Tekoa
Netanyahu speaks before UN General Assembly. Image via Youtube
If it were possible to design an ultra-sound device to probe the human spirit, and apply it to Israel’s prime minister, the image of his Jewish spine might not register.
Forthwith some suggestions for him at his next tete-a-tete with Donald Trump in Mar-a-Logo, that compulsive, deal-making builder of gambling casinos and golf courses for the rich. Trump is reported to be champing at the bit, pushing Israel to move to Step 2 of his messianic peace plan, which reads, “Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough.”
You got that? The government of the people of Gaza, chosen by them, did what they did on Oct. 7 and for two years thereafter of constant torturing of the surviving captives, and now the Trump plan right-off-the-bat calls for beneficial reconstruction of their homes and businesses?
This is sick. For 77 years there was likely not one year without Israelis being murdered by Arabs launching themselves from Gaza. In the 1950s, they were called fedayeen, a religious idea, not political, which led to Mivtza Kadesh/the Sinai Campaign of 1956. Israel invaded Gaza but in the end retreated.
In 1967, the IDF was back in Gaza and remained until 1994. Thereafter, the murderers who came out of the Strip were called “nationalist freedom fighters”; then after 2005 — one lost track of the number of IDF counter-terror operations there in which were soldiers were killed.
Israel needs a prime minister to tell the world, including Donald Trump, “Enough already!”
“To the victor goes the spoils” is what the great schoolmen called Natural Law, so Israel has the right to take Gaza away from the enemy. In 1848, the U.S., after a war with Mexico, kept about a third of that country. Gaza contains some beautiful beach-front property and some Israelis believe it rightfully belongs to the Jewish nation.
Indeed, the United Nations Charter of 1945 incorporated the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine of 1922 that recognized the land from the Jordan River to the sea to be the “historic homeland of the Jewish people.” In those decades, there was no “West Bank.” The Jews would get Palestine west of the River, and the Arabs would get Palestine east of the River. Western Palestine was also called Cis-Jordan, and eastern Palestine Trans-Jordan.
And as the legitimate landlord of the Gaza rectangle, Israel has had the right to evict problem tenants for being sadistic, satanic homicidal haters of Israelis.
The history of man is the endless series of wars after which the victors take land from the losers. Today’s Germany is smaller than it was in 1939; after what the Germans did to Europe in WWII, the victorious Allies lopped off some 40,000 (?) square miles and gave them to their neighbors, their victims.
So, what would be so terrible if this real estate — some 25 miles long and 8-5 miles wide — comes under the rule of the victors who, in any case, also happen to be its rightful landlords in international law?
Israel needs a prime minister who will respectfully, with a smile on his face at his next meeting with President Trump, tell him, “This is our Biblically Promised Land no less than Jerusalem and there is no reason why we should be denied owning and governing it and evicting an enemy people there whose culture is functionally psychopathic in its murderous hatred of us.”
Israelis are under no obligation to tolerate neighbors like these. Imagine you live in some nice little American suburb of modest, one-family homes; your friendly next-door neighbor sells his house, a new family moves in and prove to be sexual predators molesting your children. You don’t have to put up with that.
The problem is with the misbegotten spirit of secular Zionists like the prime minister. Read Theodore Herzl’s Jules Vernes-esque fantasy novel Old-New Land about his imagined “Judenstaat” twenty years after its placid birth. Herzl imagined neither a bloody war of independence in which thousands of Jews would be killed, nor endless years of terrorist atrocities and wars after the war of independence.
Herzl fantasized a prosperous, peaceful, cultured society in which Jews, Christians and Muslims get along swimmingly.
This may be one reason for Israel’s bizarre statecraft; the aboriginal, secular Zionist dream that a post-religious state would no longer be persecuted but enjoy friendly relations with its neighbors.
In 2001, the first of scores of thousands of home-made rockets were produced in Gaza and fired into Jewish homes and businesses. The enemy did this for over two decades (!) during which Israel daily supplied Gaza with 700 semi-trailers packed with all kinds of consumer goods, and provided the Muslims in the Strip with the electricity (for free) needed to manufacture these rockets. This is not normal. This is bizarre human behavior.
And neither was the invention of the Iron Dome system which arguably can be called a complete failure. How so? The Qassam rockets that the enemy jerry-built and fired off were terror rockets whose damage to people and property was minimal, which makes sense because they were terror rockets. And what is terror? A feeling, an emotion, great fear. Every launch was a success for setting off the sirens in Sderot and environs and driving hundreds of thousands of Jews at 3 o’clock in the morning to jump from their beds in their pajamas and race into a personal bomb shelter or the hallway with other neighbors in their nightgowns.
For twenty years the rockets flew and a generation of Israeli kids who grew up next to Gaza, when they went into the army, presented symptoms of PTSD.
Versus a normal people with superior military equipment that would not have invented Iron Dome but responded in kind. Israel might instead have lined the Strip with artillery batteries, and every time a rocket was fired at Sderot, IDF artillery opened up a barrage of ten rockets fired at random into Gaza, ordnance that would also do far more damage to people and property.
This, of course, would trigger World Anti-Jewry into howling “Israelis are war criminals!” to which Israel might calmly respond, “We are doing exactly what they are doing: firing at random into civilian areas, and we make no apologies for our superior ordnance. Listen, Goyim, you don’t like what we are doing? Neither do we, and if you want us to stop, you must first get your beloved phantom Palestinians to stop.”
Israel needs a prime minister to tell Emperor Donald Jews resisted Rome and resist anyone who tells us where we can or cannot live in our own Promised Land.
What is this sickness of wanting to benefit these enemies of humanity who out-Nazied the Nazis in their cruelty to Jews? The Germans lost territory for what they did to their neighbors, and so should these Muslims.
Sha’i ben-Tekoa’s PHANTOM NATION: Inventing the “Palestinians” as the Obstacle to Peace is available at Amazon.com in hard cover or a Kindle ebook. His podcasts can be heard on www.phantom-nation.com.
This is a very necessary article. It helps explain the self defeating kindness to their enemies of the Israelis. Secular Herzl sounds like he was bathing in the communist dream of “The International” replacing all national and religious separations. All the more reason for Israel to go religious and fulfill it’s Biblical mission.It makes me sick to think of all the Jewish lives lost in Israel and the diaspora because of the moral confusion created by this illusion. As to Bibi, we can do better.
“Read Theodore Herzl’s Jules Vernes-esque fantasy novel Old-New Land about his imagined “Judenstaat” twenty years after its placid birth. [skip] This may be one reason for Israel’s bizarre statecraft; the aboriginal, secular Zionist dream that a post-religious state would no longer be persecuted but enjoy friendly relations with its neighbors.”