Peloni: Peace thru strength would have been a better choice…as it would have led to peace rather than more jihad.
As it is said that Israel can’t fight the entire world, it must be grasped that the entire world which opposed Israel has been fighting for or with Jihadists. Forcing Israel to stand down will only hasten the battle which will be forced on the world specifically due to their betrayal of Israel…and themselves.
Crying ‘Peace, Peace,’ when there is no peace.
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In his announcement of the his peace deal between Hamas and Israel, President Donald Trump quotes the Sermon on the Mount, writing “BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS.” All right. Here’s another passage of scripture for him: “They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.” (Jeremiah 6:14)
Once the deal was done, Trump said: “I spoke to Bibi Netanyahu just a little while ago. He called. He said, ‘I can’t believe it. Everybody is liking me now,’ meaning him. I said, ‘More importantly, they are loving Israel again,’ and they really are. I said, ‘Israel cannot fight the world Bibi, they cannot fight the world.’ And he understands that very well. So it’s amazing the way it’s all come together.”
Israel cannot fight the world. But the world, or at least the forces of jihad and their non-Muslim useful idiots, can fight Israel, and will continue to do so, Trump peace deal or no Trump peace deal. Trump has not made for peace. He has just made for a slight delay in the jihad. At best. Above all, he has enabled Hamas to fight on.
The reason why this peace deal is no cause for celebration is simple: it will not bring peace. It is based on a fundamental misunderstanding or willful refusal to understand why Hamas is fighting and what the group is all about. Hamas has no interest whatsoever in establishing a “Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace,” except on its own terms, which would require the total destruction of Israel and its replacement with a Sharia state.
What Trump — along with every other leader in the Western world — does not or will not understand is that Hamas is an Islamic group. An Islamic group can be reasonably expected to follow Islamic law. Islamic law does not allow for the establishment of peace between a Muslim entity and a non-Muslim one on an indefinite basis, with, say, two states living side by side and respecting each other’s right to exist. No, the imperative of Islamic conquest encompasses every non-Muslim entity. Muslims must fight unbelievers “until persecution is no more and religion is all for Allah.” (Qur’an 8:39) If Israel’s religion is not all for Allah, the jihad against it will continue. What’s more, Israel is on land that Muslims must ruled. Therefore the Muslims have an imperative before Allah to “drive them out from where they drove you out.” (Qur’an 2:191)
Yet if all that is true, why is Hamas making peace at all? Because it is losing. Consider this passage from a manual of Islamic law: “If Muslims are weak, a truce may be made for ten years if necessary, for the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud.” (Reliance of the Traveller, o9.16)
Note that this can only be done if “Muslims are weak,” so that they can gather strength to fight again — not so that they can live peacefully with non-Muslims indefinitely. The same legal manual also quotes this verse of the Qur’an: “So do not falter and cry out for peace when you have the upper hand, and Allah is with you, and he will not deprive you of your actions.” (47:35) Thus Hamas would not be calling for peace at all if it felt it was in a position of strength. “Interests that justify making a truce are such things as Muslim weakness because of lack of numbers or materiel, or the hope of an enemy becoming Muslim…” (Reliance of the Traveller, o9.16)
The bottom line: Hamas is feeling the heat and wants this peace deal in order to regroup and emerge in a stronger position. The one certainty here is that there will not be a “Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace,” but that Hamas and/or other Islamic jihadis will murder more Israelis and continue to try to destroy the Jewish state.
Avid to be known as the great peacemaker, Trump has destroyed Israel’s chance of really gaining a respite in the endless jihad war against it. That respite would have come from destroying Hamas utterly. Instead, Hamas lives on. The jihad never ends, but the destruction of Hamas would have set it back years. The destruction of Hamas and the toppling of the Islamic Republic of Iran would have set it back decades. Trump has prevented both. If there is a Nobel Jihad Prize, he should get it.
Peace looks good today; however, it will go stale, and when it sours, we shall be back to where we have been so many times before. The modern state of the Jews is called Israel. But half of the Jews live in America and a few other places. The Islamic Terrorists and all their branches refer to the little Satan in the Middle East and the big Satan in America. Historically, Israel existed in two parts: Judea in the south and Israel in the north. We have, for the last two years, been witnessing Judea in the south being attacked and fighting for an elusive peace. I am hesitant to suggest that once Hamas and their brothers regroup, they will turn their hatred against the state that caused their defeat in Gaza.
America, the great Satan, is standing in the path, defeating the Muslims from achieving their goals. To me, it looks like Islam must and will change their battle plans and focus more on the West than they have in the past. Until those supply lines are broken, they can never achieve their goals in the Middle East. The Jews in the land of Israel, nor those Israelis living in America or other parts unknown, will ever be defeated, but until Islam is dead and rotting in the ground, it’s only a matter of time till it sparks back up.
In one way, the Jewish arm-twisting (releasing 2000 murders that should have been dead long ago) can be somewhat beneficial, but one should learn that you can’t twist Jewish arms and expect not to have repercussions from it. Those in the West, I would suggest they brace for impact.
I believe that the Israelis’ prioritiizing the return of the hostages over the secutity of thestste, and their own security, has its origins in the European diaspora, European rulers often seized Jews as hostages, most often young unmarried women, and would threaten to rape them, eveither personally or via their soldiers, unless the local Jewish community paid a huge ransom for their release. The Jews nearly always paid. Many Jewish communities actually had a special fund in the village treasury to pay ransoms.
Of course, there was no Jewish state during the long centuries of the Jewish diaspora or “exile” (gulut, Ashkenazi mispronunciation “Golos”). so protecting the state was not a priority for most Jews, because there was no Jewish state, and the land of Israel was ruled by Gentiles. The states that Jews lived in were ruled also by Gentiles , who were usually hostile Jews. The Jews paid their taxes to these states and obeyed their laws. But they felt little or nono emotional attachment to thes states.
Unfortunately, even now when Zion has been reborn, these diaspora attitudes still remain very strong among Israeli Jews, especially those in leadership position. Most Israeli Jews still seem to consider the ransoming of captives as a more important objective than the security of the state, the defeat of their enemies, or even their own safety.
Israeli Jews are such pathetic simps when it comes their priorities in the endless war against them by the “Palestinians” and their sponsors. This from the Times of Israel:
‘Miracles can happen, the hostages are coming home,’ Witkoff tells Tel Aviv rally to huge applause
ToI Staff
Special envoy hails Trump, ‘who refused to accept that peace in the Mideast was out of reach’; some boos as he praises Netanyahu for ‘giving everything’ * Kushner urges every effort to make region peaceful, hails ‘amazing’ IDF soldiers * Ivanka Trump ‘awed by strength’ of hostages’ families, says president ‘stands with you always’
Let me be the lone voice of dissent as I often am.
Most Israelis and Jews in the diaspora want this deal because they want all the remaining hostages released. Bibi himself is included in this group. Of course he will not casually ignore his benefactor in president Trump either but like I just said, Bibi likes the deal. He is facing tremendous pressure from his own citizens to get the hostages back. Like him and them, I too am in favour with this deal if in fact all of the hostages are returned ASAP. The primary goals for Israel are to defeat Hamas and to bring home all of the hostages. Israel has 2 options:
1. Conquer every square inch of Gaza, both above and below ground. They can do this for sure. But they would without a doubt suffer many more losses of precious IDF soldiers and also likely the hostages in doing so.
2. Make a deal that would entail removing Hamas from Gaza and would release all of the hostages.
Israelis have been fighting for 2+ years on all fronts. They are suffering both economically and spiritually as a result. We know that the deal is far from perfect but I think it makes perfect sense to do it now.
Just an FYI, there will never be a lasting peace between Jews/Israelis and her Islamist neighbours for the reasons you laid out in your article. At least the president is trying to save the hostages. His intentions must be rewarded not discarded and dismissed. I say that Israel should make any deal on paper to rescue the hostages. Once they are safely in Israel, they should throw that paper in the garbage can and go after all of their enemies with zeal (not just Hamas and the Gazans).
Good diagnosis, bad prescription from Trump in 2016
https://youtu.be/e98XvaFQWWg?si=W6KwmQsNWYokKyb9
This deal is very concerning. Already Hamas is saying it will not give up its weapons, and that was a vital requirement for the deal to bring peace. Now we are told that nobody will be made to leave Gaza. So Hamas can still be there with their weapons . . . and Israel will have to do the same horrible things she has been doing for two years and sacrificing the lives of their soldiers in order to reach the conclusion that could have happened this week. If only Trump had given the go-ahead. But Netanyahu was boxed into a corner and I don’t see what else he could have done, more’s the pity. G-d bless the people of Israel and G-d bless the IDF.
Mr. Spencer is 100% about the disastrous nature of this “peace,” and how Hamas will take advantage of it. The overwhelming support for this phony peace from the Israeli public is especially discouraging. According to a recent poll, only 7 per cent of Israelis said they were opposed to it! The Israeli Jewish population will soon come to regret it, however, when the 250 or more terrorists are released by Israel and resume their terrorist activities.
When Mr. Spencer “Crying “peace peace, when there is no peace,” he is paraphrasing a famous speech by Patrick Henry, speaking to Virginia’s House of Burgesses (state legislature), in 1775, just before the American war of independence broke out: I am paraphrasing the most famous lines from the speech from memory, and my memory is very inexact to say the least. But it went something like this: “men cry peace, peace., but there is no peace. If I must choose between peace and liberty, I will choose liberty every time. Give me liberty, or give me death!” When some of his fellow legislators who were still loyal to King George of England called “treason! treason!” in response to Henry’s speech, he replied, “if thisbe treason, Make the most of it.”
I wish Israel would follow Henry’s advice. America needed to end its obedience to King George in order to be free. Israel needs to stop being blindly obedient to America and its presidents, to be a truly free and sovereign country. Extremely painful and dangerous, it is true, but necessary.
I think the saying “Crying peace, peace, etc. – ” is from the Bible, and it has never been more relevant than now.
So sad that trump does not wish to be enlightened but continues on the bufoon train even with all his good intentions