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Israel: Has the homeowner finally gone berserk?
2023-11-04
[Ynet] The war against Hamas it appears is being conducted on two separate levels. One pits the IDF against its Arab/Muslim enemies. There the sides "understand" each other quite well. The second is the Israel-U.S. level in which the latter either by design or default speaks as if Washington is on another planet.

For instance, on the first level, Iran’s Tasnim news agency on October 10, quoted the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as telling an audience of Iranian military cadets that "From the military and intelligence aspects, this defeat [of October 7,] is irreparable. It is a devastating earthquake."

Some days later, in an apparent response, Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant commented on the beginning of the "next phase" in the IDF’s operation against Hamas, which began the night of October 27, by saying "Last night the earth in Gaza shook."

However on the Israel-U.S. level the miscommunication is apparent. The gap is most noticeable with regard to repeated calls by Washington (and other Western capitals) for Israel to abide by the laws of warfare in the pursuit of its military response to Hamas’s massacre.
That’s because it is not a mere miscommunication. This is just a different aspect of the Biden administration’s slightly covert war against Israel, now that the anti-judicial overhaul protests they funded have been given up for the duration.
It could be argued that Washington’s position is meant to provide President Joe Biden political cover given the upcoming U.S. elections and his need to placate the "progressive" wing of his Democratic Party to keep it unified.
It could be. But actually it’s cover for the fact that the Biden administration is completely aligned with his party’s Progressive wing, needing political cover to placate the his Israel-supporting more-center left.
However, the almost daily pronouncements by Biden himself as well as U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's missives to his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant on the need for the IDF to follow the rules of war suggest otherwise.
And since the "laws of war" in question have been invented by the same people who invented multiple (> 2) human genders, and their sole purpose to give advantage to the side willing to use its civilians as human shields...
In contrast, Israel’s political and military leadership has repeatedly conveyed its assessment of the country’s dire strategic situation and the stark choices it is now facing.

...In an address to the nation on October 25, Netanyahu said "Israel is in the midst of a fight for our existence," declaring that the goal was "saving the nation."

Three days later, at a press conference with Gallant and former defense minister and IDF chief Benny Gantz (who was newly installed as minister without portfolio in Netanyahu’s war Cabinet), the concerted message was that the war against Hamas is one of historical and existential significance for the country and therefore Israel must win it.

...In its most extreme form, this last-resort "doctrine" has sometimes been labeled the "Homeowner Gone Berserk" response. Moreover, Israel is keenly aware that the war against Hamas must communicate clearly to Iran and its regional proxies, first and foremost the Hezbollah terrorist army in Lebanon, what awaits them if they dare attack. The enormous destruction inflicted on Gaza is therefore a tangible and graphic warning to Israel’s other enemies.

It is not as if Washington is completely oblivious to Hamas’s malevolent practices. For example, in an address to the Washington Foreign Press Center on October 23, National Security Council’s Coordinator for Strategic Communications Rear Admiral (ret.) John Kirby said, "Hamas...because they’re nothing but a terrorist group — they’re certainly not a responsible governing power — they could care less about the laws of war and they could care less about the people of Gaza, using them as human shields, tunneling under their homes, headquartering themselves in hospitals and schools, encouraging them to stay home right there in northern Gaza and putting them literally in harm’s way because they don’t care. That’s the big difference between Israel and the United States, and groups like Hamas. So there’s a big difference in approach here."
They know. They approve.
Yet Washington’s reiteration of the need to fight by the rules of war not only denotes the disconnect between the two allies as to the kind of military actions needed to remove the Jihadists’ threat. The U.S. position is militarily nonsensical. Even worse it fails to address the counterproductive nature of fighting by the rules vis-a-vis a jihadist army like Hamas as this style of combat in essence reaffirms the jihadist strategy.

Indeed, the West’s rules of warfare are nothing but a force multiplier for jihadists like Hamas. They boost this murderous army’s ability to press on with its deadly strategy and aid its efforts to escape the promised obliteration by Israel.

...In essence, the jihadist strategy envisions carrying out monstrous attacks deliberately designed to shock and chip away at any vestige of (the U.S.-engineered) world order and then hide under the umbrella of "world opinion"—i.e. their Arab brethren and the usual cabal of Russia, China and the "progressive" West European left supported by the Muslim "fifth column" residing across Europe and the U.S.—accusing Israel of committing "genocide" so as to limit and undercut its expected military response to their terrorist outrages.
Somebody in Biden Admin should read about Masada.

Posted by:Grom the Reflective

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Posted by: Skidmark   2023-11-04 05:51  

#2  Read about Mesada and remember that we have an equilizer now.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-04 05:48  

#1  Somebody in Biden Admin should read about Masada.

The fortress or the mass suicide?
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-11-04 05:45  

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