It had to be said. There are no non military solutions for
Nazism. This is what radical Islam has
morphed into over the past half century.
As stated, a full press destruction of Hamas is a good start and perhaps
the sooner this is done the better. Egyptian
intervention is plausibly impossible while they sort out their own issues and
would be likely welcomed by the military anyway as a rallying point for their
own efforts to assert control.
Outright destruction of Hamas,
full deNazification and restructuring of the educational system would be a
great start. Putting it under a UN
mandate with Israel
providing protection would then provide a viable umbrella able to prevent any
recurrence.
Then if that worked well, the
West Bank and Southern Lebanon can the given
the same treatment and the whole package can be restructured sensibly. It is war but the continuing hardening of the
Palestinian position provides no other escape.
A less justifiable or desirable adjunct
to this would see the population forced into Jordan by outright removal. It is way more desirable to be able to
enforce deNazification and to arrive at a harmonious integration into a greater
Israel .
Such a successful transition with
the concomitant rise of a powerful greater Israel including a Palestinian
partnership as a founding people with a combined population of in excess of ten
million would be a permanent counter to further adventurism in the .Middle
East. It would also supply a natural
umbrella for resurgent Christian populations in both Lebanon
and Egypt .
Peace Through Victory
Posted by Steven Plaut Bio on Nov 10th, 2011
By now, Israel ,
at the urging and bullying of the world, has tried pretty much every
conceivable idea and option for achieving tranquility and reconciliation with
the Hamas, except for one. Israel
removed its army and civilian population from the Gaza Strip. In what amounted to the
first ethnic self-cleansing in history, Israel
evicted the entire Jewish presence in Gaza .
The entire area was turned over to the Palestinians, lock, stock, barrel, and
Jew-free.
The result is of course known. The Hamas immediately converted
all of Gaza into a large rocket launch pad and a
base for initiating terrorist attacks against Israel . It kidnapped Israeli
soldier Gilad
Shalit and held him incommunicado, refusing medical treatment to him,
even though his arm was filled with shrapnel. Israel
in response provided free electricity and water to the Gazans and sent civilian
supplies into Gaza .
Israel never made any serious efforts to stop the massive tunnel smuggling into
Gaza from Egypt, even when it was clear that the main item being smuggled was
weapons. These smuggled weapons include bomb materials and sophisticated
rockets that can now reach Tel Aviv. Israel responded to the endless
rocket attacks against its own civilians by turning the other cheek. Only
after 8000 rocket strikes did it launch the half-hearted symbolic retaliation
in the “Cast Lead” campaign, withdrawing quickly after it was launched.
There is only one strategy for dealing with the Hamas that Israel
has never attempted. That untried strategy is victory. Israel has never seriously attempted to achieve
peace and tranquility with the Gaza
Palestinians by means of victory. This is somewhat strange, since it is
hard to think of any other war that did not end in peace only after
victory. Instead, the world keeps demanding that Israel respond
to Hamas provocation with an endless series of one-sided “goodwill
measures.” Never mind that the only invariable effect of such Israeli
“goodwill measures” has been to trigger more Hamas terrorism. The only
“peace settlement” the Hamas
is interested in is one in which Israelis volunteer to allow
themselves to be placed in Hamas-run extermination camps for Jews.
Victory in the case of the war with the Gaza terrorists would mean annihilating the
Hamas. Interestingly, there is an increasing chorus of voices inside Israel now
calling for peace through victory. One of these is General Dan
Halutz, the controversial erstwhile chief of staff of the Israeli
army. A few days ago a Hamas rocket was fired into Israel and
struck a school building. In response, Halutz called for a “mortal blow”
to be dealt to the Hamas’ civilian and “military” leadership. Then, in a
radio interview, Halutz said, “We must bring back our deterrence vis-à-vis Gaza . It has not existed
for even one moment since Operation
Cast Lead and to this day.” He has been joined by other Israeli
leaders. The finance minister, Yuval
Steinitz (who is a philosophy professor at my own university when he
is not busy in public life), recently called on Israel
to topple the Hamas “regime” in Gaza
if the terror continues.
The terrorist aggression by the Hamas has been carried on nonstop ever
since it seized power in Gaza .
Most acts of Hamas barbarism do not even get reported in the world media, for
which dogs biting and shooting rockets at postmen are passé. Hamas
rockets land in Israeli civilian areas almost every day. Hamas leaders
continue to call openly for Israel ’s
obliteration and for the annihilation of Jews. All this is surprising
only for those who have no understanding of what the Hamas really
is. Anyone who has read the brochure on the
Hamas being distributed by the David Horowitz
Freedom Center
will know otherwise.
It has become vogue in many circles to represent Middle
East savagery as part of some sort of “War of Civilizations.” It
is not. In fact, the Middle East is simply
a war by barbarism against all civilization. It is also considered chic to
represent the Middle East conflict as a “cycle
of violence,” and as something fundamentally symmetrical between Arab
terrorists and Israeli soldiers. It is not.
The entire world has convinced itself that violence and terrorism in
the Middle East are the results of Israeli
“occupation” over Arabs. They are wrong. If there is one thing that
has become glaringly obvious in the past two decades it is that the main cause
of terrorist violence in the Middle East is
the removal of Israeli occupation over Arabs. The Gaza violence was not
caused by Israeli occupation but by its removal. The Hezbollah
violence and threats from Lebanon
were not caused by Israeli “occupation” of Southern
Lebanon but rather by its removal.
Part of the world’s problem in understanding such things about the
Middle East is that most people have no idea how small Israel really is. Without the
West Bank, Israel is at its
waist about as wide as the length of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge .
All of the West Bank is smaller than the Everglades .
The Arab world insists territory controlled from the Atlantic Ocean to the
Persian Gulf is insufficient for its appetites, but promises that if only
Israel agrees to place its neck in a strategic hangman’s noose by turning over
the West Bank to the PLO/Hamas, then peace will prevail. And if Israel
refuses to place its neck in such an Arab noose voluntarily, then this shows
that Israeli aggression is what is behind the violence.
The caterwauling against Israel ’s
decision to shoot back occasionally at the terrorists is coming from those
claiming that Israel
was erected on “Palestinian lands.” This is like claiming that Alaska sits on Russian
lands. The Arabs briefly controlled Palestine
militarily, as the Russians briefly owned Alaska . The Jews and not the Arabs
are analogous to the native Eskimos. Israeli settlements are about as
“illegal” as are Eskimo villages in Alaska .
There has never ever in history been a Palestinian state, and there is no such
thing as a Palestinian people, any more than there is a separate Rhode Islander
people. The fact of the matter is that the West Bank and Gaza are hardly “Palestinian lands.”
Even if anyone thinks the Palestinians might have had some legitimate
claim to statehood or sovereignty, the Palestinians forfeited any such right
they might have had due to the past century of Palestinian atrocities and
terror. Just like the Sudeten Germans
lost their claim to any sort of self-determination. True,
Israeli governments have nevertheless naively and foolishly offered to allow
the Palestinians to exercise control over these territories in exchange for
peace. But Israel got war
and mass murder of its civilians in exchange, not peace, so the foolhardy Oslo “peace process”
deals are now off and should never have been implemented. Proposals to
“liberate” the West Bank and end Israeli “occupation” there are nothing more
than demands that Israel
allow Gazan barbarism and terrorism to be replicated and cloned in the West Bank , with Israeli citizens subsequently bathed in
countless thousands of rockets.
The only real way to suppress the carnage is for Israel to re-occupy Gaza and the
West Bank in full, implement open-ended military control there and a
long-term program of Denazification (based in part on the Allied programs at
the end of World
War II). Israel
needs to expel the terrorists and destroy their infrastructure. It needs to get
serious about shooting terrorists. Everything else is wishful thinking
and delusion.
Palestinian “suffering”? If the Palestinians are unhappy with
Israeli anti-terror policies, retaliations, checkpoints and military
incursions, let them stop the terror and desist from murdering Israelis, or let
them move to any of the 22 Arab states. As long as they persist in the
violence, any “suffering” by Palestinians is, much like the suffering of
Germans and Japanese during World War II, their own fault. The solution is
certainly not for Israel
to stop resisting the terror, to stop fighting back, nor for Israel to desist from trying to
protect its citizens.
The endless post-Oslo Middle East violence and terror was triggered
because Israel
indicated that it was on the run, exhausted, unwilling to fight, afraid to
resist, and ready to capitulate. It will end only when Israel returns
to its determination to end the terror through military victory and force of
arms. The same United States that has understood that there is only a
military option for dealing with terror in Iraq and Afghanistan must back up
such a return by Israel to pre-Oslo sanity.
There are no non-military solutions to the problems of terrorism.
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