War in Gaza continuity of the Second Lebanon War. A current
Today, January 16, 2009, three weeks after the start of Operation Lead cast "in the Gaza Strip, fifteen fire Kassam and Graad were recorded this morning. Hamas is seriously affected. He is on his knees but do not throw the towel. It retains its offensive capability certainly diminished. Politically, it is far to pass into oblivion. He still enjoys
e broad popular support among Palestinians, contrary to what one would have us believe. The Israeli power petrified at the thought of having to eradicate the organization is reluctant to take nazislamism totally Gaza forever. The Israeli government seeks a way out with a solution of
cease-fire. Despite the vast resources deployed and the elimination of terrorists and mass casualties among civilians, the Israeli leadership does not know how to finish the work and achieve its goal of stopping the shooting southern cities of Israel. Probably worse, he can define what could be regarded as an unambiguous victory sharp, clear and full of a country with a strong army and modern face of a terrorist organization.
I move back online article that I wrote during the Second Lebanon War. Posted July 17, 2006 and published on the site of Arutz 7, a week after the kidnapping of the soldiers Regev and Goldvasser July 12, 2006. Political power was reluctant to introduce ground troops in southern Lebanon. Whatever progress in the field and tactical execution in more accurate and less confusing orders in this operation, the embarrassment of the leaders of the defense system of Israel since the decline of faith in Zionism and the Return the Jewish people throughout the Land of Israel, is our national security problem number one. The squadrons of fighter jets trendy, ultra modern equipment and most advanced training sessions are no substitute for this chronic indecision of all governments of Israel since the day after the Six Day War. In this sense, the current war in Gaza is not repetition improved somewhat in the second Lebanon war, it is the continuation.
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support the government and the IDF during these hours is useless!
Monday, July 17, 2006 by Meir Ben-Hayoun - Tekoa
As a reflex conditioning, the first thing we want at this time of Berezina Israel is having the feeling of doing something by multiplying initiatives support the government (see the speech in the Knesset Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, July 17) the IDF and the military who are our brothers, our children or sometimes ourselves ... .... I would argue, that apart from the expression of a commendable sense of generosity and solidarity undeniable that not only is not strictly anything but cause us harm. It is up to me to explain this stance aggressive, provocative, controversial, outrageous and shocking from someone who considers himself a pure and authentic Israeli patriot. I confess that, like those, frustrated by reading these lines, I suffer from having to write. And these words come out of a keyboard person who arrived from France in the late 70s, served in the IDF in Lebanon and for more than 20 years active and reserve and can not take emotional peaceful.
We will not because of Hezbollah and other enemies of our absolute thanks to the technological and operational capabilities of the IDF, the most advanced in the world. Instead, this potential has the most sophisticated to the People of Israel from a cult of military force and thus virtual feel invincible threats of destruction leveled on its doorstep. IDF has ceased to be the little army rudimentary means to the people, willing to take risks and make every sacrifice when a drop of Jewish blood was poured. When three paratroopers
had been killed by stepping on mines in 1966, without waiting for the funeral of the brothers in arms, the day after the commander of the Parachute Regiment, Raphael (Raphoul) Eytan, of blessed memory, committed its units in a punitive raid that killed at ... 60 Jordanian Legionnaires. It was the scale and promptness of response of an army equipped and summarily poor, but a year later was able in just six days to return the Jewish people in regions that are the cradle of its history. It was an army guises good child, to very rough and tough criteria that sought insatiably fighting to establish as soon as possible contact with the enemy and destroy him by looking him in the eye. It is this tradition of soldiers with weapons at close range and small size as the famous "Uzi" that made the legend and reputation of effectiveness of the first Jewish Army appeared on the stage of history after 2000 years exile.
alleged or actual capacity, the IDF, served as an alibi for the worst corporate adventurers "peace" through all the abdication and retirement in recent years. Whether the unfortunate Camp David Accords in 1979, the cursed Oslo Accords in 1993, the pathetic withdrawal from Lebanon by Ehud Barak in May 2000, the "disengagement" from Gaza eleven months ago and the future plans of treason one more insane than the others so far are not even subject to further debate.
missiles headed on a very narrow strip of land and highly populated as northern Israel have produced an abnormally low number of casualties, given the amount of Katyusha fired. The stock could very easily have been 500 victims, see more, doing this to take effect Israel's defeat at Pearl Harbor or September 11 for Americans if the God of mercy, which, as stated in our tradition, we protect , His People to us, despite our errors. This is not an expression of personal opinion or religious credulity of acute mysticism. Truth is the expression of the divine protection that events confirm that we live daily. Besides, nobody wants to think too much about this small number of victims inexplicable despite the intensity and unprecedented precision shooting, otherwise there would be panicked or intolerable migraines.
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IDF has answers for all types of threat. Israeli citizens can sleep (as in Nahariya, tonight) thanks to their formidable army. Technological innovations, high level military officials are the guarantors of risk "calculated" to take to open up prospects for peace. The withdrawal from Lebanon, Gaza and Judea and Samaria reduce risks and offer the State of Israel unexpected possibilities. Israeli society can not afford this situation of permanent war that mine inside. Once the foreign forces (ie, Israeli, not Syrian) have evacuated Lebanon, Hezbollah will no longer be motivated to fight Israel. Ditto for the Palestinians once they have completed their self-determination and obtained their own state. They are realistic and know they can not defeat the IDF Here the archetype of discourse with which we have weaned the people of Israel and the Jews diaspora to the brutalizing and avoid any critical analysis, despite the fact that these statements are in themselves a glaring inconsistency. Indeed, if the IDF is so strong it can afford to forego the risk of learning as the strategic territorial depth, how to preserve the territorial depth would be a danger if the IDF is so strong? If the IDF is strong, why would there be urgency to withdraw from areas which are our national heritage and repel the enemy guns in our urban centers?! We are told it is because in these regions, the majority of Arabs are hostile to us! And if these areas are longer under our control, Arabic will be less hostile and less dangerous? As after the withdrawal from Lebanon or after the "disengagement" from Gaza, where the inhabitants of these lands have suddenly joined the Zionist ideology? Do withdraws as that is unable to keep these areas! Thus the Arabs have interpreted the withdrawal from Lebanon and the Gaza withdrawal, and for once, they were deceived!
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IDF is not so strong that Israelis and Jews would gargle. For us Arabs, the time has arrived to attack the enemy Jewish home, where he feels safe and humiliate him where it hurts the most (eg by capturing its soldiers) to shake his confidence in himself and gradually erode until his loss. This is roughly the Arab discourse today, and our mixed reactions, halting and pathetic that do confirmation.
For us Jews, the question remains whether the IDF is truly effective or not, and if the Israeli army has the capacity to fulfill its missions. This does not always go hand in hand with the technological equipment and its wealth. Or else, we try to reassure by believing that the IDF is hard not to confront reality? What is the paradox of Jewish discourse that says we have one of the best armies in the world, that is to say that we are practically invulnerable one hand, and secondly, that we can not afford to keep all acquired territorial and, therefore, we must deal with the enemy, which clearly means that we are vulnerable. It is clear that this speech echoed by all the intellectuals and politicians and Israeli Jews is inconsistent, paradoxical and should be a business specialist in psychology. What is certain is that the reality has little to do with fears and certainties expressed by Jewish and Israeli elites who lead our people towards the abyss law and endanger the lives of millions of Jews in Israel and the Diaspora. Do not even mention the immorality and corruption of every Jewish value implied by the adoption of the policy that this type of discourse leads preposterous - that is, deport Jews from their homes, destroy their homes, and to roam as banished in favor of the worst Nazi Muslim fanatics around the world. Whether in Israel, where Prime Minister, despite its bad reputation is even more disputed, although the defeat of the policy of disengagement is revealed in broad daylight and that our country is burning. Or even in France where a Jewish intellectual as A. Finkelkraut, pimp the Geneva Agreement, at its meeting on July 9 with the Jewish public in Paris at the Centre Rashi through a Radio RCJ (listen recording www.radiorcj.com) has not been arrested person on his stance in favor of various Israeli withdrawals while Hamas took power in the PA and the firing of Qassams raining down on Sderot, so that disengagement demonstrates irresponsibility, wickedness Free those who conceived and profound stupidity of those who approved and have neither the courage nor the honesty to admit it or intellectual integrity to make the obvious they are deceived and have deceived us so colossal. One wonders sometimes if a large part of the Jewish public in Israel and the Diaspora, is not irreversibly anesthetized.
IDF, the Israel Defense Force, is driven on that slippery slope and is used to implement these criminal designs of disengagement, converging with extermination plans being hatched by our enemies.
Our massive bombing of Lebanon cost the lives of many Lebanese "innocent" - one must admit, though personally, it does not move me at all.
Moreover, we note that over 220 Lebanese victims arouse much less protest from the world until the child Al Dura was killed by a stray Palestinian IDF which is made responsible. Trying to understand why. The explanation I propose is that these massive bombing does not undermine the principle of territorial withdrawal of Israel that the U.S. European, Russian, UN and Arab not to mention the Israeli elite supporters. If only one boot had crushed the Jewish Lebanese soil to Rosh Hanikra, there would have been entitled to an uproar of indignation on both sides of the planet. There are very mixed protests like, "the Israeli response is disproportionate." We can consider this review as a tribute compared with what we used to hear. The European Union frowns, but there is no proposal to boycott Israeli products, as after Jenin, where Palestinians had only 55 killed. Why? Not that the world's understanding of Israel today as some precipitates and falsely naive minds in Israel have claimed, but because the Israeli reaction, even considered disproportionate, do not call into question the principle of Israeli territorial withdrawal. And what we desire most is the continuation in power of him who has promised that Israel not only does not reinvest the areas already evacuated in Lebanon and Gaza, but that is the future of Judea and Samaria disengagement of central axis of his policy. So long as he killed the Lebanese
"Innocent" but does not advance his troops too, the international community given carte blanche. More than a week after the offensive of Hezbollah, not an Israeli ground force has yet been introduced into Lebanon to work as artillery and aerial bombardments most accurate can achieve. Unthinkable even five years ago according to high standards of military reaction that the Israeli security leadership had set. To dismantle a military potential and to frustrate the enemy is only the infantry, armor, military genius that ensure the completion of this work. Americans and English have simply n'on massive bombing in Afghanistan and Iraq. They had no choice but to invest in the territories of these countries by ground troops to achieve their goal.
How to be listed in Lebanon and Gaza is inevitable, although this represents a danger to the young Israeli called. Do we prefer to see his mother or his sister in Haifa or her grandmother to take the risk of Sderot be first in line of fire in its place? Moreover, destruction of infrastructure Lebanese or Palestinian, see the mass death of Arab civilians and Israeli bombardments cause, do not diminish the motivation of Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south to continue their attacks. Not only does it makes them nothing, but it provides water to their mill and motivate them even more. Especially since the IDF, despite appearances, is trying to avoid killing civilians, if they are thousands of dead in Lebanon and Gaza have to cry.
In designing military policy of Arab-Muslim world, which is a crushing defeat over the mass killing is the loss of territory. And so the Arab defeat is integrated by those concerned, it is imperative that the loss of their territories are final and without appeal, especially as the areas in question are an integral part of Eretz Israel, be it Gaza, Lebanon and all regions occupied by our immediate neighbors. After putting
Arab countries with fire and blood at the slightest incident on their part, the equation must be Jewish: Arab aggression, terrorist or otherwise, any explicit threat or insinuated Nasrallah, Ahmadinejad or Assad, or any scarecrow, Arab dictator must result in a loss of Muslim or Arab territory and not a loss of Israeli territory as eleven months ago. If the IDF is strong as they say, then it is done now, and if the IDF is not strong enough to do that is by making it become stronger.
If it is not yet clear, it is not sending smart bombs "on the order of unintelligent people who will advance the national security of the State of Israel . The presence of these highly sophisticated weapon systems which must borrow the language of science fiction to describe them, the IDF removed from its sacred role, namely to combat the enemy without thank you. To do this, no need for a plethora of weapons and military budget-bloated. Jewish resolve and urgency are required. Moreover, King Solomon
, we commend the wisdom until now, has he not said that a king of Israel will not "too many women and not too many horses" ? Too many women, I think everyone understands why. In terms of our discussion, a king too busy to fulfill his desires of lust can not be absorbed by its responsibilities Royal, moreover in wartime. Too many horses, this is the Royal Mews for war. In contemporary terms, this means too had too many helicopters, armored vehicles too, too much equipment, etc.. which is a bottomless pit for the national budget, which must devote all the military resources to maintain, to working condition, learn to use and give a false sense of confidence and invincibility that demobilize the spirit of initiative and reflection disincentive. See the episode of the star of the Israeli Navy, hypermodern, who could not dodge when she was all for a very primitive missile off Lebanon, which killed four young sailors Jews.
Who would take the risk of intrusion at night, to face the enemy and run when they heard gasping his last breaths al'illusion if we can make it explode at a distance, without dirtying hands, sitting on a padded chair in front of an LCD screen? The problem is that before the LCD, it implements a lot of pyrotechnics, we do not take risk, we hire means cheap, but the enemy has more chance of escape if a fighter Golani, in defiance of all risks and sweaty, just to surprise a man spitting distance of Hezbollah in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, and honors a short burst whose the price of each ball does not exceed two shekels. If the slaughters, even better, it costs nothing and it makes more impact of terror on the enemy.
The sophisticated technology involved to remove a leader of Islamic Jihad by a helicopter missile strike, it costs hundreds of thousands of shekels. The crew of the aircraft manufacturing U.S. so far do not take too many risks. His training
costs millions of shekels, the price of U.S. helicopter manufacturing and maintenance, do not even think about, it would give us fever. It makes us dependent on American equipment we provide. Our "power" military subjects us to their dictates and their global interests in the region, binding us hand and foot. Ultimately, this military power becomes a factor of weakness burden more strategic asset. What is the fire power if it is subject to a foreign power, even friendly? It is better to have handguns used whenever we want that fighter planes use that when we give the approval. This is also the tactical advantage of terrorists who, despite their limited resources, have great flexibility in decision making and initiative.
Engaging the Israeli army on the ground in Lebanon, do not forget that aviation and all budget-corps are in the best cases, that support forces, which can substitute the role Traditional armies land since the conquest of the Land of Israel by Joshua, the Peloponnesian Wars, through the conquests of Napoleon, the invasion of Normandy and the American intervention in Iraq. Reclaiming the Land of Israel in Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere at the slightest skirmish, without eliminating the enemy prisoner, destroying villages, returning populations hostile and erect Hebrew points stand for the millions of Jews still diaspora. Hey! It would be a great idea: the installation of newly arrived Jews of France in Lebanon vacated by IDF.
You tell me that I suffer from an incurable romantic hypertrophy Biblical inspired by Hollywood blockbusters in Technicolor at Cecil B. De Mille as "the Ten Commandments," "Samson and Delilah," "David and Goliath" and "Ben Hur." Well I
confesses guilty and I will add that this kind of scenario that led to the People of Israel to reclaim his land in biblical times as today. In 1948, while the force was composed of Jews going barefoot, poorly equipped, new immigrants freshly arrived were sent into combat when they landed at the port of Jaffa without worrying if they could support a rifle and shoot. We took the Land of a cruel enemy, better trained, more numerous and better equipped. We destroyed his armies, towns and villages. We deported the Arab countries, and we returned to our sovereignty over the earth so loved and hoped for since 2000 years. Precisely when the Arab claim that the country was taken over by violence and that their homes were reduced to rubble and ash, do not answer that is wrong and we do not want to hurt them. We must admit they are right, we want to harm them due to their attacks and it is so still true today and we are ready to do worse if they dare show the slightest inclination warrior. And since the IDF no longer work, he is not content that respond to hostile fire from a distance without pay throughout the Arab environment by the loss of his land, that is where our problems began. "For a hair
a Jewish child, these" devils "of Israelis are willing to shave the Middle East and trigger World War III . It is, exaggerating a bit, what the Arabs have to say and to convince them of that, we must provide them an earlier starting shaving Lebanon and Gaza, confiscating their territories and install these Jews. That restore Israeli deterrence!
We arrived at the paradox in which military power is the excuse for not doing military work required, namely to exterminate the enemy, Hezbollah or Hamas to resume land cowardly abandoned by previous governments, rebuilding the settlements . Since the population transfer has been universally established as justification for the Jews of Gaza, it would be racist to consider it unfair when it comes to Arabs. We would therefore refer Arabs in Gaza that have proven hostile definitely giving the majority of their votes to Hamas, and do the same thing in Lebanon or Syria if Assad made the slightest gesture of support for Hezbollah.
We say that Americans, Europeans and other fanatics will never let us do that. That's right. And then? Who said that creating the state of Israel and defend it should be easy. It takes guts, pay the price and not be intimidated by Washington. When the state of Israel was created, they let us do? They accepted retrospectively. When Jerusalem, Sinai, the Golan and Judea and Samaria were released after de Gaulle's veto in 67, we have approved? So far they oppose it and it's been 40 years. We will have to face U.S. opposition to one day or another. It is inevitable and the sooner the better. The Americans give us the illusion that here and there, we can respond militarily, but always according to their interests subject to contingencies. Now, we undertake to get rid of this pathetic government of cowards, that we dévassaliser Washington by reconstituting a small Jewish army efficient, which we will provide a greater range of freedom in our offensive initiatives. The alternative is to say, maintaining our bloated military potential and therefore our total subordination to the dictates of U.S. military mixed reactions and ineffective, territorial withdrawal and the creation of a Palestinian state is God forbid, our insured loss or at least a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. It has already started as can be seen by turning on the radio. Can we therefore reverse that trend? I'd like to believe, but to see the support Pavlovian the government and the IDF, even from the public who was the victim last summer, I doubt it.