You are 100% on the money. Jewish guilt has always been a problem.. Israel is a powerful force and should make no excuses for destroying the evil surrounding them. Great essay!
Yes. I know it's very difficult for Israel and it's easy for us to comment when we are not in the position of Israel's government, having to deal with physical attackers on one side and ideological attackers on the other. But the Indian government, in an admittedly less vulnerable position, is doing better. A team has been appointed to visit various countries in the middle east and the West, to discuss India's response to the Kashmir killings. Among them are two opposition leaders, one a Muslim. For context on the Kashmir killings: https://ruthvanita452091.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-hindus-in-kashmir
The problem is that there's only one rational way to attain victory. One way that takes into account what has been tried, what *should* and should *not* be tried, and what the results have been. One way that takes into account who the enemy is and *what* the enemy is.
And people are simply terrified of it. Their emotions (their "tool of cognition") won't allow them to see what the rational solution is.
Phenomenal article. My only quibble is that Eylon Levy was merely returning to his roots. He's part of the deep left and always has been. He was marching against the judicial reform along with the rest of the folks who simply couldn't accept the results of the last elections.
Israel should completly withdraw from the West Bank. Let the Palestinians get on with it. Dont employ them in Israel. The settlers who want to stay can stay under Palestinian rule. Before Israel leaves, the West Bank people should be warned that any violence against Israel will mean complete devastation of the West Bank.
I would have cited “even the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry claims 57 deaths in the last 2.5 months from malnutrition, over 20,000 Americans died of malnutrition in 2022”.
There’s no starvation in Gaza but there is food insecurity and malnutrititon. But the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is stepping up operations.
That very well may be true, but it doesn't cut to the moral heart of the issue.
The core is that there **should** be a humanitarian crisis in Gaza after what happened on October 7th, and it's a shame that the war has been prolonged for so long because of Israel's reluctance to end it.
Instead of cutting the war short by implementing a siege properly, and letting Gaza wave their white flag and return our hostages, we've sacrificed our soldiers and destroyed our own economy to help our worst enemy since the holocaust.
I think the ground invasion was a good move. The shekel dropped to a record low against the dollar right before the ground invasion, and went up once the ground invasion happened. I trust the market. Netanyahu and Gallant’s two week siege after 10/7 wasn’t good for the shekel.
I don’t think a full siege is politically viable, even if it would have been better for Israel for the reasons you say and possibly for the Palestinians alike, since they possibly would have surrendered before 60K civilian deaths. I wouldn’t count on it though. With social media and modern norms pictures of starving kids are too much to stomach. There might have been actual sanctions.
You see, these sorts of calculations are shtetl mentality sort of calculations. Israel wasn't founded for the sake of pleasing the gentiles, but for protecting Jewish life. If the world would hate us for it, so be it! I would take their sanctions over the gas chambers.
In the real world many calculations must be balanced. The way to get to the gas chambers is to be sanctioned. You were the one who brought up the economy.
Your post is one of the best repudiations of the defenders of Palestine and those who attack all “colonizers”.
Thank you for your work.
Thank you, Daniel! I appreciate your compliment and your continuous support. Stay tuned for more on that issue :)
You are 100% on the money. Jewish guilt has always been a problem.. Israel is a powerful force and should make no excuses for destroying the evil surrounding them. Great essay!
Thank you!
Excellent!! Once you are polite to killers, u have made ur first mistake!!
Excellent piece! Can I post on X?
Certainly. Make sure to tag me and link to the Substack @YonatanDaon
Amen brother
Yes. I know it's very difficult for Israel and it's easy for us to comment when we are not in the position of Israel's government, having to deal with physical attackers on one side and ideological attackers on the other. But the Indian government, in an admittedly less vulnerable position, is doing better. A team has been appointed to visit various countries in the middle east and the West, to discuss India's response to the Kashmir killings. Among them are two opposition leaders, one a Muslim. For context on the Kashmir killings: https://ruthvanita452091.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-hindus-in-kashmir
The problem is that there's only one rational way to attain victory. One way that takes into account what has been tried, what *should* and should *not* be tried, and what the results have been. One way that takes into account who the enemy is and *what* the enemy is.
And people are simply terrified of it. Their emotions (their "tool of cognition") won't allow them to see what the rational solution is.
Phenomenal article. My only quibble is that Eylon Levy was merely returning to his roots. He's part of the deep left and always has been. He was marching against the judicial reform along with the rest of the folks who simply couldn't accept the results of the last elections.
You were featured on Pamela Geller's blog this morning, somehow I missed you here on sub stack, subscribed and shared
“We are the last ones standing with courage.
We are the only ones fighting evil, not debating it.
We still know right from wrong and are willing to act on it.
Let them rot in their decadence.”
Fully agree. Very powerful essay.
Israel should completly withdraw from the West Bank. Let the Palestinians get on with it. Dont employ them in Israel. The settlers who want to stay can stay under Palestinian rule. Before Israel leaves, the West Bank people should be warned that any violence against Israel will mean complete devastation of the West Bank.
I support Israel.
I think it’s ok for the BBC to ask Bennett hard questions. Asking adversarial questions is part of a journalist’s job and they do it to everyone.
The point isn't that it's wrong that the BBC asks any sort of questions, but the pathetic way in which Israelis respond to such questions.
Bennett should have answered yes there's starvation, look at our freed hostages and let that sit & stew in the smarmy BBC skulls 🤷
I would have cited “even the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry claims 57 deaths in the last 2.5 months from malnutrition, over 20,000 Americans died of malnutrition in 2022”.
There’s no starvation in Gaza but there is food insecurity and malnutrititon. But the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is stepping up operations.
That very well may be true, but it doesn't cut to the moral heart of the issue.
The core is that there **should** be a humanitarian crisis in Gaza after what happened on October 7th, and it's a shame that the war has been prolonged for so long because of Israel's reluctance to end it.
Instead of cutting the war short by implementing a siege properly, and letting Gaza wave their white flag and return our hostages, we've sacrificed our soldiers and destroyed our own economy to help our worst enemy since the holocaust.
I think the ground invasion was a good move. The shekel dropped to a record low against the dollar right before the ground invasion, and went up once the ground invasion happened. I trust the market. Netanyahu and Gallant’s two week siege after 10/7 wasn’t good for the shekel.
I don’t think a full siege is politically viable, even if it would have been better for Israel for the reasons you say and possibly for the Palestinians alike, since they possibly would have surrendered before 60K civilian deaths. I wouldn’t count on it though. With social media and modern norms pictures of starving kids are too much to stomach. There might have been actual sanctions.
You see, these sorts of calculations are shtetl mentality sort of calculations. Israel wasn't founded for the sake of pleasing the gentiles, but for protecting Jewish life. If the world would hate us for it, so be it! I would take their sanctions over the gas chambers.
In the real world many calculations must be balanced. The way to get to the gas chambers is to be sanctioned. You were the one who brought up the economy.