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If the proposal for peace in Gaza supported by President Joe
Biden and his probable successor, soon-to-be Democrat presidential nominee Kamala
Harris, is ever implemented, it will be the second time Israel has
withdrawn all military forces from Gaza in hopes of securing a “two state
solution” to Iranian supported violence in the heart of Israel.
The first attempt, prospective Democrat president Kamala
Harris well knows, did not succeed. Israel completed its unilateral
disengagement from the Gaza Strip after 38 years in September 2005. In pursuit
of an elusive “two state solution” for peace in the Middle East, Israel
withdrew all its troops and Israeli settlers from Gaza. Following the
withdrawal, Hamas displaced the Palestine Liberation Organization and proceeded
to prosecute its war on Israel, with what results we have seen on October 7,
2023.
There is no reason to suppose that a second or third attempt
at a “two state solution” will be more successful – unless Hamas is militarily defeated
and Gaza is protected from Iranian supported terrorists.
Those who cry “peace, peace,” when there is no peace, claim
to be opponents of a “wider war” in the Middle East. They have been asleep at
their post for the past two decades and more. The war in the Middle East has already
been widened by Iran and its proxy terrorist armies: Hamas, situated in the
very heart of Israel, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen.
After months of grueling urban battle, the question arises: Who
shall rule in Gaza? Neither former President Barrack Obama, nor Biden, nor
Harris has given us an honest answer to this all-important question. Harris, soon
to be chosen by the Democrat National Committee as a presidential nominee,
should make an attempt to answer that question. If not Israel, who?
The Biden administration, it would appear, is willing --
despite its insistence that it has Israel’s back – to tolerate only a defensive
war, so that the Middle East might return to the status quo ante of 2005.
The situation is similar in Ukraine. The Biden
administration has consistently refused to supply Ukraine with fighter jets,
long after Connecticut U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal implored Biden to do so.
The result has been years of Putin's relentless bombardment of Ukrainian
civilians.
Ukraine has done everything Biden has at great cost asked the
besieged citizens of the country to do – and they are losing in their struggle
against Putin. The Washington D.C. directed war in Ukraine is failing. Indeed,
it must
fail if Ukraine is never permitted by those of its “friends” at Foggy Bottom to
conduct an offensive war against Putin’s bases in Crimea and on the Russian
border of Eastern Ukraine, both safe spaces for Russian forces.
Putin’s logic is irrefutable. After Russia has forcibly
annexed Crimea and areas close to Russia on Ukraine’s eastern border -- in
order to secure safe areas in which it may bomb Ukraine into rubble and
submission -- any offensive attack on Russian forces within the annexed
territories is an attack on Russia proper and must be prevented by Ukraine’s
“friends” in foggy bottom, endlessly searching in vain for a peaceful
“negotiated settlement” of the conflict.
An Obama-Biden-Harris shaped war in in the Middle East
prosecuted by the false “friends of Israel” must fail for reasons alluded to in
Netanyahu’s address to the U.S. Congress – boycotted by Harris, the presumptive
future Democrat president of the United States. In both the Ukraine and Israel wars,
it is not difficult to read the writing on the wall.
And the writing on the wall says clearly: Only those who win
a war may shape the peace. Or, to put it in terms Netanyahu used during his
address to the U.S. Congress: If Israel does not accomplish its war aims – to
destroy Hamas and other sworn enemies of Israel -- it must lose the peace. To
put a finer point on it, never in world history have those who lost a war been
able by peaceful negotiations to shape the destiny of a state.
Iran, a Shia state that fully intends to destroy Israel,
must cut Israel to pieces over time through attrition, because it cannot
prosecute under its own flag a successful war against an Israel allied with the
United States, the Great Satan -- provided the United States seriously intends
to bring the war against Israel to a successful conclusion.
How is such success to be measured? The answer to the
question is simple: “We win, they lose,” Netanyahu told the U.S. Congress.
To maintain its integrity as a state, Israel must win in its
struggle against its enemies. This is the true meaning of an “existential”
struggle, quite literally a struggle for continued existence.
The Houthis movement in Yemen -- Anṣār Allāh, “أنصار اله” or
”Supporters of God” -- is a Shia Islamist political and military organization.
Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon are Shia. Iran is Shia and Persian. Hamas is a
Sunni offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood based in Egypt. All three groups are
implacable militant enemies of Israel, pledged to its destruction at a time
when Sunnis in Saudi Arabia have made peace overtures to Israel. Arabia is
largely Sunni. These two groups, Sunni and Shia, have been at war with each
other, on and off, for 1,400 years. However, the modern Sunni-Shia struggle,
while rooted in theological and cultural animosities, is driven forward by the
modern political rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
All this and more must be understood by American politicians
on the hunt for peace by means of a “two state solution” to the modern
post-World War II struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia. There can be no “two
state solution” that will satisfy a fight to the death between a cat and a dog
engaged in a contest for political dominance.
The problem is not that Netanyahu has no vision of the
future in Gaza once the enemies of Israel have been routed and neutralized. The
problem is that his opponents, including three Democrat presidents, have no
memory of the recent past. At the very least, everyone here in the United
States who is not a boastful anti-Semite should agree that the state of Israel must
not be a casualty of this struggle.
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