Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Israel is risking losing this war because it is focusing more on avoiding criticism from its enemies than winning. I blame Benjamin Netanyahu in large part, but also our incompetent and loathsome alleged president. Now, I’m not one of those reflexive Bibi haters, and while I certainly don’t think the United States should have a say in who Israel chooses to lead it, I do believe in accountability. The disaster of October 7 happened on his watch, and he should’ve resigned the day after, but that’s not up to me or up to any American. What is up to me as an American is who our president will be next year, and it can’t be Biden again. But the desiccated old zombie aside, Bibi needs to go. He screwed up on October 7, and now he appears to be screwing up this war.
The problem is not that Netanyahu has been too harsh, as our idiot president claims. It’s that Netanyahu has been too gentle (Yes, I understand a war cabinet is leading Israel, but he is still the face of it.). And too slow. Joe Biden has betrayed every ally America has had, from South Vietnam to Afghanistan and Bibi somehow imagined that creep would not sell-out Israel? Speed was of the essence. Why was Rafah not glass months ago? Netanyahu waited, and that gave Biden the time to sell out Israel.
Restraining was a mistake. The fact is that Israel has, to a far too great extent, tried to fight this war on terms that would satisfy its leftist enemies in the United States and other anti-Semites around the world. That was an error from the beginning. Israel’s strategy should have focused on victory, not on trying to mollify its critics. They will cry no matter what. Let them cry over defeated terrorists. Do you know what mollifies critics most effectively? Winning. Israel should’ve done that, and fast. But it didn’t. Despite the courage and skill of the IDF, who are a credit to their great nation, Israel’s leadership chose to fight this war and is still fighting this war in a manner that allows others who do not have Israel’s best interest at heart to dictate its strategic and tactical prerogatives. That is a grave error. That is putting Israel in danger.
Israel has three main related strategic military objectives at the moment. First, Israel needs to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons. Second, Israel must eliminate Hezbollah on its northern border. This Jihadi militia is dug in inside Lebanon with enough Iranian-supplied rockets to devastate Israel’s infrastructure, as well as having the ability to launch October 7-style attacks. And third, Israel must destroy Hamas in Gaza. A surviving Hamas can launch more October 7-style attacks and has promised to do so if able.
Now, these strategic objectives are interrelated in the sense that Iran is behind all of them. And there is also the diplomatic issue of maintaining some level of Israeli support throughout the world, particularly within the United States. As long as the fighting continues, diplomatic support will continue to deteriorate. Solving the second and third strategic challenges resolves that diplomatic issue – there’s nothing like victory, and a decisive Israeli win would allow Israel to retake the diplomatic initiative. Dragging out the issues of Hezbollah and Hamas has given Israel’s enemies time to concentrate propaganda power against it. Seeing the war on television every day helps our enemies. But a victory over Hezbollah and Hamas would put Israel in a better position, and that supports the strategic objective of stopping Iran from getting the bomb. Israel losing to Hezbollah and Hamas makes it more likely that Iran will seek to get the bomb.
There are a lot of hard truths here, and somebody must speak them. The first hard truth is those hostages are probably dead. Hamas likely murdered most of them. It’s certainly torturing and raping the survivors. You cannot have a successful strategy that prioritizes hostage lives. You just can’t. The priority has to be defeating the enemy. Defeating the enemy solves all the problems. Ideally, you want a situation where the enemy is so devastated that it begs you to accept your hostages back. But the hostage issue is driving this bus, and the leftist hostage families in Israel are attacking the government – not a lot of people understand that the main victims of October 7 were Israeli leftists who lived in socialist kibbitzes or were at a “peace rave” near Gaza and embraced the fantasy of Palestinian brotherhood right up until the moment their “brothers” raped and slaughtered them. In any case, those leftist hostage families are demanding that the government prioritize the lives of their likely-dead relatives, while the real priority needs to be defeating Hamas – the one thing that provides the only chance of getting those captives back alive. Because our regime media is inept as well as corrupt, you don’t hear about this fracture in Israeli society, but this is a huge issue in the Jewish State.
But Israel did what it did, though Israel never should have gone into Gaza the way it did, first and slowly. Oh, Gaza needed to pay. And it needed to pay hard. The real threat, the main strategic challenge that Israel needed to resolve, was Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel is going to go to war against Iran’s catspaw to the north, and the only question is when. It should’ve done it on October 8. It should’ve invaded Lebanon and wiped out Hezbollah’s military forces. Lebanon is not a country anymore. It is a puppet of Iran whose Hezbollah forces are actually the army of the country. Israel should’ve wiped them out, day one, no quarter.
What should Israel have done about Hamas? Made Gaza a supporting effort. Israel should have surrounded it, probed it to degrade the enemy, and targeted its leaders, all while making the main effort Hezbollah. Crushing Hezbollah would have eliminated an existential threat to Israel, whereas Hamas could never destroy the country. It could only cause mass casualties and drive down Israeli morale. Crushing Hezbollah also would have the effect of neutering Iran in the Levant and taking a threat off Israel’s border. Hamas could be dealt with later. You seal it off. You don’t let supplies in – I don’t understand why suddenly the ancient art of siege warfare has transformed into an obligation to feed your enemy’s population, a population that supports the terrorists. You attrit Hamas with some of your forces, while you use the majority of your army to conquer Lebanon. When Lebanon is secure, then you go in after the weakened Hamas. Again, your goal with Hamas is to run the terrorist casualties up so high that they beg to surrender their prisoners to you. You don’t negotiate with terrorists. You let them plead with you to stop killing them.
Won’t that mean civilian death? Yes, because wars mean civilian deaths. This is why you shouldn’t start them. But it does not mean you should not finish them. You need some spine. You need to be tough. You need to win. Yes, some aid workers are going to get killed. Not intentionally. Not by choice, but by the mere fact that they are in the midst of a battlefield.
The enemy will try and leverage the reality of the war they caused to save themselves. Sadly, the cynical ploy is working in some quarters. It’s like the terrorists are Cleavon Little and the regime media and our trash ruling class are the dumb townspeople in “Blazing Saddles” – except this isn’t funny.
That’s why you need to keep the war short and victorious. Don’t spend your time trying to sanitize it. Win it. The Israeli PR effort seems to be driving its war effort. It is spending far too much time trying to prove to people who hate it that they are the good guys. Stop trying to prove you are the good guys – anyone who is not a moral illiterate knows that you are the good guys – and start proving that you are the winners. Nothing succeeds like success. Nothing is more victorious than victory. When you win by destroying your enemy, you dictate the terms. As long as you have not won, you are losing.
And the Israeli leadership is letting this happen. Israel has slowed down for Ramadan or whatever and allowed the enemy to dig in and mobilize its foreign allies to pressure Israel to adopt a suicidal cease-fire. Insane. Of course, Biden, a certifiable idiot who Robert Gates once accurately observed has been wrong about every single foreign policy issue of the last 50 years, is now doing exactly what Hamas wants. He is guaranteeing more war, more death, and more destruction – including here at home, where the terrorists will strike because they will see we are led by cowards and weaklings – all in exchange for a short-term gain in the form of improving his electoral chances in Michigan and appeasing the left. He might get some Muslim votes (let’s hope he loses a lot more Jewish ones), but he’s never going to appease the left. The left will not be appeased until every Jew in Israel is dead or gone – and then it will start agitating for their friends to slaughter us settlers here in America. So, stop trying to appease the enemy. Start destroying the enemy. The left will still hate you, but at least their deadly friends will be dead.
Israel has taken too long to win this war, and it began the war at the wrong end of the battlefield. I blame Israel’s leaders – I am Old Army where the guy in command is the guy who is responsible. But I have hope. Israelis are tough, brave, and resourceful, and they can still refocus and prevail. We patriots should back them up 100% because their enemies are our enemies, but only Israel can win this war. That’s what it needs to do. If not months ago, now.
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Hey Kurt, could you turn out the lights for me too?
From what I see on this site, and it’s getting worse every day, is the worst site that I’ve been on that professes Christianity and knows the lease about Israel of any of them. Israel will win this war because the Bible says they will. It won’t be of their own accord because eventually the whole world will come against them. God put them in “their” land, the land He gave them and said this would be the last generation. Jesus is coming back to gather his elect, the tribulation will begin and the world will be turned to the antiChrist system. Nobody will ever remove the Jews from this land.
Oh Please! The Scofield Reference Bible is not The Bible!
All your crap about Israel, raptures, and your other garbage comes from that source, a source that the Jews were instrumental in developing, distributing, and attempting to make definitive. It is just another self-serving attempt at controlling people.
You are swallowing it, hook, line, and sinker. And when the anti-christ does show up, you are destined to fall for his show, fake miracles and all.
And you will do this for a people who have nothing but the deepest contempt for you and consider you nothing more than cattle, whose only use is to serve and benefit them.
Enjoy your number. At least you’ll be able to buy and sell for a while.
What ever you think if Israel if they lose the war, the lose their democracy, their nation and their lives.
If only that were true.
Another ignorant jew hater heard from. Go over and kill people if you believe that, you cowardly putz.
This is not a war it’s a genocide.
Of Arabs? Not happening.
No of the ACTUAL Semites whose families have been there for centuries also several ancient Christian sects also….try to keep up
War=Dropping 2,000 lb bombs on defenseless women and children. This guy is a cruel asshole.
Keep sucking that Jew dick, Kurt. You’re absolutely pathetic.
George Washington would have your dick cut off for your love of foreign entanglements.
Jefferson would hold you down while he did it.
Hey, fag. You actually have to WIN a fucking war before you can throw around the “war crimes” lies.
In that case you’re not allowed to criticize anything, loser.
LOL. You triggered little bitch.
Though they did not always abide by their own philosophy, Washington and Jefferson would not have aided or abetted either the Palestinians or the Israelis. The descendants of Abraham’s consorts – Sarah and Hagar – have been fighting each other for thousans of years. Meddling by Fedgov USA serves only to amplify a problem which is none of our business and does so to the detriment of our own citizenry.
I wonder if he bends over for his jewish wife like he does for ZOG.
You would be the pathetic hater.
Hating evil is a good thing….
Putin and Netanyahu are the two smartest leaders on the planet today. No wonder everyone is shitting their pants! They’re probably wondering why they aren’t already dead! People whom they have hated all their lives are running the show! That can’t be good, right?
You’re still crying about them, so…yeah. Winning!
Some people believe the destruction of Gaza is justified.
Innocent lives lost and obliteration of infrastructure.
Others wish Iran, Russia, or China would do to Israel, what Israel is doing to the Palestinians in Gaza.
Rules for thee, but not for me..
Hypocrisy.
Double standard.
Arrogance.
Maybe Bibi can have his people negotiate with Hamas and get this thing over once and for all?
Well there you have it…………Kurt too is a shill for hooked nose kikes.
So, maybe this is how the Jews get kicked out of their own country, instead of someone else’s country?
Israel supporters are low life scum. Kurt, that means you. You are a lying piece of shit.
First, this is not a war, this is a genocide against unarmed civilians. Civilians that Israel has made prisoners inside their own country because Israel believes in a evil religion that they themselves invented to excuse their crimes against the rest of humanity.
If Israel attacks Iran, Iran will destroy many cities within Israel and give the scumbag Israeli’s a little taste of what they have been doing to the Palestinians.
The people of the world now are seeing Israel and the Israeli’s as the evil psychopaths they are, and the entire world is turning against Israel and its supporters. May Israel, and all of its people reap the misery and death they have sown in multiples. May the people of the earth never forget or forgive the people of Israel….
Come say it to my face, hater. FAFO the hard way, bitch.
Oh, he’s baaadass TCS. He’ll haul you off to The Hague. Very Baaadass.
You don’t have a face, Zio shillbot.
Where does your face reside, Mary?
CS, You are a sissy hiding behind your keyboard…
I know this is supposed to be entertaining, but it feels and reads sort of like an instruction manual for how one should view the Jews actions. I think they stand on their own, TBH…
“I just see a big bloody ship.” – James Bond
Seriously, Kurt, STFU.
That is some serious twisted logic right there.
I don’t care about Israel, and I don’t understand why my rulers do. I have told them what I think but they don’t seem to care what I think. Maybe money is involved, it seems to be involved in everything else.
Kurt’s rose coloured-glasses have prevented him from viewing the Gaza Atrocity for what it is: ethnic cleansing; scorched earth, and the mass slaughter of defenseless civilians.
This, after operating an open-air concentration camp for half a century. Israel can not now be viewed as the good guys, only a rogue state. They lost the global war for hearts and minds and with everyday of no cease-fire it heaps great dishonor on the entire nation and religion. Bad news for the Jews.
One more time. When the Jew Boys have killed 10% as many Rags as the number of Christians killed by Rags in the mideast, send me a notice.
You are an idiot. The Jews have killed far more Christians than the Muslims ever have. The Zionist hate all of humanity that is not Jewish.
If you can provide any more than your bigoted opinion to back that claim, please do so.
The 34 sailors murdered on USS Liberty were Christian. The cancer cluster in Apollo, PA at the former NUMEC plant are mostly Christian. The Christian Church in Gaza bombed by Israel was Christian. Count Bernadotte was Christian. Lord Moyne was Christian. Most of the British citizens killed in the King David Hotel bombing were Christian. One quarter of the Palestinians killed in the Nabka were Christian.
That’s off the top of my head.
Let’s remember the Holodomore by the Judaic Bolsheviks – 4 to 5 million Christian Ukranians starved to death.
The brutal shooting and bayoneting by jewish communist revolutionaries of Tsar Nicholas Romanov (who was also the head of the Russian Orthodox Church), his wife, and his five children.
Ever hear of the Copt Christians?
Talmud
Sanhedrin 59a: “Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal.”
Abodah Zara 26b: “Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed.”
Libbre David 37: “To communicate anything to a Goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly.”
Libbre David 37: “If a Jew be called upon to explain any part of the rabbinic books, he ought to give only a false explanation. Who ever will violate this order shall be put to death.”
Schabouth Hag. 6d: “Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording.”
Hilkkoth Akum X1: “Do not save Goyim in danger of death.”
Hilkkoth Akum X1: “Show no mercy to the Goyim.”
Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: “A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them.”
Baba Necia 114, 6: “The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts.”
Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: “Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night.”
Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: “If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible.”
Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: “It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces.”
Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: “All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples.”
Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: “How to interpret the word ‘robbery.’ A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy.”
Seph. Jp., 92, 1: “God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations.”
How about chartering a bus to Dearborn Michiganistan? You can mingle with those wonderful, loving Raghead fuques and scream Death To America! Death To Israel! to your heart’s content. That’s who the shitheads among us are supporting. People screaming Death To America! on the streets of America. Asshats, Ass Clowns, Assholes.
Calm down, Bartholomew.
Do you want an aisle seat or a window seat on the bus?
Settle down, Finklestein.
Enemies both. Let nature take its course.
If you love America so much why do you steal billions of dollars from hard working Americans who live paycheck to paycheck? You never gave us any of the land you stole and we wouldn’t want it anyway.
You talking about Jews or American politicians?
Israel has signed its own death warrant. After its destruction we can hunt down all supporters….
“But I have hope. Israelis are tough, brave, and resourceful, and they can still refocus and prevail. We patriots should back them up 100% because their enemies are our enemies, but only Israel can win this war. That’s what it needs to do. If not months ago, now.”
Umm, Kurty thanks for the the Cold War Warrior analysis. I’ll take a pass on supporting anyone in this fight. Of course “Israel is our greatest ally”? Yeah, remember the USS Liberty, Kurty?
WTF is this BS?
One side has not much army,no navy and no air force and you still call this a WAR??????
NO planes or helos,no artillery or AAA…..
Sorry dude,Israhell has NO right to exist at the expense of all others to the detriment of all others!!! Isn’t that the kind of colonialism the left constantly screeches about?????
One more thing……..keep thinking that this ISNT about GOODd versus EVIL or that GOD isnt real…….
Thanks to German engineering and American tax dollars, Israel’s nuclear arsenal, officially unacknowledged lest it be accused of violating the international non-proliferation treaty, is arguably the 4th or 5th largest on the planet and can be deployed by its fleet of medium-size, Dolphin-class submarines to target all major cities in the world.
Call me a new enemy. I used to be on your side, but now couldn’t be further from you. I don’t wish you and yours harm, but would avoid you if I could. Perhaps all you who so support Israel could indicate that, by putting one of those blue and white star flags on the door. That way I could walk up, see the sign and turn around. You don’t want my money anymore than I want to do business with you, so this is a win win solution. I know your side likes the making of lists and blacklisting folks so this sounds almost pre-approved!
This isn’t a war, it’s a land grab under the pretense of war-
There are also untapped oil fields off the coast of Gaza.
Just a bunch of lies
Oct. 9th like 9/11 was a real terrorist attack…carried out by the same government Kurt is defending. Kurt is a Zionist shill that conveniently ignores the genocide of innocent civilians while crying and pearl clutching about the horrors of antisemitism…Kurt should change his name to Kunt.
I got booed really hard for a comment on some of what the Talmud says regarding the Goyim. Really hard. However, the article’s point is valid. The people crying to the Jews ‘stop’ said nothing in each and every attack the moslems have thrown at Israel… and local Jews there, for the last fourteen hundred years. They didn’t prevent the most recent on October 7, and they’ve prevented exactly none in the last fourteen hundred years. But they say to the Jew, ‘stop hurting the people who slaughter your wives and mothers, your daughters, your grand-mams and your sons, fathers, grand-paps, husbands, your uncles, aunts your grand babies and great grand babies as well as the great grand moms and pops, great aunts and uncles, in laws and out laws as well’. You’ve hurt them enough they say.
My attitude toward the Talmud and the religion is a thing, self defense is entirely another. Right? Wrong? Who am I to say. Who jumped whom, that I can say I see.