PROTECTING ISRAEL FROM VICTORY
Thursday, June 29th, 2006by Prof. Eugene Narrett - copyright 2006
Mahmoud Abas’ military ‘wing,’ the Fatah al aksa brigade boasts that it has shot a rocket bearing a bio-chemical warhead into Israel. This is quite possible and the public response of the Olmert administration minimizing the incident is predictable. Only a terrorist attack resulting in enormous Jewish casualties might, — repeat, might compel the client regime of Foggy Bottom to respond with significant military force against the jihadists who are in open war against Israel, shooting rockets within the 1949 armistice lines almost every day for six years. But the Olmert - Peres regime will not preempt a catastrophe; will not acknowledge it until it happens. When it does, their cadres in the media and academia will blare that it is because Israel has not withdrawn fast or far enough toward the ocean.
That’s how intelligent the “enlightened ones” in Israel are. And the “world community” will gladly echo their noise.
The last thing the Olmert ” Peres group wants is to be put in a position where it needs to save face and thus retain its chokehold on Israeli society by meaningfully striking jihadists. If this clique was to take a major bite out of terrorism it would damage the regime’s excuse and means (the terrorists) for ‘justifying’ the alienation of the central portions of the Jewish heritage of land and holy sites. This alienation is also known as “the peace process” or the “Road Map.”
The homicidal rage of the jihadists is more reality-based than it seems. It is based partly on an accurate assessment of the fact that the dominant elites in Israel intend to destroy the Jewish aspects of the state and that therefore terrorism can be escalated with success if it is done steadily with occasional spikes, like the kidnapping and murder of Jewish soldiers and civilians, built in to move the process along.
The “Palestinian” terrorist groups are not only pawns of Arab states and ruling elites but of the Israeli secular elites that want, 1) to preempt the dawn of a truly Jewish and self-respecting Israel, and 2) to maintain their own socio-political dominance despite their small numbers.
This is why the current occupation of small parts of Gaza by the IDF is so limp, so lacking in major firepower directed against all areas that harbor terrorists and all hostile population centers. This is why the IDF and Olmert regime already, as the Labor “Zionists” did in 1948 are pleading with the Arabs not to flee to Egypt but to stay in the Gaza area: they need them to be as close as possible to the Jewish towns they will attack for further withdrawals to be justified until Israel reaches the size that the State Department deems adequate for its complete servility while also retaining some value as a target for global jihad and as a steady source of computer, laser, military and medical technology. That’s the game.
Instead of taking grim satisfaction in the imminent destabilization and fall of the regimes in Egypt and Jordan respectively and their replacement by jihadist cliques whose attacks might embarrass Israel into a meaningful military strike, Israel’s government is now aligned with American and French diplomats in laboring to save the puppet regimes in Cairo and Amman by extricating kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. For the diplomats he is merely a means to save the client states involved and to save the Road Map to the compression or extinction of Israel.
This game is self-defeating for, like the expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif it emboldens Hamas, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran bringing closer the major attack that will force the anti-Jewish client regimes in Jerusalem to strike back decisively or to lose their hold over the IDF and the Jews. When the terrible attack comes, as in 1948, the forces of ‘havlaga‘ (”self-restraint, a rationalization of the elite’s refusal to embrace the Jewish birthright) will counterattack only as much as they need to do to maintain their power and facade of legitimacy. And so terror strikes will escalate until the entire unnatural charade, the wall of whitewashed plaster is swept away by a storm.
Still the game plays on: Israeli official reports, echoed by world media in consonance with jihadist bluster, emphasize the ‘dangers’ of Israel attacking its enemies throughout Gaza. Mines, booby traps, — blather. These are serious obstacles only if the politicized and neutered IDF, true to form from 1948 to 2002 uses its ground troops as cannon fodder and refrains from fully using its air force. This of course is what should be done to reduce jihadist enclaves to the condition of Dresden in April 1945. This would bring genuine peace at last, the last thing the silk hats want.
Maybe Secretary of State Rice should order Olmert to press such an attack since it would save Hosni Mubarak from the nightmare western diplomacy and Islamic imperialism has created in Gaza and so many other places.
