The Purposes of Operation “Summer Rains”
by Prof. Eugene Narrett – copyright 2006
The Israeli army has been inching its way into the Gaza Strip for about eight days, ostensibly in response to the kidnapping of Corporal Gilad Shalit. Kidnapping is a misnomer and the tip-toe incursion is not mainly about rescuing him, as will be explained below. But the name of the Operation, “Summer Rains� is pure pr genius: soft, gentle, it sounds like a fabric softener which is basically its relation to the harsh reality of the war waged by global jihad. It’s named to please western spinners and consumers of news by conjuring up images of a moisturizing soap or other emollient.
Alas, the clever, only-too-apt name will not save Corporal Shalit, Sderot, Ashkelon or neighboring towns; it will not bring justice to Eliahu Asheri or the thousands of others like him. Rather, it will teach the jihadists even more contempt for Israel and Israelis thus resulting in more frequent and more horrible attacks. And then………
Summer Rains is meant to be an open-ended series of graduated phases because it is not meant to end or succeed in its ostensible mission. No; it is yet another part of the endless war of attrition which the American-Israeli diplomatic elites have long been deploying, through various means, against the Jewish people in their Land. Barring regime change, by or before a catastrophic terror strike, this is the future in store: more and more places in Israel (and throughout the world) are going to look and live like Sderot.
It’s not a pretty picture.
Here are the true purposes of Operation Summer Rains:
1): To save by saving the face of the elites that cripple Jewish settlement, viability, identity and pride; to save the Barak – Peres – Olmert regime that rules in accordance with the global vision of Foggy Bottom, Brussels and the Vatican.
This is the most immediate but not the main reason for the incursion into Gaza, so notable for the bombing of empty fields and empty offices. The main reason is, 2) to save the Road Map that the Israeli regime exists to execute. They are helped and held in place by the overt and covert maneuvers of the State Department and CIA and by various forms of economic blackmail and bribery.
Repeat: the main reason for the incursion in Gaza in to save the Road Map toward the expulsion of Jews from Judea and Samaria, for starters. We will come back to this main goal.
The third reason, 3) is to save the client regimes in Cairo and Amman, the regimes of President-for-life Mubarak and Prince Abdullah of trans-Jordan who are buttressed and programmed mainly by Washington (with assistance from the client regime in Jerusalem and from Europe) in order to keep the Road Map in place by insuring that jihadist pressure is channeled toward Israel and the Jews.
If the forces of global jihad become too powerful too soon it could lead to the fall of these client regimes and complicate the clearly laid rails of the Road Map to ghettoizing and decimating Jews. We will come back to this too; its feasibility is intricately linked to that of the preceding two purposes…
4) The least important purpose by far, the ‘for public consumption’ pretext for the entire charade is to retrieve Corporal Shalit. If he is not retrieved the client regime in Jerusalem will lose a lot of face and, with it, its ability to maintain its chokehold on the Jewish people in Israel (and elsewhere). So they’d like to get him out although their slavish adherence to the Camp David – Oslo – Road Map to Israel’s constriction is what put him and all other Jews in Israel in daily risk of their lives in the first place.
Here’s one of those junctures where the internal contradictions and de facto impossibility of the Road Map and the new world order become apparent.
If the regime truly gave a hoot about Jewish life the Road Map (and Oslo) would have been rejected out of hand as the suicidal and treasonous games that they are. Eliahu Asheri and thousands of other Jews like him were murdered or maimed because of what Oslo did to Israel, fragmenting it into a congeries of terrorist havens and small terror states. Those who did it and still defend its full implementation are fully responsible for everything that has ensued.
The good and bad news is that these goals of Summer Rains, of the Barak –Peres clique and of the global grand-gamers in Foggy Bottom, White Hall and Brussels are mutually contradictory. The Operation is a paper tiger emollient because the terrorists must not be dispirited by a major counter blow. They must not be dispirited or decimated because their relentless murderous pressure is needed to provide the rationale for Israel’s ruling elite to continue expelling Jews from ever larger portions of the Promised Land per the Road Map.
Also, not dealing them a crushing blow in Gaza keeps them and the hostile population that harbors and largely supports them from fleeing to Egypt. This they in fact had begun to do when Israel’s tanks arrived, but they were halted in their flight by reassurances of the Israeli government and the familiar limpness of its ‘military response’ to terror.
After all, Washington’s puppet regime does not want the Jews of Gush Katif to go back and rebuild their beautiful communities; Washington and its clients do not want a flourishing and sovereign Jewish Israel established in its land. They can’t manage the crisis without a crisis to manage. Thus the bloody game continues.
However, by failing to significantly decimate the jihadists, the Israeli regime and its string-pullers in Washington have led the former to become more defiant and aggressive, increasing their threat not only to Jews in Israel but to the stability of the client regimes in Cairo and Amman. Mubarak and Abdullah are looking at the abyss and they know it, but the contradictions in Washington’s policy have created an irresolvable dilemma for all concerned.
As a result, as bitter a failure and a joke as Operation Summer Rains has been to date, the agenda of Washington and its main puppet has locked it into a context where unintended consequences will force Israel closer to regime change and, dare we say it, victory. The terrorists that are the West’s weapon of choice for bludgeoning Israel into abject servility (Olmert is the poster boy for this condition) grow ever more emboldened and increasingly a threat to the client states in Cairo, Jerusalem and Amman. The puppet governments in all places are in great jeopardy and a major change in Israel’ governance and orientation toward the world and its birthright grows closer with the catastrophic terror attack that successive administrations have all but insured.
The end game being played by the globalists is untenable and self-negating, and the above is an empirical explanation of how their scheme is doomed for attempting to trump the Divine plan for Israel. Their impressive and bloody magic trick, imposed by enormous and varied pressures is coming apart. Soon the emperor’s raw nakedness will be exposed so even most leftists will see it. What a bitter shame that it will take a tragedy of immense proportions to reveal the obvious and malicious facts.
Two potential bright spots: 1) recognition that Corporal Shalit is a P.O.W. and must be treated according to the Geneva Convention stipulations. If he is harmed in anyway the entire enemy apparatus, — jihadist leaders, cadres and hostile population becomes responsible and must pay the physical price. Applying this legal and moral standard would help expose what Islamic jihad means and seeks. 2) For reasons of personal and professional pride the General Staff of the IDF, increasingly disgusted by the indecision and limpness of the current government, and the danger into which it has put the IDF may decide it’s had enough of being a dishrag for the politicians and judges. With power comes responsibility and it is in this Israeli institution where a major change is possible and needed.
Perhaps the humiliated pride, if not a sense of brotherhood at the top echelons in the IDF will prompt them to act to save their honor and, thus, indirectly the Jewish people before a disaster strikes. To achieve this salvation, the enemy must be named, destroyed and victory achieved. Then Israel will settle in its place, proud and beyond doubts and critics. There is no peace without integrity and wholeness (shleimyut) and no wholeness without victory. It is in sight. Where is the will to choose honor and sovereignty?
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