Instead of defeating Hamas, Sinwar turned from a gang leader into a leader the whole world is waiting for his mouth / Photo adaptation, Reuven Castro, Reuters
Israel has a strange custom - whoever declares war on it, becomes a Nobel Peace Prize winner or at least a leader of world stature.
So it was with Sadat, so it was with Yasser Arafat - and it seems that the conditions will soon be ripe for the announcement of the candidacy of Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the October 7th massacre.
I went further: the Nobel Peace Prize will probably no longer be given to the rabbi of the terrorists, but an entire country sat last night and waited for the mouth of the man who vowed to destroy - and did not hesitate by any means along the way.
This is an amazing phenomenon: more than three months after each Israeli leader swore, in turn, that he would persecute Hamas until Horma and Sinwar until death, the leader of Hamas became an international personality - after not only Israel was waiting for his mouth last night, but also in Qatar, Cairo and even in the White House.
The Saudis promised that he would deliver his answer in seven, the Egyptians said in eight - it's good that we didn't check what the Turks were saying before we suffered another humiliation: the cessation of the war as a condition for holding negotiations.
That's how we single-handedly turned this scumbag, a religious fanatic and extremist even by Muslim standards, into a man to be blamed for.
What's the wonder in Gaza that the majority of residents (and as a result, all Palestinians - and with each passing day, more and more Arabs) still think that he is the only one capable of standing up to Israel, if not the entire Western world?
The message to the Arab world: whoever slaughters Israelis will be upgraded to the status of a revered leader.
Yahya Sinwar/Reuters
Netanyahu is not guilty
Netanyahu's many opponents are quick to mention the suitcases of money he transferred to Hamas to buy silence.
This is factually true but somewhat demagogic: this will always be the attitude of those who have something to lose, that is, of the powerful and prosperous.
Do the citizens of Israel make a good living, eat in restaurants and fly abroad? So let's buy more peace with more money and have "drips" from time to time.
If you like, this is the real concept - and everything else is derived from it: in a capitalist society, wars are not launched as a precaution, but only as a reaction (other than Iran For example, it was already destroyed at a relatively small price compared to the one that will be paid in a few years) for exceptional events.
Furthermore, as one looks around at the Israeli leadership, one discovers that there is no one in it who would have behaved differently from him: Bennett and Lapid, the only ones besides him who served here as prime ministers, did not Stop the money that flowed to Gaza, Gantz and Eisenkot have been full partners in the concept since their days in uniform.
How do you know? It is enough to see the consistent position of the security establishment regarding issuing work permits to Palestinians, even today(!) to understand how far the concept that tries to impose Western logic (according to which people Seventy do not go out to harm) on an Arab public that sanctifies Jihad in the face of well-being.
Even those who blame Netanyahu for the sin of division, the rift in the nation, as the cause of our weakness, are wrong - not because Netanyahu did not divide and destroy any of his brothers, but because it had no effect on the Hamas attack This was planned under our eyes for years and carried out regardless of the legal legislation (by the way, this also applies to the ridiculous claims that it was Kaplan's protest that weakened Israel from the inside).
The honor of the struggle for the democratic face of the State of Israel is in its place, but it has nothing to do with the desire of Muslim murderers to kill as many Jews as possible.
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Benjamin Netanyahu.
Even those who are forgiven for all their past sins have difficulty facing the lack of leadership he demonstrates in the campaign/Government Press Office, screenshot
Netanyahu is guilty
Now, after we gave Netanyahu his day in the court of history (with the exception of the Shalit deal, perhaps the earliest expression on Netanyahu's part of harming Israel's security interest in order to preserve his rule), here is the unforgivable sin:
on October 7th, an entire country stood beaten and bleeding, After suffering a blow that will take years to recover from (and as the stories from that cursed day emerge, it becomes clear that we haven't really begun to deal with the national trauma yet).
Netanyahu immediately received credit from all over the political spectrum, including those who demonstrated against him in the streets, for defeating Hamas.
to go into action so extensive that it will require the mobilization of reserves that has not been the same since the Yom Kippur War, which will shut down the entire economy, which will also put the home front in shelters and military shelters - and the main thing is that we cripple the murderers so that the sound of the blow will echo throughout the Arab world, the main thing is that we restore deterrence to Israel, Something that has already stopped scaring some of our well-wishers.
The understanding that a knockout victory is required here and there is no end to it, is not just a vindictive whim, but also an expression of a political understanding that the stronger we are crippled now, the more we will delay and perhaps even avoid the next round - not only against Hamas, but also against Hezbollah and all of Iran's other proxies.
What have we received since then? Mostly excuses. The abductees turned from a reason to go to war into an excuse to weaken the intensity of the attacks (which was actually a submission to international pressure, it is not clear to what extent it actually existed), now they are becoming an excuse for the guilty (at this rate they will be accused by betraying the unfortunates, if and when they become captives).
The Americans have become Israel's saviors (does anyone doubt at all the fact that that famous DON'T of Biden's, backed by two aircraft carriers, prevented the continuation of the attack and convinced, for example, Hezbollah to "be content" with shooting at Israeli settlements the North?) to the enemies of the military effort and above all hovers some trollish spirit that blames everything on the disengagement, on Oslo (is anything even left of it?
Labor and Meretz, who were the living spirit behind Oslo, swing around the blocking percentage, Meretz slightly above it and Labor much below it) and Shekham Bresler.
In this sense, to borrow a term that is part of contemporary slang, then both Ben Gvir who mocks Biden and mocks Trump and Gottlieb and Regev with the verbal diarrhea are "proxies" of Netanyahu.
The destruction in Kibbutz Kfar Gaza.
A brilliant victory would have forgotten even the national trauma of October 7 and the terrible suffering of the residents of the Western Negev/Reuters, Ilan Rosenberg
His historic miss, our entire loss
Here, nothing stops him: there is no left, there is no opposition to the war (even those who chose to remain outside the government, such as Yair Lapid and Avigdor Lieberman, support the war effort), there are no demonstrations against the continuation of the fighting and even the few demonstrations that do take place - from those of the families of the abductees to Those who call for him to resign do not demand the cessation of hostilities.
And yet, after the eight o'clock order, comes eight o'clock (on any given evening), and instead of hearing about victories, we hear about the strengthening of Hamas, its return to control of the civil mechanisms, its almost complete takeover of humanitarian aid and the hardening of its position regarding the abductees issue.
Until a few weeks ago, they were still trying to kill the messenger, that is, to blame the media.
On the Netanyahu channel, they condemned the "panic channels" and reported on crushing victories on the front and the fact that Sinwar will soon be captured - when they realized that it was nothing more than a flower sparrow, they moved to sympathize with the families of the abductees.
What next?
There are few leaders who get a golden opportunity to write their name in letters of gold in the history books.
Among the prime ministers in Israel there were only two such: Ben-Gurion and Begin.
Sharett tried with all his might to be Ben Gurion, Eshkol stammered on the radio on the eve of the Six Day War, Golda was held responsible for the Yom Kippur failure, Rabin tried to bring peace and failed even before he was assassinated, Peres that everyone must be a leader - and of all his legacy (which was nurtured with huge sums of money) what remains mainly is his inability to be elected in his own right.
Shamir was too gray to remember, Eric Sharon left a confused legacy, on the one hand the failure in Lebanon and on the other hand the disengagement (which could be debated about the degree of political-security logic it reflected, if there had not been a sort of early "ruler deal", that is - not something that was tested on its merits, but on its ability to preserve the power in his hands), Olmert ended his political career in prison.
Netanyahu was given an opportunity to lead the State of Israel to a brilliant victory, one that would have forgotten the thousands of cases, the division caused by the legal legislation, even the terrible suffering experienced by the residents of the Western Negev on that terrible Sabbath.
At the end of three months (tomorrow will be the last day of the third month) of fighting, for which the entire state of Israel was mobilized, can it already be determined that it has failed?
His detractors have been claiming for several weeks that he is "not qualified", but
with each passing day more and more Israelis realize that the issue is less about competence and more about ability - he is simply not able
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