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ISRAEL LOSES
and How It Could Have Been Different
by Barry Chamish
Such a waste of lives, property and dignity, just to pave the way for
the next and bigger waste of lives, property and dignity over Gaza.
Condeleeza Rice forced a ceasefire down Israel's throat, co-signed by
Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Britain and the EU...the usual gang of
warmongers. This, as the IDF was poised to rid the world of Hamas and bring
in Fatah to rule Gaza. It's heads or tails anyway you look at it. But for
this fight, Israel had the quiet, jubilant backing of Egypt, Fatah and the
ruling establishment of much of the Arab world. It won't ever be this good
diplomatically again.
Knowing that the government was about to betray the south of the
country, and its bravest soldiers who saw comrades fall for nothing, as
usual, an atrocity was launched to immediately change public opinion. In the
spirit of the shadow government's slaughter of Arabs in 1994 to push along
the withdrawal from Hebron, another Arab was chosen as the object of the
Israeli people's instinctive pity. A Gazan surgeon who works in Israel,
Dr.Izzeldin Abublaish, had his home targeted by an Israeli tank, losing
three daughters, and the hideous scene was reported seconds later by the
grieving, shocked doctor by cellphone to TV Channel Ten's reporter Shlomi
Eldar.
And if you think this ghastly massacre wasn't planned, then you don't
know the psychological warfare the Israeli government and media play with
the people.
Now with Israel pulling out, Hamas will tell its people they won. And
God save anyone who disagrees.The little bully Hamas will shout that Israel
cheated. They played dirty. And the mean old Americans backed them up, thus,
we stood up to the greatest fighters on earth. Therefore, we are the bravest
of them all.
(He said we were hiding all through the fighting. That's slander. Behead
him.)
But bigmouth Hamas knows he was overpowered and he's already preparing
to bring bigger kids with him next time. But first, a little body-building
course is called for. And someday the pipsqueak boaster is going to grow up
and he's going to be bigger than Israel. And Israel will regret not
finishing him off when they had their chance. But Israel chickened out and
it will eventually pay for it.
For now, Israel is going to learn that mass destruction isn't winning.
That 1400 enemy bodies isn't winning. Only victory is winning.
This is in stark contrast to the war I fought in, the Lebanon War of
1982. Then, the government stated the war's goal was to remove the PLO from
the region. To do so, at great cost, it entered Beirut and surrounded the
PLO's neighborhoods. It took almost two months but the PLO were forced onto
ships out of Lebanon.
To prevent loss of life, the IDF showered a targeted neighborhood with
leaflets offering a choice; the PLO surrenders within 24 hours and comes out
with its arms in the air, or your neighborhood will be destroyed, including,
if need be, by carpet bombing. Innocents were told where to gather safely.
It was up to the PLO to save the neighborhood by complying with Israel's
terms. There was no room for negotiation. It was unconditional surrender or
continuing war.
It was a nasty strategy interspersed with utilities cutoffs and the
like, but this was a war of survival and Israel won it. And if Israelis with
a different agenda hadn't shoved the Oslo war accord down the country's
throat a decade later, this latest bloodbath would never have occurred.
In this invasion Israel should have offered as a first condition; bring
us Gilad Shalit, or more likely, his remains, to our lines within 24 hours
or face our wrath. That is war with a purpose. The only purpose of the
latest invasion was to prepare for the next one. And I have a fair idea when
it will come.
Few bothered to notice, but in the twenty days of the Gazan operation,
it only rained once, and barely. By joining Jordan and the PA with Israel's
water grid in the name of peace, the Kinneret and the artesian wells which
served Israel well for 60+ years, in drought and plenty, are all but used
up. Come summer, the next fight will be over a glass of water.
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