Militarily, Israel is crushing the Hamas IslamoNazis. The terror tunnels are being destroyed and Hamas is using up their stores of terror rockets.
But danger lurks in the form of John Kerry and the anti-Israel administration of Barack Hussein Obama.
From Matthew Continetti at the Washington Free Beacon.
In the United States, the debate over the conflict is invariably couched in terms favorable to Hamas: Are civilian casualties too high? Is it safe to fly into Ben-Gurion airport? Has the IDF targeted schools and hospitals? One MSNBC anchor calls Israel, which abandoned Gaza in 2005, the “occupying authority.” Another praises a “gutsy” Israeli, who refuses to serve in her nation’s military.
On CNN, the Islamist Turkish prime minister says Israel has “surpassed what Hitler did.” A CNN reporter calls Israelis “scum”; a NBC reporter tweets a scurrilous article calling U.S. Jews who join the IDF “America’s Israeli jihadists”; and a writer for Gawker says it’s time to send the Jews back to Germany. Reporters once embedded with military forces. Now the talking points of a military force—the talking points of Hamas—are embedded in the U.S. media.
And yet the immediate danger to the success of this necessary war does not come from the electronic intifada. It does not come from resurgent anti-Semitism, or the United Nations Human Rights Council, or the failure of so many Western elites to recognize the causes of this war, their inability to distinguish between a democratic country struggling to protect its people and a terror state using children as hostages. Hate, law-fare, decadence—they are all challenges for Israel. But Israel can endure them for now. Israel is used to it.
What Israel should not endure is the premature conclusion of hostilities. Disarming Hamas—seizing its rocket caches, collapsing its tunnels, killing and capturing its forces—is vital to Israeli security. And an artificial ceasefire imposed by outside powers, a ceasefire written in terms favorable to Hamas, would undermine the security gains Israel has made to date. President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have given no sign that they recognize this fact. Or maybe they understand it all too well: The Obama administration’s top priority is imposing a ceasefire at exactly the moment when Israel’s military success is becoming clear.
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Kerry’s ceasefire proposal was as close to a capitulation to Hamas as you could get without actually publicly saying it. There are rumors Obama has called Netanyahu only a few hours ago and demanded a cease fire. For goodness sake don’t do it. Obama and Kerry care not one whit for you guys. They have been selling Israel down the river for quite awhile now and would walk away from Israel in a heart beat to save their own political hides. All this anti-Israeli activity means Hamas is losing and losing badly, do not let up, get them. So called public opinion be d_mned!
How can an outside country “impose” a cease fire? Kerry can push, and he can flick his tongue around his mouth, and he can spout all the lies he wants, but in the end, only the combatants can create a cease fire.
Dear Robert: It occurred to me, a few days ago, that no head of state who had any respect for his country’s fighting men should allow John Kerry to set foot in his country, after Kerry’s foul lies in the Winter Soldier investigation.
You’re right. Kerry and Obama can’t stand the thought of safe Jews. I was really upset when I read about the 24 hour ceasefire; I was worried that Kerry would take the opportunity to ram a truce down Netanyahu’s throat, and allow Hamas to re- build and expand those tunnels and store more weapons in schools and move in more five year old human shields. Every time I hear the siren, I think “Israel is still fighting. Thank G-d.”
Does anyone know why the operation, called “Protective Edge” in English, is called צוק איתן in Hebrew? That doesn’t mean edge. It means “rock.”
The media bias against Israel has confirmed what I have long believed: A lot of people are faking when they pretend to be moved by Anne Frankהשי”ד. People like the reporters you quoted above have no sympathy for Jews who want to stay alive, and since Anne Frank was a Jew who wanted to stay alive, Q.E.D., they have no sympathy for her.