Raising the Flag of Surrender Michael Freund (Israel National News)
Just days after Syria’s President spoke openly of “liberating” the Golan Heights by force, a prominent Israeli government minister has now signaled a willingness to surrender to Damascus’ demands.
In a thinly-veiled trial balloon aimed at testing public opinion, Israel’s Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter said today that he believes that in exchange for peace with Syria, the Jewish state can abandon the Golan.
That’s right – Dichter is ready to hand over the commanding heights of the Golan to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the same guy who helped to arm, train and finance Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.
Why the sudden talk of forging a deal with Syria? The government would have us believe that Israel needs to pry Syria away from its alliance with Iran in order to weaken the Axis of Terror in the region.
That would make sense, except for one small, pesky detail: Syria has no desire, interest or intention of weakening its bond with Teheran.
In fact, the real reason behind the talk of peace with Syria is far more simple: with calls mounting for the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the failed military operation in Lebanon, the Government is desperate to change the subject. It needs to create the impression that it is on the verge of a historic breakthrough, because that is the only way of staving off demands for its resignation.
And so, it is cynically trying to turn the same Mr. Assad who was behind Hezbollah’s attacks on Israelis last week into a potential peace partner this week.
Is this good for the country? Of course not. After the government’s Lebanon fiasco left Israel looking weak to its neighbors, they have now compounded the problem by signaling a readiness to retreat in the face of Assad’s threats.
What Dichter and others like him have yet to learn is that in the Middle East, raising the flag of surrender only invites further aggression and bloodshed.
Lions of Judah or Ghetto Mice by Sarah Feld (Israel National News)
The left-wing Kadima party-led government proclaims that it is too tired to fight and too afraid to succeed. Incongruous with their status as heads of the Jewish state, it seems they are embarrassed to be genetically identified as Jews. Ehud Olmert’s ghetto mentality disregards the legendary military might Israel has developed, with G-d’s blessing. He is copiously supported in his desperate policies by Mrs. Olmert and her “Peace Now With No Concern For the Future”-sponsored Women in Black. It was that fearful ghetto outlook that harassed the government into a hasty retreat six years ago, preparing the way for this latest volatile war, extensive terrorist arsenals and so many deaths.
In inverse contrast are the Israelis who have withstood the delusional left-wing media spin of the withdrawal-surrender-war cycle. These include, but are not limited to, the wonderful families in the idealistic “orange” communities. They are not afraid to win.
Jewish tradition lists rules for warfare that military strategists have often referred to. “The best defense is a good offense” is a derivative of “rise first to kill the one who is coming to kill you.” The bottom line is evident: those who are tolerant of depravity will become cruel to those who are good. We must annihilate evil people before they can destroy the innocent.
The liberated Jewish mentality accepts triumph with pride. With G-d’s help, we are capable and determined to defend our lives and our land. There are liberated, thinking Jews and their supporters who are not afraid to defend themselves, their families or their homes. They do not have a fear of appearing as ruthless occupiers. They aren’t running from tyrants. They are committed defend truth, justice and their nation with strength and courage.
My son shared the dilemma of the emergency call up to war with thousands of others. He was recently released from the regular army, where he was trained to fight on the front lines as a demolitions expert in the elite parachutist corps. When the Israeli government’s declared mission was to rescue kidnapped soldiers, protect Israeli citizens and annihilate the terrorist invaders, he was resolute to join the war effort.
Then, the politicians of small, ghetto mentalities distorted the objectives. They could not stomach offending the non-Jewish world: ‘Israel would just like to push Hizbullah back a bit, if you please, until about the Litani River, more or less. We would not want to seriously hurt the terrorist infrastructure, just get a little breathing space, if you please. Maybe we’ll check out how the kidnapped soldiers are faring and then we’ll try to figure out some kind of diplomatic resources so maybe they can be released at some future time. Then, when everything is just like it was, without us conquering anyone, of course, we’ll go ahead and give away some more land in the territories so that everyone will like us even more.’
Tens of thousands of reservists were milling at the border awaiting orders to fight. Simultaneously, many soldiers at the front were being targeted as they sat, pending orders to proceed – or not. Many of our finest were victims of disastrous, politically correct considerations.
What was a courageous soldier to do? Should he go to fight a hasty, poorly organized, strategically shoddy war with irresolute objectives? Would his sacrifice make any difference?
Thanks to the prime minister’s untimely declaration, my son learned that if they won, they were potentially laying the groundwork for the removal of 100,000 Jews, including his own family, from their lands and homes. If he would not come home, then his widow and as-yet-unborn first child would be at the mercy of those who sent him to fight.
Clearly, as we learned from Gush Katif, this government does not exhibit mercy. David Hatuel, whose pregnant wife and four young daughters were murdered at point blank range by Hamas terrorists, was evicted. Chanan Vizner, whose father was stabbed to death while coming home from the synagogue on the Passover holiday, was evicted. The bereaved families of fallen soldiers, whose exhumed remains caused excruciating anguish, were evicted.
It is criminal that our heroic young men should be demoralized by the frightened, indecisive ghetto thinking of his country’s prime minister.
It is criminal to fight a war that we strategically aim to lose – or minimally, are too tired to win.
It is criminal that we have agreed to a cease-fire that excludes release of our kidnapped soldiers, the disarming of Hizbullah and destruction of the terrorist infrastructure, including their sources in Syria and Iran, and establishing sane borders.
It is criminal that the precious lives of our soldiers and citizens are deemed by the ghetto thinkers to be less worthy than lives of non-Jews and non-Israelis, including our enemies.
It is criminal to know that this war could lay the groundwork for another withdrawal, forcing some 100,000 Jews to become the new refugees.
It is criminal to set the stage for missiles to attack our entire nation from a third front, the decimated communities of Judea and Samaria.
Those who are behind these criminal actions against the Jewish nation should be brought to justice now.
It is time for the Land of Israel to be ruled by proud Jewish leaders who have exorcised the ghetto fear of fighting to destroy evil. It is time for the Jewish people to roar like the Lion of Judah and stop squeaking like a ghetto mouse.