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If you count bodies and destroyed homes, Israel won the Gaza war round. But if you look at the overall strategic situation, what you see is a steady deterioration in Israel’s position, both militarily and diplomatically. Israel has lost.
Arabs have a highly successful three-pronged strategy: low level terror, arming themselves, and the isolation of Israel through an international demonization campaign.
Economically, there is not just the billions of dollars in the campaign military cost. A few unsophisticated mortars paralyzed all activity at Ben Gurion Airport.
Israel's neo-Primitivism. It has done NOTHING against the media campaign to demonize Israel, whose ultimate aim is the destruction of the country. Israel is fighting last century’s war. Its enemies are fighting the war of tomorrow, often with the low-tech, media-friendly tools of yesterday.
Israel's strategic thinking is bankrupt. Basically, Israel’s leaders haven’t figured out that what is depicted on CNN and BBC is more important than what happens on the streets of Gaza. If you win the latter and lose the former, you are the big loser. Israel's response is to explain.
No country surrounded by Hezbollah, Al-Qaida, Hamas and ISIS would have to engage in a media war to “explain” to the world that it lives in a tough neighborhood, except Israel.
Israel has no true friends - except for Canadian PM Stephen Harper. Once he goes, Canada's support for Israel goes with him.
As for the United States, the so-called “Jewish lobby”, namely America’s Jewish population, is disintegrating before our eyes. America’s Jews are assimilating and intermarrying. Even if they identify as Jews, for most of them Israel is not a priority. In fact, many go out of their way to prove that they are Americans first by beating up on the Jewish state.
One of the few reasons for America’s continued support – such as it is – is not the power of the Jewish constituency, but of the Evangelical Christian community. This, too, shall pass. The anti-Israel forces in the American Evangelical community – old-school Jimmy Carter types – are gaining strength.
Netanyahu’s world – where anti-Semitism is not a factor, where America has Israel’s back and where Hamas is really a loser despite the mass celebrations on Gaza’s streets – is a figment of his imagination.
Put simply, if it doesn’t start fighting this war, Israel will become more vulnerable than ever before. And this will happen in the next few months – just as Iran becomes a nuclear power.
So here’s my message to Israel’s leaders and supporters: it’s not too late. Start fighting the media war or we will go down in defeat – soon.
NOTE: This Otters Blog thinks that there is more to the government's apparent cluelessness. There has been a deliberate string of government policies - over several decades already - that have disempowered the Jewish hold on Israel, while empowering the Arabs. This is an extremely serious matter that deserves a more detailed explanation.
In the meantime, please take a look at this blog's articles on the left, with links at the end of this article.
Understanding the left and its nefarious influence on Israeli politics is key to making sense of this and past Israeli governments' policies that run contrary to Israel's interests and viability.
Just ask yourselves, why, with the country clamoring for an end to Hamas terror, the government settles for concessions to Gaza, a flawed ceasefire, and defeat. What else is going on?
Countdown to Israel's destruction
By Simcha Jacobovici, a Canadian-Israeli filmmaker and journalist. He is a three-time Emmy winner for “Outstanding Investigative Journalism” and a … [More] New York Times best selling author. He’s also an adjunct professor in the Department of Religion at Huntington University, Ontario.
The round of fighting with Hamas is one more stage in Israel’s strategic downward spiral. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared victory. At the same time, Gaza’s Hamas rulers are dancing in the street. Ahmed Barakat, senior member of Hezbollah, has stated that the “countdown to the disappearance of the Zionist entity [Israel] in the region has begun.” Unfortunately, Netanyahu is wrong and Barakat is right.
If you count bodies and destroyed homes, Israel won the round. But if you look at the overall strategic situation, what you see is a steady deterioration in Israel’s position, both militarily and diplomatically.
After the last Intifada, Israel’s enemies realized that suicide bombing alone cannot achieve their desired goal – the destruction of the Jewish state.
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