Based on the Gaza experience and Palestinian leaders' expressed intentions to eliminate Israel, the government understands that a Palestinian state will result in non-stop terror and the eventual destruction of Israel. And yet, the PM continues to entice PA leader Mahmoud Abbas to engage in "peace talks".
All this under the glare of the US Secretary of State, who has threatened Israel with international boycotts and worse unless it follows White House orders.
Here is the map of Israel (in green) in 1967. A return to these borders is the next step in the process of dismantling Israel. As you can see, at its narrowest it is only 9 miles wide.
It gets worse. What the White House, the EU and the UN demand is a "contiguous" Palestinian state. This would require a land corridor between the Palestinian state west of the Jordan river and Gaza. This would split Israel in two.
How could Israel ever defend itself under those conditions? At the present it cannot even stop rockets from hitting Israeli civilians, or prevent the construction of terror tunnels. It is basically restrained from doing anything against terrorists hiding behind women and children.
The White House just chastised Israel for hitting rocket launchers placed among civilians in UN compounds. Never mind that using human shields is a war crime. And never mind that Israel routinely sends cellphone alerts to targeted areas telling civilians to clear out. The US government still blames Israel.
The measure of a man is what he does with power (Plato)
In this case, the measure of the United States government is what it does with power: It bullies Israel into giving away its ancient land to terrorists - leading to Israel's eventual dismantlement.
Main points followed by articles:
- Gazans have been building smuggling tunnels for many years. This was well known.
- It was also well known that they were building terror tunnels to infiltrate into Israel.
- An Israeli cement company was allowed to provide unlimited amounts of cement to Gaza with no supervision whatsoever regarding its use. That company made millions.
- A high-tech company that had previously done business with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) went public telling the media how they had offered tunnel detection technology to the IDF but they had been turned down.
- It appears that the IDF is involved in developing its own tunnel detection technology.
- A highly placed member of the Knesset has ordered the State Comptroller to investigate the government and Security Cabinet's decisions during Operation Protective Edge - with a special emphasis on readiness for Hamas's terror tunnels.
- In a committee meeting with the Defense Minister he argued that the whole government, and in particular the Cabinet, had known about the threat of Hamas attack tunnels entering Israel for a long time.
- The government is also aware that Gazans are now rebuilding their tunnels.
- The war cost $2.5 billion and over 70 Israeli lives, ended in a frail ceasefire, and accomplished absolutely nothing for Israel.
- Hamas profited from a free multi-billion dollar media campaign of demonization of Israel and the Jews that cost them nothing.
- Israelis living near the border with Gaza are furious at the government.
- Those same Israelis supported the expulsion of Jews from Gaza in 2005. Now they realize that the Israeli presence in Gaza had protected all Israelis.
- It is possible that the reason why former PM Ariel Sharon went ahead with the expulsion of 10,000 Jews from Gaza was based on personal financial interests.
- But the real force behind Israeli policies is the White House. The State Department micromanages Israel, and acts behind the scenes to encourage NGOs and European governments to continue pressuring Israel with boycotts and non-stop demonization.
- Israeli authorities are under the control of the United States government, which exercises the power of life and death over Israel. It is only the US vote at the UN Security Council that prevents the UN from unleashing all available measures against Israel.
More information on those points.
Breaking News
Why did the government dally on the terror tunnel threat?
MK Amnon Cohen (Shas), chair of the Knesset's State Control Committee, ordered State Comptroller Yosef Shapira on Wednesday to investigate the government and Security Cabinet's decisions during Operation Protective Edge - with a special emphasis on readiness for Hamas's terror tunnels.
In a committee meeting with Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, Cohen argued that the whole government, and in particular the Cabinet, knew very well about the threat of Hamas attack tunnels entering Israel long before Operation Protective Edge.
Indeed, one tunnel described by the IDF as new and advanced was discovered as early as March, well before the operation began in July.
In fact the State Comptroller wrote a report about the tunnels a full eight years ago said Cohen, while adding that the security system had come "a serious part of the way" in confronting the threat.
It is worth noting there has been a general lack of trust of the government among residents of the region, along with widespread Israeli opposition to the ceasefire as found in recent polls which has accompanied a sharp nose-dive in approval ratings for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
The government lashes out at critics
Defense chief Moshe Ya’alon on Tuesday lashed out at fellow ministers for criticizing the government’s decision-making during the summer’s war with Hamas, saying the divisions hurt Israel on the battlefield.
Background
THE GAZA NETWORK OF TUNNELS BUILT WITH ISRAELI CEMENT
- While Israeli officials knew it was being used to build tunnels
- How business influences policy
- The personal financial reasons that may have motivated former PM Sharon to expel Jews from Gaza in 2005, thus unleashing Arab terror.
- How the IDF refused tunnel detection technology
Read more - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/07/the-gaza-network-of-tunnels-built-with.html
HOW THE US STATE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN UNDERMINING ISRAEL'S SECURITY AND EXISTENCE
The long history of US State Department and White House animosity against Israel, contrary to American general support for the country.
Read more - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/09/lee-kaplan-how-us-state-department-has.html
UNITED STATES SIDES WITH HAMAS and chastises Israel for targeting terrorists using human shields - Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood - White House sympathies for Muslim Brotherhood
Read more - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/09/united-states-sides-with-hamas-and.html
Read more - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/09/united-states-sides-with-hamas-and.html
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN TAX PAYERS FUNDING THE MURDER OF JEWS IN ISRAEL - 'Moderate' Palestinian Authority pays up to $3,400 a month to terrorists - FUNDED BY YOU
US PRESIDENT SELLS WEAPONS WORTH $11 BILLION TO QATAR, THAT FINANCES MIDDLE EAST TERROR - BUT WHITE HOUSE RESTRICTS SALES TO ISRAEL, THAT FIGHTS TERROR
Read more - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/08/us-president-sells-weapons-worth-11.html
WHITE HOUSE PURSUING THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL by empowering the Palestinians while weakening and shrinking Israel
Read more - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/12/us-government-pursuing-destruction-of_27.html
US Secretary Kerry THREATENS ISRAEL WITH INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTTS AND ISOLATION.
Read more - http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/us-government-threatens-israel-with.html
UNITED STATES complicit with Arab plans for the eventual destruction of Israel.
Palestinian official states that their goal is to destroy Israel in stages. Statehood being one of those stages.
HAS THE U.S. REALLY BEEN AN ALLY OF ISRAEL?
By Prof. Francisco Gil-White
DEBUNKING MYTHS REGARDING U.S. SUPORT FOR ISRAEL
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/MFUSpolicy.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/MFUSpolicy.html
One factor behind the bullying of Israel - There is no retaliation in return, no Fatwas, no terror
U.S. SECRETARY KERRY UNWITTING DISCLOSURE OF ONE FACTOR BEHIND THE BULLYING OF ISRAEL -
Kerry: I have to tell you, my friend, I’ve been, quote, attacked before by people using real bullets, not words, and I am not going to be intimidated.
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/us-secretary-kerry-unwitting-disclosure.html
Kerry: I have to tell you, my friend, I’ve been, quote, attacked before by people using real bullets, not words, and I am not going to be intimidated.
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/us-secretary-kerry-unwitting-disclosure.html
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When their lives are threatened, Israeli doves become hawks
Former PM Ariel Sharon and other supporters of the Israeli Disengagement - or unilateral withdrawal from Gaza - promised Israelis that this decision would bring prosperity and peace for both sides.
Left-wing Israelis fully supported the Disengagement. Among those supporters were left-wing Israelis living in kibbutzim (communal farms) along the border with Gaza.
In a sad case of divine justice, those same Israelis who celebrated the expulsion of Jews from Gaza, now live terrified of Gazan terrorists emerging from tunnels dug under their own farms.
The formerly pacifist leftists are furious at the government for not completely destroying Hamas. The doves have turned into hawks. That's what real life does to people.
In fact, the "settlers," as they are called, protected Israel. Their presence and that of the IDF kept the area in relative calm.
Settlers had made the region prosper. They operated state-of-the-art greenhouses with high quality products exported abroad Settlers provided secure and decent pay to Gazan workers.
Settlers had made the region prosper. They operated state-of-the-art greenhouses with high quality products exported abroad Settlers provided secure and decent pay to Gazan workers.
Once the settlers were gone, all hell broke loose. Palestinians looted the greenhouses and then destroyed what was left. They elected Hamas and unleashed terror on Israel.
The US State Department pressured Gazans to hold elections, and the result is that they elected the more radical Hamas, which turned Gaza into a base for terror against Israelis. Palestinians who had returned from abroad with dreams of developing this now pre-state of Palestine saw those dreams dashed by Hamas radicalism and corruption.
Keep in mind that that same formula is still being advocated by the White House and the European Union for Judea, Samaria (West Bank) and Biblical Jerusalem: Complete Israeli withdrawal for the creation of a Palestinian state. Once they become a sovereign state they will be free to elect whoever they want, and polls indicate high support for Hamas.
If the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza was a disaster for both Israelis and Gazans, the creation of a Palestinian State alongside Israel would bring nothing less than the destruction of Israel.
The world got a glimpse of what a few rockets aimed in the direction of the airport could do: complete halt of all international travel.
And now they can see how no Israeli near the border with the quasi-state of Gaza can live and work in peace and security.
Giving up Jewish land for the creation of another Arab state will not bring peace. What Arabs repeat again and again is that their goal is the complete destruction of Israel and the Jewish presence in the Middle East.
The government knows this too. But the PM is determined to partition Israel. Two States for Two Peoples, he says.
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