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Why Jewish patriots should thank Hezbollah Historical and Investigative Research - 20 August
2006 Dear Readers, I have seen much pessimism from Jewish patriots in
the wake of the ‘cease-fire’ that the United States and the United Nations
have sought to impose in order to protect Hezbollah, and which Israel’s
leaders have accepted. Many have characterized the result as one where Israel
lost the war, and they have lamented what they perceive as the damage to the
earlier perception that Israel was invincible, with negative consequences to
the deterrence of Israel’s enemies. My own view is less pessimistic. It is certainly true that Ehud Olmert lost the war
by agreeing to a ‘cease-fire’ that, like previous US and UN-brokered
cease-fires in southern Lebanon, will protect the antisemitic terrorists and
allow them to re-arm. But in my view Ehud Olmert was going to lose whatever
war he was called upon to wage. I don't think he is a patriot. So the
question for Jewish patriots is this: Which war would you rather have Ehud
Olmert lose? Remember that Ehud Olmert was rushing to cleanse the
Jews out of the West Bank -- like his mentor, Ariel Sharon, had done with the
Jews who lived in Gaza -- in order to turn this territory over completely to
the terrorists. For those paying attention to geopolitical realities, as opposed
to the pro-Oslo propaganda statements of US and Israeli officials, the
probable outcome of Ehud Olmert’s policies was not difficult to foresee.
Relatively low-level but constant Hezbollah attacks from the north, and
PLO/Hamas attacks from Gaza in the south, would have made the relocation of
the evacuated West Bank Jews to the north and south of Israel impractical,
particularly given that a stream of Jews native to those areas would be
fleeing the Hamas/Hezbollah attacks towards the relative safety of the
Tel-Aviv-Yafo area (as indeed many have now fled). Tel-Aviv-Yafo already
contains about half of all Israeli Jews, and as a result of Olmert’s
‘convergence’ and the terrorist attacks from north and south the Israeli Jews
would have been further concentrated there. Now, the West Bank and Gaza, according to a 1967
Pentagon study done immediately after the Six Day War, are strategic
territories that, if relinquished, will guarantee the destruction of Israel.[1]
This Pentagon study was not carried out for Israel’s benefit and Israel was
not informed of its conclusions. It was kept secret and made public only many
years later because somebody filed suit to have it released under the Freedom
of Information Act. That the US ruling elite did not share with the Israelis
its view of the vulnerability of the Jewish state, but instead pressured
Israel to participate in the Oslo process that has for purpose to hand over
precisely these indispensable territories to the antisemitic terrorists, is
consistent with the entire history of US foreign policy towards the Jewish
people and state, which has been a constant sponsoring of Israel’s enemies
and sabotaging of Israeli self-defense.[2] One does not have to be a military genius, or even a
mediocre professional military strategist, to see that the Pentagon’s 1967
study reached correct conclusions concerning the indispensability of the West
Bank and Gaza to a defensible Jewish state. The Tel-Aviv-Yafo area, where the
Israeli Jews are being concentrated, is the tiniest strip of land, with no
more than 18 km. (11 miles) between the West Bank border and the
Mediterranean Sea. Many of my readers live in cities that are wider than
this, and those who are in good physical condition can easily jog this
distance. Ehud Olmert’s policies would have turned Tel-Aviv-Yafo from the
large concentration camp it now is into a death camp. Why? Because
Tel-Aviv-Yafo is a lowland, and the West Bank ground that the terrorists
would control completely after Ehud Olmert’s so-called ‘convergence’ -- if
the Israelis had allowed it -- is highland. Once the West Bank Jews
had been evacuated and concentrated, PLO/Hamas, armed to the teeth by the
Arab states, would simply start shooting downwards from the West Bank hills,
while PLO/Hamas attacked from Gaza, and Hezbollah and the Lebanese army
attacked from the north. But that is not all. Egypt would have attacked also,
from the south, while the Syrian and Iranian armed forces added themselves to
the Hezbollah/Lebanese forces that they control. It is true that in order to
do this Iran would have to rush through Iraq but that would not be a problem,
because the US has been withdrawing from Iraq for a year, and it is clear to
everybody that Iraq now belongs to Iran (HIR has argued that the US attacked
Iraq in order precisely to achieve this outcome).[3]
Saudi Arabia, which the US has turned into one of the most heavily armed
countries in the world,[4] would have overrun Jordan in order to join the attack on Israel
(assuming the Jordanians didn’t simply invite them in and join the attack as
well, which I think was more probable). This is the war that Ehud
Olmert was going to lose, and losing this war would have destroyed Israel,
and its people. It is much better that Ehud Olmert lost this other
war in Lebanon. The reason the war in Lebanon took place, in my
view, is that the rabid attack dogs employed at the lower levels by
antisemitic terrorist forces such as the PLO, Hamas, and Hezbollah are so
deranged, so transformed into beasts of prey anxious to gorge on Jewish
blood, that they can be difficult to restrain. This is especially true as the
final moment approaches, when the suicidal behavior of the Israeli ruling
elite leads the hounds of death to smell an easy prey. So, eager for the
kill, they snapped their master’s leash and caused some trouble to the
carefully laid plans for the next anti-Jewish genocide. Consistent with this
are the Arab criticisms of Hezbollah, which accused Hezbollah not of
unacceptable terrorism against Israeli civilians, but of “miscalculation,”
and of engaging in “unexpected, inappropriate and irresponsible acts.”[5] In
other words, Hezbollah’s attack was premature, because the West Bank
had yet to be fully cleansed of its Jews and the United States had yet to
fully turn Iraq over to Iran. So what happened is that Hamas and Hezbollah
became too violent, too soon, forcing Ehud Olmert’s government to produce some
kind of response, however weak and ham-fisted, there to prevent the
patriots in the officer class of the Israeli Defense Forces from leading a
revolt.[6] The outcome of this war is not as bad as many are
saying. True, Hezbollah will rearm and prepare for the next assault under the
protection of the United Nations and the Syrian-controlled Lebanese state, as
it has done before.[7] But Hezbollah
does need to rearm, and it will now be more difficult than before to
carry out the evacuation of the Jews living in the West Bank. Moreover, as
ineffectual as the Israeli response was, it was a response, and more
than what we have seen for years in the face of constant terrorist assault. I
am not sure that the Arab regimes are really learning from this that the
Israelis are easy to beat, despite the propaganda to the contrary; after all,
it was Hezbollah, not Israel, that asked for the cease-fire, and with special
urgency as the major Israeli assault was to begin. It is also possible that
Ehud Olmert’s government will not even survive, because many Israelis are
waking up to the vulnerabilities of the Jewish state, and to the suicidal
nature of the policies favored by the Israeli ruling elite. All in all, Hezbollah has bought Israel a bit of
time. Since the alternative was a war of extermination that Ehud Olmert was
going to lose, Israeli patriots, ironically, should be thanking Hezbollah.
But in order fully to understand what lies ahead,
and what those of us who defend the Jewish people against the antisemites can
do from this point forward, it is important that we have a good grasp of Israeli
and Diaspora Jewish politics. I will endeavor to explain this in future
pieces, and I will begin by taking a look at the Israeli media. So, I invite
you to read the following piece:
_____________________________________________________ Footnotes and Further Reading [1] The following
piece quotes the relevant portions of the Pentagon study and analyses it in
its political context, with links to the original document (to go directly to
the Pentagon study, see further below):
< PENTAGON
STUDY: »»
This Pentagon document was apparently declassified in 1979 but not published
until 1984. It was published by the Journal of Palestine Studies:
»»
And by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: »»
And as an appendix in:
[2] “IS THE US AN
ALLY OF ISRAEL?: A chronological look at the evidence”; Historical and
Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White. [3] “BUSH JR.'S
WAR ON IRAQ: A general introduction”; Historical and Investigative Research;
1 December 2005; by Francisco Gil-White. [4] According to
Frontline (PBS), the US-led military buildup of Saudi Arabia has made this
country “ultimately...the largest beneficiary of U.S. weapons sales in the
entire world” and “one of the most heavily armed countries in the world.”
[5] The
quotations are taken from the following two articles: Pro-western
Arab states temper reaction: Jordan, Egypt, others risk domestic peace with
mild comments, Ottawa Citizen, July 17, 2006 Monday, Final
Edition, NEWS; Pg. A5, 364 words, Hugh Miles, The Daily Telegraph, CAIRO Militia
Rebuked by Some Arab Countries, The New York Times, July 17, 2006
Monday, Late Edition - Final, Section A; Column 2; Foreign Desk; TURMOIL
IN THE MIDEAST: THE ARABS; Pg. 1, 1027 words, By HASSAN M. FATTAH; Reporting
for this article was contributed by Nazila Fathi from Tehran, Suha Maayeh
from Amman, Jordan, Mona el-Naggar from Cairo and David E. Sanger from
Vermont., BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 16 If you would like to see HIR’s analysis of what the
Arab reaction to Hezbollah’s attack means, visit:
[6] HIR has
produced an analysis of this dynamic, by looking at previous events that
followed the same pattern, here:
[7] To place in
historical perspective the manner in which the United States reacted to this
war, by proposing a quick cease-fire and UN troops that will protect
Hezbollah, read the following piece:
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