Ten more dead Jews. Sacrificed on Bibi’s altar of appeasement and capitulation.The U.N. isn’t impressed. Not enough of a body count.
Much like his repeated failures to deal a terminal blow to Oslo, Netanyahu lacks courage to rectify Sharon’s sin and set the country straight. A ceasefire not only gives Hamas a victory, it will destroy the morale of the IDF and the country at large. Remember, Israel has not secured a true victory since The Yom Kippur War. (Despite Golda Meir’s insane refusal to preemptively strike.) And even that saw the prestige of the IDF take a battering.
In PirkeiAvot (Ethics of the Forefathers), we are told, “who is wise, he who can foresee the future.” If Hamas is not destroyed, many more Jews will die the next time around. At first Hamas could only hit the southern periphery. Then came Beersheba and her environs. Now the entire country can be hit. The next war will be extend these horizons significantly.
I read a heartbreaking account yesterday, (they are all heart-breaking) of the funeral of Chief Warrant Rami Chalon, age 39 (May G-d avenge his blood) who fell in battle. A description of his 16 year old boy Yosiel kneeling on his Abba’s grave, bawling like a baby. “Aba, I am still crying.” One whose Jewish heart doesn’t bleed at this image should check his lineage.
And now we have a new minyan of the dead. Ten Jewish soldiers died because Bibi wanted to show the world that we tried another ceasefire. Bibi is unfit to lead. He better step aside. There’s a war going on, dammit. And I’m sick and tired of seeing my Jewish brothers lowered into the ground.
“Aba, I am still crying.” RibonoShelOlam.
Never forget these words: Let Gaza burn until yovel(jubilee).