Stop And Go War
By: Larry Gordon
No one likes it and no one wants it. But these neighborhood bullies have to be dealt with once and for all. Iran and their terrorist proxies are unreasonable and incorrigible. Since I wrote those few lines, it has been reported that Iran announced that they are finished—for now—firing their deadly missiles at Israel. But that commitment didn’t last more than a day or so.
Last Sunday, Iran fired about a dozen ballistic missiles at Israel population centers as well as in the direction of U.S. military bases and personnel in Kuwait and the UAE. The missiles did not penetrate any of these countries’ defensive shields so I suppose whoever is “calling the shots” in Iran figured that it might be a good time to announce that they are stopping. Good idea, I guess.
But then again, the way Iranians think, it may not have been a good idea after all. The Ayatollahs or Mullahs or whatever is left of them are not fighting a conventional war. It’s a holy war and it does not look like President Trump understands the nature of a holy war. These miscreants believe that they are doing G-d’s will by bombing Israel and killing Israeli soldiers and civilians. As we all know and often reference, the Islamists believe that killing Jews and attempting to destroy Israel is their “ticket to paradise.” But they’re probably the only ones who don’t know they’re heading to hell in a handbasket.
I’m not kidding. They believe that with all their evil, corrupted hearts and souls.
So, here’s the current deal that I find hard to believe that Trump does not understand. I mean, it has to be that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner understand. Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller certainly understands (and he has Trump’s ear). Marco Rubio gets it too. On Monday, Iran said they are done (for now) with firing missiles at Israel. But at the same time, the Iran condition is that Israel cannot fire or bomb Hezbollah in retaliation even though Hezbollah keeps on shooting missiles and drones at Israel.
Is that anything resembling the so-called “art of the deal?” It just cannot be. On Monday, Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed the people of Israel to put things in their proper perspective. Iran, the IRGC, and Hezbollah are weak. Israel and of course the U.S. are very strong.
It kind of reminds me what the history books say about the 1967 Six-Day War. The Israeli Air Force was decimating the Egyptian planes—100% of them before they even had the chance to take off. That didn’t stop Egyptian President Nasser from encouraging King Hussein of Jordan to enter the war to fight Israel. Nasser told King Hussein that Egypt was making significant progress in beating Israel.
At the other end of the equation, Israel was beseeching King Hussein not to enter the war. But Hussein believed Nasser, who was a lying lowlife, which is probably how he became President of Egypt. And it’s a good thing that Hussein listened to Nasser. Had he listened to Generals Moshe Dayan and Yitzchak Rabin and not attacked Israel, we may not have liberated East Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, which Jordan had been occupying since 1948.
The Kotel and Har HaBayit might still be under Jordanian control had King Hussein not been taken in by Nasser’s lies. It took just two days before Israeli forces entered the Old City through the Jaffa Gate, where the voice of General Motta Gur could be heard announcing: “Har HaBayit b’yadenu,” the Temple Mount is in our hands. Later, Gur sent his second in command, Paratrooper Capt. Yoram Zamosh, to liberate the Kotel HaMaaravi, where he announced for all the world to hear: “HaKotel b’yadenu,” the Kotel is in our hands.
That was a moving and very emotional time, and you could actually feel the hand of Hashem on the shoulders of the Israeli forces. The backstory here is that Dayan and future Prime Minister Rabin tried desperately to return the Kotel and the Temple Mount to the Arabs, but Hashem did not let them take it back. They were obviously foolish, Divinely foolish. The Arab countries had one agenda and that was to drive Israel and the Jews into the sea. They didn’t want to hear about withdrawals or compromise; they wanted Israel and the Jews gone.
On Monday, Trump said something pretty stupid to Netanyahu about Israel being on their own going forward if Bibi did not follow Trump’s directives on when to shoot or bomb or when to cease and desist. The president should not be talking to the prime minister that way because that’s the way enemies of both Bibi and Trump talk about Trump and he really does not like it.
Our sages explained that the essence of the Torah is: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow.” Doesn’t Trump realize that he might be emboldening the enemies of Israel, the U.S., and the West? When Trump tells Bibi that he might soon have to take on Iran without U.S. assistance, he gives the terrorist regimes high hopes. I’d like to believe that Trump is smarter than that.
An additional problem for Trump is JD Vance and the influence Tucker Carlson has had on the young vice president. On Fox News the other day, Vance said the U.S. might make a deal with Iran that Israel might not like or agree to. Trump usually doesn’t hesitate to call someone low-IQ or stupid if that’s the way he feels about them. And the Carlson-influenced Vance statement was indeed stupid, and Trump should have called it out.
No one wants the U.S. to do anything against the interests of this country just because it might be in Israel’s best interest. That’s a specific Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly approach. It’s about hostility to the Jewish majority population in Israel. It’s about the fact that the Jewish people do not believe in J____ or accept him as some deity figure. Our reality is that we are all children of G-d, and the fact that so many people around the world believe otherwise is probably the sum total of the whole affair.
They don’t come out and say it, but this is what troubles that trio though they would never admit it. In Vance’s case, he’s a convert to Catholicism, but his wife Usha is not particularly religious. Tucker Carlson claims to be deeply religious, but he’s also a hypocrite. Like Kelly and Owens, he has a serious problem with Israel and Jews.
On Sunday, when Iran fired ballistic missiles at Israel, Trump insisted to Netanyahu that Israel should not respond, adding that all the missiles were intercepted successfully and peace talks were going nicely. Still, Netanyahu had his Air Force bomb the parts of Lebanon that Hezbollah calls home.
On Tuesday morning, Iran shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter that required the rescue of the two pilots, who were slightly injured. The event was reported by Trump on Truth Social with Trump adding: “The United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”
What is going on here? The U.S. must respond, yet Israel is threatened with possibly losing American support if they respond to the Iranian missiles being fired into their civilian areas? That’s quite a double standard and the president should follow his own advice and direction. You know the old adage: What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Trump works well with Bibi. As of Wednesday, it looks like President Trump had his fill of the lying Mullahs. It’s time to stop giving them one more chance. And this business of responding “proportionally” or “disproportionally” to Iranian attacks on U.S. forces is an invention of the UN and the progressive left. It’s time to go after Iran with the full force of our armies until they throw up their arms in surrender.
We don’t need signed agreements with the Iranians. Their signatures, like their leadership, are worthless.
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