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<\/span>Alternatively, consult with Spencer, Luttwak, and Clinton. John Spencer, West Point\u2019s urban war strategist who served two tours in Iraq, concluded in Newsweek that \u201cIsrael has taken more measures to avoid needless civilian harm than virtually any other nation that\u2019s fought an urban war,\u201d including the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. The legendary strategist, Edward Luttwak, could summarize his Tablet article explaining how intractable a foe Israel faces on the \u201ccrowded urban battlefield\u201d Hamas created, and how Israel defied American predictions by minimizing IDF casualties and collateral damage.<\/p>\n
Finally, your friend Hillary Clinton can remind you how much the Obama Administration \u2013 and Tom Friedman \u2013 pressured Netanyahu in earlier conflicts to cease-fire and trust Hamas to be pragmatic. And, as she noted on The View, Israel on October 7 was respecting the latest cease-fire the international community imposed, until Hamas broke it \u2013 followed by Hezbollah which had long mocked the Second Lebanon War\u2019s cease-fire.<\/p>\n
If you doubt these American experts, listen to some candid Palestinians. Fatah deems Hamas \u201cresponsible\u201d for having \u201ccaused the Nakba [national catastrophe] which our Palestinian people [now] live.\u201d Bassam Eid, a human rights activist, writing in Newsweek challenges his \u201cfellow Palestinians: Stop blaming the Jews \u2013 Hamas is starving our brothers and sisters in Gaza.\u201d Eid states courageously that \u201cHamas\u2019s governance\u2026 prioritized violence and killing Jews over the welfare of its population\u2026. I can tell you beyond the shadow of a doubt that the terrorist group Hamas is responsible for the suffering of Gazans.\u201d<\/p>\n
Please update Secretary Blinken. Ask him to renounce his perverse accusation that Israel is using the dehumanization Israelis suffered on October 7th \u2013 and are still enduring as kidnapped victims in Hamas\u2019s tunnels \u2014 as \u201ca license to dehumanize others.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read last week\u2019s article in the anti-Netanyahu Ha\u2019aretz, \u201cIsraeli Army Meets Fierce Fighting in Gaza\u2019s Qatari-built Luxury Neighborhood.\u201d You could easily spin it as \u201cBrutal Israelis Destroy Beautiful Palestinian Homes.\u201d But Hamas embedded itself in this neighborhood. And, Ha\u2019aretz reports: \u201cIt almost seems as though parts of the neighborhood were built in preparation for the day when IDF forces enter the area. Each building has hiding places and corners beneficial for urban fighting.\u201d Predictably, Israeli forces encountered \u201cheavy fighting,\u201d even as, their officer reported, \u201cwe immediately began evacuating all residents to humanitarian areas.\u201d<\/p>\n
While injecting some facts, historical perspective and moral balance, it\u2019s ironic that Schumer claims Netanyahu\u2019s \u201cgoverning vision \u2026 is stuck in the past,\u201d then mindlessly demands a two-state solution.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s so 1990.<\/p>\n
If you endorse a two-state solution, while ignoring Palestinian calls for a no-Jewish-state solution from \u201cthe river to the sea,\u201d and forget that the two biggest concessions Israel made \u2014 the Oslo peace withdrawals and the Gaza disengagement \u2013 helped Palestinian terrorists spill rivers of Israeli blood, who\u2019s the one stuck in the past?<\/p>\n
Start getting creative. Champion \u201ctwo democracies for two peoples.\u201d That stops just pressuring Israel to find the unfindable \u2013 the non-suicidal land concession that will satisfy Palestinian exterminationists. Instead it challenges the Palestinians to develop democracy and \u2013 trigger warning \u2013 take some responsibility. Instead, they keep demanding and winning concessions, and then launch their terror-tantrums and bloodbaths.<\/p>\n What\u2019s happening, you might wonder: How could your smart advisers be so off? Obsessed with \u201cinnocent\u201d Gazans, the media is spinning a Sanctimony Cyclone. Inconvenient facts, moral judgments, and geopolitical strategies to protect America from Iranian evil, are swept away by heart-wrenching images and simplistic storylines of vengeful Jews working out their trauma by targeting Palestinian children.<\/p>\n This media mania promotes the Palestinian Putsch, a massive threat to Western civilization and your re-election. Pro-Palestinian thugs keep attacking American icons, while trying to make Jews, Israel, Zionism, radioactive globally.<\/p>\n That\u2019s why Friedman\u2019s latest column accusing Bibi of making Israel radioactive is so perverse. Note how Palestinian goons even targeted celebrities approaching the Academy Awards. How did some respond? They hid their yellow hostage ribbons, to avoid being harassed.<\/p>\n Such hounding of pro-Israel students has become a feature of campus life -and is being replicated in cities coast-to-coast. I ask Americans: which side are you on? The side which never waves an American flag and violates the sanctity of the White House, the Lincoln Memorial, the Rockfeller Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, Memorial Sloane Kettering cancer center \u2013 let alone the free speech of Zionists? Or the patriotic flag-wavers supporting America\u2019s democratic ally, Israel?<\/p>\n Beware Mr. President: don\u2019t worry so much about Dearborn that you lose Pennsylvania, Florida, and the Jews of Michigan, who if mobilized could balance out self-destructive stay-at-homers, who might re-elect Donald Trump. You know better. Just like you knew in 2020 that middle-class blacks in the South Carolina primary would choose you and not the radicals, why don\u2019t you trust the silenced American majority to reward you for supporting Israel over evil, anti-American, terrorists and their apologists?<\/p>\n It\u2019s time for your inner Scrappy Scrantonian to mobilize decent Americans who don\u2019t want Palestinian goons splashing red paint on the People\u2019s House and disrupting the nation\u2019s business.<\/p>\n This is a matter of principle, standing up for free speech, let alone law-and-order. But it\u2019s also good politics.<\/p>\n It\u2019s obvious. Israel doesn\u2019t just need a clear win \u2013 you do too. I wouldn\u2019t want to face Donald Trump having presided over the debacle in Afghanistan, a stalemate in Ukraine, and a catastrophe in Israel. Politically, you should encourage Netanyahu to finish the job effectively, as humanely as possible, but also quickly \u2013 for your sake, not just Israel\u2019s.<\/p>\n If you \u2013 and frankly, the too-polite American Jewish community \u2013 don\u2019t start resisting this Palestinian bullying now, your Democratic National Convention will blow-up in five months in Chicago, a four-hour drive from Dearborn. Unless they start encountering some good old-fashioned American indignation \u2013 and blowback \u2013 these pro-Palestinian fanatics will make Chicago\u2019s 1968 riots look like King Charles\u2019s coronation by comparison. They will rule the streets and browbeat on the convention floor, using the megaphone effect of social media, combined with the mainstream media\u2019s gullibility and bloodlust, to drown out the story you hope to tell.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s face it. Anyone who has already called you by that ugly libel, \u201cGenocide Joe,\u201d ain\u2019t coming home. Stop thinking you can woo them back. Mobilize the Democratic base and the Jewish community to push back, to defend American values, and save your campaign from getting upstaged by a vicious, undemocratic, anti-American minority that nevertheless has found a home in today\u2019s Democratic Party.<\/p>\n And yes, read the Israeli room too. Just as each indictment boosted Donald Trump with his core supporters, each outsider attack boosts Bibi Netanyahu with his. It\u2019s not only an instinctive \u201cdon\u2019t tread on me\u201d trait Israelis share with many Americans, right and left. In this case, your so-called experts are misreading what Israelis want from this unsought-war and where their frustrations with Netanyahu lie.<\/p>\n Blinken, Schumer, and Friedman project their wartime frustrations with Bibi onto the Israeli people. Most Israelis have noticed that the War Cabinet sidelined Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, that the trusted army is mostly running the war, and that there is a broad consensus that the IDF must do what it takes to crush Hamas, free the hostages, and restore deterrence, north and south, beyond our borders and house-by-house. True, most Israelis wish Netanyahu had a Day After plan and offered a moral leadership and unity he hasn\u2019t provided for years. But right now, most Israelis worry about winning first.<\/p>\n Rest assured, the political bloodletting and Bibi-bashing will start soon enough. Currently, your interests and Israel\u2019s align in ways too many people close to you miss. Israel, America, and your presidential campaign need a clear, quick, Israeli victory; strong affirmations of support for Israel and disdain for Palestinian thuggery; and more creative stability-seeking solutions. These new ideas must acknowledge Israel\u2019s scars since Oslo and the Gaza Disengagement. And they must build toward a better Day After \u2014 in Gaza, in a new Middle East, with a crushed Hamas, a subdued Hezbollah, a neutralized Houthi threat, a renewed Saudi initiative, and an abashed Iran.<\/p>\n The road to that Joe-Biden-positive future is not through Dearborn or Bibi-bashing but by doubling down on that magical formidable Israeli-American alliance, which you have spent years building and embodying.<\/p>\n On October 7, a conceptzia \u2013 conception \u2013 about Hamas pragmatism that blinded American policymakers as well as Israelis \u2013 fell. Don\u2019t risk the victory you seek on November 5, by falling into a Palestinian-orchestrated, media-manufactured, conceptzia, that hurts Israel \u2013 and you too.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jppi.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/shutterstock_2228372755-scaled.jpg\")
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