Oct 8, 2023. Posted by Balkan Periscope - Hellas
This time
Israel has to send Gaza back into the Stone Age, abducting senior Hamas
officials and their families, destroying their magnificent houses, the tall
buildings, the restaurants, and the promenades in Gaza.
By Ariel Kahana
Exactly 50
years and one day after the Yom Kippur War, Israel found itself again facing a
surprise attack, with outcomes that are no less horrifying. You don't need to
be a great expert to understand that there was an intelligence lapse and that
the IDF was caught unprepared to a fault.
The time to
investigate the oversight will come. Right now efforts must be concentrated on
turning defeat into victory. The way to do that is to take the initiative in
our response and first of all to defeat the enemy. It is not enough to
"demand that they pay a huge price," as Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said. In the circumstances imposed on us, and to quote the Chief of
Staff David Elazar [Dado] during the Yom Kippur War, "We must smash them
to smithereens." That is, bring them to their knees until they scream
enough, hit him mercilessly, and mow them down to the ground. Without High
Court rulings and without B'Tselem interventions, without limitations, without
proportionality, and without mercy. And if we are worrying about what The
Hague's International Court of Justice will have to say, there are enough
volunteers who will do the job and remain in Israel until the last day of their
lives.
We have taken all of the abovementioned obstacles upon ourselves since we left the Gaza Strip in 2005. They brought us to an endless number of futile military operations against Hamas, and finally to the terrible Simchat Torah war. Well, now that a war has broken out, it must be used to finally shatter the unbearable equilibrium with which the terrorist organizations in Gaza have been striking against us for a decade and a half. Now is the time to turn the tables.
What does
this mean in practical terms? This means sending Gaza back into the Stone Age,
abducting senior Hamas officials and their families, destroying their
magnificent houses, the tall buildings, the restaurants, and the promenades in
Gaza.
Energy
Minister Israel Katz took the right step and stopped the supply of Israeli
electricity to Gaza – even on normal days it is impossible to understand why it
exists. This stand must be reinforced. In other words, the electricity must not
be reconnected until the last of our people are returned, including Avraham
[Avera] Mengistu and the remains of IDF soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin.
If that doesn't help, the existing power plant in Gaza must also be bombed.
In
addition, fishing must be completely banned, and a demand put out that the
Egyptians immediately close the Rafah crossing, stop all and any supplies to
Gaza, including water and food, until Gazan mothers cry out to heaven for their
suffering. Also, the Hamas headquarters located in the Shifa Hospital, or any
other location, should have been bombed already yesterday, without any
hesitation.
There is no
doubt that we still have difficult days and terror ahead of us. But,
unfortunately, in this super-modern era, where everything is broadcast in real
time, we have been condemned to a brutal medieval war. And in war as in war, we
must plow through, overcome the shock and the pain, and reach a victory that
will pound a stunning blow on the enemy, from which he will never be able to
recover, such a blow that will make it clear to all players in the region,
those who are now rubbing their hands in glee, that Israel may have been taken
by surprise once again, but that at least in the next 50 years, no one will
mess with her again.
Israel Hayom
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