This time Israel has to send Gaza back into the Stone Age

 


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 excuse and no justifiable reason for our people to suffer while their people continue life as usual. It is not acceptable by any standard.

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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