When Will “The War” Be Over?
After the death of Hamas chief, Yakhye Sinwar, yesterday, 17 October 2024, US President Biden called on Israel to "stop the war."
Let us "learn from history so as not to repeat it;" and let us see "the Golden Rule" applied to Jews as well as everyone else.
History shows us that World War II was only "over" for The Allies when The Aggressors – Germany and Japan:
(A) unconditionally surrendered to the powers Defending themselves from conquest-aggression, and
(B) formally, openly committed themselves to abandon their goals of world conquest and elimination/subjugation of all "mongrel races" or religion-ethics constructs other than their own.
President Biden's call on Israel to "end the war" yesterday was ridiculously unwise – and, frankly, antisemitic.
Israel was attacked - and continues to be attacked.
And the Attackers have declared, they intend to go right on attacking any time they can.
First from the South, from Gaza: an independent Arab territory, self-governed, having elected Hamas as their government on a platform of Islamic world conquest and erasure of Israel and all Jews from existence.
Next, from the North, from a non-state actor - Hizballah – with the same agenda.
Lastly, from the Houthis and Iranians in the southeast.
President Biden yesterday called upon Israel to disobey all the lessons and examples from history in such circumstances, and just allow the remaining genocidal, hegemonistic, Jew-erasing forces to continue to exist with enough personnel and weapons caches and resupply resources to continue their peace-wrecking, havoc-wreaking existence.
The Allied war against the Nazis and Imperial Japan ended ONLY WHEN both Aggressors each laid down their arms, and unconditionally handed themselves over to be governed by the will of the civilized world's agreed-upon non-aggression policies.
The Golden Rule, please?
Let President Biden try to live with angry Delaware Indians who want Delaware back from white colonists like himself, firing randomly-landing rockets into his Rehovot, Delaware neighborhood at will, until he leaves and "goes back" to Ireland. Ironically, President Biden lives in city named for an Israeli city of the same name, not far from Gaza.
And - President Biden’s Irish-background has no historic, legitimate claim on Delaware, in the way the Jewish People have an established, archaeologically verified historic claim on their stolen Homeland.
Israel should never again be asked BY ANYONE to decide that to accept ...
• clearly-declared genocidal enemies on their borders to the South or North,
• who have declared they intend to continue, whenever they are able, to lob civilian-killing rockets into the Jewish State, and stage invasions-massacres ...
… as "normal" life for Jews and Israelis.
"Security" for Israel, and the right of Israelis to live securely, means Israel gets to live without the above, just as in WWII, the Allies would not allow the Nazi Party to continue to exist and govern, nor to arm itself and use arms to pursue its agenda.
Hamas/Hizballah/Iran style Islamic hegemony-theology must be exiled from "normalization" of any kind. It must be, as the Nazis and Imperial Japanese were, totally disarmed, and consigned to "the lunatic fringe" in the same way Nazism has been.
Nazis still exist; and Hamasniks will still exist.
But they must exist as the Nazis now do: as exiles from civilization without weapons, power, or the means to get either. Utterly marginalized, with their views considered deranged, and their symbols illegal in the marketplace of ideas.
Until then – "the war" must go on.
When will it be over?
It will be over when there is no chance of even one missile from Gaza or South Lebanon landing on Jewish civilians sipping coffee on their porches, or riding buses to school or work; and no chance whatsoever of a mob of massacre-intending, and mass-rape-intending, and mass-kidnapping-intending hordes crossing the Israeli borders to commit atrocities.
That will be when "the war" is over.
For President Biden to ask Israel to stop short, and guarantee Israel will face 7 October danger again - and ongoing missiles landing whenever and wherever ... is not only absurd – it is directly antisemitic. Why?
No other group of people on the face of the earth is or would be asked to accept as normal the ongoing probability of death-dealing, life-disrupting attempted mass-murder every single day.
Such a "normal" is only demanded of Jews.
Only of Jews.
Our answer, says this Jew and Israeli:
No.
Never again.
Am Yisrael chai b’shalom. The People of Israel will live on in peace.
We accept no other “normal” for our existence.
And - Hag HaSukkot Sameakh! (A Happy Sukkot Holiday!)
New York City 18 October 2024