Ceasefire? In exchange for what?
It is as empty a term as the “two-state solution,” which Palestinians have rejected time and again.
August 16, 2024
By Phyllis Chesler
On August 16th the White House issued a joint statement from the USA, Egypt, and Qatar about a deal. Missing from those in agreement are Israel, Iran, and its proxy armies Hamas and Hezbollah. Are these folks completely crazy? Egypt is the very country that refused to offer the slightest shelter to Gazan civilians who wished to escape, the same country that greedily profited for years from the weaponized, underground tunnels built by Iran/Hamas. Qatar? Iran's paymaster and Taliban supporter does not bring clean hands to this statement. Who are they to have any say in this matter? America? Don't even get me started.
A "cease fire?" In exchange for what? What if there are only two Israeli hostages left alive--is that sufficient to justify a "cease fire?" Israel cannot afford to free another 1000 Palestinian Islamist terrorists in order to ransom another Gilad Shalit. Last time, Yahya Sinwar was one of those Israel released. See where that got us. Also, the phrase: "cease fire" is a delusion, it is no guarantee that Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah will not commit 10/7s again and again as they've sworn to do. "Cease fire" is as empty a phrase as is the "two state solution," a solution that the Palestinians have rejected again and again.
Recently, David Remnick spent thirteen pages in The New Yorker on a too positive portrait of the sadistic psychopath, Sinwar, whom even Remnick admits is hero-worshipped by the Gazans; even Remnick concedes that Hamas soldiers fight dressed as civilians and that the civilians support Hamas. Remnick portrays only the Israelis in a negative light, quotes only a handful of left-wing Israelis whose specialty is criticizing their own country. There are no civilians in Gaza. With some very endangered and silent exceptions, they are all Hamasniks, all Jew haters in their very bones.
OK, I get it. Israel screwed up beyond belief in not trusting the military intelligence they had before 10/7; maybe also by choosing a policy of "mowing the lawn" instead of launching a pre-emptive attack against Hamas and Iran long before now. But here we are. The entire world has propagated the filthiest Big Lies against Israel and is now condemning Israel for daring to fight back. Enough! If I were the Emperor of Ice Cream, I would launch a pre-emptive attack against Iran's nuclear facilities; institute a death penalty in Israel; execute in battle every single Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi, etc. fighter.
These suggestions are not out of bloodthirsty revenge. They are to demonstrate to our enemies that Israel is here to stay, is not going anywhere, that Israel is strong enough and savvy enough to play by the rules of the Arab street, and not only by the "higher" ethical standards of defenseless, Diaspora Jews. Israel must be victorious in order for the Abraham Accords between Israel and the Sunni Arab states to succeed--and succeed they must.
What a question, Phyllis! How dare you ask? the Jews must stop defending themselves from those who genocidally massacred their people. Yes, mothers raped in front of their kids and babies burnt alive included. Once the Jews stop, the terrorists will release the hostages they have already killed, abused, raped, beaten and traumatized like animals for months. Shit, they’re Jewish, what are they expecting? Not to be taken hostages? Their families not to be massacred in their homes? Colonial fascists, how dare they? Yep, and once the terrorists have released the hostages, they’ll receive beacoup money, food, water, weapons and rest. And ten months from now, when the US election has passed and we are thinking of the 2025 Oscars, Hamas, the UNRWA staff and hundreds of their fellow innocent civilians will enter Israel again, rape, kill, burn and celebrate as on October 7th. They’ll take some other hostages and we’ll be back at the same point again. But Blinken will be in Barbados by then, paid by Tehran, and it shall be our problem then, not his. And the demonstrations of Leftist self-hating Jews in Israel will only be bigger. Worth reaching a ceasefire deal this week, right? Wait, you don’t agree? You fascist. I knew it.
You present this so well. I hope it is okay for you that I quoted you in my article today.
https://ozsheri.substack.com/p/israel-and-ceasefire-damned-if-we