Predictably, the airwaves are filled with immoral demands from the United Nations that Israel cease its military operations. There are demands for a “cease fire,” which is really a demand for Israeli capitulation, surrender and ultimately, destruction.
There can be no cease fire in Gaza until the war is over, and then it should not be delayed for even a fraction of a second.
Terrible violence will be directed at Hamas killers who invaded Israel and slaughtered babies, Holocaust survivors, mothers, toddlers and Gen Z kids at a music festival. They will be destroyed and the costs of killing them will be very high because they will not die alone.
Along with them will be soldiers of the IDF, who will lay down their lives so that the Jewish state can endure. There will be thousands of Palestinian civilians who are ultimately killed by their profound misfortune to be born in a place ruled by such evil. They will be killed in the end by Hamas, who hides among them and has used babies and hostages as human shields. Their deaths will be tragic, and unlike the civilian deaths caused by Nazis but delivered by Allied forces in the Second World War, these deaths will be aired to a global television audience on a constant basis.
There, the images will be curated by moralizing television anchors cocooned in far-away studios that are rich, warm, safe and comfortable. They will lament the deaths and shake their heads. They will ponder banalities out loud with an empty seriousness. “Why can’t we all get along?” and “I thought there were no more wars” seems to be the shocked reaction of many American television hosts within the cable news industry. Putting aside the naïveté, it is an astounding feature of this age that adults can be insulated from hardship, suffering and reality. This is real life. The smug visage of Matt Gaetz and menacing scowl of Donald Trump are the staged affectations of a rancid show that has divided the country, weakened the nation and created a delusion sphere in which the inevitable suffering caused by idiocy, selfishness and incompetence is rarely discussed.
This is precisely what happened in Israel. The price of political dysfunction was abject unpreparedness, and ultimately, mass death and war. Political dysfunction created an opening for evil, but not the evil itself. Because the killers came, war has come. Because war has come, there will be great suffering. Let us all hope it ends swiftly, but not one second earlier than necessary. It will end when Hamas is gone.
The United States government delivers billions of dollars of aid to Egypt every year. We should demand that the Egyptian government unseal the Gaza border for the safe passage of Palestinian war refugees onto Egyptian territory.
What comes next is one of the largest relief missions in world history. Already, there should be facilities being built to house, feed, and care for over one million displaced people. This is what the United Nations should be focused on. This is what the Arab nations should be funding.
After the violence ends the guns will quiet, and then there will be an opportunity for better. What that looks like will take fresh thinking, daring and imagination. It is always harder to make peace than war, but it is possible.
Pray for all those who will suffer and have their lives shattered in the terrible storm ahead. Be resolved. This war is necessary.
The survival of the Jewish people and their existence is not negotiable. Hamas was an organization dedicated to destroying Israel. It has been undone by its own hate and virulence. Soon it will be gone and the world will be better. During the passage from the world where Hamas exists to the one where it doesn’t, there will be moments of brutal destruction and martial violence employing the deadliest weapons yet designed by man.
Know that this is necessary and just. It is the price of survival.
As despicable as Hamas is, I don't believe they will ever be gone. Just as the Nazis are still around. Evil exists in mankind, but we must at least confront it.
There are times a just war is the only action. But we need to remember that Gaza is only one battlefield. We have another in Ukraine. All are part of the same war and all part of the “all roads lead to Moscow” atrocities. We need to close down Hamas and our support of Israel is to that end I hope for a decisive victory with Hamas gone. Those living in Gaza deserve the country they were promised before Hamas took over in 2007. In turn, Israel deserves to live in peace.
We also have our own 5 th column to deal with. No, not those protesting, that is their right, but those in Congress who undermine our Democracy. So this is not an armchair evening news fight. It is here and now. Much work ahead