Video of COS Gantz With Troops Amassed At Gaza Border…Chomping At The Bit To Destroy Hamas…Frustrated In The Field!

NOT unlike a yo-yo, a marionette whose strings are waiting to be yanked, PM Netanyahu veers from accepting an absolutely illegal ceasefire – pausing the IDF’s firepower, even as missile blitzes continue apace – to ordering the forces to “go ahead” and strike back, but only after a constant flow of attacks. What kind of leader behaves this irrationally, in effect, leaving ones citizens in agonizing limbo? 

NOW, in certain situations flexibility is a plus but never in life and death matters. For heavens sake. Intrinsically, no one should be foolish enough to believe that said pause in fire is some sort of deep thinker’s “strategy”. Hogwash. It is PM Netanyahu’s reflexively spineless response to this and that pressure, especially when Washington’s malefactors are in the region. 

NEVERTHELESS, within this blogger’s circle of contacts (mainly among a considerably high level cadre of strategic and counter terror related professionals), no one expects PM Netanyahu to go the distance and vanquish Hamas. In fact, if he does so, well, most would fall off the edge of their seats. Assuredly, this does not mean that they are cynical in nature. Not at all. Rather, they tend to be realistic and operate from a rational paradigm, just like this blogger. Moreover, they internalize that past performance is the best prognosticator of future performance. Thus, PM Netanyahu’s record of capitulation and “cease-fires” are legendary and unprecedented, even within Israel’s long list of appeasing, spineless, genuflecting and apologetic leaders! A humiliating spectacle to boot.

JUST to back track a bit, PM Netanyahu is like a broken record…déjà vu and then some. Let us hark to December 2012 and see what shakes out of his appeasement tree:

YET, for too many years and ongoing till today, malfeasance from Israel’s leadership (their legitimacy – qualifying due diligence – derives upon protecting the citizens above ALL else…even to the point of eschewing this pressure point or that…statesmen understand these distinctions…and it is not as if the leadership can ignore thousands of missiles/rockets raining down on citizens, thus pretending that a worthless/toothless cease/death fire is the answer….evidenced within DEBKAfiles’s latest report too) towards its majority public has been on full display but too many in Jewish circles…hey GA Assembly…”Peace/Death Now” devotees…how’s that PA/Fatah junta working out…alongside others whose intent is clearly malignant, those who can be counted on to turn deaf, dumb and blind. Enough. Maspik. ‘The Gaza (2012) operation’s ending shakes West Bank security, opens door to Hamas…..

BUT a hopeful sort would believe, that was then and this is now. Not so fast. As predicated in today’s thesis, there are many levels of capitulation and Bibi is its master. Consider the “news” of the day on July 15, 2014:

A barrage of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip targeted southern Israel, the Shfela region and the Haifa area hours after Israel agreed to an Egyptian ceasefire initiative effective as of 9 a.m….

Hamas took responsibility for the rocket fire.

The IDF stated that the government had instructed it to refrain from responding to the rocket attacks as part of the ceasefire deal.

The Security Cabinet Sunday morning accepted the Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire that, from Israel’s perspective, went into effect at 9:00 am.

The IDF said just after noon on Tuesday that 35 rockets had been fired into Israel from Gaza since Israel accepted the ceasefire initiative….

ADDING to the PM’s disconnect from reality, he has the temerity to sack his Deputy DM, all for the “crime” of objecting to any display of national weakness. 

READERS, the above is neither parody nor satire, it is the G-d’s honest truth. It is our reality, our nightmare – from our leadership!

MOST significantly, any ceasefire, as demonstrated at the onset of the latest volley from Hamas’s years-long missile war, regardless of who brokers it, is manifestly illegal according to international law. This is not an opinion, it is a legal fact.

IN furtherance of the leadership’s illegality, and to understand why Israel is where it is, the following is more than “food for thought”: