Netanyahu channels Churchill and says Israel will “finish the job”
Fortunately, Netanyahu et al in Israel aren’t listening to anyone who tells them it’s time to lose:
Addressing American Jewish leaders Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that the Israeli army was going to unprecedented lengths to protect civilians in Gaza during the war with Hamas, while insisting: “We have to finish the job.”
Speaking before the annual meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, Netanyahu blasted South Africa and Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
The prime minister lambasted Lula for comments he had made earlier on Sunday, in which he compared Israel to the Nazis, saying the only historical equivalent to events in Gaza was “when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.”
“He should be ashamed of himself,” Netanyahu said to applause.
One of the many many problems we have today is that people such as Lula are not only not ashamed of saying such a heinous thing; they are proud of saying it.
More:
Netanyahu promised that none of the accusations would stop Israel’s offensive against the Gaza terror group, pledging “total victory against [Hamas] savages,”
“When we set out to do this, even our best friends said to us, ‘It can’t be done,’” …
One thing Israel cannot agree to is an international diktat that would… force a Palestinian state on Israel after the horrors of October 7,” he said, insisting the Israeli people were united around this. Netanyahu called on the Conference of Presidents to adopt the same resolution his cabinet passed earlier in the day against any unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state.
Speaking before Netanyahu, US Ambassador Jack Lew sought to downplay talk that the US could recognize a Palestinian state unilaterally.
“We have never said there should be a unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state,” says Lew.
Instead, he called for an “over-the-horizon process that includes a vision for a demilitarized Palestinian state.
“Now is a moment in time when there is a real possibility that by engaging in normalization and negotiations with Saudi Arabia” along with reforms in the Palestinian Authority, “there can be a demilitarized Palestinian state. But Israel will have to make that choice,” Lew said.
That’s the tightrope on which the Biden administration is walking. The MSM keeps saying that the administration wants a Palestinian state and that Israel won’t agree, but Lew is saying something more – nuanced. The administration wants to throw a fish to all the Israel-hating and Jew-hating leftists, of whom there are many, while still keeping Democrats who support Israel in the Democrat camp. To do, they must express unrealistic thoughts such as “reforms in the Palestinian Authority.”
But the PA doesn’t want to reform and, more importantly, the Palestinians don’t want it to reform. They want Israel gone and Israelis (and Jews in general, for many of them) dead. You don’t “reform” that overnight, nor do you do it by talking. You do it by winning a war and then totally revamping an educational system that has marinated generations in the worst sort of murderous hate, backed by religious beliefs as well. Underestimate the task and you are asking for defeat.
Netanyahu’s language in the speech reminded me – a bit – of Churchill’s “give us the tools and we will finish the job.” The Israelis also need to start making more of their own “tools,” of course.
Churchill was addressing President Roosevelt in 1941 but prior to the US’s entry into the war:
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt: Put your confidence in us. Give us your faith and your blessing, and, under Providence, all will be well.
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
Right before that, Churchill quoted Longfellow, who had been quoted by Roosevelt in a letter to the British leader:
The other day, President Roosevelt gave his opponent in the late Presidential Election [Mr. Wendell Willkie] a letter of introduction to me, and in it he wrote out a verse, in his own handwriting, from Longfellow, which he said, “applies to you people as it does to us.” Here is the verse:
…Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Indeed.
“there can be a demilitarized Palestinian state.”
Just like the one on October 7th.
The possibility of national extinction is, like the prospect of hanging in the morning, a powerful inducement to clear and cogent thinking. Go, Bibi. Do the necessary. As Franklin said, and I paraphrase, those who would purchase a little temporary safety at the cost of essential liberty will eventually have neither safety nor liberty.
Netanyahu is right. Finish the job. No partial victory will last.
Related:
“Hamas: Palestinian Civilians Are Also Terrorists”—
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20400/hamas-palestinian-civilians-terrorists
It deeply troubles me there is such a GLOBAL anti-semitic, anti-Israel wave. Why? Spawned how?
And Western cowardice in the face of Iran’s anti-West, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish stance. Why? Have we become 98 lb weaklings? To what end, what purpose? Because Europe has become Eurabia? Britain is 20 % Pakistani, with a Paki Muslim mayor of London, for Pete’s sake!
Cicero:
It’s been building for many many decades.
But see also this. Plus this, this, and this.
That is certainly part of it its a post christian world in many respects its a world ignorant of the legacy of the abrahamic tradition which is the basis for christianity
“an over-the-horizon process”
In other words, a hallucination.
As long as Islam remains unconstrained or unrestrained, any sense of a “demilitarized Palestine” or “peaceful coexistence” is a lie woven from that aforementioned hallucination.
Like Churchill, Washington, and Caesar, Netanyahu will be remembered for a long time.
Neo-
Thanks. I’m still scratching my head about Said and Foucault, that they succeeded in poisoning so many minds, almost like a resurrection of Mein Kamf. I would never read such trash.
Doesn’t quite fit but I was just thinking of Biden as a Quisling.
I strongly support Netanyahu’s determination to finish off Hamas. Hopefully he realizes that Hamas is just one ‘head’ of the Islamic Hydra.
“Hydra: a many-headed serpent or monster in Greek mythology that was slain by Hercules and each head of which when cut off was replaced by two others.”
Those who advocate for a cease-fire say they want to “stop the killing”. As long as Hamas exists, killing will not stop.
I can imagine what the US would do if the Mexican cartels lobbed 30 missiles into El Paso, 30 into San Antonio, and 40 into San Diego, and it wouldn’t involve negotiations or a “peace deal” – more like fighter/bomber strikes and maybe an invasion by the US Marines, like at Veracruz – “the halls of Montezuma”… The fact that the Israelis have been called upon to put up with this not once, but six or seven times, amazes me and shows how morally bankrupt the UN has become. Israel has every right to turn Gaza into a parking lot.
‘…they want to “stop the killing”….’
More accurately, ‘…they want to “stop [ISRAEL DOING] the killing”…’ (though, in fact, they want to stop—to prevent—Israel from defending itself…since Israel, they’ve decided is a totally illegitimate entity, having failed, for over 75 years now, to allow its enemies to destroy it).
And so, Hamas & friends doing the killing, raping, mutilating, incinerating, pillaging, terrorizing, kidnapping, hostage-taking—and especially constant LYING—is not only fine but ultra-desirable…in the name of “justice”, “morality”, “rightness”, “goodness”, “fairness”, “humanity”, “world peace”, etc….
FOAF…
I’m going to keep offering the simple corrective, “As long as Islam exists unconstrained or unrestrained the killing will not stop.”
Jew hate & the command to wage jihad against non-muslims is embedded in Islam. Islam exists in perpetual war against the rest of us. Until we’re honest about that…and do something about it…
streamfortyseven – Six or seven times? Israelis have been dealing with the missles more or less constantly for decades. Just because they built the Iron Dome to defeat most of these missles doesn’t change the fact that a hostile power regularly lobs missles into their most highly populated cites.
And now Biden is going to introduce a UN resolution condemning Israeal for invating the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza? The world has gone mad.
No hes just the evil thug that they propped up while you complain about orange man bad
There are minion of evil people in media in ngos in govt
“US resolution at UNSC calls for temporary Gaza ceasefire, opposes Rafah operation”: https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/385484
Biden’s demand: you must lose this war, Israel. Now, go and die.
Miracles do happen…every day?
“Fauda star injured in Gaza celebrates birthday with followers;
“Idan Amedi, singer and actor injured in Gaza fighting, shares photo of himself following his injury, says he ‘doesn’t think he will ever comprehend’ miraculous survival and recovery.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/385517
Or maybe it’s just that we don’t notice them…
As arnold said in commando ‘i dont do requests’
So sinwar may have escaped with the hostage though el arish crossing
His polling numbers must show he needs the American Jihadist vote even with a “fortified” election.
There is NO way on Gods green earth that, if I were Mr. Netahanyu, would I stop going after the monstrous, murdering Palestinian Hamas terrorists! They need to be punished for what they did on Oct 7th. These people who want a cease fire and a 2-state solution are simply Jew-haters. NEVER AGAIN!
Miguel cervantes – The tragedy is that the GOP has put Trump up to lose again so Biden will get to continue stabbing Israel in the back for the next four years.
Cicero-to quote a wizened old political hand, “follow the money honey.” Our universities get gobs of money from islamists in a way they don’t from Christians. Ditto for the Chinese. Pick any other Marxist org. (University of Illinois is one I always point to for this-they are hungry for those Chinese dollars especially to subsidize their administrative stupidity at the expense of IL students wanting to be in the engineering school). And thanks to GWB and Karl Rove wanting Christian churches to get the government sugar money to in theory build up a machine to counter the left, the left instead took over the churches and are now doing “ministry” to bring illegals over the border to provide “services”-where they make a lot more compared to passing the collection plate.
John Guilfoyle, yes, Islam is a danger to all mankind. But look on the bright side. Over half of Islam’s victims are Muslims. They don’t like it any more than any other sane human being.
I can’t believe what I’m reading on this blog. We’re doomed? Why? Suffer a few losses and just give up? I’m an old Rugby player. If I didn’t know how to play hurt I wouldn’t play at all. It’s no game we’re playing. But my Drill Instructor and my father, the sainted Senior Chief, wouldn’t recognize you.
How about we grow a pair.