WarSclerotic

The endless grind of media coverage has left no one else to be interviewed. Are there any volunteers out there? No one really knows what is happening in Gaza, what is really happening in Cairo or what Israel’s decision-makers are actually planning. But there are analysts.

Some of them continue to drive us crazy with the same false perception we have been fed since the Oslo Accords disaster and the madness of the disengagement from Gaza, namely: “There is no military solution,” there is “nothing we can do,” and even “we must speak to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas” (they don’t quit, these peddlers of illusions). Can Abbas even influence someone from his own staff, let alone Hamas?

One of these known wise guys said Sunday that we need to “learn to live” with the missiles. In an interview with CNN, a hysterical Knesset member beseeched the “boss from the White House” to intervene and save the situation. Already on the first day of the operation, the media began driving itself insane with the question: “When will we leave Gaza?”

Before we even started taking Hamas apart, it’s only the fifth day of the operation after all, and the department of immediate gratification (Peace Now and an espresso later) is demanding immediate achievements with a stopwatch in their hands.

P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E. Unlike the analysts, this is the message the Israeli homefront is signaling to the political leadership.

“There is no legitimacy for a ground incursion,” the analysts warn. And for missiles on a civilian population there is legitimacy? We have returned to the days of the Diaspora, Jews; we will bow our heads and live with the situation. Do we need legitimacy to defend our own lives?! Half the country is hostage to bloodthirsty criminals and instead of encouraging the Israel Defense Forces to fulfill its purpose — to defend the people — they eat away at the righteousness of our path with their worms of doubt.

Hamas’ reason for existence isn’t for the welfare of its people, but the killing of Jews. Read Hamas’ Covenant and understand that the only possible discourse with them is the language of fire and pillars of smoke. Bernard Lewis said once that in the Middle East the winner is he who stomps on his enemy’s neck, and only then is he granted his reward: life.

We were silent for too long as missiles hit our cities and became part of the routine. The root of this defeatist perception is found in our failure to remember the righteousness of our path. Let’s cover the basics: We’ve returned home to Zion, to our ancient and only homeland. The days of Jews being murdered without a response are over. Let the IDF win!