Jameel mentioned this to me earlier. Olmert is such a small-time politician that he won’t even let his Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni go to the UN to “broker” the cease fire. He wants all the “credit” for himself and doesn’t want her upstaging him.

Is there any question now as to why we are in this situation?

BoneCrusher noted that our soldiers aren’t even buried yet and the new Disengagement Plan has already begun to be implemented.

Meanwhile with the ceasefire about to put into place, Hizbollah is getting ‘last licks’ in up North (big time), while our soldiers are wondering why they are fighting and dying when the government never had any intention to win or even protect them properly after sending them right into death traps (more on that in detail in another post when I don’t feel it will endanger the soldiers currently fighting).

If the headlines right now are to any extent correct, then Israel has just lost the war.

A cease-fire is in the works in which the Hizbollah will move North of the Litani (still in missile striking range of Israel), the Lebanese Army (presumably incorporated into/with Hizbollah ) will eventually move South of the Litani with UN “Peacekeepers”, and unofficially in a month Israel will begin negotiating to abandon the Shaba farms. Perhaps we’ll get our soldiers or their bodies back.

All of which Olmert and his leftwing government approves.

Perhaps the Left were right – we shouldn’t be in this fight.

But not because there isn’t a military solution - because there is one.

But because Israel’s ideological principles have become so perverse that our leaders are no longer willing to fight for our own survival.

Presumably 30 missiles hits a day instead of 200 will be an acceptable number.

So the Left were right, because in the end we will capitulate and surrender rather than win (and they are the reason) – and all our soldiers will have died in vain.

We could have just surrendered a month ago.

And in the end, all we have done is delay the inevitable by a few weeks, months, or perhaps a year or two, but in the end we will be fighting again and next time even worse. Next time perhaps even against dirty bombs supplied by Iran.


And in a month or two the Left will be congratulating themselves on a job well done, and Israel will forget that being under the Hizbollah missile threat is an existential threat that will hit us yet again, and once more we’ll read sicko articles saying that Nasrallah is a responsible Prime Minister of Lebanon.

The left were right. Because of the evil damage the Left did to this country starting from (even before) Oslo, Israel is apparently no longer capable of fighting ((or willing to fight) for her own survival.

It is only a matter of time before the next Expulsion and missiles start hitting central Israel.

The Left is wrong.

The Right is right. The Left have merely stabbed us all in the back.

“I have a special message to the Arabs of Haifa, to your martyrs and to your wounded. I call you to leave this city. I hope you do this. ... Please leave so we don't shed your blood, which is our blood." – Hassan Nasrallah.

I’d say the most memorable part of Nasrallah’s speech yesterday was when he told Haifa’s Arabs to leave their homes so he can attack freely without worrying about their blood. I don’t think we’ve heard such sagacious advice from the Arabs since we kicked their aggressor tushees in 1948.

As Arabs from the North go to live in Bethlehem hotels, I would recommend to one and all some very nice locations further East.

In previous posts I gave very clear definitions of Victory. I don’t know if this government can achieve them, so like our Prime Minister I’ve decided to redefine what Victory will be.

Unlike the Prime Minister, I will not dumb down my goals, nor mark the finish line behind me before I even step foot on the track.

But I suspect there is another way to achieve victory in this war.

The key factor holding this war together – is Hassan Nasrallah.

While Iran and Syria are playing major leading roles, it is Nasrallah who is the glue and brains of Hizbollah. Iran will find a replacement, but like the current Dali Lama for Tibet, Iran and Syria got lucky when they Nasrallah left Amal for Hizbollah. (I’m not calling the Dali Lama a terrorist for those that didn’t understand the comparison).

Taking Nasrallah out will set Hizbollah back significantly. (Hanging him up by his toenails - that would just be a perk).

Yes we will still have to fight them, and they will still launch their missiles, but as both a symbol and their uniquely endowed leader I highly suspect that removing Nasrallah would turn this war around very quickly.

And then we need to perform a regime change in Syria and Iran.

While we are winning the battles (though some like today’s, at a very, very high cost) the question is why aren’t we winning the war, and why are our losses as bad as they are and progress as slow as it has been?

Besides our currently incompetent leadership, the answer is because of Oslo, Barak and the Disengagement.

Oslo insinuated into the minds of our people that we thought we didn’t need to fight.

Barak, running away from Lebanon, caused us to forget how to fight the enemy.

While Disengagement caused our army to no longer even remember who the enemy is.

Leftist ideology has crippled our fighting abilities and fighting acumen. Period. Our generals have been selected based on their loyalty to Disengagement and ability to fulfill that mission, not based on their ability to defend the State.

When was the last time regular army recruits seriously trained in small unit field tactics? Mention something basic like ‘dilugim’ and today’s soldier looks back at you blankly. Mention sensitively removing someone from their home, and they’ll tell you all about it. (Forget recruits, what about reservists?)

I remember when Oslo started and the brainwashing was in full force and a unit of Golani recruits on a bus surrendered their weapons when surrounded by PA terrorists.

This is what the Left has done to us.

We will win, because this war will cause us to return to the basics and regain what we lost, but at what price?

If the Defense Minister mentions something in passing, I guess it doesn’t need to be censored.

One of the things you haven’t heard till now is that Hizbollah is not the only enemy force that Israel is fighting in Lebanon.

Iran has special commando units physically in place in Lebanon that are battling our troops.

These Iranian commandos may be well very armed – but we are beating them bad.

(Whooo, that's one thing out of my system, 99 more to go).

This article has been self-censored.

There is so much going on up North that isn’t being reported and I don’t know if it is because of political or security reasons.

I think I’ll take a break for the next day or two so I don’t write anything I shouldn’t – despite the temptation to do so.

Arabs living in Eretz Yisrael tend to not make up an important component of the focus of this blog except when they are directly related to events affecting Settlers. Similarly perhaps, Arabs in Eretz Yisrael tend to not make up an important component of the security dialogue of the Land of Israel – except when they are trying to compromise it, be it in the Knesset or on the street.

For a long time, Arabs in Eretz Yisrael viewed themselves as separate from the rest of the country when it came to issues of war and peace. And not just because nearly all don't serve in the army or even do National Service.

In general they either relied on their immunity from war, as it was their brethren (sometimes literally) that were attacking this country, so they knew they were safe, or they tacitly or even openly assisted those that would hurt this country – again from the Knesset or from the street.

Suddenly Israel faces an unconventional war.

Instead of troops coming in and attacking, and then either bypassing the Arab villages, or entering them and receiving succor and support, Israel is attacked by missiles that, as it unexpectedly turns out, can’t differentiate between a Jewish town and an Arab one.

So the Arabs complain, “Why don’t we have an air raid siren?” and “Why don’t we have bomb shelters?”

All the while ignoring why they don’t.

While it is clear why they don’t have bomb shelters (besides that they don't build them into their homes like most Jewish homes do) as no one thought they would ever need them in a conventional war (after all who would be targeting them – their brethren?), but it is still an interesting question as to why they don’t have air raid sirens.

You see it turns out that many of the Arab towns (such as Nazareth) do have air raid sirens, but they simply don’t work.

Rather irresponsible of the Israeli government, wouldn’t you say, letting them go into disrepair?

Irresponsible, only if you ignore why they don’t work.

You see, the Arabs in all these towns and villages complained that they did not want to hear the sounds of the National air raid sirens when we sounded them for Memorial Day or Yom HaShoah. They found it offensive that they were forced to hear our commemorations for our dead – something they don’t and won’t mourn.

So many years ago, a decision was made, after the Arabs complained enough, to simply remove their connection to the national air raid siren system. Exactly what they asked for.

And they probably even thought, no one will attack our town anyway, so who needs it.

Suddenly as missiles unexpectedly fall on their heads, they actually blame Israel for their not being connected.

Now that’s the definition of Chutzpah.

An anonymous commenter on my site mentioned this and I felt it was appropriate to repost.

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The Knesset’s Foreign & Defense Committee Chairman Tsachi Hanegbi (Kadima) approved 30,000 soldiers to receive Tzav-8 (to go fight in Lebanon) and then packed his suitcases and went on vacation to the USA with his family!

Controversies aside. I have quite a number of friends fighting deep in Lebanon right now and ask if everyone could just say some extra Tehillim (Psalms) for their safety.