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Israel's Two Options - Die Without A Fight Or Destroy The Enemies By Means Of A Nuclear Weapon
Former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman: 'Israel Is Fighting The Wrong Enemy And Must Confront Iran Itself'
July 25, 2024
Israel may face a dilemma: to be destroyed or win at a terrible cost
A devastating blow to the Houthi infrastructure could be a prelude to much more dramatic events
Alexander Maistrovoy
July 24,2024
Till now not a single person has died of hunger in Gaza. They die in other parts of the world from Islamic genocide, in places like Sudan, Nigeria or the Congo, but nobody cares about it. The rights of Palestinian Arabs are above the rights of Sudanese Christians, Kurds, Boers in Southern Africa, or Baha'is in Iran.
Palestinian Arabs are the highest caste of mankind because they are a strike force aimed at destroying Western Judeo-Christian civilization.
The offensive is being waged on a broad and powerful front, which includes China, Russia, Iran, Turkey, Qatar, Islamists and, most importantly, Western globalists who hate their own peoples and Israel as a symbol of the triumph of Biblical prophecy.
The Jewish state, like the Jews before it, is once again at the forefront of history. Israel, outpost of Western civilization, is the enemy of the New Church of Globalism, and must disappear in the name of the triumph of the "Red-Green revolution."
This "Red-Green revolution" involves the destruction of the very foundations of Western civilization: family, morality, freedom, rationalism, humanistic values, science, art, culture, national traditions, classical literature and philosophy.
In place of the existing civilized states of Europe and North America, a gigantic "consumer plankton" should arise, cemented by the merciless laws of Sharia.
Today, few people remember the "Alliance of Civilizations," but it became the most outspoken expression of this project.
The "Alliance of Civilizations " of Obama, Zapatero (Prime Minister of Spain) and Erdogan, created in 2004, was nothing else but voluntary acceptance of dhimmitude status for Europe and the USA in a future Caliphate.
Active participants in the project included former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, South African Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General.
The Alliance declared that "politics, not religion, is at the heart of the growing Muslim-Western divide". This message demanded "correct" political decisions.
Which ones?
First aim: A radical change in the Western world through:
- Education of youth
- Mass migration from the Third World
- Brainwashing by "liberal" media
- Preaching of Islamic dominance as a "religion of peace"
- Support of Iran, Turkey and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Obama's bows to the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, desperate humiliating attempts to appease the ayatollahs, courtship with Erdogan, the idea of a mosque on of WTC grounds, a kūfīyä on Zapatero's neck, - all are the displays of this outlook.
20 years later we see that these goals have been achieved.
* The young generation is at the mercy of woke progressive constructs and is completely deprived of both national and cultural roots and critical thinking.
* Mass migration from Third World countries abounds almost everywhere (except Eastern Europe) and has radically changed the very ethnic structure of Western societies.
* The media has created a great Orwellian dystopia.
* Islam has become the supreme religion to which all other religions must submit: Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism.
* Aggressive Islamization has become a sign of the times.
The second key aim was the "end" of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
As Israel is the main irritant to Muslims, it loses its right to exist. "Furthermore, the Arab-Israeli conflict has become a critical symbol of the deepening rift" (Press release of "Alliance of Civilizations"). Zapatero and Erdogan recognized this idea almost openly, Obama does it less obviously, but the essence does not change.
Their followers today in the White House and Brussels are inexorably moving towards their goal.
It's unbelievable but the impression is that they were all just waiting for some monstrous event, like the 7.10 massacre. Less than a couple of months after the massacre of Jews, the White House and Brussels started talking about an immediate cessation of hostilities and the immediate creation of a Palestinian Arab state (!) within the 1949 borders under the hidden actual control of Hamas.
Biden demanded Israel stop the operation in Rafah. Thomas Friedman demanded that Israel withdraw from Gaza and return Sinwar to power. Schumer, on behalf of the Democratic Party, called for the overthrow of the legitimate government of Israel, which is too obstinate and unyielding. Western Europe launched a massive unilateral recognition of the "state of Palestine." The UK and France are next in line. The UN and other globalist structures have launched an unprecedented persecution of Israel.
A significant part of the American and European elite has nothing against Israel as such. Some of them are even Jews, like Blinken or Shumer, or have Jewish spouses, like Kamala Harris and Keir Starmer. But they know that they are just cogs in the great globalist machine and must submit to it.
Naturally, the Iranian Ayatollahs, Muslim Brotherhood and Erdogan's appetites are only growing. Left without Western support, moderate Sunni regimes are backed into a corner. This explains the desperate flirtations of al-Sisi, Crown Prince Mohammed, the UAE, Bahrain and King Abdullah with Iran and Hamas.
They risk sharing the fate of Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and Syria, and their growing weakness and vulnerability inevitably will bring the alliance of globalists and Islamists closer to their cherished goal: the creation of the world Caliphate.
The ring is shrinking right before our eyes. The Islamists are openly or covertly supported by Western globalists calling for immediate creation of "Palestinian state" under the thinly disguised rule of Hamas.
The next Holocaust will cease to be an abstraction and become a reality. Israel will be left with only two options: to die without a fight or to destroy the enemies by means of a nuclear weapon.
Obama foresaw this, and that is why he was so persistent in demanding Israel open its nuclear program for IAEA oversight.
Today, his current followers believe that the current ruling elite in Israel will not dare to use a lethal arsenal even in a critical situation. And they are right.
But times change, and the elites change with them. Considering the tragic and painful history of Jews, from Maccabeus and Jerusalem's zealots to the Warsaw ghetto and the Six-Day War, I would not be too quick to draw conclusions.
Alexander Maistrovoy is the author of Agony of Hercules or a Farewell to Democracy (Notes of a Stranger) available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/393544
Avigdor Liberman Says Israel Is Fighting the Wrong Enemy
The former Israeli defense minister is having a moment post-Oct. 7
Andrew Tobin
July 24, 2024
JERUSALEM—Avigdor Liberman was one of the only Israeli leaders who saw Oct. 7 coming. Now, the hawkish former defense minister turned opposition lawmaker insists Israel is fighting the wrong war, wasting its time pounding Iranian proxies like Hamas and Hezbollah rather than confronting Iran itself.
In the post-Oct. 7 world, Liberman has credibility. Shortly after the brutal massacre that shook Israelis from a decade of delusion about Hamas's intentions and capabilities, Israeli media published excerpts from a secret document that Liberman produced as defense minister in 2016.
He warned in the memo to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Hamas planned to send "a significant number of well-trained forces" to capture communities near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip and "take hostages." Liberman urged a preemptive strike on Hamas by "mid-2017" in order to prevent an "unplanned deterioration" with consequences "even worse than the results of the Yom Kippur war."
During an interview at his Knesset office earlier this month, Liberman told the Washington Free Beacon that he sees Israel's leaders once again "trying to avoid reality" and contain a genocidal enemy. Reversing his previous advocacy for a decisive showdown with Hamas, he called for Israel to end the war in Gaza, cut all ties with the strip, and shift focus "directly to Iran."
"Our leadership, both political and military, is still captive to the same concept [as before Oct. 7]. They didn't change anything," Liberman said. "They speak about victory, victory, victory. It's nonsense. We have wasted nine months fighting Hamas, Hezbollah, etc., instead of striking Iran."
Liberman warned that the Islamic Republic will be a "real nuclear power" within "a year and a half, two years maximum," at which point he predicted the mullahs will launch a conventional attack on the Jewish state, unleashing tens of thousands of missiles and a network of terrorist proxies.
"They are telling us what their intentions are," he said, citing public statements by Iran's leaders vowing to destroy Israel. "They will attack us from Iran itself, from Hamas in Gaza, from Hezbollah in Lebanon, from the militias in Syria and Iraq, and from the Houthis in Yemen. They say their fighters will meet in Tel Aviv in the end."
Israeli officials have in recent months leaked that Iran is taking preliminary steps to convert a stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium into an atomic bomb. The Islamic Republic—which directly attacked Israel for the first time on April 13, drawing a mostly symbolic response from the Jewish state—has denied seeking the bomb even as it has threatened to do so if pressured.
For many Israelis, Oct. 7 validated Liberman's decades of advocacy for a more aggressive approach to Hamas and the rest of the Iranian axis—even as the attack discredited Netanyahu's right-wing government and the security establishment.
Politically, Liberman is on the rise.
"Avigdor Liberman has been saying for years, 'Don't trust our neighbors. Don't do this. Don't do that.' Unfortunately, reality proved him right," said a former minister for Israel's left-wing Labor Party who befriended Liberman when they served together in the Knesset. She requested anonymity to speak frankly about controversial political matters.
"These days, after what happened to us and the atrocities [of Oct. 7], even people from the left are looking for a leader like him who speaks very directly without any bullshit," the former minister said. "He says: 'Look, if you want to survive here, this is the formula. You have to know that you don't give them one inch—not anymore.'"
Over more than 40 years in national politics, Liberman has left five different Israeli governments over their concessions to the Palestinians. Most recently, in 2018, he resigned as defense minister after Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Hamas that allowed Qatar to funnel billions of dollars into Gaza, much of it in suitcases full of cash.
At the time, Liberman called the deal a "capitulation to terror," saying, "What we are doing right now is buying quiet for a heavy price with no long-term plan to reduce violence toward us."
Asked by the Free Beacon how he—a Moldovan immigrant to Israel who served one year of mandatory military service—saw the threat from Hamas more clearly than the IDF's top generals, Liberman explained that he simply believed his eyes.
"They were all the same people, in the same atmosphere, in the same place. This made them very dogmatic. They could not draw the right conclusions, you know, do one plus one," he said. "I came without prejudice, and the evidence was very clear."
Since his resignation, Liberman has refused to join any governing coalition headed by Netanyahu, his former political mentor and longtime ally, earning the ire of many on the right and leaving his Yisrael Beiteinu party among the smallest in the Knesset.
"Nobody understood what Liberman was up to. People laughed at him," Nimrod Nir, a political psychologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and CEO of Agam Labs, a polling company, told the Free Beacon. "But after Oct. 7, he became the prophet. Now, he's seen as a potential prime minister."
According to recent polling conducted by Agam Labs, Yisrael Beiteinu would more than double its performance in a rerun of the latest national election, in 2022. The party would win 14 of the Knesset's 120 seats, up from 6 today—behind only Netanyahu's Likud, with 21 seats, and former war cabinet minister Benny Gantz's National Unity, with 22 seats, and tied with opposition leader Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid. The polling also found that Jewish Israelis view Liberman as the most effective member of the political opposition and prefer him as prime minister over Netanyahu, 51 percent versus 49 percent.
Most of Yisrael Beiteinu's new supporters voted in 2022 for centrist or left-of-center political parties, per the polling, part of a major rightward realignment of Israeli politics since Oct. 7 documented by Agam Labs.
At the same time, the Israeli public has also shifted toward Liberman's liberal views on religion and state. Ending ultra-Orthodox Jews' traditional exemption from military conscription—a cause Liberman has championed for decades—has become a national priority as Israel's multifront war has stretched the reserve forces thin, requiring tens of thousands of Israelis to report for second and third rounds of duty with no end in sight.
Daniel Chupini, 29, a network engineer from Petah Tikvah, spoke to the Free Beacon from reserve duty on Israel's Lebanon border, which has come under near-daily bombardment by Hezbollah. He said he plans to vote for Yisrael Beiteinu after having supported Yesh Atid and before that National Unity.
"I used to think Liberman might be too extreme. I thought maybe he was anti-religious and didn't give enough hope for peace," Chupini said. "But today I understand there was a purpose to what he was saying back then."
"It's not about right and left anymore," he added. "It's about what's right and what's wrong."
The ultra-Orthodox draft issue along with reported progress in Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks have threatened to bring down Netanyahu's government and force early elections. Polls have indicatedthat a mooted political alliance helmed by Liberman and former prime minister Naftali Bennett, a fellow Iran hawk, could win the most votes and lead an anti-Netanyahu governing coalition. Two sources close to Liberman, sharing their private impressions on condition of anonymity, told the Free Beacon that he is unlikely to sign on to any alliance that would not send him directly to the prime minister's residence.
Liberman declined to discuss his electoral plans other than say that he aims to "win the election and establish a Zionist coalition" that excludes the Orthodox Jewish parties. He accused Netanyahu of running a dangerously dysfunctional government—pointing to tensions between the prime minister and defense minister Yoav Gallant—and said a thorough house-cleaning is needed across the government and the security establishment.
"It's crucial because this current leadership proved even after Oct. 7, they're not able to handle these problems," Liberman said.
A senior government official, who asked not to be further identified, responded with a statement defending Netanyahu's record against Hamas and Iran and vowing to win the Gaza war.
"PM Netanyahu has led the battle against the Iranian nuclear threat since the mid 1990s. Since then, he has been fighting Iran on many fronts and no one should question his resolve," read the statement. "It's a shame that Avigdor Lieberman, who once served as Minister of Defense, is preoccupied in politics and undermining Israel's achievements during a time of war."
https://freebeacon.com/israel/avigdor-liberman-says-israel-is-fighting-the-wrong-enemy
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