April 4, 2019 SnyderTalk—Reoccupying Gaza is a Great Idea

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(Malachi 1: 11)

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Reoccupying Gaza is a Great Idea

See “Netanyahu: The Option of Reoccupying Gaza is Still on the Table”.

Prime Minister Netanyahu is onto something. Reoccupying Gaza is much better than the status quo.

Is Netanyahu serious or is he bluffing? I think he’s bluffing.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to withdraw unilaterally from Gaza in 2005, and Gazans had an opportunity to elect political leaders. Then as now, the choice they faced was peace or war.

Gazans elected Hamas. In effect, they chose war.

Since 2005, Israel has been at war with Hamas 24/7/365. It’s a cyclical war. There is open hostility followed by a lull in fighting during which Hamas licks its wounds and rebuilds for another war followed by open war.

The people of Gaza are the big losers. They live in a brutal, totalitarian society that is ruled by Hamas thugs.

Hamas uses Gaza’s children as pawns. Children are sent to the point while Hamas “fighters” hide behind them. Children are the first to die.

That’s a strategic ploy. Hamas knows that Western journalists and “liberal progressive” politicians in Europe and the U.S. will buy their false narrative and sell it for them.

I was in Israel in 2004 participating in a security conference. We met with every living Prime Minister in Israel along with military, business, and government leaders. Gaza wasn’t on the front burner then. Iran was. Iran is still Israel’s number 1 enemy. Today, Iran funds Hamas and provides them with rockets, mortars, and other support.

Ariel Sharon knew better than to withdraw from Gaza. George W. Bush pressured him to do it. I’m not suggesting that Sharon was W’s puppet, but I am saying that Sharon followed bad advice.

W was pushing the Two-State Solution. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, W must have thought that a magnanimous gesture by Israel would pressure Palestinians to get serious about peace. His motives may have been pure, but his assumptions about Palestinian leaders were dead wrong.

Palestinian leaders can’t be trusted. They will settle for nothing less than Israel’s annihilation.

Palestinian leaders have been selling that line to the Palestinian people for more than 50 years. Ordinary Palestinians have bought it. They think they can take over Israel and claim Israeli property as spoils.

If a Palestinian leader got serious about peace with Israel, he would be assassinated. His chances for survival would be less than Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s chances were after he signed a peace treaty with Israel on March 26, 1979. Sadat was assassinated on October 6, 1981.

In Israel, there is significant opposition to a Two-State Solution. Many Israeli people are wise enough to know that it can’t work. They may not be the majority, but they are not a small minority, either.

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993. W’s father, George H.W. Bush, is the father of the Oslo Accords. The Oslo Accords set the stage for the Two-State Solution.

Yasser Arafat never was serious about peace. Below is what Arafat said for consumption in the Middle East the very day he signed the Oslo Accords:

“Since we cannot defeat Israel in war we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.” (Yasser Arafat speaking on Jordanian television, September 13, 1993—the same day the Oslo Peace Accord ceremony was held in Washington D.C.)

In 1994, Rabin, Arafat, and former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On November 4, 1995, Rabin was assassinated by an Israeli Jew because of the role he played in the Oslo Accords.

Arafat was consistent all along. His goal was always to destroy Israel:

“Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. Since January 1965, when Fatah was born, we have become the most dangerous enemy that Israel has….We shall not rest until the day when we return to our home, and until we destroy Israel.”(El Mundo, Caracas, Venezuela, February 11, 1980)
“The PLO will now concentrate on splitting Israel psychologically into two camps… We plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. Jews will not want to live among Arabs. I have no use for Jews. They are and remain Jews. We now need all the help we can get from you in our battle for a united Palestine under Arab rule.” (Jerusalem Post, February 23, 1996)
“We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!” (as quoted in The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History by Andrew Bostom, Prometheus Books, copyright 2008, page 682)

Hamas and Fatah have adopted Arafat’s diabolical philosophy. For both Palestinian political groups, Israel’s annihilation remains priority Number 1.

Even so, the Israeli people want peace. They have bent over backwards to move in that direction. Nothing they have done has moved them closer to peace. Each time they make a peace gesture, they experience more and more intense violence.

I’ve been talking with the Israeli people for more than 2 decades, and I listen carefully to what they tell me. Prior to 2005, pulling out of Gaza was a big deal in Israel. The Israeli people didn’t like the idea that IDF soldiers had to risk their lives to protect “settlers” in Gaza. After the Gaza pullout, they have had nothing but war with Hamas.

The cost in lives and shekels of protecting “settlers” in Gaza was much less than the cost of fighting Hamas nonstop.

I think Prime Minister Netanyahu is bluffing about reoccupying Gaza, because I don’t think the majority of Israeli people are ready to accept it. One day, they will be. Before that day comes, Hamas will have to do something big that convinces ordinary Israelis that they have no other choice.

For more information about Palestinian duplicity over the years, see the SnyderTalk editorials below:

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