Sinwar’s elimination is merely one small win in Israel’s new quest for total victory
The obvious reasons why killing the leaders
of Hamas and Hezbollah is a good thing.
Courtesy of Doug Ross.
The confirmation today that Israel had finally killed Hamas leader Yahha Sinwar, considered the main architect behind the October 7, 2023 murder, rape, and torture of more than a thousand Israeli men, women, children, and babies near Gaza is good news, but it only is one small victory in what is now clearly Israel’s decision to go for nothing less than total victory against the terrorists who have been hounding and killiing its citizens wantonly for decades.
You see, since the 1973 Yom Kippur war, all of Israel’s responses against terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah have been limited and targeted, and ended quickly with fake ceasefires that allowed those terrorist groups to not only regroup, but actually expand their capabilities.
The most blatent and best example of this what happened in connection with Israel’s 2006 month-long invasion of Lebanon, launched in an attempt to defeat Hezbollah. The invasion bogged down, and as a result Israel and Hezbollah ended up agreeing to UN resolution 1701, which had Israel evaculate southern Lebanon and the UN take on the task of keeping the peace. The agreement also created a demilitarized zone in southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah was forbidden.
That agreement was an utter failure. Neither the UN nor Lebanon had the ability or even the desire to limit Hezbollah, and so before long it had made that demilitarized zone a launchpad for rocket attacks into Israel. In Israel’s most recent campaign to clear out that zone, it has also discovered tunnels and large weapons caches clearly designed for Hezbollah’s own planned October 7th-type invasion.
After October 7th, what I labeled Israel’s Pearl Harbor, Israel was clearly no longer going to accept this failed piecemeal and limited negotiating approach, administered by dishonest third parties like the UN and even the United States. Instead, it decided to go by an old American concept of “unconditional surrender,” first made plain by Grant during the Civil War and then underlined by Eisenhower and Roosevelt in their insistence on “total victory” in World War II.
In other words, Israel would only accept a ceasefire or peace treaty if it involved the surrender and capture of the leadership of Hamas and Hezbollah. If they refused to do this, then Israel resolved to kill them.
It has now demonstrated its ability to do so, with gratifying success.
Israel’s military actions since October 7th however also illustrate a major change in strategy and tactics. In Israel’s 2006 Lebonan invasion, the focus was in gaining control of territory. In today’s war, Israel has instead focused on killing the leadership of its enemies. In a sense, it has adopted Grant’s strategy in the final year of the Civil War: Find and defeat Lee’s army, and the war will end.
We can now see that Israel has been quite successful in achieving this goal. With few exceptions, the entire leadership of both Hamas and Hezbollah have been wiped out.
A lot of pearl-clutchers in the west continually fear that this unwavering offensive by Israel will instigate a rise in tensions in the Middle East. Politicians like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Macron in France repeatedly demand Israel stop, because somehow they think Israel’s actions will trigger a greater and more widespread conflict.
I predict that exactly the opposite will occur, at least for a decade plus, as long as Israel does not go timid and stop its offensive. The terrorist leadership and the infrastructure built to wage war in the past two decades is now largely gone. It cannot be replaced easily. In a short while it will be completely gone, as Israel completes final clean-up operations in both Gaza and southern Lebanon.
The result will be the end of rocket attacks into Israel, and a significant reduction in organized terrorist mass attacks. We shall also see an opportunity in both Gaza and Lebanon to rebuild, with achievement the goal rather than killing Jews. In both places Israel is going to maintain control and a presence of some kind, and will not allow corrupt UN officials the ability to help these terrorists, as it has clearly been doing for decades. We can see this with Netanyahu’s recent push to have Israel’s army take control of the administration of aid to the Gaza strip.
Israel now recognizes this basic fact: You can’t
negotiate with someone who wants to kill you
Furthermore, Israel’s aggressive and successful elimination of these madmen is going to do a lot to improve its relations with other Arab nations, excluding Iran. Arab culture admires the strong man who acts correctly for his own interests. Israel has not only done this, it has also shown it isn’t interested in conquering its neighbors, only eliminating the evil-doers who have made life hellish for both Israel and the Arabs who live in those countries. For nations like Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, Israel has done them a great favor getting rid of these thugs. And we know these countries believe this because of their many covert and overt treaty deals with Israel in recent years.
So, the best thing that can happen in the next few months is that Israel continues its aggressive campaign, ignoring the nay-sayers in the west. I suspect it will do so. I also suspect a Trump victory will act to accelerate that campaign, not defuse it.
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The foaming anger on much of the web should be a wakeup call to sane human beings.
Israel simply needs to adopt the rules of engagement Lawrence of Arabia decreed anent the Turks on that train – no quarter, no mercy, no prisoners.
Just waiting to see if Trump gets in office.
And the way things are playing out that seems a reasonable likelihood.
As the Globalist agenda falters as people are beginning to see what must be seen regarding it and the radical Leftists that inhabit it it will be Israel and America that will put the final nail in its coffin.
Unfortunately, the Globalist agenda is comprised of many vampire-like blood sucking parasitic entities, and it will continue to rear its ugly authoritarian head. Until it and Mr. Sinwar are united.
Think about it, Israel has had to cut this American administration / government out of the loop in order to properly take care of their existential business. And that is a dangerous un and anti-American disgrace.
D.J. Trump is essentially a re founder of America.
REFOUNDING OR DEATH
“D.J. Trump is but the asymmetrical introduction to this modern-day re-founding of America. And it looks to me like J. D. Vance may well be the man to carry the torch of American Constitutional freedom after Mr. Trump is reelected and sets the stage for Mr. Vance and America to reconnect with the Constitution.
That is what it looks like to me even though there are massive forces in politics, corporate and international concerns that will do anything to not have it be. ”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/refounding-or-death
If the radical Democrats are allowed to prevail our country and the rest of the world as we know and understand it will be no more.
And that is their point.
First paragraph: “nothing more than total victory” should probably be “nothing less…”
Michael McNeil: Thank you. Fixed.
To Mr. Eagleson,
T.E. Lawrence was Britain’s Charlie Wilson.
I wonder if we would have been better off with a sleepy Ottoman Empire than today’s mess.
God bless and keep the Israelis. I hope they destroy ever single one of them.
Just watched the drone video. Congratulations to that trainee group that found him and killed him.
Israel should take back ALL of Gaza and move all the Palestinians out. They have lost the war and should suffer the normal consequences of war. The lose of their land.
They should do the very same to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Take and keep a little at a time. Move out all civilians.
In the real world a conquered people assimilate orrrrr.
Life is about choices.
Entities like the Democrat party, the U.N., the WEF, Iran, etc. etc. and all of their Leftist perverted lawyers are all the problem here. There is a reason that the French people during the French revolution took the actions that they did.
Choices have consequences.
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/what-is-really-going-on-strategy-over-morality
Speaking of leadership:
ARE YOU A REAL MAN?
https://youtu.be/KaDWgEyh9ZQ?si=yt44pEJCUUk1drhs
Lee S, you must watch this one.
M. Murcek,
Those for whom the “outrage” of the day is the drug of choice – once there is no longer a Hamas, Hezbollah and possibly even an Iran to screech about – will certainly find something else to power their pique. People given to performative histrionics will always find something to go on about. The ostensible object of yesterday’s histrionics will be as quickly forgotten.
Cotour,
Restating the actual stakes at issue here cannot be done too often. Good job.
pzatchok,
In particular, the so-called “Palestinians” should be expelled to Syria. That applies not only to those currently in Gaza but those in the West Bank as well. I’m a believer in a one-state solution to the “Palestinian” question and that state is Israel. The “Palestinians” have demonstrated themselves to be a vile, psychopathic cockroach people completely undeserving of any homeland. The Israelis won’t execute the necessary “genocide,” but the “Arab brothers” of the “Palestinians” have no such scruples. I figure in a few weeks, every Palestinian man, woman and child would be feeding the kites and the buzzards of Syria. End of story.
Lebanon is a trickier matter but it occurs to me that the long-put-upon Kurds who – quite unlike the “Palestinians,” have long deserved, but never had, a homeland – could be invited to found their own state in the southern marches of Lebanon the Israelis need to first conquer and then convey to folks who will make friendly, peaceful and trustworthy neighbors. To sweeten the deal, the IDF could also conquer Syria and make the heavily Kurdish northern third of the country part of the new Kurdistan. A reasonably broad corridor to connect this piece of territory to the former Lebanese south would need to be carved out of Syria as well. This corridor could be established well east of the current Lebanese Syrian border with the intervening now-Styrian territory – including Damascus – handed to Lebanon in recompense for its former southern third. The remaining rump of Syria would become landlocked, thereby, and rendered much less capable of causing future mischief.
When does compassion and morality mean just more and prolonged chaos, death and destruction?
Whenever the likes of the oh so “compassionate” and “moralistic” politicians, the U.N., the WEF, academics, Liberals and Leftists and lawyers become involved in ANYTHING!
Remember, there is no morality or compassion in politics, in the Political Realm.
There ONLY exists morality and compassion in the Pedestrian Realm.
And when the one tells you just how compassionate and moralistic they are you can then expect the chaos, death and destruction to ensue.
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/what-is-really-going-on-strategy-over-morality
And this model has been proven out right before your own eyes especially in today’s extreme politics.
You want to know what someone or something is made of?
Stress it and see what remains.
D.J. Trump, one man, and the potential of the re founding of America and the concepts contained within the Constitution is by design antithetical to those who seek to lead the world into a reality where their “Morality” and their “Compassion” model is realized.
And that trend in politics and political power and control is what the Constitution was designed to attempt to counterbalance.
REFOUNDING: OR DEATH
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/refounding-or-death
Jeff Wright,
There are really no significant parallels between the careers of T.E. Lawrence and Charlie Wilson except that the efforts of each accelerated the fall of an empire.
If the Ottoman Empire was still around, it wouldn’t be “sleepy.” Fortunately, the Ottomans fell before oil was discovered in the Middle East. One does not like to contemplate what a surviving Ottoman Empire would have done with the oil wealth generated by the entire Middle East, but one can assume, with considerable assurance, that it would not be pretty. A fractured and fractious Middle East has been more than enough trouble. A latter-day Ottoman Empire would be far worse.
(TPC) Turkish Petroleum Company
The TPC was formed in 1912 as a joint venture between Royal Dutch/Shell, the Deutsche Bank, and the Turkish National Bank, in order to promote oil exploration and production within the Ottoman Empire. In March 1914, however, the British Government, which controlled the Turkish National Bank, managed to have its shares within the TPC transferred to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The following June, the Ottoman Grand Vizier promised an oil concession to the reconstituted TPC to develop oil fields within the Ottoman provinces of Baghdad and Mosul.
(Insert The Great War)
1928- The “Group Agreement,” aka the “Red Line” Agreement was a deal struck between several American, British, and French oil companies concerning the oil resources within territories that formerly comprised the Ottoman Empire within the Middle East. The origins of the Red Line Agreement can be traced back to the initial formation of the Turkish Petroleum Company.
https://www.dailyhistory.org/What_was_the_Red_Line_Agreement_that_carved_up_the_Ottoman_Empire%27s_oil_resources_after_World_War_I