The Next Israeli Prime Minister
By Irwin N. Graulich (06/09/03)
Either draft Donald Rumsfeld with a $20 million signing bonus from the UJA, or get a nice Jewish boy who grew up on the "wild and crazy" streets of Brooklyn. Radical change in Israeli leadership is necessary today for the Jewish state to survive.
Camp David, Oslo, peace with Egypt/Jordan, recognition of Israel's right to exist, Bill Clinton/Dennis Ross, cold peace, non belligerency pacts and now "The Roadmap" are all Chamberlain-like wasteful efforts of well intentioned politicians, made with despicable regimes and hateful populations. The problem is that evil always wins in negotiations.
Signing agreements with The Taliban, al Qaeda, Hamas, Syria or the Palestinian Authority will have similar results to the worthless 1991 accords of Jimmy Carter and the North Koreans. President Carter deserves a Nobel Peace Prize about as much as President Arafat, the Godfather of Modern Terrorism. In fact, Carter should be referred to as the Godfather of Modern Pacifism, an equally detestable and dangerous ideology. Both of these presidents were equally disastrous failures.
It requires a Donald Rumsfeld to clearly understand what is necessary in order to gain respect and more importantly, to be feared by the world. His concept of "transforming" the military with technology and "immense" power has made every other nation on earth almost irrelevant. America is now several generations ahead of everyone and accelerating rapidly. The Brooklyn school yards taught similar philosophies--don't mess around with any of those big, tough Catholic school guys, or those skinny "meshuganah" Yeshiva boys who would band together like a pack of red ants.
And never be satisfied with being only somewhat stronger than your opponent. Think strategically like a chess player, always keeping several moves ahead. Hold onto your turf and then some. Most importantly, display insurmountable strength, aggressive tendencies and follow a democratically elected leader who will instill a definite fear of destruction into the bad gangs of Brooklyn or the evil nations in the Middle East.
These examples provide invaluable lessons for Israel to understand and implement. Anyone, from George W. Bush to Colin Powell, who truly believes that negotiations will solve the Israeli-Arab conflict, must have trusted the fact that negotiations with Saddam would have been productive. Strangely, the US Administration never considered this possibility.
And though the Arab/Muslim world was up in arms about the US attacking Iraq, while much of Europe continued its unconscionable pacifist beliefs, America became an efficient killing machine with an incredible war plan. The result.....silence and respect from the entire world except the Democratic candidates for the American presidency.
"Hear O Israel" and learn an important lesson. America is your model for success, only Israel needs to be more Catholic than the Pope and more American than the United States. America only won wars when it exhibited astounding might against the enemy and not through a modest presentation of force. That was attempted in Viet Nam with great failure and embarrassment.
So as not to repeat history, the Iraqi battle plan required a gargantuan effort that totally destroyed, decimated and disheartened the opponent, while putting the fear of God into them. Whether through an atomic bomb in WWII or via smart weapons technology able to find any government official's bedroom, there is an understanding that America will stop at nothing in order to win big. No one "dares" to interfere with American military might.
Yet, the historical record shows that forces indeed exist which prevent Israel from carrying out a similar strategy; supermen like Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Bill Clinton and George Bush have stood in the way and stopped a potent Jewish army from accomplishing American-like victories. This was not a wise use of political power. Compounding these efforts were foolish talking points like the Clinton peace team's rhetoric of "there is no military solution" to the problem. Tell that to the Allies in WWII!
Any Israeli government official who presently parrots the immoral term "no military solution," should be impeached and jailed. Listen up Arik. So what is the real solution to the Israeli/Arab/Muslim crisis? As Donald Rumsfeld and those wise Brooklyn streets taught us so clearly, Israel's original negotiating position has always been completely flawed.
Since 1973, Israel's misguided policy for attaining peace was to give back the territory it won in a war designed to annihilate it. In fact, much of the land has already been returned to Egypt with very little results. Therefore, the starting position for negotiations with the Arab and Muslim world should be the fact that all of biblical Israel and Jewish settlement areas mentioned in the Bible contain valid ownership rights. The new Israeli position requires the repatriation of land from Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, along with the right of return and compensation for Jews who were physically forced to leave Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Morocco and other Arab/Muslim countries since 1948.
Only through proposing aggressive, serious demands with courage (similar to President Bush's offer to Saddam and his two sons), can a nation display strength and achieve results. Terrorism and suicide bombings are used by the enemies of America and Israel because they cannot win a fair fight, and this realization disturbs them greatly. Their military strategy is to put fear into the hearts and minds of freedom loving democracies by attacking its innocent men, women and children, crying foul if there is a strong response in self-defense. Thus, the West is made to believe our enemy is essentially "crazy," lashing out unexpectedly and even worse if provoked.
Until the Arab and Muslim world becomes absolutely convinced that America and Israel are indeed, a lot "crazier" than they are, the Intifada, terrorism, hijackings and suicide bombings will continue ad infinitum.
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