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Now extend that model to what used to be civil society. Also, this model describes Antifa/BLM cadres. During the Berkeley battles, Antifa Commander was Yvette Falarca.
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Make all individuals residents. To become a citizen at age 21 you must past a citizenship test and enroll in the militia. You may well be called to training duty for the militia. If you refuse, you revert back to resident status. Only citizens can vote, bear arms, serve in any elected or appointed government position, have the right to trail by jury. Those who join the active military force may after 1 year of honorable service, take the same test and achieve citizenship.
[Gateway Pundit] It’s well known at this point that the United States Military is having recruiting issues. Like every other institution in America, the military has embraced wokeism and has been prioritizing progressive concepts like diversity, equity and inclusion.
So when this new recruiting ad dropped recently, people immediately noticed that this one is slightly different in terms of who is represented.
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Army recently sent short/no-notice PCS orders to about 800 NCOs directing them to report to recruiting school. Obviously forcing people to sell a product nobody wants will bear fruit. Time to bring Joe Isuzu out of retirement.
I think this effort will pay off handsomely./sarc/
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Maybe they really are thinking about fighting Russia and fear the woke army would not do well. Of course, they could always revive the draft.
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It shows a bunch of men, mostly though not exclusively white, cooperatively executing something dangerous. Which is pretty much how I've always pictured the United States military.
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My son is an E8(promotable) training medical people, and was told that they would like him to help in the recruiting push. He told them, ya know, I'm eligible to retire right now.
They said never mind.
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/\ Hat tip to your son Ed. Laying that upcoming E9 promotion on the line took courage.
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#2 Army recently sent short/no-notice PCS orders to about 800 NCOs directing them to report to recruiting school. Obviously forcing people to sell a product nobody wants will bear fruit. Time to bring Joe Isuzu out of retirement.
I think this effort will pay off handsomely./sarc/
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USN,
It gets better than that. The reason for the sudden panic is that the Army somehow lost track of how many people were going through the recruiting schoolhouse and staying on as recruiters. They're something on the order of 45% shorthanded an didn't realize it until the FY was over.
And FWIW, I used to describe the USAF enlisted recruiting leadership as 'Joe Izuzu with a homicidal streak.'
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I'm not sure I would be interested in any dangerous vocation which The Chiefs don't take seriously.
'We have the greatest military in history....join up for change!"
Wonder how much of the target audience spent their prime fighting WoT, only to watch Obama drop Iraq and Brandon hand over the keys and the wallet to Afghan?
[Zman] There are three aspects to problem solving that seem obvious when stated but are not always obvious to philosophers of problem solving. One is that you have to identify that there is a problem, as in an unwanted result. The next step is to then narrow in on the possible causes of the problem. The final step is to then produce a list of possible corrections to these complaints and causes. In the world of problem solving, this is known as Complaint, Cause and Correction.
If you are a working man who does productive things for a living, this is something with which you are familiar. If you fix big scary trucks for a living, every day someone points at a big scary truck, hands you a list of complaints and you then set about finding the causes of those complaints and their corresponding corrections. If you are a philosopher of big scary trucks, then this is a bit of a mystery. You wonder how any of this fits in with your particular school’s philosophy or ideology.
This disconnect is obvious in politics. The Republicans have been vexed by one primary complaint for close to a decade. The people they want to swindle into voting for them do not like them very much. In fact, they went so far as to vote for the one guy the party said was off-limits in 2016, Donald Trump. Despite the party’s best efforts to rid themselves of this troublesome man, the rank-and-file voters still prefer him over whatever the party offers as an alternative.
In other words, the party’s complaint is that the voters refuse to support the blocks of wood the party is selling and they support the guy they hate. This turned up in the local elections yesterday, where the Republican Party underperformed again. They even put up a based black guy in the Kentucky governor’s race, but the Democrat still won, in a state that is reliably Republican. In Virginia, the party failed to win the state house, despite their claims about the governor’s popularity.
Going back to the big scary truck idea, the complaint is that it is the wrong sort of big scary truck, and the driver wants his old truck back. You, the big scary truck fixer guy can certainly figure out the cause of the complaints. The company bought the wrong truck, or the driver is a knucklehead. The trouble is you have no correction for these causes, so the complaint must remain unaddressed. That is the problem for the Republican Party as it sinks into irrelevance.
The philosophers of political problem solving, like the philosophers of big scary trucks, will immediately point to their favorite correction. No matter the complaint, no matter the cause, they will argue that the correction is to do whatever it is they are paid to promote or what their ideological school promotes. They will skip that middle part, the cause, and maybe even recast the complaint to their liking. This is why politic punditry is endless rounds of more of the same.
There will be some who pretend to be smart by focusing on the cause. They will roll out some polls claiming that the party does not appeal to this group of new people or this other newly labeled identity group. They will argue, for example, the GOP lost support among young female Tinder users in Ohio. They failed to capture the one-legged lesbian Elvis impersonator vote in the Northern Virginia suburbs. The point of this analysis is to avoid looking too closely at the complaints and the causes.
The place to start for this result and what will be a similar result in the 2024 election is the complaint portion of the work order. If you asked white people to list their top-5 complaints with the party, none of them can be found in the op-ed section of major news sites or in the talking points of candidates. For close to a decade now these voters have been pilloried by the diversity rackets. The party’s corrective to this in Kentucky, a very white state, was to offer up Jeb Bush in blackface.
-- SNIP --
If the Republican Party were operating the big scary truck shop, the salesmen would be festooned in the flags of foreign countries and showing the prospects pictures of the one black guy they have working in their shop. Meanwhile, the mechanics would be spending their days driving penis pictures on the work orders. No one would do business with them because no one would understand the point of their business or know why they should do business with them.
In fairness, the party leaders probably know this at some level. They are smart and clever in the rat-like way that is common in politics. They surely see that they are running a generational bust out. The demographic that makes the Republican Party possible is sinking into permanent minority status. The goal here is to keep them from noticing while the party squeezes the last drops from the racket. The big scary truck shop will then be set on fire for the insurance money.
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Because they're morons who spit on their constituents in order to be politically correct? Because they think that you get "Black votes" by running a Black candidate?
Because they alienate female voters by their asinine anti-abortion platform?
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Why does the Republican party keeps losing?
Maybe because they are still using 1980's moral/civil election tactics, and failing to look down the road and OUT the LSD's long term agenda goals of destroying a FREE America.
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They lose like it's their job - it is. Winners like Reagan and Trump had to 1st defeat the GOP prior to defeating Dems. They weren't supposed to win as it's not the GOPs job to win.
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You wanna know the cause? Here it is...
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/\ Exactly. I've often wondered about the racial stats. Not black or white, but black AMD white.
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Republican Base is not motivated by platitudes, ie Abortion. Fact: They do not show up. If you change the messaging, I bet you will change the outcome.
But do you know who platitudes do motivate? Single Moms. They will never vote against their "Reproductive Rights". That does motivate them to show up. IDK why this does not make sense to the Establishment.
The Left has won that messaging, and the RNC lose that messaging battle every time. Shaming the rest of us wont encourage us to show up. But this Abortion Battle does encourage Single Moms to show up and vote en block ~70% for Dems.
That's one reason, a main reason, Repubs keep losing: it's the abortion.
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For one segment of voters, social/moral issues like abortion and gay rights and legalized drugs are more important than anything else. It blinds them to the far more important issues of the economy, national security(which includes the border) and election integrity. When the nation becomes a one-party police state, is overrun by illegal aliens and in the throes of an economic collapse, these voters might wish they had paid more attention to matters outside of their extremely narrow focus. Then it will be too late.
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mossomo, it does appear that we have lost on that issue and clearly the pragmatic thing would be to move on. But the moral decay that is indicated by such a loss depresses me to the point where I'm almost ready to abandon this country. Dunno where I'd go. I always thought I'd rather fight than flee but it seems the fight is lost.
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If you leave Abu, don't look back. "Pillar of salt" and all that :-(
#13
I hear people say a fetus is just a "clump of cells". Then I look at a sonogram and I wonder how they can say that. Moral decay is the only answer that comes to me.
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^^^ Facts have always been optional with the "kill the babies" crowd.
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Right-Handmaid's Tale
For Atwood, a story too awful
To tell, but for Moslems, quite lawful:
"Ofabdul, quit bitchin',
Get back in that kitchen,
And fetch me another falafel...
No, wait... make that a baby!"
"Okay, okay. Hey, I thought you were gonna get me a slave... and in case you haven't noticed, this ain't a kitchen, it's only the back of the tent!"
"Yeah, yeah. If you wanted the perfect man, maybe you shoulda got groomed by Mohammed."
"Y'know, Abdul, I sometimes think you'd be happier if you'd married--"
"Careful, now!"
"What? I was only gonna say, if you'd married one of your lodge brothers. Or a camel. Or just found yourself a nice Jewish girl in the first place."
"One of these days, Ofabdul... Salaam! Boom! To the moon!"
"Abdul, baby, you're the greatest!"
[muezzin wails theme over tiny twinkling star, big broad scimitar]
[Twitter-VDH] Joe Biden is caught in a quadfecta of corruption, cognitive decline, a failed agenda, and eroding polls. Amid this apparent vacuum, an opportunistic Barack Obama — who used to be more discreet in managing his third term—is reentering the arena.
Last week, he came out as the overseer of the Biden administration’s AI agenda, even as his foundation’s “Democracy Forum” was warning Americans about the need for “inclusive capitalism” and the pathologies of “material consumption”—all this from a multi-mansioned multimillionaire.
Now, Obama is weighing in on the Gaza war by undercutting his third-term presidential proxy.
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VDH forgets the Ukrainian War started by USA engineered overthrow of the pro Russian (meaning it understood that war with Russia = end of Ukraine) government.
The morons hoped to end Russian involvment in Syria by taking Sevastopol port from Russia.
By William R. Hawkins
[AMERICANTHINKER] The large protest against Israel and in support of the Hamas ...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... holy warriors on November 4 in Washington, D.C. was primarily organized by the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). It has called for a wave of disruption across the country on November 9 to "Shut It Down for Paleostine."
This group was founded just three days after the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda terrorist attack on New York City and the Pentagon that killed some 3,000 people. ANSWER’s declared aim was to create "a massive antiwar movement" that would block U.S. retaliation against the attacks. So now ANSWER wants to block Israeli retaliation against the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks which killed over 1,400 people. They are not "antiwar" and certainly have no interest in "peace." ANSWER picks sides in conflicts around the world, protesting the actions of one side, and justifying the actions of the other. They want victory for their chosen side which is invariably the side acting against the United States, its friends, and its allies. That is the core nature of the Left. ANSWER was the false nose and mustache for SANE/FREEZE, the "anti-nuke" commies who somehow consistently took the Soviet side in any argument. SS-21's in Warsaw Pact nations? Good. Pershing missiles in NATO? Insane provocation!
ANSWER chose against Israel long ago, holding a rally in April 2002 in Washington calling for the "liberation" of Paleostine, which means wiping Israel off the map. The chants heard today of "from the river to the sea" do not express any new objective. The only plan for genocide, the style of which was demonstrated in the torture and murder of babies on 10/7, has come from the Paleostinian terrorists, their backers in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... (who have threatened to use nuclear weapons to obliterate Israel), and their left-wing supporters on college campuses where barbarism has become the essence of enlightenment.
Israel withdrew from Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... in 2005, as it had from southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... in 2000. Terrorist groups Hamas in Gaza and Hezb’allah in Lebanon (both backed by Iran) seized the open territory. Peaceful development has not been their priority. This hard experience explains why Israel cannot withdraw from the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, or its West Bank security wall. And why it must clean out Gaza. In the real world, the right to exist requires more than a scrap of paper to have meaning or endure. When enemies won’t stop, they have to be stopped.
The population centers of the West Bank are under the Paleostinian Authority. Israel does not want to govern large Moslem populations. Judaism is not an evangelical-universal religion like Christianity and Islam. Israel is meant to be a Jewish State, a sanctuary after the Nazi Holocaust. It is in the homeland of the Jewish people, who founded the first Israel in the 10th century BC. The Israelis just want to be left alone. Peace is their fondest hope. A sincere antiwar movement would embrace their cause as it would improve the lives of everyone across the entire region. In 75 years, Israel has turned a desert into a thriving free society whose achievements should inspire progress elsewhere rather than hatred -- except among those who are "triggered" by success.
As my previous column argues, there is more than anti-Semitism at work in the left-wing choice against Israel. Jerusalem is considered an outpost of western civilization, the real enemy. Thus, any aggression committed by enemies of the West is to be supported by opposing any defense against such aggression. This is in the name of a global revolution.
ANSWER thus supports Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, holding a rally in Washington last March. Its lengthy list of coalition groups opposing aid to Ukrainian freedom fighters included several Paleostinian groups, as well as avowed Marxist organizations, open-border advocates, and climate change activists. The unifying theme of the Left’s many causes is to cripple, transform, and defeat America, the leader of the western world.
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anti-Semitism = hating Jews because (on the average) they're more successful
I suspect more that it’s the hatred of a failure for anyone deemed weak enough to be safely bullied. These people do not act as though they believe that Jews own the means of production and can/will fire them for choosing the wrong target. That’s half the reason why it’s important that the rich pull their big money from the universities for allowing the hatefulness and encouraging it to continue.
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Did Christie get a participation trophy? Hopefully, there was a buffet.
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Ramaswamy, who I still don't like, won with his statement that there were two "Dick Cheney in high heels" comment, directed at Haley and DeSantis, the latter a sly reference to "bootgate."
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Maybe I missed it but nobody seemed to mention the deficit. We just passed a point where the interest payments on the debt is the largest part of the budget. The whole debate should have been about that. how do you plan to pay for this? How do you plan to pay for that? Vivik wanted to fire the deep state, that would help the budget, beyond that I don't recall anyone saying anything regarding fiscal sanity.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Sergey Khudiev
[REGNUM] The Middle East conflict is accompanied by acute polarization of public opinion around the world. This is the reaction to any conflict, but here the horrific cruelty of what is happening, which is immediately shown on billions of screens around the world, causes a particularly violent reaction.
Sometimes it looks quite expected: the authorities of the USA, Great Britain and other Western countries are for Israel, the Islamic world is for Palestine.
People are predictably filled with intense indignation at civilians, especially children, killed by the enemy, and just as predictably ignore children killed by “their own.”
However, there are also anomalies - sympathy for Palestine is expressed in places where, at first glance, it would be difficult to expect. On college campuses in the United States and the Western world in general.
However, one can criticize Israel's actions from different positions.
If one does not succumb to the pressure of the force field that drags every person to one pole or the other, it is quite possible that the point of view held, including by some Israelis, is that there can be no justification for the wild Hamas raid on October 7, but it is important not to succumb to the temptation to retaliate wildness.
It is easy to become brutalized, it happens by itself, but it is very difficult to preserve the norms of humanitarian law that have been established with great difficulty.
This can go both against the understandable vindictive sentiments of the public and, in some cases, against military expediency. But civilization is worth preserving in any circumstances, and therefore the blockade of Gaza, mass bombings, the majority of the victims of which turn out to be simply people who were unlucky to live there, is something that cannot be accepted and justified.
As, for example, Israeli human rights activist Michael Sfard writes, “Being humane is hard work. Remaining humane in the face of inhuman cruelty is much more difficult... These are terrible times. We have survived the terrible trauma caused by people who have lost their humanity, and now we are bombing, killing and starving people, and most importantly, hardening our hearts to stone. Moral decay is no less dangerous to our survival than Hamas."
"Keep the bastards in line." The key political mistake of the Anglo-Saxons
This position does not imply any sympathy for Hamas, just as one does not have to be a Nazi supporter to consider the bombing of Dresden during World War II a war crime.
However, the position that is loudly making itself known on American campuses looks different. This is precisely support for Hamas’s struggle for Palestine “from the river to the sea,” that is, for the destruction of Israel as a state, and, as wild as it may seem, even justification for the bloody raid on October 7.
Moreover, supporters of such a radical position, as a rule, are not Palestinians, not Arabs or Muslims, who would be inclined to sympathize with their own. These are mostly white Americans from wealthy families with above-average incomes.
Higher education in the United States is terribly expensive, and the students are clearly not from the oppressed and oppressed. Among them are ethnic Jews who are quick to voice their angry condemnation of Israel. What is the reason for this position?
Western leftists are often accused of anti-Semitism - irrational hatred of Jews, attributing to them all the world's evils and troubles.
But this accusation is usually unfounded. All the mythology of a sinister Jewish conspiracy that drank up all the water in the tap that characterized the Nazis and related movements is absent here.
That statement is not even close to reality.
The worldview of Western students (and, to a large extent, professors) is rather a form of Marxism. Such sympathies of elite youth for the ideology of class hatred may seem somewhat strange to us, but this is not new - Comrade Engels was a manufacturer, Marx lived on his money, and our revolutionaries, too, as a rule, were not people of the plow.
Marxism divides people into the oppressed and the oppressors, and world history moves towards a better future thanks to the struggle of the former with the latter.
The oppressed are always right and the oppressors are always wrong. Therefore, any of their actions are assessed not from the point of view of some universal morality, but from the point of view of the struggle of the oppressed.
For example, during the unrest caused by the death of George Floyd, rioters attacked synagogues . This did not cause any harsh condemnation, and this is not a matter of anti-Semitism.
If the thugs had been white and represented, say, the Ku Klux Klan, the indignation of those same people would have known no bounds. And if one more of them had appeared in the signature red MAGA cap worn by Trump supporters, progressive students would have already convened a militia to fight against the rise of fascism.
Trump supporters are not allowed because they are oppressors; Floyd supporters can, because they are oppressed.
An important feature of this view of the world is ardent anti-colonialism. The struggle of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America against colonialism in its overt or hidden forms is a sacred struggle and deserves unconditional support.
At the same time, the fighters themselves can be either people of high humanistic convictions or frostbitten thugs. It doesn't matter. What matters is that they are on the right side of history. They are the oppressed who fight the oppressors.
Hence such a strange, at an outsider’s glance, phenomenon as the same people’s ardent support for both LGBTQ+ people and militant Islamists who treat “sexual minorities” extremely harshly.
The fact is that both are representatives of the “oppressed” and are on the right side of history.
Israel, in this lens, looks like another example of Western colonialism, and those who fight against it are “oppressed, standing up for their rights.” There can never be any claims against them.
American students are highly critical of the policies of the Western elite (and often a conflict between fathers and sons), and we may be tempted to recognize them as our own.
Alas, this is not true. Russia, in the same decolonizing lens, is “the last colonial power of Europe,” which, during the imperialist wars, conquered many peoples, some of which were liberated during the collapse of the USSR, but some remain “under the yoke of European colonialists,” in this case, the Russians.
This is not Russophobia as such, it is the same division of the world into good “oppressed” and bad “oppressors”.
And we have good reasons not to welcome this way of looking at things.
#5
Little hard to be colonizers. If you dig enough in that part of the world, beyond the AD/BC line, you'll find tablets or scrolls actually written in Hebrew. You can dig deep in American soil and you'll unlikely find anything dated back to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
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[REGNUM] Against the backdrop of the ongoing military operation in the Gaza Strip, several mass rallies have already taken place inside the country against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
It should be noted that the rallies were not for the suspension of the operation in Gaza, but specifically for the resignation of the current prime minister, who is blamed for the failure of the first day of the war.
At the same time, of course, there is a certain connection between the current actions and the recent anti-government protests in Israel related to judicial reform. However, it is noteworthy that Netanyahu’s dissatisfaction is now being expressed not only by members of the opposition, but also by his own electorate.
Actually, the basis of the complaint against Netanyahu and a number of other Israeli politicians is the initially erroneous concept of how Hamas is perceived.
The fact is that in recent years the Israeli elite has become convinced that Hamas is in some sense beneficial to Israel.
In general, the idea was as follows.
It was believed that Hamas itself did not pose a threat to the existence of Israel, and also did not have enough resources to cause significant harm to the country. At the same time, the very existence of Hamas, on the one hand, prevented the emergence of new radical Palestinian groups (Hamas destroyed competitors not under its control), and on the other, balanced the formal authorities of the Palestinian Authority in the person of Fatah and Mahmoud Abbas and prevented them from becoming excessively stronger .
It is important to note that when they say: “Israel itself raised Hamas,” this is not true. It’s just that at some point, Israeli politicians considered Hamas an “acceptable and convenient evil” that could be controlled.
Actually, they tried to control it with carrots and sticks: allowing cash transfers from Qatar and at the same time “decisive” military responses when Hamas periodically began shelling Israeli territory.
At the same time, the leadership of Israel and the IDF completely ignored the report of General Yitzhak Brik , who, even before the events of October 7, actually predicted what would happen. Here is an excerpt from Brick's statements in the weeks leading up to the Hamas attack:
“ We think that everything is fine and there is no danger, but the public is not told that next to us there is a powerful force of well-equipped, trained warriors, whose task is to cross the border and occupy several Israeli settlements. Moreover, the probability of this is very high: they will enter our villages, throw grenades at them and carry out a massacre. You will have to defend your settlement yourself, because there will be no army there .”
The essence of Brick's report was that due to weak organization, corruption, fraud and chaos, the Israeli army may not be prepared for a sudden enemy invasion.
At the same time, special emphasis in the analysis was placed on the fallacy of reducing the number of ground forces and relying primarily on the Air Force. Brik particularly criticized the concept of a “small but high-tech army” that had become popular in Israeli society .
In the end, Brick turned out to be right, and the Israeli leadership admitted the failure of the strategy of flirting with Hamas and appeasing it.
Does this mean that Netanyahu, as well as the IDF leadership, will face imminent resignation?
Most likely, at least until the end of the war, no. Because “they don’t change horses in midstream.”
However, once the fighting ends, Netanyahu will most likely be forced to leave, and then the main question will be who will replace him.
No answer yet. The fact is that the main opposition politicians - Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid - generally pursued a policy towards Hamas similar to that described above, for which Netanyahu is, in fact, harshly criticized today.
In this regard, it is noteworthy that the ratings of two politicians in Israel have increased significantly.
The first is ex-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett . The growth of his popularity is influenced both by the fact that he is now one of the most prominent Israeli speakers representing the country in the English-language media, and by the fact that Bennett volunteered for the army immediately after the outbreak of hostilities.
The second leader in ratings growth is Avigdor Lieberman , a man who can be called the main Russian-speaking politician in Israel.
Lieberman is perhaps the only Israeli politician who has consistently advocated an irreconcilable fight against Hamas (as opposed to supporters of Realpolitik) and has always publicly voiced this. And now, against the background of the painful failure of the previous strategy, his shares have risen sharply.
Such is the paradox of fate: just yesterday both were practically “political corpses,” but today they are rising higher and higher in the polls, having a chance to stand at the helm of the state.
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