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2025-07-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
How not to influence President Trump: 550 ex-senior Israeli security officials urge Trump to leverage Netanyahu meeting to end Gaza war
Remember when American current and former intelligence officials penned a letter sharing their opinion? I bet President Trump does. I imagine Bibi is clever enough to remember, too, unlike this lot of arrogant fools.
[IsraelTimes] The head of a group representing over 550 former senior Israeli security officials has penned a letter to US President Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
, urging him to leverage his upcoming meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war in 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 a rusty 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...
"It is our professional judgement that the IDF has long accomplished its dual mission of dismantling Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
governance and essentially destroying its military capabilities," Commanders for Israel’s Security chair Maj. Gen. (ret) Matan Vilnai writes.

Hamas no longer poses a strategic threat to Israel, and as demonstrated this year on multiple fronts, Israel possesses overwhelming power and ability to neutralize any threat that might arise from Gaza in the future," he continues.

Coming out against Netanyahu’s prosecution of the war, Vilnai writes that further fighting "risks the lives of hostages, will continue to cost yet more IDF casualties and prolong the suffering of innocent Paleostinians."

"More broadly, it is likely to cause a loss of momentum in leveraging military achievements in Gaza, Leb
...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?...
and most recently Iran, towards implementing your vision for a regional strategic transformation."

"Furthermore, it is also the professional judgement of the hundreds of CIS retired generals that a partial and staggered hostage deal and a limited ceasefire entail the same risks to the lives of remaining hostages, to IDF soldiers and to innocent Paleostinians, and will most likely lead to renewed fighting, all while reducing prospects for expanding the Abraham Accords and forging a regional alliance that includes Israel," he adds.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-05 2025-07-05 00:06|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [125 views ]  Top
 File under: Hamas 

#1 Long past time for Israelis to understand that this is a war to extinction - Arabs, or us.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-05 03:05||   2025-07-05 03:05|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#2 Sadly, the overwhelming historical evidence supports your theory Grom.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-05 06:58||   2025-07-05 06:58|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#3 ^I'm not happy about this, but better to face reality.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-05 07:43||   2025-07-05 07:43|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#4 It is our professional judgement that the IDF has long accomplished its dual mission of dismantling Hamas

These are the guys that ignored Oct 6 border reports?
Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-05 08:03||   2025-07-05 08:03|| Front Page || Comments   Top

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