Robert Besser is a news editor who has worked in television and newspapers in the United States, Asia and the Middle East.
If Israel bows to the demands of US President Joe Biden, all Israelis would die as every Israeli border community is wiped out by swarming Arab savages and every Israeli city is destroyed by Iranian nuclear arms.
Too often, we have heard former US Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ pronouncement that Joe Biden "....has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” Unfortunately, we in Israel have experienced first hand that Gates was correct about Biden.
Joe Biden’s lunatic calls for ceasefires and the survival of Hamas and Hezbollah, made even as Israel is fighting an existential war, have been clearly based upon two things.
First, he receives advice from staff who are exclusively true believers of the woke religion, with its credo that war can never, ever be a legitimate response to any provocation.
Second, during this election year the Democrats appear fearful that every Israeli action will reveal the truth that the Biden administration has lost control of, well, everything. And particularly international affairs.
If Israel listens to Biden’s unhinged demands for ceasefires and de-escalations, it will guarantee that Hamas will be allowed to rebuild itself in Gaza, even as it loudly promises future October 7th attacks on Israel.
And listening to Biden ensures that Hezbollah will remain a permanent terrorist army that has taken over Lebanon and forever threatens Israel with hundreds of thousands of missiles, as well as tunnels reaching inside Israel.
Listening to Biden also ensures that we must fight forever-wars against Arabs in the north and south and sacrifice our best sons and daughters....forever.
Listening to Biden means that we purposely do nothing while Iran develops parity with Israel, as it brings its nuclear arms online.
Critically, Israel has no choice but to believe what we have heard and what we have seen from Joe Biden.
Biden has disgraced his office during obscenity-filled rantings at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reports the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward. Further, we watched in sorrow for the collapsing America as Biden’s UN ambassador boycotted Netanyahu’s September 27th speech at the UN, joining with the Jew-hating lowlives who populate the United Nations zoo.
We felt the same despair for America as the ignorant Vice President Kamala Harris boycotted Netanyahu’s July 25 speech before the US Congress. At that time, she said that she had to instead attend a college sorority reunion….where her intellect was again probably over-taxed.
What does it all add up to? It means that just as Israel is a pariah state at the Jew-hating United Nations, so it is the same illegitimate county among those in the Biden White House and the eternally antisemitic Yale and Harvard-educated US State Department.
Again, never mind what is said in Washington…..as Israel must only watch US actions.
Biden, and the equally weak-witted Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, think they know what is best for Israel.
But we remember that these are the same officials who planned the US surrender and retreat in Afghanistan. Prior to the withdrawal, the United States had pacified Afghanistan and only had 2,500 soldiers remaining in the country. That is fewer than are enrolled at the US military academies.
Yet, in spite of the pleadings of top US policy makers, the leaders of the US Congress and even the always-surrendering EU….crazy Joe Biden ordered an unplanned withdrawal, leaving behind billions in armaments to shore up the Islamo-fascist Taliban.
What was Biden thinking?
Is there even evidence that Biden can think?
Why would Israel trust such people with our own life and death decisions?
How about the White House commitment to oppose aggression and maintain the world order? Biden has rarely taken action, in the face of third world Yemeni tribesmen shooting Iranian missiles and closing down international shipping lanes in the Red Sea. The same US appeasement has followed after 100 Iranian attacks on US troops in Iraq, Syria and Jordan.
And for all of the White House crying about Palestinians in Gaza, they certainly have shed no tears for the 14 million Afghan women who are today enslaved in Afghanistan, a Moslem prison, because of the cowardly US retreat.
This is also the same Biden gang that has prevented Ukraine from waging an offensive war against the invading Russians. Rather, they restrict how Ukrainians can use American weapons, guaranteeing that young Ukrainians are forever fed into battlefield meat grinders.
So it has been the same with Israel, as the Biden administration has over and over sought to handcuff the IDF by slowing the delivery of armaments, despite written obligations. And now it is threatening to shut them off if Israel doesn't allow humanitarian aid - that is stolen by Hamas.
Among the horrifying questions we must one day face is how many Israeli soldiers have died unnecessarily because, as Biden demanded, we paused the war in Gaza?
Instead of overwhelming the Hamas terrorists, forcing them to run low on arms, food and water, our ally the United States demanded that Israel stop fighting so we might provide humanitarian relief, thus allowing Hamas to rest, feed their troops, re-arm and build new fortifications from which to kill Jews.
Just imagine, had President Biden ordered General George Patton to pause his war in 1944 to allow the retreating German army to catch their breath and rearm, be assured that Patton himself would have lobbed more than a few shells into the Biden White House.
And would President Biden have dictated to Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill how US arms could and could not be used in World War II?
If Israel had forgotten, it certainly re-learned the truth about our continued existence during the past 12 months.
For only we, alone, can guarantee our survival.
No western allies, no United States, no European Union…..nobody, nobody, nobody can be relied upon to ensure we overcome our enemies.
In 1948, the US Pentagon and State Department told Jewish Agency officials not to declare a state because the Jews would be butchered by the invading Arab armies. Well, so much for those American experts.
In 1967, no less than the Jew-hating French war hero Charles DeGaulle demanded that Israel not strike first against the Arabs. So did US President Lyndon Johnson. But imagine the state of our Jewish world over the past 57 years had Israel obeyed.
And we should not forget that in 1973 it was the US that opposed Israeli war aims when they saved the encircled Egyptian Sinai army from annihilation and a complete Israeli victory.
After October 7, Mr. Biden rushed to Israel to show his support, as did other world leaders.
However, their actions, not their words, have shown what their real intentions were.
Ceasefires and de-escalations were always their plan, to ensure that a weakened Israel would forever remain in a state of war.
As we say on the streets of Chicago, all these western leaders came to Israel with outward signs of sympathy, but actually intended on “playing” Benjamin Netanyahu.
But in truth, it is Netanyahu who must continue to play Mr. Biden. And play Biden for all he is worth.
-Buy time for Israel by speaking the fairy tale words the White House demands you repeat, such as ‘de-escalate’, ‘ceasefire’, and ‘two-state solution’….even as you continue prosecuting the wars in the north and south until Israel’s enemies have been destroyed.
-Let the Americans believe we will participate in their continued appeasement of Iran, even as we prepare to end the Persian’s existential threat to Israel. And then let us take responsibility for our own destiny and at last finish off the Iranian ayatollahs.
The Jews have not survived for nearly 4,000 years just so the uneducated and cowardly appeasers leading the west will set the stage for the future destruction of Israel.
We know the brutal truth about our survival. From Trumpeldor at Tel Hai to the young men and women fighting in the Etzion Bloc in 1948, to the defenders of Jewish Jerusalem and the Jewish quarter of the Old City, and those in the convoys, fighting and dying as they delivered food and water to a starving Jerusalem, we Jews were 100 percent alone.
From the bravery and audacity of Dayan and Sharon in Sinai in 1956 to Levi Eshkol’s miraculous victory by the IDF in 1967, we were the only ones who could guarantee our own survival.
From Menachem Begin and Yigal Allon’s demanding that the cabinet approve the IDF liberation of the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967…. the unbelievable tenacity of the soldiers, tank crews and pilots who came back from defeat to save us in 1973…..Rabin’s orders to rescue the Entebbe hostages in 1976…. and the remarkable achievements of the IDF’s Sayeret Matkal, traveling undetected all the way to Tunisia to kill the blood thirsty Abu Jihad in 1988……it has always been Israel acting alone to ensure our very survival, and always without the world’s permission.
Of course we need allies. But the bottom line is that the appeasers sitting at the heads of government in the west---nearly all having never worn their countries’ uniforms--- will get us killed if we bow to their demands.
Israel has regained its footing following the massacres of October 7. We are now fighting to achieve victories in the north and south, and critically we are re-introducing our long-held regional deterrence, as Israel’s enemies feel our deadly reach.
Still, as every Israeli knows, more must be done to Iran to ensure that our grandchildren and great grandchildren do not need to fight in forever wars planned and funded by Iran.
We are today recreating a bright Jewish future, but at a terrible cost. To those of us not in uniform, it is our duty to the over 700 precious soldiers we have lost, the 1,300 Israelis murdered by savage Arabs, the hostages, the raped, the beheaded….it is our duty to go forward and build an even stronger Israel, post-October 7th.
Upon being appointed prime minister in 1940, Winston Churchill famously recalled, “I felt as if I were walking with Destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.”
Word for word, though he did not know it, Churchill was guided to write about this moment for Benjamin Netanyahu, whose experience in uniform as a warrior, his years as a minister, his years as prime minister of Israel, his dealings with world leaders, his own life experiences, his successes and failures, his being forever scorned by the left, offers proof that it is not by coincidence that Netanyahu leads us at this fateful time.
It is also no mistake that all of Israel, as well as the outside world, holds their breath as we await his decisions.
But remember that you are not alone Mr. Netanyahu, especially if you use every tool we have been given as Jews to find the wisdom and strength to save Israel and the Jewish people.
Mr. Netanyahu, reach into yourself to gain wisdom from your father, the once-in-a-generation scholar Benzion, and your sacred brother Yonatan.
Travel back, Mr. Netanyahu, to talk with King David, Bar Kochba, the dying Rabbi Akiva, the condemned Jews of Spain, and meet with the young Jewish warriors inside the Warsaw Ghetto.
Mr. Netanyahu, sit with Moses and Joshua.
For we have no doubt, Mr. Netanyahu, that if you act decisively to at last destroy Israel’s blood-soaked enemies, then for all eternity you will be remembered as this moment’s Jewish leader who displayed the wisdom, the cunning and the strength to secure your place among the greatest biblical warriors and leaders from our sacred Jewish past.
He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Forces, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God......May the Almighty cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them.... For it is the Lord your God Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you, to save you.
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And, words of encouragement from Dr. Aaron Lerner of IMRA
The Silver Lining to Blinken-Austin Arms Embargo Threat
When we realized that it was a mistake to rely on American supplies of one-ton bunker busters, we dug into our pockets to begin serial production of a superior Israeli model.
That was only the beginning.
The Blinken-Austin letter threatening Israel with an arms embargo as the Jewish State is in the middle of an intensive war can be expected to have a lasting impact on Israeli arms planning.
We are already scrambling to produce a large portfolio of components and ammunition, which until recently were received from Uncle Sam.
The scar left by the Blinken-Austin letter is so deep that no matter how the White House behaves after the elections, or who gets sworn in next January,
Israeli defense procurement decisions from now on will take into account the possibility of a future arms embargo.
The embargo threat also serves to put the nail in the coffin for any future "diplomatic" scheme that hinges on "ironclad guarantees" from America.
To be clear: it would have been better for us to reach these conclusions without it being the product of the Biden Administration's "two-by-four treatment."
But at least we can have the satisfaction of knowing that, in the long run, the embargo threat will serve to dramatically improve Israeli defense procurement decisions while avoiding nonsensical diplomatic arrangements that hinge on "ironclad" American guarantees.
