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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Jun 30 08:42:34 2026, in response to Re: I'm Pretty Sure Trump Is Wrong This Time, posted by Jeff Rosen on Tue Jun 30 00:27:47 2026. Thank God for the real leader, Bibi Netanyahu, the Winston Churchill of our time.Netanyahu reaction to the Oct 7th attack violated IDF doctrine that was formulated by Israel's founders. That doctrine stated that Israel could not win a war of attrition. As such, any military action must require total mobilization and require overwhelming ground troops. This was the doctrine that guided Israel during the 1956, 1967 and 1973 wars and Sharon's 1982 incursion into Lebanon. Netanyahu's Gaza campaign has relied on aerial bombing with a minimum of ground troops. It's been a war on the cheap in terms of manpower. It's the type of war of attrition that IDF doctrine cautioned against. It also results in war crimes because aerial bombing results in a large percentage of collateral damage. Hamas and Netanyahu have engaged in a symbiotic relationship because of their mutual aversion to a two-state solution. Hamas would attack Israel in small raids to discredit Israeli two-state solution advocates. The Netanyahu government would dismiss any Arab state or Palestinian peace feelers to discredit moderate Arab and Palestinian leaders. One example of Netanyahu's favoring Hamas was permitting the flow of money from Arab states to Hamas, shortly after returning to power in 2009. This was in contrast to the predecessor Olmert government of curtailing such payments (with the cooperation of the Arab government donars). The curtailment followed Olmert's successful Gaza War in 2008-2009. It was Churchill who said "Jaw-Jaw is better than war-war." |
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