Fast Draw – IDF Chief Lt. General Benny Gantz, Israel and Hamas

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Cowardly anonymous criticizers, one is hard-pressed to find a suitable way to refer to those Israeli ministers, cabinet members included, who have attacked IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. General Benny Gantz in recent days.

For a few weeks now, senior political figures and unnamed cabinet ministers have been attacking Lt. General Gantz, alleging he is the one behind Israel’s constant desire for a ceasefire. According to them, “from the onset, Gantz has been presenting horrific scenarios when it comes to IDf plans consisting of ground force-based incursions into the Gaza Strip. His scenarios are designed to deter the ministers from voting in favor of such action.” This criticism has been intensifying of late, since the talks in Cairo broke down. At the same time, these same sources lay the burden of responsibility on PM Netanyahu and Minister of Defense Yaalon rather than on the IDF Chief of Staff, as the latter’s task is to carry out the decisions by the political decision-makers.

These might be the same ministers, including cabinet ministers, who toe the line obediently at meetings but attack those same decisions later when talking to the press. Shame these are our ministers, such a disgrace the PM does not give them the boot.

It is time to put a stop to this disgrace.

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The province is all aflutter with excitement: the New York Times is behind Israel. Oh, joy, what a relief. Jodi Rudoren, the New York Times‘s senior correspondent in Israel, who is usually critical of Israel, has criticized Hamas for prolonging the bloody fighting in Gaza and is deducing that Israel is winning over Hamas militarily.

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Over the weekend, Rudoren wrote “Hamas is the party that keeps extending this summer’s bloody battle in the Gaza Strip, repeatedly breaking temporary truces and vowing to endlessly fire rockets into Israel until its demands are met”.

So we finally got our approval, we are right. I can hardly believe there is anyone in Israel who requires the approval of an American newspaper. Someone here still believes we have no right to exist without the approval of the powers that be.

Looks like the heat got the better of some people’s minds.

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The headlines screamed: ‘the UN Security Council is to pass a resolution to end the fighting’. You heard it loud and clear. The Security Council, that impotent vacuous body of that redundant oversized body that is the UN will determine how the conflict should end. Printing paper costs money, especially considering this paper bears those ineffectual decisions by this ridiculous redundant body. The fact that the Israeli media is joyous at these news from New York is yet another reason for me to think the heat and humidity made a mess of some people’s thought process. Those who think the UN Security Council is the body to bring forth a solution might as well propose a peace conference on Mars. We are not short of fools around here, but it seems there are so many of them.

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Some of the residents of the communities along the Gaza Strip left their homes yesterday, and not for the first time. A government that cannot provide its own citizens the security to stay at home in peace is a failure. Period.

What’s more annoying is the fact that the IDF can guarantee this peace from the threat of mortar shells and rockets, but it is the government that is hesitant about giving the order to do so.