• Israel’s Existential Struggle And The “Two State Solution”

    July 30, 2024

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    If the proposal for peace in Gaza supported by President Joe Biden and his probable successor, soon-to-be Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris, is ever implemented, it will be the second time Israel has withdrawn all military forces from Gaza in hopes of securing a “two state solution” to Iranian supported violence in the heart of Israel.

    The first attempt, prospective Democrat president Kamala Harris well knows, did not succeed. Israel completed its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip after 38 years in September 2005. In pursuit of an elusive “two state solution” for peace in the Middle East, Israel withdrew all its troops and Israeli settlers from Gaza. Following the withdrawal, Hamas displaced the Palestine Liberation Organization and proceeded to prosecute its war on Israel, with what results we have seen on October 7, 2023.

    There is no reason to suppose that a second or third attempt at a “two state solution” will be more successful – unless Hamas is militarily defeated and Gaza is protected from Iranian supported terrorists.

    Those who cry “peace, peace,” when there is no peace, claim to be opponents of a “wider war” in the Middle East. They have been asleep at their post for the past two decades and more. The war in the Middle East has already been widened by Iran and its proxy terrorist armies: Hamas, situated in the very heart of Israel, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen.

    After months of grueling urban battle, the question arises: Who shall rule in Gaza? Neither former President Barrack Obama, nor Biden, nor Harris has given us an honest answer to this all-important question. Harris, soon to be chosen by the Democrat National Committee as a presidential nominee, should make an attempt to answer that question. If not Israel, who?

    The Biden administration, it would appear, is willing -- despite its insistence that it has Israel’s back – to tolerate only a defensive war, so that the Middle East might return to the status quo ante of 2005.

    The situation is similar in Ukraine. The Biden administration has consistently refused to supply Ukraine with fighter jets, long after Connecticut U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal implored Biden to do so. The result has been years of Putin's relentless bombardment of Ukrainian civilians.

    Ukraine has done everything Biden has at great cost asked the besieged citizens of the country to do – and they are losing in their struggle against Putin. The Washington D.C. directed war in Ukraine is failing. Indeed, it must fail if Ukraine is never permitted by those of its “friends” at Foggy Bottom to conduct an offensive war against Putin’s bases in Crimea and on the Russian border of Eastern Ukraine, both safe spaces for Russian forces.

    Putin’s logic is irrefutable. After Russia has forcibly annexed Crimea and areas close to Russia on Ukraine’s eastern border -- in order to secure safe areas in which it may bomb Ukraine into rubble and submission -- any offensive attack on Russian forces within the annexed territories is an attack on Russia proper and must be prevented by Ukraine’s “friends” in foggy bottom, endlessly searching in vain for a peaceful “negotiated settlement” of the conflict.  

    An Obama-Biden-Harris shaped war in in the Middle East prosecuted by the false “friends of Israel” must fail for reasons alluded to in Netanyahu’s address to the U.S. Congress – boycotted by Harris, the presumptive future Democrat president of the United States. In both the Ukraine and Israel wars, it is not difficult to read the writing on the wall.

    And the writing on the wall says clearly: Only those who win a war may shape the peace. Or, to put it in terms Netanyahu used during his address to the U.S. Congress: If Israel does not accomplish its war aims – to destroy Hamas and other sworn enemies of Israel -- it must lose the peace. To put a finer point on it, never in world history have those who lost a war been able by peaceful negotiations to shape the destiny of a state.

    Iran, a Shia state that fully intends to destroy Israel, must cut Israel to pieces over time through attrition, because it cannot prosecute under its own flag a successful war against an Israel allied with the United States, the Great Satan -- provided the United States seriously intends to bring the war against Israel to a successful conclusion.

    How is such success to be measured? The answer to the question is simple: “We win, they lose,” Netanyahu told the U.S. Congress.

    To maintain its integrity as a state, Israel must win in its struggle against its enemies. This is the true meaning of an “existential” struggle, quite literally a struggle for continued existence.

    The Houthis movement in Yemen -- Anṣār Allāh, “أنصار اله” or ”Supporters of God” -- is a Shia Islamist political and military organization. Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon are Shia. Iran is Shia and Persian. Hamas is a Sunni offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood based in Egypt. All three groups are implacable militant enemies of Israel, pledged to its destruction at a time when Sunnis in Saudi Arabia have made peace overtures to Israel. Arabia is largely Sunni. These two groups, Sunni and Shia, have been at war with each other, on and off, for 1,400 years. However, the modern Sunni-Shia struggle, while rooted in theological and cultural animosities, is driven forward by the modern political rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

    All this and more must be understood by American politicians on the hunt for peace by means of a “two state solution” to the modern post-World War II struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia. There can be no “two state solution” that will satisfy a fight to the death between a cat and a dog engaged in a contest for political dominance.

    The problem is not that Netanyahu has no vision of the future in Gaza once the enemies of Israel have been routed and neutralized. The problem is that his opponents, including three Democrat presidents, have no memory of the recent past. At the very least, everyone here in the United States who is not a boastful anti-Semite should agree that the state of Israel must not be a casualty of this struggle.

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    Don Pesci

    Don Pesci is a political columnist of long standing, about 40 years, who has written for various state newspapers, among them The Journal Inquirer, the Waterbury Republican American, the New London Day, the Litchfield County Times, the Torrington Register Citizen and other Register Citizen papers. He maintains a blog, among the oldest of its kind in Connecticut, which serves as a repository and archive, for his columns; there are approximately 3,000 entrees in Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes From A Blue State, virtually all of them political columns stretching back to 2004. He also appears once a week Wednesdays on 1080 WTIC Newstalk radio with Will Marotti.

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