Netanyahu slammed for continuing to duck a decisive campaign against Gaza terrorists.
May 6, 2019
For once, Gantz voiced widespread popular sentiment when he warned that this lame curtailment of massive terrorist rocket aggression held the key to recurring violence on an even greater scale. However, this process also represents a recurring pattern of the Netanyahu’s premiership.
The prime minister and defence minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, is widely seen – even in his own Likud – as letting down the general expectation which he himself fostered, for the IDF to be allowed, at long last, to cut short in the long term the violent harassment which Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists have meted out on the population for years.
It was hoped that this time, Netanyahu would break with his long practice, and finally tough it out for the sake of a better future for the battered population of the South.
That his government allowed the Palestinians to inform the Israeli public of the ceasefire post factum – leaving it to the IDF Home Security Command to simply tell people to go back to their normal routines, without explanation – was an especially bitter pill .
On Sunday, after the heaviest Palestinian rocket barrage since the 2014 war hit Israel’s southern towns and villages, killing 4 people and injuring 250, the IDF Home Command ordered schools closed on Monday for a second day and 200,000 children kept at home.
On Monday morning, they woke up and were told suddenly that it was back to school and their normal routines.
How were people expected to behave normally? On Monday, as scores of rockets landed on their heads, they heard a senior Likud minister, MK Avi Dichter, declaring that this time, the IDF was fully prepared to repeat in Gaza the Jenin operation that ended the Second Intifada 15 years ago.
Dichter may have been naively convinced with the rest of the country that this scenario was finally about to unfold. However, the IDF spokesman also announced the transfer of the 7th Armoured Brigade and the Golani Brigade troops to the Gaza border for a build-up of strength “in preparation for an operation that could go on for days.”
Monday morning, that statement was exposed as a deliberate smoke screen for concealing the secretly ongoing, ceasefire negotiations with terrorists while they intensified their rocket blitz.
While the army defers to government policy and directives, its spokesman takes his orders from the chief of staff. Lieutenant General Aviv Kochavi would be well advised to urgently repair the senior IDF spokesperson’s current strategy of issuing false and misleading statements.
An effort must be made to restore credibility to this institution considering is important role in shaping public morale especially in times of stress.
As for the army’s morale, large-scale combat units were transferred on Sunday to the Gaza sector for the second time in two weeks – the first time in the last week of March and this week again – only to be sent back to their former bases a few hours later after doing nothing.
Reliable sources offer the following motivation for Netanyahu’s apparently purposeless exercises around the Gaza Strip and failure to go all the way against massive terrorist aggression:
He appears to be putting his trust in the eventual rise of an independent Palestinian state – even under Hamas rule – that will finally force the break-up of Mahmoud Abbas’ crumbling Palestinian Authority.
This goal is in line with the US Middle East peace plan on whose final draft President Donald Trump’s advisers, Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, are putting the final touches before publication. This goal would also fit the plans of Egypt’s president Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi.
And it is doomed to failure. As the Biblical prophets reveal, this problem will only be solved by outright warfare – and it is not too far away now. The military planning must be based on the obvious truth that the Arab Palestinians [so-called] and the Iranian proxies in the region will settle for nothing less than the complete destruction of the Jewish state.
With Iran [and therefore their proxies such as HAMAS and Hezbollah] suffering incredible pressure economically under the oil embargo inflicted upon them by the Trump regime their available solutions are very limited – and they may have to resort to some risky behaviours if the governing regime is to survive. This is a VERY dangerous and rapidly developing scenario!
Aircraft carrier sent to Middle East after indications Iran planned attack on US forces.
May 6, 2019
The United States is deploying an aircraft carrier strike group and a bomber task force out of the Mediterranean to the Middle East on short notice in response to "clear indications" Iran and Iranian proxies were planning an attack on U.S. forces in the region, a U.S. official said.
Late Sunday night, the White House made a surprise announcement that the USS Abraham Lincoln and a bomber task force were being deployed in response to unspecified "troubling and escalatory indications and warnings."
A statement from National Security Adviser John Bolton said the deployments were intended "to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force."
"The United States is not seeking war with the Iranian regime, but we are fully prepared to respond to any attack, whether by proxy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or regular Iranian forces," the statement continued.
It is beginning to look quite obvious that the Trump administration may be laying legal groundwork for military action against Iran.
A U.S. official told ABC News the deployments were in response to "clear indications" Iranian and Iranian proxy forces were preparing for a possible attack, and that the decision to send forces was made on Sunday.
"The movement of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to the Iranian region was expedited, and it was ordered there effective immediately," said the official.
As we reported recently, The carrier is currently in the Syrian Mediterranean area after leaving Norfolk, Virginia, on April 1.
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