You wake up in the morning and find you are surrounded by enemies, near and far. In the south, you are fighting Hamas to the death. In the north, you are being bombarded by Hezbollah terrorists, whose rockets hit Safed yesterday killing Staff Sergeant Omer Sarah Benjo, 20, and wounding six others. Another rocket landed near Safed’s hospital. There has been criticism of the warning system and the rocket defense system. Another twenty rockets were fired at the mostly evacuated northern city of Kiryat Shmoneh.

Israel’s response was fierce, its attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon widening. The IDF confirmed that in yesterday’s precise, targeted bombing of the house in the town of Nabatiya, a senior commander of Hezbollah’s Radwan force, his deputy, and another operative were killed.

Radwan forces of Hezbollah are equivalent to the Nukhba forces of Hamas responsible for the atrocities committed in October, specially trained bestial murderers. The more that die, the better. Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant said: “We upped our strikes against Hezbollah by only one level out of ten. The IDF has significantly more power (than it has yet used). The Air Force planes that are now flying in the skies of Lebanon have heavier bombs for more distant targets.”

In Gaza, a commander in the Shati Battalion of Hamas who

kidnapped and held hostage soldier Noa Marciano, found murdered in captivity, was targeted and killed by an aircraft in Gaza City.

A Gazan journalist addresses Hamas in an online video:
“You slaughtered us with the ‘victories’
This time we don’t need to ‘win’
Let us live on the basis of ‘past victories’

Our Prime Minister, to his credit, has refused to send an Israeli representative to participate in this farce of “hostage negotiations.” Good for him! Keep bombing, go on to Rafah. Of course, some, but I emphasize, not all, the families of hostages, are up in arms about this. I think that’s understandable. But I still agree with Netanyahu.

The real problem is that according to a recent poll, on the center-left, only 26 percent of Israelis think we can win this war, while on the right, it’s 80 percent. And that is heartbreaking, because it is the future of our life in this country we are talking about. There is no alternative to victory. I remember how the British, under attack by the Nazis, refused to give up hope, and they were dying by the thousands. Perhaps what we need is a Churchill to galvanize us with stirring speeches, strengthening our resolve.

I understand the fear, the weariness, the horror of these daily announcements of the loss of our brave young soldiers. It is hard to relish our just victories over these scum if it means one beautiful twenty year-old soldier has lost his or her life and isn’t going home. It breaks our hearts, but it cannot be allowed to break our resolve. If we Jews want a homeland, a Jewish country where we can bring up the next generation and the one after that in a place where Jews are safe, beloved, allowed to flourish and create, we have no choice. We must be brave, we must fight, we must win.

The fact that the great majority of our losses have ties to Holocaust survivors you would think might make some people in the world wake up from their moral lethargy. But I often despair if there are more than just a handful of good, intelligent people left on this planet among the ignorant, hateful masses condemning us; people with zero understanding or sympathy for our plight. Instead, the idiots of the world, to assuage whatever little conscience they have left, scream: “Genocide!”

I actually think that’s the narrative they are longing to be true; for the Jewish people to show they are no different and no better than the rest of the world. So sad to see them squirming and lying when Israel passes up opportunity after opportunity to torture, mutilate, deliberately kill children, and rape women. I actually think they find that infuriating, making them hate us more, not less.

Nasser Hospital has been evacuated, the “poor Gazans” standing obediently in line as they pass through IDF checkpoints weeding out terrorists from mere Hamas supporters. Like all the Berliners were Nazis, Gazans are all Hamas. Lucky for them the IDF isn’t making them take a lie detector test and answer the question: “Do you support Hamas?” Very few would be allowed through to relocate outside Israeli prisons.

Right now, the “hospital,” like all the “hospitals” in Gaza, is being searched for terrorist infrastructure. Most of all, Israel is acting on intelligence that hostages who are no longer alive are buried in the mass graves around the hospital. A terrible task that the IDF has undertaken to examine the bodies to make sure. I give them so much credit.

I understand President Biden is gung-ho on rewarding the monsters of October 7 with their own state, where they will be free to rearm, continue their Nazification plan for their children, and their threat to Jews by joining together with the equally genocidal Palestinian Authority. MK Gideon Sa’ar, in a speech in Berlin, railed against this dangerous, developing international one-sided plan: “Not only won’t such a misguided plan bring peace, in will make the problem insoluble. The Palestinians will be given their own state without paying the price of compromise, and will continue their attempts to destroy Israel from a better position that will harm Israel’s right to self-defense.”

It will be hard to create a state for a nonexistent people. There is no such thing as “the Palestinian People.” I’m not saying this. Zahir Muhsein, Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member, said this in an interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw, published on March 31, 1977: “The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”

Why, after seeing who they are on October 7, would you give them a state? Only if you are delusional enough – as apparently Mr. Biden is – to still believe that this is a land dispute of an oppressed people. Have you seen the videos of what Gaza looked like before October 7? The resorts, the luxury buildings, the cars, the promenades, the restaurants… They had everything, and with only a fraction of the billions poured into their coffers, the rest going to terror infrastructure. Their “Palestinian State” will be no different. It’s an insane move that God help us, must be aborted.

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