In case you were wondering, in a press briefing today, an Israeli spokesperson said Rafah will be the completion of our war against Hamas and that Israel would do so “to destroy the remaining battalions” of the terror organization. Only yesterday a Hamas spokesman speaking to his fellow Islamists boasted that Hamas’ army remains intact with 70,000 troops, and that they are certain of victory. As opposition leader Benny Gantz has said, “one cannot not put out 80 percent of a fire and leave 20 percent still burning.”

The need to complete the war, and the Iranian threats of revenge, have Israel on very high security alert. Reservists from air defense units have been called up and leaves have been cancelled for all combat troops, which means wives won’t be seeing their husbands, or children their fathers. Hospitals have been doing major catastrophe drills. I can tell you that the increased security readiness is palpable. When I went to the supermarket yesterday, an extra guard was standing at the entrance with a machine gun. I have never seen that before, even at the height of the war.

Israel is right to take Iran’s threats very seriously. But when you are in a war with people who even during peace time say outright that their goal is your total annihilation, I can’t see why we shouldn’t just go on as normal. I remember during the Intifada whenever Israeli troops killed some terrorist scum, people would wring their hands and say: “Oh, now you’ve made them mad. Now they are really, really, really mad.” It’s all nonsense. They are always “mad.” Mad dogs. They will do whatever they can to harm us, and if they can’t, they won’t. We need to do all we can to anticipate their moves and protect ourselves. Taking out their leadership is an excellent preemptive measure.

As for the dead aid workers, it was an accident. It’s a war. There are bombs, shootings, cars that look like they are carrying terrorists. We made a mistake. It happens. President Biden has declared “Israel has not done enough to protect aid workers trying to deliver desperately needed help to civilians, Israel has also not done enough to protect civilians. “ Left unsaid, is Hamas’ role in stealing aid, shooting Gazans who attempt to procure it, and Hamas’ role in putting civilians at risk by using hospitals, schools, and private homes as weapons depots and battle sites.

Dear President Biden, no one has done more in this situation than Israel to protect the worthless citizens of Gaza – who, let us not forget – directly participated in the slaughter of our people in the south, killing, raping, kidnapping and holding our hostages in their private homes. As GOP Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan suggested: “We shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid in Gaza. We should be dropping bombs like in Nagasaki and Hiroshima to get it over quickly.”

I’m with you Tim!! Believe me, no humans on earth deserve it more. But Israel won’t do that. They give warnings before they bomb. They open humanitarian corridors for people to flee to safety. And this caution, this delay, this desire to protect human life, is tearing our society apart as we put off doing what is vitally necessary to finish this war and rescue hostages that have been held now for half a year. Half a year!! It is intolerable.

Is Israel facing an American-backed attempt at a coup d’état through mass protests targeting its legitimate government, assisted by the media who hate Netanyahu? Like the pre-October 7 unrest that tore the country apart, we are now seeing the same exact players using the chaos of the hostage crisis to further their political agenda of new elections, which have nothing to do with the hostages, and will only delay and complicate all we need to do at his fateful hour of our existence.

I see them standing at the corners of our streets with their signs – Elections Now. Free the Hostages. And I want to scream at them: “What is the matter with you? What are you try to accomplish? You are aiding and abetting our enemies!” But I won’t, because that is exactly what Hamas is hoping for, a civil war that will weaken us. So for now, the great majority of Israelis like myself are gritting our teeth and holding our tongues, but we won’t forget. They want elections? They will be very, very sorry because the results will be a big, unpleasant surprise to the traitorous leaders of this disgusting fifth column that is doing so much to damage our resilience and unity, without which, we will not be able to win a war on so many fronts. But violence begets violence. I don’t know how much longer this kind of campaigning can be tolerated. The explosion, if it comes, would be worse than any Iranian revenge plan.

Our enemies don’t have complete unity either. Even in Iran, the opposition has begun successful armed protests. From Abu Ali Express:
“Jish El Adel (Army of Justice) is an Islamic organization in Iran opposed to the Iranian regime. Early yesterday morning, it launched simultaneous attacks on a police station in Chabahar and on a base of the Revolutionary Guards and another police station in the city of Rask, in the province of Sistan and Baluchistan in the east of the country. The organization’s operatives took over a weapons warehouse of the Iranian security forces. Official Iranian media currently acknowledge at least 5 deaths among the Iranian security forces, including the deputy commander of a police station. Iranian spokesmen, who have called the organization ‘a Zionist proxy’ [we should be so lucky] admitted that as of this afternoon, ‘the clashes between this organization and Iranian security forces continue in the east of the country almost ten hours after the attack began.’ So far, the Iranians have reported 11 members of their security forces killed. The regime claims to have succeeded in killing 16 Jish El Adel operatives.”

I think this is amazing good news! Let us hope it spreads! A civil war igniting in Iran would be excellent.

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