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Our Views "Not More than a Week"
(Translated from the Hebrew article that appeared in the "Israeli" daily newspaper) The Army of Allah (in Arabic, Hizbollah) is attacking us from the north and south. Facing the primitive Army of Allah is a super-sophisticated and pragmatic fighting force. The Arab is fighting for his God, his goal is victory and he has all the self-sacrifice and patience in the world. The Jew is fighting for a little bit of peace and quiet. His goal is to "deter" the Hizbollah and his patience is short. Who's going to win? Attacks from the air can decrease the amounts of Katyushas daily being fired at Israel from about 100 to...let's say 10 or even 1. The Hizbollah terrorist will fire just one rocket per day before he is destroyed by our pilots. Once a week a katyusha on Haifa, once on Tiberias, once in Tzfat... not a downstorm -- just a drizzle. It will be a great accomplishment for Israel's air force. But who will win? And if we send in the infantry and G-d forbid begin to pay the price of combat in cities, villages and mountainous terrain, who will win? And if we trounce them and afterwards enter negotiations for the release of our captive soldiers and the release of terrorists in another year -- who won? Who started this? Who determined the new rules of the game? Who achieved his declared goal (release of jailed terrorists)? I'm sorry to say this, but all the chattering of the analysts who talk about a week until this war is over does not line up with the facts. The facts are that the initiative is in their hands. We are in the bomb shelters. They are winning and we are losing. The strategic problem is not the Katyushas. The problem is that the Iranians -- who are activating the Hizbollah -- are on their way to bringing us down on our knees. Our intoxication from the world's temporarily positive approach toward us is pathetic. They also liked us in 1991, when we were sitting with gas masks in sealed rooms. They will like us very much when Iran's new nuclear weapons fly here to take a defeated Israel out of its misery. "This is not a war," our leaders explain so that they can absolve themselves of truly dealing with the problem. The truth is that we are now experiencing the promo of the "mother of all wars" and our leadership just doesn't understand. They will buy some more quiet with "respectable defeat." But the new rules have already been determined. You can shell Tel Aviv and be an Islamic hero. Soon, Iran's nuclear arsenal will be ready for action. The lesson that we must learn now is that a pistol that appears in the first act of the Middle East drama shoots in the third act -- even if it takes a few years. Jewish leadership that will use the current situation as leverage to perform the painful uprooting of Iran's nuclear capabilities will solve the problem of the Hizbollah satellite in the process. But leadership that will prefer to buy a few more years of power and quiet at the price of a cease fire now that mortgages our future may bring about the end of the State of the Jews.
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