HOW to end the Gaza situation

What is REALLY on my mind is HOW to end the Gaza situation.

As I just pointed out to a Facebook friend there is a significant difference between US and THEM -the forces of light against the forces of true evil and that is why God loves us protects us: It shows that above ALL else WE Jews are moralistic.

How can we tell that HaShem loves us?

Over 400 Hundred rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel since Monday, with the Iron Dome missile defense system intercepting about 100 of them.

Yet - the ONLY casualty was a 48-year-old Palestinian illegal resident from Hebron Mohammed Abdel Hamid Abu Isbah who was killed Monday night when a Palestinian Hamas rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed on a four-story residential building in Ashkelon.

And then there is the incident where Hamas tried to murder our soldiers by targeting a bus that moments before 50+ soldiers departed from ....

Now I know that there are many who will scoff at this and some will show scorn and anger but the problem is a very complicated issue. And it is NOT a time for those big brave "Armchair generals" who have "Never walked the walk" nor experienced like I have up close and personal the true cost of war to speak.

I also wish to clarify that our -Israel's- issue is NOT with the poor "Fellahin "- peasants of Gaza, for they are mostly illiterate uneducated farmers and day workers who try to eek out meager lives. For these poor "pawns"since before the 1948 Nachba they are nothing more than cannon fodder for the use of their leaders.

Our problem -in Gaza-is with the Moslem Brotherhood / Hamas leadership and the Palestinian Authority -read Mahmoud Abbas.

As we have seen since 1947 you can kill thousands and it does not move their leadership one iota. The only thing it does is it brings the worlds animosity upon us. It is the cause of the hatred that fools attempt to force solutions on those who don't wish to listen.

And what of the world's reaction? It's Israel's fault. Israel's legitimate right to right to self-defense is denied, calling it 'disproportionate' in blatant disregard for real violation of International Law's classification of "War Crimes". Meanwhile the worlds mass media ignore the reports of hundreds of deadly mortar rounds and rockets purposely fired at our civilian population.These weapons are used to kill civilians a direct violation of international humanitarian law and the Rome Statute:

 "A crime occurs if there is an intentional attack directed against civilians (principle of distinction)" — Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court.

From my experience in dealing with them in Gaza when I served there -which by the way is composed of a totally different population then from the area of Judaea and Shomron. What is different is that the ordinary poor man in Gaza is poorer and they were poor even during the Mandate and Ottoman Period as well. They lived in many cases in mud hovels with raw sewage much like the conditions they are still forced to live under in squalid "refugee camps" in Hamas controlled areas. If you were to ask them, they would be willing to live in peace. And "IF" the right person leads them this can be achieved.

I have always said that we need to go back in and re-establish the clan hierarchy that ruled the area peaceably from 1967 -1987 when the Intifada broke out.

All of those "outsiders" who know nothing of the Arab "Fellahin "- peasant mentality are the ones who composed the failed Oslo Peace agreement because they knew nothing about WHOM they were dealing with. Those of us with years of experience with Arabs know that to control the "masses" who on the most part are uneducated and religiously backward in Gaza and even in most areas of Judaea and Shomron. With them you need to carry a real big stick behind you to beat them on the head.

This I learned from my adoptive "father" on the kibbutz when I made Aliyah to Israel 44 years ago. He had been a member of the Palmach- mista'arvim. The name of the unit derives from the Arabic مستعربين mustaʿribīn, literally "those who live among the Arabs." 

There are of course "middle and upper class" Arabs -who lead the herd and with whom you can communicate with. But the majority like Mahmoud Abbas and especially Ismail Haniyeh live in what we call the Arab "Fantasia". The deep belief that they hold that they are superior to the Jews who are the "Children of Death" and can be treated as Dhimmi.(servants)

What is needed is to remove the Hamas and to remove the weapons and to establish stability and employment.

Regretfully this can only be achieved by a ground invasion with boots on the ground and I do not wish to see ANY more young Israelis lost. The ones who will be in harm's way will be my children and the children of my neighbors and this troubles me deeply.

I know from first hand knowledge of those members of the IDF who would be required to go in because my sons and my sons-in-laws are those who will be called up to deal with this mess.

As to Gaza being a "Dense" or small area yes it is but as I mentioned from my years of duty there there are open spaces to the south near the area of Khan Yunis and Rafah. I had proposed that the UN or some neutral body be called in to organize a refugee city for all Gaza residents who would be "frisked" and processed to remove weapons and disarm the populace.

Once the populace has been removed to the area and leaflets dropped on the areas to be obliterated in the Hands of Islamic Jihad ISIS and Hamas. I propose the use of a preliminary softening of the area by GBU 57s followed by some GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast . Only then should we send our sons in to danger to "mop up".

I am certain as in the past that when Israel troops encounter the Hamas in face to face combat that in the course of the fierce fighting heroism is frequently shown by our soldiers in battle and they will win. However in adverse situations when our sons are killed the Arabs frequently violate their bodies as they resort to the dastardly use of "body snatching" as in the case of two of our recent missing soldiers Lt. Hadar Goldin and Sgt. Oren Shaul whose bodies are being held by the Hamas since 2014.

Personally, I would actually ask Al Sisi or even pay him or the Saudis to go in and do it since they have shown their willingness to reach a solution to the problem. The Arab League created the mess let them clean it up. Maybe we can get the Jordanians and the Pakistanis to do it like they did in 1970 to the PLO in Jordan after all Jordan IS Palestine is it not?

Nevertheless, it will take a leader with brains and balls to end this madness and Bibi is not the leader he "balloons" himself out to be. As for the other 120 Bozos in the Knesset? As Patton said in his famous speech "Well they can shovel shit in Louisiana."