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(Wall Street Journal) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu interviewed by Elliot Kaufman - From the darkness of Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has roared back to crush Hamas and defang Hizbullah, leaving the Assad regime in Syria to crumble and all their masters in Iran to fret, without air defenses, over Israel's next move. How did it happen? The Americans advised against a ground invasion of Gaza. U.S. military experts said to fight from the air instead. Netanyahu knew from experience that wouldn't work. "From the air, you can mow the lawn. You can't pull out the weeds," he says. "We're here to uproot Hamas - not to deliver deterrent blows, but to destroy it." After the first hostage deal in late November 2023, as the war restarted, "they began to turn on us in the media and in the West." The more Americans and international bodies pressed Netanyahu to fold, the less inclined Hamas became to cut a second hostage deal - "and Hamas said so openly." The U.S. predicted as many as 20,000 new casualties if Israel invaded Rafah. When Israel finally advanced in May, casualties were notably low as civilians quickly went to the safe zone by the beach. "The Americans said to me, 'If you go into Rafah, you're on your own, and we're not going to send you the critical arms,' which is tough to hear....But if we don't go into Rafah, we can't exist as a sovereign state." In Rafah, Israel cut off Hamas's supply route and later killed Sinwar, its chief. Even after 11 months of Hizbullah rocket fire, depopulating Israel's north, the U.S. opposed any move to take the fight to Hizbullah. "We prepared for Hizbullah a massive surprise," Netanyahu says. I presume he means the exploding pagers on Sept. 17. The result was "the greatest surgical targeting in history," followed by an attack on Hizbullah's missiles. "In six hours, we wiped out most of the ballistic-missile stockpiles Hizbullah had amassed." In Gaza, "I'm not going to agree to end the war before we remove Hamas. We're not going to leave them in power in Gaza, 30 miles from Tel Aviv. It's not going to happen."2024-12-22 00:00:00Full Article
The Inside Story of Israel's Victory
(Wall Street Journal) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu interviewed by Elliot Kaufman - From the darkness of Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has roared back to crush Hamas and defang Hizbullah, leaving the Assad regime in Syria to crumble and all their masters in Iran to fret, without air defenses, over Israel's next move. How did it happen? The Americans advised against a ground invasion of Gaza. U.S. military experts said to fight from the air instead. Netanyahu knew from experience that wouldn't work. "From the air, you can mow the lawn. You can't pull out the weeds," he says. "We're here to uproot Hamas - not to deliver deterrent blows, but to destroy it." After the first hostage deal in late November 2023, as the war restarted, "they began to turn on us in the media and in the West." The more Americans and international bodies pressed Netanyahu to fold, the less inclined Hamas became to cut a second hostage deal - "and Hamas said so openly." The U.S. predicted as many as 20,000 new casualties if Israel invaded Rafah. When Israel finally advanced in May, casualties were notably low as civilians quickly went to the safe zone by the beach. "The Americans said to me, 'If you go into Rafah, you're on your own, and we're not going to send you the critical arms,' which is tough to hear....But if we don't go into Rafah, we can't exist as a sovereign state." In Rafah, Israel cut off Hamas's supply route and later killed Sinwar, its chief. Even after 11 months of Hizbullah rocket fire, depopulating Israel's north, the U.S. opposed any move to take the fight to Hizbullah. "We prepared for Hizbullah a massive surprise," Netanyahu says. I presume he means the exploding pagers on Sept. 17. The result was "the greatest surgical targeting in history," followed by an attack on Hizbullah's missiles. "In six hours, we wiped out most of the ballistic-missile stockpiles Hizbullah had amassed." In Gaza, "I'm not going to agree to end the war before we remove Hamas. We're not going to leave them in power in Gaza, 30 miles from Tel Aviv. It's not going to happen."2024-12-22 00:00:00Full Article
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