WAR
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
Israel is at war, but its military echelon does not practice the principles of war, which is why Israel is despised and has become a laughing stock before the nations.
Let us therefore recall certain lessons on war by one of the greatest military scientists, General Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831).
Clausewitz warns: “Philanthropists may readily imagine there is a skillful method of disarming and overcoming an enemy without causing great bloodshed, and that this is the proper tendency of the Art of War. However plausible this may appear, still it is an error which must be extirpated; for in such dangerous things as war, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst.”
Not that Clausewitz advocates indiscriminate slaughter. He warns, however, that “he who uses force unsparingly … must obtain superiority if his adversary uses less vigor in its application.”
Accordingly: “Let us not hear of Generals who conquer without bloodshed. If a bloody slaughter is a horrible sight, then that is a ground for paying more respect to War, but not for making the sword we wear blunter and blunter by degrees from feelings of humanity, until someone steps in with one that is sharp and lops off the arm from our body.” It follows that moderation or self-restraint as a principle of war is absurd.
Since Israel is at war, Israel’s General Staff would do well to emulate General George S. Patton, the warrior most feared by Nazi Germany. On the eve of battle, Patton would admonish his soldiers: “The object of war is not to die for your country. It is to make the other poor dumb bastard die for his.”
“We want the enemy to KNOW that they are fighting the toughest fighting men in the world!” This precludes benevolence (which Arabs despise). Just as Hamas (or Hezbollah) warriors would show no mercy to you, so you should show no mercy to them. These warriors must be killed even if this results in civilian casualties.
Patton goes even further: “Forget about army regulations … [which] are written by those who have never been in battle…Our only mission in combat is to win.” Hence, general officers may sometimes have to disobey orders of the political echelon!
Patton’s famous admonition, “Grab the Enemy by the nose and kick him in the pants,” though simple, is profoundly significant in the war between Jews and Arabs. Israel must devastate the Arabs or Muslims from top to bottom so as to erase the Islamic arrogance that prompts them to wage war against “infidels.”
It should be stressed, however, that Israel does not need to consult Patton or Clausewitz for military advice. Enough to consult Israel’s greatest monarch King David. From King David we learn that the Jewish statesman must exhibit hatred of Israel’s enemies. “I hate them, O God, that hate you” (Psalm 129:21).
Of course, hatred is futile if it does not issue in vigorous action. Therefore King David says: “I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and returned not until they were destroyed. I crushed them so that they are not able to rise; …. I pulverized them like dust in the face of the storm …” (Psalm 18:38-43),
This is what must be done to Israel’s genocidal enemies. I have therefore proposed a carefully orchestrated policy of “Kill for Peace”―a manly and rational policy to replace the spineless and irrational policy of “land for peace.” Since this proposal is beyond the mentality and stamina of the Netanyahu government, Israel needs a very different kind of government.
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A Jewish Analysis
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
We don’t need brilliant political analysis to reveal the obvious: that Israel’s government consists of cretins and cravens. We’ve known this since Moshe Dayan, with the unanimous approval of Israel’s government, started the process of undoing the miracle of the Six-Day War by giving the Arabs control of the Temple Mount, the holiest site of the Jewish people. The government thereby desecrated the Name of God on the one hand, and dignified Islam on the other.
In dignifying Islam, Israel’s government painted itself in the corner: it could say nothing of the evil character and genocidal designs of the enemy. Hence, we can appreciate a pundit who now urges Israel’s government to tell the truth about this enemy. But there is another truth that needs exposure, namely, that Israel’s greatest enemy is its own government!
By undoing the miracle of the Six-Day War via the policy of “territory for peace,” Israel’s government has been pursuing a policy of treason—and not merely moral treason. I say this because the policy of “territory for peace” actually violates Israeli statutes governing treason. In other words, and as attorney Howard Grief has exhaustively shown, Israel’s government—including its Supreme Court—has betrayed the birthright of the Jewish people.
This means that Israel’s government has betrayed God and the Sinai Covenant. By so doing it has renounced the only justification for the Jewish state. The only solid justification for the existence of the State of Israel is the Torah. This is not a political conclusion but a Jewish conclusion based on reason and logic. In rejecting this Jewish conclusion, Israel’s ruling elites have succumbed to stupidity and self-abasement.
This stupidity and self-abasement is exemplified by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ardent desire to negotiate with Muslims dedicated to Israel’s annihilation. To negotiate with these enemies of civilization is pathological or symptomatic of a terminal disease. Only an idiot or a madman would deal with those committed to his destruction.
No one should know this better than Jews whose history is punctuated by the envious and murderous hatred of the non-Jewish world—especially of Muslims.
Thus, by abandoning God and the Torah, the source of Jewish wisdom and loftiness, Israel’s government has become foolish and ignominious. Isn’t this obvious?
Moreover, it’s precisely the function of Israel’s enemies to make Israel look ignominious, for that facilitates and perpetuates their own and ignoble and mendacious character. Political analysis obscures the meaning of history, that Israel represents the God-given truth at Sinai. This truth exposes the lies and idolatry and complacency of mankind. Israel makes people feel uncomfortable and even lowly. People want to feel good about themselves, and one way of doing this is by scapegoating others. So Israel has served as the scapegoat of mankind—it’s called “anti-Semitism.”
Israel is not going to be redeemed by brilliant political analysis. Indeed, the latter may make a lot of people—pundits and politicians—“politically correct.” No, we need Jewish analysis on the one hand, and Torah-inspired statesmanship on the other.
Israel needs a war strategy based on Torah principles, including the principle: “Those who come to kill you, kill them first.”
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