Israel’s strategic imperative by Caroline Glick

[Almost Heaven]

(JNS) As of now, it appears that owing either to U.S. insistence or the Israel Defense Forces’ operational preferences, Israel is leaning towards keeping the issue of Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon on the back burner in the hopes of not having to engage Iran’s most powerful proxy force directly. The argument presented on behalf of this approach is that by defeating Hamas completely and reducing Gaza to rubble, Israel will deter Hezbollah from attacking it for the foreseeable future.

While reasonable in theory, this view appears to ignore two key aspects of the strategic equation.

1. First, we need to understand what it means that Hamas and its partners/trainers/suppliers/bosses in Iran and Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon planned this war for two years.

With two years to prepare, we should assume they gamed all possible scenarios and planned for them, including Israel’s current operation in the Gaza Strip. Israeli commentators like to insist that Hamas was doubtlessly taken by surprise by the ferocity of Israel’s response to their one-day Holocaust. But given their meticulous planning, this assertion is highly unlikely.

Israel’s strategic imperative

We need to think about what the Oct. 7 attack represents within the Iranian blueprint for the annihilation of the Jewish state.Op-ed.

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[Kaatje]

While I highly respect Ms. Glick and agree with what she writes here,
it is, of course, written from a human - horizontal - point of view.
She is not a Christian, let alone an "end times prophecy buff", so she can't see beyond that.

We can, and we know: God removeth‭‭ kings‭, and setteth up‭‭ kings‭:
He knoweth‭‭ what‭ ‭is‭ in the darkness‭, and the light‭ dwelleth‭‭ with him
Daniel 2

He looseth‭‭ the bond‭ of kings‭, and girdeth‭‭ their loins‭ with a girdle‭.‭
‭He leadeth‭‭ ‭princes‭‭ away spoiled‭, and overthroweth‭‭ the mighty‭.‭
‭He increaseth‭‭ the nations‭, and destroyeth‭‭ them:
He enlargeth‭‭ the nations‭, and straiteneth‭‭ them ‭again‭.‭
Job 12

There are‭ many‭ devices‭ in a man’s‭ heart‭;
nevertheless the counsel‭ of the LORD‭, that shall stand‭‭.‭
Proverbs 19:21

 

[spartan sprinter]

I think it was either from a Tom Hughes vid or Amir vid that they were saying Iran doesn't want all of their proxies destroyed at once so is kind of advising Hezbollah to hold their horses so to speak so they can attack Israel again at a better time