Israel Must Fight to Win

What is it with the Israeli government that they never seem to want to win any war they are forced to engage in? The latest war is with Hamas in Gaza and while Israel has the obvious ability to win outright they always stop way short of crushing their enemy. In fact, Hamas is an illegal terrorist organization and an "Iranian proxy" so why doesn't Israel go all the way and destroy this evil? Right now the Israeli government is negotiating with Hamas under the auspices of the EU. But what does Israel have to negotiate about with Hamas? Hamas wants to see Israel wiped off the map.

When it comes to fighting for your life do you try to negotiate with your enemy? No you kill him first - it's called self-defense. Israel's history is filled with these half hearted attempts at self-defense and it will continue because they do not have the moral certitude that they are in the right. Not God-given certitude but moral certitude because they are the good represented in their productivity and life giving manner of living. Hamas is a terrorist organization that cares not a wit for their people or progress or living in peace with their neighbors. Their goal is power and ramming their religion down people's throat. Caroline Glick explains the irrationality of having the EU stand in as a mediator.

"Since Tuesday it has become clear that the Olmert-Livni-Barak government has decided to end the war with Iran's Hamas proxy army in Gaza as quickly as possible. That is, the government has decided to lose the war."

"The first problem with the EU proposal is that it takes for granted that all of Hamas's demands must be met in full. That is, Israel is beginning these negotiations from a point of weakness whereby it has already effectively accepted Hamas's demands and conceded its own.

"The second problem with the decision to accept EU mediation is that by doing so, the government is compelled to ignore and indeed justify the EU's underlying and deep-seated hostility toward Israel. The very fact that the EU accepted Hamas's demands from the outset demonstrates clearly that the EU cannot be an honest broker between the warring factions.

"...The third strategic failure inherent in Israel's decision to negotiate a truce is Israel's demand for an international monitoring force to verify compliance with the cease-fire agreement. This demand is self-defeating because such a force will only harm Israel's national interests. This is the clear lesson of both the EU's past monitoring mission at the Rafah terminal and of UNIFIL forces in southern Lebanon."

It's time that Israel show its many enemies that they are through negotiating. That they will stand up and defend themselves and the end game will be winning a clear and decisive victory that will leave the enemy totally vanquished. A person or a nation has a right to exist if that person or nation does not negate another person or nation's right to live. Sacrificing your young men and the interests of one's country to evil is an inverted morality which Ayn rand called the "Sanction of the Victim".

• Then I saw what was wrong with the world, I saw what destroyed men and nations, and where the battle for life had to be fought. I saw that the enemy was an inverted morality - and that my sanction was its only power. I saw that evil was impotent - and that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real - and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it. Just as the parasites around me were proclaiming their helpless dependence on my mind and were expecting me voluntarily to accept a slavery they had no power to enforce, just as they were counting on my self-immolation to provide them with the means of their plan - so throughout the world and throughout men's history, in very version and form, from the extortions of loafing relatives to the atrocities of collectivized countries, it is the good, the able, the men of reason, who act as their own destroyers, who transfuse to evil the blood of their virtue and let evil transmit to them the poison of destruction, thus gaining for evil the power of survival, and for their own values - the impotence of death. I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win - and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind, I pronounced it. The word was "No". (For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand).

Israel needs to have leaders that believe in their right to exist without constant threats from their neighbors. They do not need the EU as mediator because 1. EU is anti-Israel and 2. what is there to mediate? This is not a quarrel about water rights. This is an existential threat. Israel needs leaders who have a correct philosophy - one that upholds the certitude of their right to live as a nation among nations free from terrorism and attacks by backward, bullying non-rational groups or countries. You can only do that one way and that is by winning your wars completely and that is done not with altruism but with a philosophy of selfishness. The good in this world is drowning in a sea of altruism. Let's turn the other cheek toward selfishness. I'll explain in the next post.