Make Gaza Howl

As a student of the American Civil War, I came upon a quote attributed to Union General Tecumseh Sherman, when he was asked, “What should be done to beat the Confederacy?”

He replied, “My goal is to “make Georgia howl.” “We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and we must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.” The hard war was here for Georgia. “We cannot change the hearts and minds of those people of the South, but we can make war so terrible . . . [and] make them so sick of war that generations would pass away before they would again appeal to it.” Sherman contended that the United States and its representatives had the right to “remove and destroy every obstacle if need be, take every life, every acre of land, every particle of property, everything that to us seems proper [and] that all who do not aid are enemies, and we will not account to them for our acts.”

And Sherman made Georgia howl.

And Sherman made Southerners so sick of war that eight generations have passed and war still does not appeal to the South.

So I wondered:

Has Benjamin Bibi Netanyahu studied the American Civil War?

Has Bibi read Sherman’s proclamation about making Georgia howl?

Is it Bibi’s goal to make Gaza howl?

Is it Bibi’s goal to make Gazans feel the hard hand of war for perpetrating the October 7th massacre of 1200 Israelis and the taking of  251 hostages?

Are Bibi’s ears clogged by the screams of the dead and the tears of those held in captivity?

For Bibi knows that as long as Hamas refuses to release the hostages, they have not felt the hard hand of war.

And Bibi knows he shall not account to anyone for his handling of this war until he hears Gaza howl.