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Stephen I. Siller

Make Israel Invincible Again

America and Israel used to be invincible. After failing in 1948, Israel’s neighbors again failed to destroy Israel in the 1967 Six Day War and 19-day 1973 Yom Kippur War. Israel’s invincibility in 1973 was crippled by US advice that Egypt would not attack. Oslo was a failed piece of paper that begat Intifada terrorism inside Israel for the second time. The 10-7 Hamas invasion, the 10-8 HezB’Allah missiles, and the July and October 2024 Iranian rockets, punctured Israel’s post-Yom Kippur War invincible aura. Israel must win or preempt all kinetic conflicts, otherwise there is no more Israel. Israel cannot use whatever nuclear weapons Israel may or may not have except in an existential threat of extinction. Israel’s 12-month multi-front war against Iran and its proxies must continue until Israel wins. Defining that “win” is elusive as long as Israel is inextricably dependent on the “Never Win” US.

Despite having nuclear weapons and overwhelming conventional firepower, the US has won no wars since WWII. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya and Iraq are examples. The transcontinental Chinese spy balloon, a few WWII German saboteurs who landed by submarine on Long Island, and a WWII Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands, do not count as invasions. Since WWII, the US has been invaded only by enemies within, a cancer Israel knows too well.

After 10-7-23, some left-wing American Jews felt abandoned by their “ideological allies [who] saw them as oppressors who deserved blame following the Israel attacks.” Fast forward to 10-7-24 to a New York anti-Israel Yom Kippur event that suggests some “self-hating Jews“ have joined them. “At the moment, most self-hating Jews view Judaism through the lens of the progressive Left. . . . and conclude that Judaism is supremacist, racist, privileged, and ‘white,’ among other ideological crimes and deviations. . . . It is a simple fact that . . . it is extremely difficult to be a Jew. . . . [T]he damage the self-hating Jew can do is immense. . . . Jews have been and will be wounded and killed because of what self-hating Jews say and do.”

Israeli leftists/progressives seem to be no different from their American counterparts, all of whom “have an unshakable belief in their own superiority and a contempt for everyone else.” A year before 10-7-23, TOI wrote: “The Israeli left . . . has been in a tailspin for three decades. . . . The left that just collapsed, in terms of raw political strategy, doesn’t deserve to exist.” Biden-Harris appeasement of Iran and its proxies has created a difficult and understandably stressful existence for America’s and Israel’s left. Demanding “two states” is their death wish.

Nothing Biden-Harris will do or say before the US election will change their evisceration of Israel’s invincibility. Why else tell Israel not to attack Iran’s nuclear or oil facilities and demand that any Israeli response to Iran’s missile attacks be “proportionate”? Iranian missile attacks that targeted Nevatim likely also targeted Dimona ten miles to the south. The US wants no Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon, an admonition that illustrates the Biden-Harris wish for Israel to remain at risk of HezB’Allah attacks. US weakness is manifest no matter how many missiles Biden lobs at Yemen.

The Biden-Harris 10-7-24 messages were inflammatory: “In their statements, the senior U.S. officials appeared to treat the date as a static day of suffering for Jews—the worst since the Holocaust—and the following year as one solely of destruction to the Gaza Strip, and, more recently, Lebanon, without mentioning continued attacks from Hamas and Hezbollah.” Will Biden-Harris accelerate America’s announced departure from Iraq? No matter the timing, an Iraq exit carried out by those who orchestrated the US exit from Afghanistan will put that Shiite majority launchpad for Iranian missiles completely in the hands of Iran.

The JCPOA was never intended to deny Iran a nuclear weapon, only to delay it. Did Iran buy nuclear technology from Pakistan, North Korea or another country with the billions Biden-Harris gave Iran, or with Iran’s increased oil revenues thanks to Biden-Harris not enforcing sanctions? Did Iran test a nuclear bomb in the guise of an earthquake on 10-5-24? Does anyone doubt that if Iran had a deliverable nuke, Iran would use it to destroy Israel no matter the nuclear fallout or the consequences to Iran? Does that conclusion therefore define what Israel must do to win?

“When Donald Trump says, Make America Great Again what he really means is Make America America Again.” That means America must become invincible again. Rosh Hashanah gave me time to reflect on the 10-7-23 shattering of Israel’s invincibility and the Biden-Harris diktats on Israel’s conduct of the war that constrained Israel’s ability to regain that invincibility. Sinwar intended 10-7-23 to spark a regional war and internal Israeli and American strife. He succeeded and wants a perpetual war to kill all Jews. Internal Palestinian or Israeli Arab terror attacks similar to Intifadas 1 and 2 continue. Israel’s post-10-7-23 performance was not like the quick Six-Day War or even the longer Yom Kippur War.

Biden said pro-Hamas “demonstrators” have a point, creating another “there are fine people on both sides” lie. “Tim Walz said . . . that anti-Israel protesters are ‘speaking out for all the right reasons’ and that more pressure should be applied to . . . Netanyahu to accept a Palestinian state.” In his recent press conference, the first of his Presidency, Biden “emphasized that he and Harris are ‘singing from the same song sheet’ on foreign and domestic policy, calling her a ‘major player in everything we’ve done.’” Biden’s limitations on Israel and call for a “two state solution” that will solve nothing also belong to Harris. Concessions to terrorists never yield peace or security, and simply postpone the murder of Jews to tomorrow instead of today.

The Wall Street Journal suggests that Israel may have recently thrown off the yoke of US constraints on Israel’s right to defend itself offensively. “As Israel prepares a retaliatory strike against Iran, the Biden administration increasingly resembles a spectator, with limited insight into what its closest Middle East ally is planning — and lessened influence over its decisions.” While not without losses, Israel’s successful attacks in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen contrast markedly with Biden-Harris inaction and may have prodded US missile launches at the Houthis.

As in every presidential election year, this month is notorious for “October Surprises.” Perhaps the most critical for Israel thus far was “advanced by whistleblower Mike McCormick [who] . . . as White House stenographer [was] . . . the proverbial fly-on-the-wall . . . . [He] says the Obama-Biden-Harris faction of the Deep State blob is anti-Israel and that . . . Netanyahu has told ‘Joe Biden’ (or, let’s say, told errand-boys Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan) that if the blob engineers a phony victory for Kamala Harris, he will blow up the oil fields in Iran and the anti-Israel Democrats will have to pick up the pieces. . . . The blob, McCormick says, has to ask itself: does it help rig the election for Harris or stand down on all its ballot harvesting and other trickery and actually allow a real election to roll out?”

The pro-Hamas crowd was out in force in the US on 10-7-24, as they were with the Harris-Walz supporters outside the CBS Vance-Walz debate studios on 10-1-24. The friend of my enemy is my enemy. The pro-Hamas “protesters” and pro-Harris-Walz crowd are united. On this one-year anniversary of Oct. 7, and counting, not opposing both makes no sense for American Jews or Israelis. It is critical to Israel’s citizens, and to Diaspora Jews like me, that Israel be invincible again. The reason is simple:

An Open Letter to Anti-Israel Jews

When they came for the conservative Jews, I said, “I’m not a conservative!”

When they came for the religious Jews, I said, “I’m not religious!”

When they came for the Israeli Jews, I said, “I’m not Israeli!”

When they came for the Zionist Jews, I said, “I’m not a Zionist!”

When they came for the liberal Jews, I said, “I’m not really a liberal!”

When they came for the progressive Jews, I asked, “Why? I stayed in every lane you told me to.”

“Thank you,” they said. “But you’re still a Jew.”

About the Author
Stephen I. Siller is a Manhattan-based international lawyer, instrument-rated pilot, open-water scuba diver, and accomplished glassblower. His views are personal and not those of any firm or other organization with which he is affiliated.
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