Israel's Strategic Game of Survival

by Caroline Glick

• "They wanted Israel's counterattack, and then they wanted to hold in the tunnels and use the hostages just to buy time for the international community—namely, the United States—to stop the IDF in their operations.... Their only goal is to survive. ... It's all about time. They want to survive Israel's attack against them, which gives them immense political power. If they survive in any way, they have strategically won the war." — West Point professor Col. John Spencer, The Caroline Glick Show.
• Schumer's broadside from the Senate floor was just the latest salvo in an all-out effort by the administration to destabilize Israel politically and replace Netanyahu with his chief rival Benny Gantz, whom they believe will agree to capitulate and accept the formation of a Palestinian state. Minister-without-Portfolio Gideon Sa'ar's decision on Tuesday to ditch Gantz's party and take his faction's four Knesset seats into the coalition speaks to the near consensus view in Israel that Netanyahu is the only leader that will fight to victory despite U.S. opposition.

US Senator Chuck Schumer's broadside from the Senate floor was just the latest salvo in an all-out effort by the Biden administration to destabilize Israel politically, replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and force Israel to accept the creation of a Palestinian State. Pictured: Schumer departs from the Senate Chambers in the U.S. Capitol Building on March 14, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

US Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer's obscene call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ouster from power on the Senate floor on Thursday was the latest sign that Hamas's strategy is working. On the "Caroline Glick Show" this week, U.S. Military Academy professor Col. John Spencer, who chairs West Point's Urban Warfare Studies Program, explained that the terrorist organization's goal for victory is a concerted political-military strategy.

Hamas, he said, knew that Israeli Defense Forces would respond with force to its October 7 assault in southern Israel:

"They wanted Israel's counterattack, and then they wanted to hold in the tunnels and use the hostages just to buy time for the international community—namely, the United States—to stop the IDF in their operations.

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