More on the Flotilla Fiasco

By Moshe Feiglin

Be sure to read Moshe Feiglin's article on the flotilla, The Gaza Flotilla and the Gallant Rapist, written on 18 Sivan, May 31.

Navy commandos with paint ball rifles. This is the symbol of the Israeli madness.
Alex from the Carmel 17:07 31/05/10
A fighter from one of the best elite units in the world with a paint rifle descending from a helicopter into a Moslem mob. That's it. We have finally gone crazy.
(Talkback to Moshe Feiglin's article, The Gaza Flotilla and the Gallant Rapist on NRG)

Alex is right. It is hard to think of a more accurate symbol of the madness that grips us. The most elite unit of the best army, humiliated by a ragged mob on the high seas.

After 2,000 years in which our fate was in the hands of foreigners, we returned to our Homeland and formed the best army in the world, with the best commando units in the world, with the best weapons in the world – just to find ourselves once again at the starting point; helpless, with our backs against the wall. We are incapable of dealing with the Iranian threat. We are incapable of dealing with the threat from Gaza. We are not even capable of dealing with a civilian ship.

PM Netanyahu adopted the principle of "Bushehr in exchange for Yitzhar." In other words, Israel must pay in the currency of its Homeland in order to merit its right to defend itself. In practice, Netanyahu is paying with the Yitzhar currency (building freeze in all Judea and Samaria), in the currency of Jerusalem and soon, in the currency of Dimonah (Obama is pressuring for a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East). Netanyahu is making all these payments – not so that he will have the "right" to attack in Iran – nobody dares think about that anymore. He is making these payments to simply survive politically, hoping all the while that at one stage or another, others will do the work for us in Iran.

"When you will be a Navy commando," I said to my son this morning, "and they will arm you with a toy rifle, don't set out on your mission. Return the rifle, go to prison, let them expel you from the most elite unit – but do not agree to such a humiliation of the army. We did not send you to the army to needlessly endanger your life, to humiliate yourself, to humiliate the IDF and to humiliate the State of Israel."

The problem, once again, is that Israel's current leaders, in mad flight from their Jewish identity, cannot define the goal for which we are fighting. The flotilla fiasco is just another symptom of this fundamental problem:

The following is excerpted from the article I wrote highlighting this problem during Operation Cast Lead, called The Disengagement War:

If Israel cannot define a real goal for this war, it cannot win. All the IDF's professionalism and the arduous training with which the new Chief of Staff has equipped the army are ineffective if Israel's leaders cannot define the goal of the fighting. He who cannot define the goal cannot win. And if you can't win - it is best not to start fighting. And if you have started fighting nevertheless, you quickly find yourself entrenched in the heart of Gaza in the worst of all positions: You can't win; if you retreat you admit another defeat and a stalemate turns your soldiers into easy targets for kidnappers, suicide bombers and hate-filled murderers.
Read entire article.