Headline from the Wall Street Journal editorial on
Fraday: “Hama’s Gaza Victory.” And their lead sentence: “The cease-fire leaves
the terror group intact and politically stronger.”
“Let us be totally honest: This is not a cease-fire
– it is a SURRENDER,” says Shmuel Sackett, spokesman for Moshe Feiglin who
seeks “authentic Jewish leadership for Israel.”
From Arutz Sheva, Israeli National News: The Hamas
terrorist organization has declared November 22, the day after its ceasefire
was signed with Israel, as a public holiday in Gaza.
"The Palestinian government announces that Thursday 22nd November is a
national holiday of victory and an official holiday,” read a statement
issued by Hamas. Hamas invited “all citizens to celebrate this occasion and
visit the families of the martyrs and the wounded and those affected by the
violence and to affirm national solidarity.”
“Everyone is angry at Netanyahu now for signing the
cease-fire,” said Moshe Feiglin, who the New York Times not long ago said
brought the Tea Party to Israel. Feiglin faces a vote to become a key member of
Likud’s Knesset team on November 25. “I see myself as the representative of
Liberty in the Knesset,” he said in a recent TV interview.
“But Netanyahu's
predicament is a precise reflection of post-Oslo Israeli society . . . If
Netanyahu had ordered a ground invasion of Gaza, soldiers would have been
killed. After a short period of time he would have pulled the troops out of
Gaza without significant achievements . . . To remain in Gaza, we first have to
renounce the very essence of the idea of partitioning this Land. We have to
internalize that this is our Land – exclusively. We must - on a national scale
- return to the Land of Israel and our Jewish identity. . . Is Israeli society
ready for this type of return to ourselves?
“The Israelis want the best of both worlds: security
and normalcy. But it has become quite clear that it is specifically the mental
servitude to Oslo, the flight from destiny to the enslavement to normalcy and
pragmatism – that has so severely compromised Israel's security.”
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