[ May 1, 2024 ]
Good piece on why a ceasefire is surrender, Micha Danzig served in the Israeli army and is a former police officer with the New York Police Department (NYPD). An attorney, he is active with a number of Jewish and pro-Israel organizations, including StandWithUs, T.E.A.M. and Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF).
Lincoln’s war was just, and so is ours
We have no time for privileged and arrogant calls for a “ceasefire” that will save Hamas.
By: Micha Danzig, JNS, November 1, 2023:
Story continues below advertisementBy the fourth year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was being pressured to make a peace deal with the Confederacy. Many of Lincoln’s fellow Republicans, to say nothing of the Democrats’ “Copperhead faction”—which supported both slavery and white supremacy—were upset with the length and carnage of the war. These forces called themselves the “peace camp.” Despite their demands, Lincoln refused calls for an armistice and insisted that ending the institution of slavery was “an issue which can only be tried by war and decided by victory.”
Lincoln insisted on the Confederacy’s unconditional surrender because he knew there could be no compromise with slavery. He also knew that an armistice that allowed slavery to survive would only lead to further war and the likely destruction of the U.S.
Today, we hear many members of the modern-day “Copperhead faction” of the Democratic Party and other sympathizers with Hamas demanding an immediate ceasefire in Israel’s war against the barbaric terror group. Some may genuinely wish to save lives, but many—given their open praise for Hamas and “exhilarated” response to the Oct. 7 massacre—clearly want to rescue Hamas and allow it to pursue its stated goal of destroying Israel.
The parallels between Hamas and the old Confederacy are considerable. Like the Confederates, Hamas embraces a supremacist ideology in which only one ethnic and religious group is permitted to rule and all others must be subjugated or annihilated. It rejects democracy completely and engages in barbaric acts just as horrific as those committed by the slavers of the old south. The Confederacy was determined to hold on to slavery and could only be brought down by war. The same is true of Hamas and its own vile ideology.
The price paid in blood by combatants and non-combatants in the Civil War was steep. Had social media and 24-hour news coverage existed during Sherman’s “march to the sea,” Sherman would likely have been vilified and the “Copperhead faction” greatly strengthened. Thankfully, this didn’t happen. Lincoln was not dissuaded and, as a result, slavery was ended forever in the U.S. with the Confederacy’s unconditional surrender in 1865.
Lincoln understood that the institution of slavery and the regime that fought for slavery and the white supremacy that undergirded it were evils that could not be appeased. As the descendent of a grandmother who lost every single member of her family in the Holocaust, I know all too well the price of appeasement and temporary “peace” with unrelenting evil.
Hamas is just such an evil. As the Confederacy had to be destroyed in order to free millions from bondage, the same must happen to Hamas to free millions from the threat of mass murder. Israel’s mission to end Hamas’s control of Gaza is not just pure self-defense, it is also justice itself.
Almost no Israelis enjoy seeing innocents suffer. Personally, my heart aches every time I see a Palestinian child harmed. But I also know that if there is a ceasefire and Hamas is allowed to stay in power, an evil perhaps as horrific as slavery will survive. We will have only deferred the violence and suffering, not ended it. Eventually, Hamas will try to slaughter even more Jews that it did on Oct. 7, just as the Confederates would have enslaved millions yet unborn. Hamas’s leaders have already promised to repeat the butchery of Oct. 7 over and over again until they achieve their Islamic supremacist goal of obliterating Israel. This is something no Israeli should be asked to accept—ever.
I ask those of you who are sincerely calling for a ceasefire out of a genuine concern for saving lives—rather than simply to support or rescue Hamas—to provide us Israelis with a specific and detailed way to eliminate Hamas without violence and without civilian casualties. If you have such a method in mind, I promise you, we are all ears.
Do not burden us, however, with clichés about using special forces or vaguely defined “technology,” which is all one hears on social media and from pundits who fancy themselves military experts while remaining wholly unqualified for the job. Sadly, there is no magical technology or special forces operations that will get rid of Hamas. Hamas is a highly radicalized organization with tens of thousands of fighters embedded within the civilian population. If there were a magic wand we could wave, we would do so. But there is none. To defend its citizens from Hamas’s own admitted evil and its promise of many more days like Oct. 7, Israel’s “Sherman” has no choice but to march to the sea while making a better attempt to avoid civilian casualties than Sherman did.
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21 Comments
5 months ago
Israel is in a very bad place, surrounded by enemies that will never stop until they are stopped. That’s just the way it is. The only thing that stops Muslims is death. Threats delay the next attack, but that’s all they do. Cease fires hand the Muslims the time to regroup for the next attack. Their doctrine and their history back that up. The entire western world should have pummeled Islam into dust at the beginning of the 20th century.
Saving the lives of our enemies at the expense of our own lives is insanity.
The USA has been doing that for a very long time.
5 months ago
Reply to
Zeus
Hillary Clinton said what people don’t understand is that the terrorist Hamas will use any ceasefire to regroup and prepare for their next murder of Jewish children, elderly, women and men.
No wonder Brad Pitt divorced Angelina Jolie a wealthy Hollywood Bimbo who thinks Israel is not justified in attacking Hamas.
Israel does not need Angelina Jolie’s approval.
Jews are a small group on planet earth. They endured the Holocaust and barbaric attacks by Muslim terrorists and by some miracle they are still here.
There are billions of Muslims on planet earth. There contribution to mankind is death & destruction.
Hopefully Brad Pitt will marry someone with a brain the next time.
G-d bless Israel and the IDF.
5 months ago
It is always the elites that want a surrender. This is why I am constantly amazed at the insane voting patterns of Jewish Americans. The democrat elites hate the Jews while the Republican MAGA middle class stands in the way.
5 months ago
There should only be a ceasefire when hummus and the fakastinians are completely annihilated. Otherwise these terrorist groups will not stop attacking.
5 months ago
Death to islam. Kill ’em, Marv. Kill ’em good.
5 months ago
“Privileged and arrogant”
We have too many of those…..
5 months ago
So-called “cease fires” in that region are always thus: Israel ceases, the Arabs fire.
5 months ago
Those who promote handcuffing Israel are applying their own experience, culture and civil values that are 180 degrees opposite those that Israel faces. In other words, they speak from positions of gross ignorance.
5 months ago
Flood the tunnels.
5 months ago
Reply to
STJOHNOFGRAFTON
Yep. My own sentiments exactly. Get hold of the most enormous pump possible and flood the tunnels with sea water. Sea water is plentiful, cheap and doing it this way will cost few, if any, IDF lives. But it will certainly fix all the rats down there, human or rodent. An extremely nasty smell will pervade the place for a while of course, but I don’t suppose it smells too sweet anyway.
5 months ago
If a ceasefire occurs in this war of Israel against Hamas, it will only give Hamas an opportunity to build up strength and attack Israel again. Hamas has clearly shown that it must be destroyed and wiped out of existence as a lesson to other Islamic terrorist groups that would attack Israel.
5 months ago
I wish they wouldn’t avoid civilian casualties. These creeps voted for Hamas — let them choke on it.
5 months ago
Reply to
Underzog
I sympathise with that sentiment but realistically I suppose they need to keep America, Uk, etc., on side, and these countries are sensitive to public (voter) opinion which can be fickle. But, personally, I agree. The gaza public voted these characters into power, now they are reaping the reward for the atrocities they made it possible for them to commit.
D
5 months ago
From Atlanta to the sea—the Confederacy must B Freed!
5 months ago
The ONLY acceptable surrender is Hamas on their knees begging for mercy. And those 4 or 5 billionaires that run Hamas, well is the MOSAD busy?
5 months ago
I dont need an American history lesson from some yankee foreigner who has no idea what he’s talking about.
Last edited 5 months ago by WhiteySupreme
5 months ago
A Muslim cease fire is just a chance to rearm and resupply. Hamas is being resupplied with Western humanitarian aid food and fuel which are being siphoned off to Hamas. Resupplying a besieged enemy is antithetical to the whole idea of siege.
5 months ago
The Southern Confederacy was in the same position that Israel is in now.
The only difference is Israel has the assets to defend itself and turn the tide against an overwhelming tyrannical power.
D
5 months ago
Very appropriate article! Want to learn about this CULT OF DEATH? Get your hands on the three main books these CULTISTS use. These books are the: koran, hadiths and surah.
D
5 months ago
YET! pRESIDENT Buydem is GIFTING BILLIONS of Benjamin$$$$$ to these CULT OF PIECES organizations! STOP SENDING American Citizens’ HARD EARNED MONEY to these HATE AMERICA GROUPS!!!!!!!!
