In his SF classic, Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card assigns a truism to the aspiring strategists of his ‘Battle School’: Jewish generals didn’t lose wars. “And so far it was still true.” It still is. No matter what the chattering ninnies of the legacy media insist.
The narrative peddled by the MSM is that the Gaza War has been a triumph for Hamas, which must be news to all those dead Hamas terrorists, including almost their entire leadership. Not to mention all their fellow-traveller jihadis dispatched to Jahannam, or their backers in Iran who’ve just been decapitated and humiliated.
Once again, a would-be Arab war of extermination launched against the Jews has gone exactly the same way as all the others.
On May 26, 1967, the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, issued the following statement about a war he planned to start: “The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel” […]
Six days later, Israel had gained possession of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula.
Jews don’t lose.
And Arabs are apparently the slowest learners on the face of the planet. But then, having an average IQ of 76 will do that to you.
One would think that Yahya Sinwar, until recently the leader of Hamas in Gaza, had absorbed the lessons of 1967. But [...] in the end, the October 7 massacre Sinwar ordered did not cause the destruction of Israel but instead led to the dismantling of its enemies. Hamas is largely destroyed, and most of its leaders, including Sinwar, are dead, assassinated by Israel. Hezbollah, in Lebanon, is comprehensively weakened. Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Iran’s main Arab ally, is in exile in Moscow, his country now led by Sunni Muslims hostile to Iran’s leaders. Iran’s skies are under the control of the Israeli Air Force, and its $500 billion nuclear program appears to be, at least partially, rubble and dust.
Not since Nasser has anyone in the Middle East been proved so wrong so quickly.
‘We’re America, Bitch.’ That’s the Trump Doctrine.
The same leaders not only failed to grasp the history of Arab wars of extermination against the Jewish state, they also catastrophically misunderstood the Trump administration. This was not the feckless, weak, venal American leadership they were used to dealing with.
The American attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities happened because the country’s leaders misunderstood Trump […] “The Trump Doctrine is ‘We’re America, Bitch.’ That’s the Trump Doctrine.”
The official continued, “Obama apologized to everyone for everything. He felt bad about everything.” Trump, he said, “doesn’t feel like he has to apologize for anything America does.” Another White House official explained it this way: “The president believes that we’re America, and people can take it or leave it.”
Just as ‘Palestine’s’ erstwhile ally, Adolf Hitler, fundamentally misunderstood America and fatally left it out of his war calculus, Sinwar fatally misunderstood Israel.
Hamas and other Palestinian groups believe that Israelis see themselves as foreign implants, and therefore can easily be brought to defeat. Sinwar’s misplaced confidence in theories of settler colonialism and Jewish perfidy undermined his strategic effectiveness. Sinwar was so convinced of his beliefs that he even sponsored a conference in 2021 called “The Promise of the Hereafter – Post-Liberation Palestine,” in which specific plans were discussed for the building of Palestine on the ruins of Israel.
Which is about as ludicrously over-confident as bragging about a ‘Thousand Year Reich’.
The theme of this conference, which was held in Gaza, was an echo of a statement made by Hassan Nasrallah, then the leader of Hezbollah, who said in 2000, “This Israel, with its nuclear weapons and most advanced warplanes in the region, I swear by Allah, is actually weaker than a spider’s web … Israel may appear strong from the outside, but it’s easily destroyed and defeated.” Nasrallah was assassinated by Israel nine months ago.
The same, dumb, propaganda obviously appeals to the same, dumb, anti-Semitic fellow-travellers in the Western left. The legacy media are almost exclusively drawn from the same small pool of the same, dumb, left. Hence, the MSM delusion that Israel is somehow ‘losing the propaganda war’. This is arrant nonsense, brought to us by the same MSM delusion that their TikTok feed is somehow ‘the real world’.
Sure, dozens of anti-Semitic leftist goons might be marching with their silly little keffiyehs, but marching is what the left do. It’s all they know how to do. It’s what passes for a social life for these fools. What they don’t understand is that, the more they march and the more they spout open anti-Semitic hate, the more they’re turning off the vast majority of people who aren’t on their TikTok or Twitter feeds.
And, really, what use is a supposed ‘propaganda victory’, when the very real military victory belongs unequivocally to Israel?
What is certain is that the conventional components of the Axis of Resistance are in dismal shape. The demolition of this axis happened because Israel, after the humiliation on October 7, reconstituted its fighting and intelligence capabilities in remarkably effective (and severely uncompromising) ways, and because Sinwar and his allies fundamentally misunderstood their enemy.
Jews don’t lose. Get it through your thick skulls.
