Bolt: Israel understands war and its enemies better than Wong ever could
If Israel had been stupid enough to listen to Penny Wong’s embarrassing demands to stop fighting back against Hezbollah, the terrorist army would not today be in ruins.
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Had Israel been stupid enough last week to listen to Penny Wong, the Hezbollah terrorist army would not today be in ruins, its leader dead.
Please, Penny, shut up. Stop embarrassing Australia.
Even last Wednesday, our monumentally inept foreign minister was still demanding Israel stop shooting back at Hezbollah, which had fired more than 8000 rockets and missiles into Israel from Lebanon in the past year.
Wong seemed strangely upset that Israel had just blown up more than 2000 Hezbollah operatives with their booby-trapped pagers.
Israel must end this! Civilians were being killed!
“This destructive cycle must stop,” Wong insisted. “All parties must show restraint and de-escalate.”
Thank God Israel’s leaders just ignored Wong’s advice as it fights for its life against Iranian-backed terrorists attacking it from Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Iran itself.
Two days later it flattened the Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut with bunker-busting bombs, killing its leader, Hassan Nasrallah and his closest aides, shattering what had been the world’s biggest Islamist terrorist organisation.
Yet on Sunday, Wong was even more upset than ever, protesting “the continued violence” would not help Israel: “Ultimately that will not bring peace and it will not bring security.”
In fact, Wong has demanded Israel stop fighting back ever since October 7, when the Hamas terrorists who ran Gaza started this war by slaughtering 1200 Jews and taking 251 hostages.
Just two days later Wong told Israel to cool it: “I think it is always the right thing for Australia to urge restraint.”
But consider the disaster had Israel treated Wong seriously.
Had Israel listened to Wong, it would not have broken Hamas by killing or capturing more than half its 40,000 terrorists, including its foreign head, Ismail Haniyeh, and its military chief, Mohammed Deif.
Had Israel listened to Wong, it would not have destroyed 90 per cent of Hamas’s rockets.
Had Israel listened to Wong, it would not now have dismantled Hezbollah in Lebanon, killing its leader and military chief, as well as the head of its aerial force and all top leaders of its special forces.
Had Israel done what Wong has demanded, its enemies would be strong – not shattered.
Yes, Israel would not have killed civilians in Gaza and Lebanon, but there’s now less chance of its own people being massacred again and its country destroyed.
That’s because Israel understands war and Israel’s enemies, and Wong doesn’t.
As Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda terrorist chief behind the 9/11 attacks famously explained: “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.” That’s before he proved it by getting assassinated by the US, turning al Qaeda into a footnote.
Israel understands it’s safer when it’s feared than when it’s pitied, and its ferocious defence has made joining Hezbollah and Hamas seem a game for losers.
What’s more, Israel once again seems too dangerous to attack, as Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates worked out years ago, choosing peace instead.
But Wong’s ignorance is embarrassing and lethally dangerous.
She now demands Israel negotiate peace with enemies who just want Israel dead, last week demanding the United Nations force Israel to agree right now to a “two-state solution” – a Palestinian country alongside Israel.
“The world cannot wait,” Wong stormed.
“We cannot allow any party to obstruct the prospect of peace.”
Is Wong really that stupid?
Israel has already offered Palestinians their own state – several times – and was each time turned down for a simple reason: their enemies want just one state. All Palestine, no Israel.
Has Wong not heard them? Nasrallah called Israel “an aggressive, illegal and illegitimate entity, which has no future in our land. “ Iran’s Supreme Leader said he wanted Israel’s “disappearance”, and Hamas warned Muslims Judgement Day would not come “until Muslims fight Jews and kill them”.
If Wong’s two-state deal was forced on Israel and the Palestinians today, how would that help Israel or stop some future slaughter?
A Palestinian state would be run by Hamas, despite what Wong says, or by Hamas allies. There are no moderates strong enough to run it without a foreign army to protect them.
At best, peace talks just buy Israel’s enemies time to re-arm to strike again.
No, Wong is just making a gesture to seem good and please Muslim voters, even if it aids Islamist terrorists.
Too harsh? Then look how much stronger Islamist terrorists would be today had Israel done what Wong has demanded already.
Originally published as Bolt: Israel understands war and its enemies better than Wong ever could
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