We can’t do that. It will take way too long. This plan can’t possibly work. These responses to my Gaza Plan are why it will work. Nobody expects it. Military strategists from Sun Tzu to B. H. Liddell Hart warned us to avoid the obvious line of attack and do the unanticipated. The Germans took France in WW II forty days through the “impassable for armor Ardennes.” An imaginative plan right out of Hart’s “Strategy.” 

A bloody, massive attack on Gaza to score a quick knockout of Hamas and retrieve, if possible, the hostages are expected by nearly everyone. The problem is in the face of an enemy well prepared for the strike; it will be anything but quick. What is the incentive for Hamas to release any hostages? Worse, with so much of Israel’s assets tied down in door-to-door fighting, it invites assaults from other directions. This situation may be Iran’s plan.

Instead, Israel only sends a demolition team with air and ground cover to set charges in the easiest-to-reach group of Gaza buildings. After giving the occupants time to leave:

1. Bring down the structures.
2. Move on to the next group of your choosing.
3. Keep contracting the circle around Gaza City Port. 

Hamas can end the destruction anytime by releasing the hostages, stopping all attacks, and the map of all tunnels, allowing the Israelis to destroy them. Any further attacks mean immediate resumption of the destruction—an open-ended solution neutering Hamas.

While finishing up my last post, I saw information about the Hamas attack on Israel—the unfolding horror. The details were depraved even beyond the standard of horror Iisis established. How could this terror come about? What to do about it?

The Middle East was more peaceful than usual. The Abraham Accords were moving toward adding Saudi Arabia. Peace between the Arabs and Israel could lead to cooperation and a better life for everyone. Access to the Jewish state’s cutting-edge technology will only help the Arab world, while increased peaceful trade and tourism benefits everyone.

Everyone except Iran. This nation seeks to dominate the Middle East, and these accords threaten their plan. Worse, it increases their isolation. Reviving Moslem-Jewish enmity is that nation’s aim. However, directly attacking Israel would likely end badly.

Better to use their pawn, Hamas, who rules the Gaza Strip. A terror plan developed, financed, and supported by Iran and carried out in the most bloodthirsty way by Hamas received Iran’s go-ahead. How do we know this? Hamas depends on Iran for over 90% of its funding. Dirt-poor Gaza, on its own, doesn’t have the resources. Also, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post have verified Iran’s input.

Sadly, it appears the Muslim world is rallying to Hamas. So far, not one Arab nation has supported Israel in the face of this abomination. At this point, Iran guessed right.

Have I crossed over to another dimension? Leaving a rational world for one where a few people with the goal of fixed outcomes are leading majorities by the nose is routine—the week started with eight Republican malcontents relieving their house leader of his role as speaker. Four percent of the House GOP achieved their goal of taking down a leader supported by the other 96%. 

This minute faction claimed to act as fiscal conservatives, demanding more budget cuts than the agreement the leader negotiated with the Democrats to keep the government open. This assertion is false. These people are Trump followers. The same Trump who spent trillions we didn’t have in an unnecessary COVID Lockdown. The one who still puts entitlements, two-thirds of the budget, off-limits.

Paul Ryan was the last Republican leader willing to reform Social Security and Medicare. Trump never supported him in the only way to get control of government spending. The ex-president even backed closing down the government while limiting cuts to less than a third of the budget. As I pointed out in my last post, Trump is no true conservative. Neither are his lackeys.

The eight are self-promoters pursuing their agendas while claiming moral superiority over the other house members. Yet these frauds achieved their goal. What now?

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz led the overthrow. It is impossible to believe he moved without Trump’s tacit approval. The ex-president didn’t lift a finger to save McCarthy. Instead, Trump has endorsed his acolyte, Jim Jordan, for speaker.

Rather than spending time on the second Republican Debate, which was still too crowded to be meaningful, it is more important to catch up on the person not in attendance, Donald Trump. The former President tells us his program for the country if he’s returned to office, but people need to listen.

Instead of attending the debate, Trump headed to Detroit seeking the striking United Auto Workers Union endorsement. Strangely, he held his rally at a non-union parts operation. Still, the visual is he and President Biden, who joined a UAW picket line, favored the union over management instead of realizing the Auto industry is in an impossible situation.

The administration is forcing the industry to faze out gas-powered autos in favor of battery-powered electric vehicles (E.V.s). Even with generous government subsidies, they lose big bucks on every E.V. At the same time, these autos require much less labor, meaning fewer jobs. Instead of recognizing the problems facing the union and management, the present and former presidents have taken the union’s side.