Israel is Winning: Dan Schueftan (Part 1)

a lot has happened in the last what 18 months 17 months um where are we now well now we know we won the war I mean I knew that we will win the war but I didn't know how decisively and I'm delighted to say that we have practically won the war there is a lot to come and there will be pain involved and Israel will be hurt again but if you look at the overall pict it's even more positive than I expected can you describe because a lot of people think looking at how much um

Devastation there was in Gaza and how not all of the hostages are back and Hamas is still not out of power how how is it that you have decided that that Israel has won because I agree with my grandmother who used to say that it's better to be rich healthy and young than all sick and poor of course things could be perfect but they're not the question is overall if you understand what this war is about are we winning in a very major way or are we stuck and I think we are winning in a

very major way let me first start and explain what this war is about this war is about the question can civilized people defend themselves from barbarians even if the barbarians embed themselves in their own civilian population and dumb people on the liberal side basically say once we will have to hit people who are not personally guilty then we can't defend ourselves which is basically what The Barbarians count on the major weapon of The Barbarians is using against us our own values and if we can't find a way of being Sparta Vis A our enemies even

when we are Essence WI a ourselves and people who want to have a dispute with us but are civilized people where you can reach compromises and it's not about your existence we need to them we need it to demonstrate and we have demonstrated that we can find a way of breaking the Barbarian without losing what we are without undermining what we are and let me explain why this problem is dramatically more difficult in the last 4050 years than it was before particularly since the collapse of the Soviet Union because people in the west assumed after

the collapse of the Soviet Union that now we liberals have won and therefore we can afford not only to have one hand tied behind our backs as we should when we fight The Barbarians because we don't want to be like the barbarians okay so a liberal should fight his enemy with one hand tied behind his back but the progressives decided we should tie both our hands behind our back and we shouldn't be able to defend ourselves particularly if our enemy has a lot of pigments because if he has a lot of pigments he must be

right and we must be wrong because there is nothing as wrong as being white or pink or whatever you want to call it this is one of the most racist approaches that I can possibly think about once you're white you must be guilty once you have pigments you must be right and of course it's okay if you behave like a barbarian because after all you suffered from slavery or you suffered from colonialism and we white people are responsible for slavery of and colonialism forgetting that it's the white people who stopped slavery that was the standard

behavior before and forgetting that colonialism namely the big Power always W thing to dominate other powers is the way to describe human history right from the very beginning we were the ones who didn't want to do it anymore after we realized we don't have to do it so this attitude this distorted sick Progressive attitude strengthened The Barbarians and weakened us and also technology strengthened The Barbarians because the kind of technology that was only available for superpowers you can now Buy in the supermarket a a bunch of barbaric uncivilized primitive tribes in Yemen can shoot ballistic

missiles think about it in terms of 30 40 years ago only superpowers had ballistic missiles any concerning a accuracy that was very sophisticated you can now you can take a toy you can buy a toy dismantle parts of it put it in a missile and it becomes a Precision guided munition so they can undermine Us by denying the strong power the two instruments of fighting against radicals a the ability to disregard it and to say yes it's painful it's a nuisance but it doesn't threaten our existence because they can hit with these weapons the centers

of population and second because even if you destroy them the residual capability that they will have can hit your centers of population and by the way it's getting worse because now since the most advanced technology in recent decades is in a biology they can produce pathogens in their kitchen so that they can use against us biological warfare and imagine the residual capability so you can't destroy them you can't ignore them and the question is can you fight them and can you successfully fight them and what Hamas was essentially saying is we can fight Israel and

win not because we are stronger but because the Gaza Strip is the most fortified place ever in human history because it is fortified not only by missiles and by tunnels it is also fortified by the New York Times and the BBC and CNN and the courts in leag and Amnesty International and practically every International Organization prostituted by the fact that it is do ated by a majority of countries and the majority of countries in the world are either autocratic or dictatorial or Barbarian so basically they undermine democracy and you sit in the UN and you

define what democracy is and human rights are and it's the libyans and the syrians and the North Koreans and the Venezuelans and the what have you the Cubans okay so they became much stronger because techn techology made it possible for them and we became much weaker because the progressives prostituted liberalism let me say something now in a broader sense the worst enemy of something good is something perfect in the same direction for instance you can't have any kind of democracy or human rights without nationalism because you need a system of solidarity where you're willing to

say I'm willing to give up things for somebody else because in the long run it helps me you need solidarity and the broadest solidarity Beyond King kingship is the national solidarity so nationalism is a good thing who's the enemy of the person who is a patriot who is nationally inclined somebody who's a super duper Patriot namely a fascist okay this is too much nationalism is the enemy of nationalism too much liberalism is the enemy of liberalism if you say let me try to see to it that in war where people are killed that is what

war is about when I defend myself and I will defend myself let me reduce the number of casualties also on the other side yes let me see to it that it's few civilians are hurt during a war yes but if you say once you hurt civilians and I can bring the pictures then The Barbarians can win because the good guys have hurt civilians by mistake if that is the case then Western Civilization is over and Israel was put in a position in the Gaza Strip where it knew that if we don't respond very harshly to

What will What Hamas did to us we will have a regional War at our hand because all the Arabs who are no longer radicals and all the Arabs who are willing to acques at the existence of the state of Israel will now be pressured by their own public opinion and say you see you can kill the Jews you can rape their women you can decapitate them you can burn their babies and you can get away with it the only defense the Egyptians have against radical Egyptian opinion the jordanians have against their even more radical public

opinion is to say we can't afford it look what happened to Gaza do you want Gaza in Cairo do you want Gaza in in Aman okay so the only way you can maintain in the Middle East some kind of relative stability okay a stable Middle East is an oxymoron but almost like a democratic Middle East but at least we have have in the last 50 years no allout Regional War because Egypt is out of War who's threatening the Egyptian regime the Muslim brothers when they had elections in Egypt the Muslim Brothers won what would have

happened if we didn't have a military coup in Egypt the Muslim brothers would have come back to the point where Egypt wanted to be and was namely the leader of the Arab world against Israel so we have a regional War at our and we had to make sure that in Gaza Hamas is defeated we're not done yet we are waiting for more hostages to come in and then to completely destroy hamas's ability to restore its military capability before the 7th of October but this was the essence of the war and we won the war because

we won it on three different levels we want it not only in Gaza and in Lebanon and in Iran we want it in the regional sense we won it in the international sense and I hope here I'm not sure I hope we're also winning it in the domestic sense let me perhaps describe these three levels because it's extremely important in the Middle East our situation is dramatically better than it ever was because For the First Time most Arab countries realize that not only do they have to Aces with the existence of the state of Israel

also they can't do without Israel they need us today because when it comes to fighting their three enemies Iran the Muslim brothers and the stupidity of the United States Israel is the most important Ally they have the United States is immeasurably stronger but Israel is immeasurably more dependable because in the United States you may get an Obama that basically works for his enemies against his allies and with the Israelis you know that the Israelis don't have a choice they have to fight against the same enemies because they don't have a choice and we have demonstrated

that we can destroy Hamas we're still working at it but I I don't have a doubt that we will succeed more importantly thatal instead of being a major threat strategic threat to Israel that Israel had no good response for is now a major nuisance it's a major nuisance not a minor nuisance but when Israel determined against the American advice to throw in a few seconds 84 tons of bombs in the middle of Beirut this is the way you deal with barbarians you go to Beirut you don't go to the Border you go to where it

hurts them the most they go to where it hurts us the most namely killing individual Israelis raping them and decapitating them we go to where it hurts them the most where they think they have a sanctuary they must be demonstrate they must be shown that they're they they can run but they cannot hide no not even behind CNN and the BBC and the UN and what have you okay so when we decimated kbal in Lebanon it is still a problem but before the war we thought we don't have an answer to it and we were

deterred byala and we were deterred by the Iranians through hasbalah and by doing the exact opposite of what the Americans wanted and invading Lebanon and bombarding Beirut and killing um Nala and his replacement and his replacement and later when the Iranians attacked us we demonstrated two very important things a how vulnerable the Iranians are because we destroy the most important part of their air defense systems and also when they do against us everything they can do or almost everything they can do it's unpleasant but it is not even marginal it is on the verge of

being inconsequential when they shoot hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones and and and what have you and and you know cruise missiles and so on so Iran is dramatically weaker first of all because the vulnerability of Iran was was exposed Iran is dramatically weaker because the proxies of Iran were hit very hard the Arab world saw that Israel can do it without losing its support in the United States actually what the Saudis and others want more than anything else is a situation where on the one hand you improve your relations with the United States and

on the other hand you don't listen to the dumb advice you get from Washington because it will always be counterproductive I mean when Biden came to power the first thing he did or one of the first things he did he took the htis off the um of the terrorist list and gave them um humanitarian support he took the Saudis and the emiratis and both of them were prevented by the Americans from effectively fighting the um theotis because the Americans believe that if you if an alligator attacks you give him a banana and then he will

be persuaded I mean they they come from a parallel universe when it comes to radicals and what have the htis done because the Americans were so dumb they attack American ships and Israeli ships and British ships and they basically starve Egypt because by destroying the commercial Lane in the Red Sea they affect 15% of the World Trade and Egypt doesn't have any income the Egyptians only have tourism that is low and the SE canal and the SE Canal is not operating because of theis so what the Saudis and the emiratis and others want is a

way of finding a way of working with the Americans improving their relations with the Americans and completely disregarding their strategic advice because they don't know what they're doing so what is it about the advice from Washington that it's so completely misses the mark