No country in the world has ever been subjected to such systematic discrimination by the UN and slanderous propaganda by media outlets and NGOs as Israel https://www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com/en/blog/attack-israels-legal-position-and-civilization. These activities have intensified since the start of the Gaza War on October 7, 2023.
In the three previous Middle East wars of 1956, 1967, and 1973, Israel's armed forces were able to quickly and decisively defeat the numerically superior forces of several Arab states. In contrast, for over two years now, they have been unsuccessfully pursuing such a victory solely against the terrorist group Hamas. The significant deterioration of the situation for Israel is not due to a shift in the balance of military power, but rather to the way in which these forces are being managed.
This is a highly counterproductive war strategy, one that developed in the US military and in the West in general during the 80 years following World War II. Starting with the Korean War (1950-1953), the style of warfare increasingly took on self-destructive characteristics. Among its features were frequently false labeling as defense of democracy, the arming of supposedly pro-Western fighters with the subsequent proliferation of these weapons into enemy hands, and a callous, solidarity-stifling treatment of the civilian population.
The virus of self-destructive, protracted warfare reached Israel only after a considerable delay, following the US and its NATO partners—meanwhile in an even more ‘advanced’ version. This mutant is called the Dahiya Doctrine. Due to the typically incomplete reporting of the mainstream media, the Israeli civilian population is only most superficiallly informed about this counter-strategy. While people occasionally encounter the term Dahiya doctrine, they associate it simply with the motto that in the event of an attack, a disproportionately harsh retaliation is warranted. This alone would represent a proven strategy in the sense of Niccolò Machiavelli, according to whom an opponent is forced to surrender with short, hard, and decisive blows.
Against enemy combatants, this strategy works perfectly, as Israel proved in the wars of 1967 and 1973.
According to this counter-strategy, to which the vast majority of the Israeli population is unaware civilian infrastructure and residential buildings are deliberately destroyed. The alleged aim is to emotionally incite the suffering civilian population against their leaders, which in the Gaza Strip means Hamas.
This 'strategy' lacks any psychological basis. On the contrary, the already prevalent effect of increased solidarity "rallying around the flag" during wartime is amplified by any enemy brutality. In this way, the Dahiya Doctrine has not triggered, but prevented Palestinian civilians from turning away from the Hamas leadership. Because this would have occurred as the terrorists regularly establish their fighting positions in residential areas and even schools and hospitals.
The full extent of the Dahiya Doctrine's counterproductive nature becomes clear when viewed as de facto support for media propaganda against Israel. The Israeli leadership provides the visual material for this incitement with the militarily largely senseless devastation of the Gaza Strip. The damage to buildings is of no concern to the Islamists themselves, as international organizations will take care of the reconstruction. But the temporary uninhabitability of the territory brings them closer to a key geostrategic goal: the Islamization of the Western world through streams of uprooted refugees. https://www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com/en/blog/fraud-manipulated-clash-civilizations-short-version
This strategy works since the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), when European politicians lacking priciples started to take in not ony the actually persecuted Christians, but also Muslims.
In contrast, the accusations of genocide against Israel are absurd, since the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announce attacks in advance. These warnings, however, allow well-informed Hamas fighters to seek safety even more readily than civilians. This makes a military victory against the terrorists almost impossible, while the unavoidable collateral civilian casualties lead to a loss of image for Israel and a global escalation of anti-Semitic sentiment.
Without a thorough course correction, these developments minimize the chances of survival for the authentic Zionist idea and for Israel itself. All Western nations and their concept of liberal society are likewise threatened in particular by the Islamization effects of refugee movements.
Course correction means questioning and replacing the ‘political correctness’ which currently dominates the West—that unspeakable pseudophilosophy which has given birth to and cultivated both coward appeasement and neoconservative militarism, which latter has escalated into the mindless and suicidal Dahiya doctrine.
A look at the broader political situation shows that there is no better time for this course correction than now. An American armada has arrived at the entrace to the Persian Gulf. Military pressure can bring about negotiated solutions. It can also lead to a clean liberation of the Iranian nation from 47 years of Ayatollah dictatorship, avoiding civilian casualties and major battles.
However, if the lessons from 80 years of counterproductive British-American military interventions are not learned, a repetition and further escalation of these catastrophes is inevitable. https://www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com/en/blog/excesses-militarism-social-suicide-and-human-sacrifice
A major escalation threatens, especially if Israeli politicians fail to immediately identify the Dahiya Doctrine as a suicidal program and replace it with an ideology of liberating the opposing civilian population from its autocratic leadership. https://www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.en/blog/maduros-overthrow-crossroads-world-politics-short-version.
Without the utmost caution, the Gaza war, which continues to simmer on a lower flame could prove to be a dress rehearsal for something far worse in Iran and Israel. Caution must take into account the potential deployment of nuclear weapons by North Korea. The same applies to Turkey's real great-power perspective. https://timesca.com/how-central-asia-is-shifting-from-russia-towards-turkey/