After four heroically victorious wars in 1948, 1956, 1967, and 1973, Israel has now twice, in quick succession, fallen into the trap of its enemies, who are also the enemies of the free civilization. It was likely only thanks to Donald Trump's decisive support that the military strike against Iran from June 13 to 24 did not escalate into a major war. Trump's decision to deliver a short, hard strike, following Niccolo Machiavelli's rule, on Israel's side, has restored the long-overdue respect of the Islamists, which had been destroyed in horribly protracted wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, among others.
The first trap for Israel, however, was the temptation to try to eliminate Hamas by military means after the massacre of October 7, 2023. This grave error was made because the media criticism of Israel's airstrikes at the time of the Hamas rocket attacks in May 2021 was not identified as a perfidious dress rehearsal. It was a rehearsal for the propaganda war that has erupted since the outbreak of the Gaza War – not against the aggressors, but against the defenders.
The adversaries have thus come closer to their dual goal of dissolving Israel and Islamizing the Western world in three ways. First, European politicians are accepting refugees from Gaza. Second, the ongoing propaganda against Israel is eroding the already weakened solidarity within the Judeo-Christian cultural sphere. In addition to the divisions between left and right, there is now a division between pro-Palestinians and pro-Israel. Third, blatant anti-Semitism is spreading, particularly in the left and Islamist camps.
Meanwhile, it is obvious, that the sacrifice of its own civilian population to serve anti-Israel propaganda is Hamas's main strategy. The situation requires an immediate change in Israel's Gaza strategy. https://www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com/en/blog/what-hamas-leaders-actually-want-their-own-words-part-2
The necessiety is underlined by the fact, that the Jewish state has no future prospects with an Islamized Europe.
Violation of Principles
A core principle for the course correction is responsibility. Alongside Great Britain, which never authentically fulfilled the 1922 Mandate Treaty for Palestine, and the United Nations, it is the Arab states that are responsible for the unresolved Middle East conflict. https://www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com/en/blog/farce-5th-middle-east-war-and-end-freedom-short-version
After six Arab states attacked Israel in 1948, the United Nations enabled them to subsequently evade their responsibility for the refugees of that war. This was achieved through the construction of around 50 refugee camps. The UN's dispensation of the Arabs from the consequences of their aggression was repeated in 1956, 1967, and 1973, with numerous resolutions admonishing long-overdue border adjustments.
The alleged justification for this was repeatedly the same fundamentally incorrect interpretation of Article 2 of the 1945 Charter. This article protects states from becoming victims of violence, namely from "the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity." However, the UN transformed this into a protection of the aggressors from the consequences of their actions, thereby distorting the spirit of the 1945 founding assembly of the UNO into its opposite.
The right to survival and thus to self-defence under Article 51 obviously takes far greater precedence than what remains of the aggressors' right to territorial integrity after incessant aggression against a neighbouring state.
The massacre of October 7, 2023, was the inevitable consequence of this absurd insurance policy for the Arab side against all the consequences of its violence in wars and terrorist attacks.
The UN's 'moral' assistance today, as in 1948, is based on a partisan, truth-distorting perception and presentation of historical facts. https://www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com/en/blog/uns-guilt-terrorism
Thus, Israel and the rest of the Western world are facing the consequences of their uncritically enduring of a subtle, fact- and principle-distorting brainwashing for decades. This disorientation is progressively programming liberal civilization to become the losers in the current propaganda war if the course is not corrected. Thus, without catching up on learning from the accumulated historical and recent mistakes, this war leads through media fog to the graveyard of history.
Since the world organization did not succeed, or more accurately, should not succeed, in developing the camp refugees into independent people who take responsibility for themselves, their number has risen from 730,000 in 1948 to around 6 million today. https://www.frieden-freiheit-fairness.com/en/blog/unrwas-success-record
Counterproductive Solidarity in a Disorienting Ambience
Not only since the massacre of October 7, 2023, and not only through the ongoing shelling of Israel, the residents of the Gaza Strip, radicalized for generations by UNRWA, have demonstrated their unwillingness to live with their neighbors as the preamble to the UN Charter stipulates: "We, the peoples of the United Nations, determined... to live together as good neighbors in peace,... have resolved to coordinate our efforts towards the realization of these objectives."
In 2005, they ignored the opportunity for emancipation when Israel withdrew all settlers and soldiers from the Gaza Strip. Instead, they chose Hamas in the 2006 election, which preferred to convert the greenhouses left up to them into terrorist training camps. This lack of appreciation was possible because NGOs and the UN guaranteed supplies—and the residents of the Gaza Strip were not encouraged to develop into independent, self-supporting individuals. Instead, Hamas, the UN, its affiliate UNRWA, as well as thousands of NGOs and media outlets cultivate the artificial image of the Palestinians as victims. This image has become an extremely dangerous psychological weapon that transforms Israel's self-defense into a suicide program. In the propaganda environment citizens perceive the military success of Israel, the victim of aggression, as the 'moral' defeat of an aggressor who kills civilians.
This false blame is constantly reinforcing itself and provokes ever more radical 'solutions'. Ignorance, trivialization, and denial of the Holocaust are already becoming increasingly widespread in the Islamic world. On this basis, the step toward a "morally justified" repetition of the genocide is dangerously short-circuited. The massacre of October 7, 2023, would then have been merely one of the dress rehearsals from which lessons were not learned in time.
In a chain of radicalization, Islamists play the pioneering role, followed like lemmings by the generally only superficially informed participants in pro-Palestinian rallies. The masses of citizens also reluctantly embrace this dangerous trend as long as the aforementioned causes are not addressed.
When governments like the French consider or implement the recognition of a State of Palestine, they contribute to destroying the principle of self-responsibility. Self-responsibility, however, is the prerequisite for a state to claim the right to sovereignty under Article 2 of the UN Charter. Because protection from external interference in one's own – sovereign – decisions also means 100% responsibility for the outcomes of those decisions. A 'sovereign' state dependent on international aid after irresponsibly spending all available resources on weapons and terrorist activities is a contradiction in terms. It is an entity that embodies the exact opposite of the principles recognized by the framers of the UN Charter in 1945 as prerequisites for the world to be "freed from the scourge of war."
The media's reversal of perpetrators and victims has brought Hamas and the Ramallah Authority closer to state recognition. This is in stark contradiction to the definition of those countries eligible for UN membership according to Article 4 of the Charter – "peace-loving states that accept the obligations contained in the present Charter."
While the UN Charter, in Article 1, Paragraph 3, and Article 13, Paragraph 2, calls for the granting of "fundamental freedoms for all," that is, individual freedoms, Islamists—diametrically opposed to the spirit of the Charter—refer to the concept of freedom solely in terms of the group. Thus, the "liberation" of all of Palestine, including Israel, is proclaimed for the benefit of an Islamic state, while individuals are either condoned or even deliberately endangered for propaganda purposes in order to cultivate the Palestinian victim role in urban trench warfare.
The proclaimed "liberation" of Palestine from Israeli "occupation" is thus a revanchist aggression against the Jewish state, violating Charter principles, and against a world order that is to be "freed from the hostage of war" in accordance with the preamble to the UN Charter.
Consequences
It is the duty of all three historically responsible parties to immediately call on Hamas to cease all aggression against Israel, in accordance with Article 2 of the UN Charter. In the event of non-compliance, it is the sole obligation of the Arab states to accept all civilians from Gaza. Short of an Israeli surrender, which would reward terror, this is the only way to keep these people out of the fighting waged by Hamas from combat positions in the middle of residential areas. Their accommodation in neighboring countries must therefore continue until Hamas surrenders and reconstruction is advanced.
The longer these necessary measures are denied or delayed, the more liberated territory in the Gaza Strip becomes available for the separation of security buffers and as habitable Israeli territory as a measure of self-protection and war reparations. The justification under international law is that the UN and its Security Council have for decades shirked their "responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security" under Article 24 of the UN Charter. Since the Arab side largely refused to negotiate, Israel was left to deal with its serious security problems alone and was therefore forced to take measures for its self-defense under Article 51 of the Charter.