THE RIGHTOF ISRAEL PRE-EMPTING THE WAR WITH IRAN

Nadene Goldfoot                                                    

"The View" on ABC's discussion today turned out to be a shouting match when they tried to discuss "Israel Pre-empting  Iran and if they had the right to do so or not.  It was Sunny Hostin who said that they had broken laws when they did this.  Sunny is a lawyer.  She was a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division. She left the Antitrust Division to become a federal prosecutor, specializing in child sex crimes.  She was adamant that Israel was in the wrong.  

"Sunny Hostin debated with her View co-hosts about the legality of Israel’s recent attacks on Iran, but shared a pointed disclaimer with their viewers to avoid backlash about criticism of Israel is not an anti-Semitic act. They were so loud that I couldn't hear a word they were saying!  

 If I were there, I'd remind her of the fact that Israel is the only Jewish state in the world, so she's complaining about a population of the only state  made of 80% Jewish people.  We've had too much criticism by just living from people throughout the ages, the last to remember being the Holocaust, of course.  To criticize Israel hurts me anyway, even if you think it's okay to criticize her constantly no matter what she does. It's always said in distain.   We have the right to keep our 77 year old Israel and not have to hit the road again like after 70 CE. If Iran wipes us out with an atomic bomb, we won't even be able to hit the road.   Why is it you always seem to side against Israel in any discussion, anyway?  I've noted that in the past, but not in a letter or article.   This could be the end of times.  It's a matter of life /existence of Israel or death!!!  And that means the death of the population as well with a nuclear bomb these days!  I don't even want to think what will happen with anti-Semitism raging today being almost as bad as it was in Germany in 1939.                               

   Me who could also make my own Challah for Rosh Hashana

• Self-Defense: Proponents cite the inherent right to self-defense under international law, particularly Article 51 of the UN Charter, which allows states to defend themselves if an armed attack occurs.
• Just War Theory: Within Just War Theory, preemptive action may be justified if it meets certain criteria, such as a credible threat, proportionality, and the need to act immediately.                                                 

If reliable but uncertain intelligence predicted a mass casualty terrorist attack and indicated likely suspects,

what preventive actions would be constitutionally authorized? Detention? Interrogation? Torture? What if the attack involved a weaponized virus? Should the government compel widespread inoculation that might kill hundreds of people while saving millions? What if an article describing how to circumvent the inoculation mandate was about to be published? Should censorship of the article be authorized?

In a provocative new argument from his recently published book, "The Preventive State," renowned legal scholar Alan Dershowitz asserts a forceful justification for a preemptive military strike against Iran's nascent nuclear program.

I knew that Alan Dershowitz, a well-known lawyer, would say that it was all right for Israel to pre-empt.  "Preemptive strike against Iran was justified, citing lessons from history.  

Dershowitz argues that if diplomacy fails and Iran approaches the threshold of developing a deliverable nuclear weapon, Israel, potentially with or without U.S. support, would be compelled to act.  Diplomacy failed. You can't beat a dead horse with a stick and expect it to get up.  The phrase "you can't beat a dead horse" is an idiom. It means that it is pointless to continue putting effort into something when the outcome is already decided, especially if that outcome is negative or futile. It's like trying to make a dead horse move by whipping it; it's a waste of time and energy.  Trump had given Iran 60 days to change their tune.  Israel pre-empted on the 61st day.  Mossad (secret service) had facts that Iran was closer to having a missile with an atom bomb attached than anyone had thought.  

We remember when Netanyahu warned the UN of the up-coming nuclear weapon Iran was going to create.  Benjamin Netanyahu, then Prime Minister of Israel, drew a "red line" on a cartoon bomb diagram at the United Nations General Assembly to illustrate his concerns about Iran's nuclear program and how close they were to obtaining a nuclear weapon on September 27, 2012.                                       

An international lawyer that is outstanding in standing up for Israel is Professor Eugene Kontorovich, born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1975.  

Professor Eugene Kontorovich is another lawyer, an international lawyer who I admire.  Eugene Kontorovich teaches constitutional law at Northwestern University and heads the international law department of the Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem.   He specializes in constitutional and international law. He is a leading expert on the legal issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and has advised top officials and government departments in both the US and Israel. He is widely cited and published in popular media, such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, AP, Reuters, Commentary, Haaretz, and more.

Professor Eugene Kontorovich, a prominent legal expert, has publicly stated his support for Israel's right to defend itself against Iran, and he has commented on Israel's actions in response to perceived Iranian threats. 

• Preemptive Strikes: While he has not explicitly detailed the legal basis for preemption against Iran, he has commented on Israel launching a "preemptive, precise, combined offensive based on high-quality intelligence to strike Iran's nuclear program".  The last time I checked, he was living with his family in Israel.  

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Hostin

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2021/11/professor-eugene-kontorovich-and.html

Palestinian Islamic Jihadists, Iran's fighters Against Israel

 Nadene Goldfoot                                           

The terrorists from Iran's sponsorship, Islamic Jihad (PIJ), come out of Judea-Samaria and Gaza. Their center is in Jenin.   Syria is also a sponsor of this group.  Their ideology is of radical Islamism and nationalism. This means they are committed to the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state and the destruction of Israel through a holy war, as they understand holy. They oppose pro-western and Arab governments according to a BBC report.

Their operations have been that of shootings, bombings, rocket attacks and suicide bombings.  They committed 1,000  terrorist attacks from 2000 -2004.  950 Israelis have been wounded,, and 150 killed. They committed 39 suicide bombings from 2000-2005. 

                                                

                 Firing Rockets Into Israel

They haven't stopped. "The latest deadly escalation in Gaza was sparked by Israel's arrest earlier this week in the West Bank of Bassem al-Saadi, a key Islamic Jihad member Israel blamed for orchestrating a spate of attacks". Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza were planning to retaliate by attacking southern Israel  and Shin Bet found out about it. 

Shin Bet found out that there was a West Bank terror cell doing the planning and busted them. " Security agency says 40-year-old mother of 4 from Jenin area was in contact with members of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, passed instructions to local cell members".

 Rocket fire and Israeli strikes continued last night.  Israelis had to rush to bomb shelters.  

They had been along the Gaza border threatening, causing Israel to launch a pre-emptive counter-terror operation against their immediate threat.  The last few days have been very tense.  Israel closed the border crossings, and Gaza ran out of fuel as their power station came to a halt.         

Smoke rises following Israeli strikes a building in Gaza City Aug 5

Yesterday, Israel attacked Gaza and killed Taysir al-Jabari who was in a building west of Gaza City.   The Islamic Jihad took this as a declaration of war and shot 100 rockets towards Israel. In Judea-Samaria, Israelis held an early morning raid and  arrested 20 of which 19 were islamic Jihad members   Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency had been at several location to find them.

                    Operation Defensive Shield in Jenin 2002

A Jenin battle occurred  in 2002.  PIJ's hub was in Jenin which is in Samaria, formerly northern Israel which was attacked by the Assyrians in 721 BCE and had their population taken away.   It is the Palestinian terrorist suicide capital.   In fact, 59 suicide bombers were foiled and arrested in 2005. Jenin was a center of Arab nationalist fanaticism in the 1930's.  it was part of Jordan from 1948 to 1967 when Israel won the Six Day War waged against them by all the surrounding countries.  The population of Jenin in 1967 was 8,346 apart from 5,,019 Arab refugees in the vicinity.  Jenin was mentioned in the bible as En Gannim in Josh.19:21 of Roman days.

Resource:

ABC TV

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20220806-israel-pounds-gaza-with-air-strikes-arrests-militant-suspects-in-west-bank#_=_

https://www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-says-it-busted-west-bank-terror-cell-in-that-planned-bomb-attack/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gaza-terrorists-fire-dozens-of-rockets-at-israel-as-idf-continues-to-strike-strip/

JBS with Teisha Bader, August 5th 2022 on YouTube

Update 8/7/22 :  https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/357790

thanks, Victor Sharpe, Netanyahu is very familiar with the Islamic Jihadists and it's good to read his words about them, and thanks for this piece:  

Top IDF official: ‘We eliminated all Islamic Jihad leaders in Gaza’ 

 

Gaza war expected to continue for another few days, IDF official says. ‘We will not stop until the Islamic Jihad terror gang stops threatening us, and we will complete the task.’

Israel National News

Major-General Oded Basiuk, head of the IDF’s Operations Department, on Saturday evening explained why Israel began Operation Breaking Dawn in Gaza.

Speaking to reporters, Basiuk said, “The IDF and security forces for the past two days have begun a focused operation against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). The terrorists tried to carry out mass murder against Israeli civilians in the south and center of Israel and in the Gaza border area.

“In light of this and in the past few days we closed some of the roads in Israel near the Gaza border, and we appreciate the understanding now that everyone realizes what we had to do. We gathered intelligence, we clarified it, we took the initiative and two days ago, within a few minutes, we hit and eliminated the chain of operations of this Islamic Jihad terror attack and their head, Khaled Mansour, commander of the northern region of the PIJ’s terror squad.

“This is an important elimination, and I can tell you that in the past few hours we carried out an additional elimination of the southern region leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It’s a very important elimination according to all the data I have at this moment. He was eliminated together with others. All of the top leaders of the PIJ in the Gaza Strip have been eliminated.”

Basiuk stressed, “In the past few hours, we were able to see another very important phenomenon, that it is important to know. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in the past few hours, has fired hundreds of rockets towards Israel, towards the southern cities, and a not-insignificant portion of them fall within the Gaza Strip, and kill citizens of Gaza itself. The Arab propaganda machine then falsely accuses Israel, and we know that the international media shamefully parrots these Palestinian lies. The world should be shocked at the cruel and inhumane exploitation by both Hamas and Islamic Jihad of their own people.

“We could see in the past few hours, around 9pm, an Islamic Jihad rocket which hit a Gaza home in Jabalia with Palestinian victims.

“This organization does not just endanger the lives of Israelis – and that we will not allow – it also hurts Palestinians,” he emphasized.

“We are in a focused operation. This operation will continue and I ask all citizens of the country to follow instructions, and to understand that these instructions are lifesaving. We will continue and act against PIJ in any place we need to, for however long we need to, and not allow it to threaten us.

“In addition, I will say this: We are acting both in Gaza, and in Judea and Samaria, and maybe in other places as well. We will not stop until the PIJ stops threatening us, and we will complete the tasks.”

Concluding his remarks, Basiuk added, “I thank everyone, the civilians, for their patience. Patience is important, and it could be that there will be additional days of Palestinian Arab aggression. Not everything goes smoothly in these operations. Until now the results have been good, and we are obligated to continue.”

Update:  August 22, 2022:  Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar traveled to Egypt on Sunday after Egypt accused Israel of not following the terms of the truce mediated by Egypt between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which Egypt claims included Israel refraining from military activity against the PIJ in the West Bank. Israel has continued to carry out raids against PIJ members in the West Bank.

   

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