Thread by @GREENESJ333

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Lessons to be learned and understood

A number of posts in Facebook and Twitter talk about how Israel tried to be the nice guy, leaving Gaza in 2005. Fewer talk about why this was a horrible mistake that needs to be a lesson for the future.
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Yes, in 2005-6, Israel withdrew both Jewish residents and IDF troops from Gaza. Farms, homes, businesses were left behind, most to be destroyed by the Arabs who did not seem interested in keeping farms and businesses, and it was all done with a guarantee from the USA and UK.
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The promise? If the experiment of local rule in Gaza worked, it could be a model for the “2-state solution”, but if it failed, no one would ever suggest the 2-state solution again.

First of all, the clearest lesson is that the US, UK, and EU lied.
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The Gaza experiment clearly failed, yet these nations still talk about a 2-state solution, that now has proven to be a failed concept. Proof that they do not care about whether Israel survives as much as pacifying Muslims.
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But for Israel and the Jewish People other lessons need to be learned.

A. That it is a terrible mistake to remove Jews from any part of Eretz Yisrael in some effort to appease.
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Note that compensation for these Jews uprooted from places they built and developed never came or was insufficient. They were cheated. And the withdrawal of Jews undermined Jewish rights in all the area, giving the wrong impression that peace had to mean removal of Jews.
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B. That the State of Israel and the Jewish People cannot trust other nations to keep their commitments. Not then. Not now.

C. That perhaps Israel’s greatest enemy is not external. Perhaps it is those Jews who have not grown past the very problematic Jewish Ghetto psychology,
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a syndrome similar to the Stockholm syndrome on a deeper level, that pushes them to repeat the behaviors that helped Jews survive when as small helpless minority being persecuted.
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Safety meant doing what was necessary to appease, to be desperate for the smiles of the powerful, to appear to be the nice guys all the time, so as not to be seen as “the other,” which guaranteed persecution and worse.
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D. It is time to stop trying to be accepted to buy safety, and to state the facts.

The facts are that Hamas evicted from Gaza solves nothing. That Hamas expresses the opinion of the majority of Palestine Arabs, not some small group, and
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that if out of Gaza, they will explode in power in Judea and Samaria, and they will be ready to do another October 7 in 2028 when the Americans and others are obsessed with election campaigns, and
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the repeat will hit the center of Israel from Tulkarem and Qalqilia, and the death toll will be astronomical.

The fact is that there will never be co-existence and peace with people who worship death and martyrdom and
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are convinced that if they keep up terrorism Christian/Secular Europe, with its ingrained cultural antisemitism, will eventually end the State of Israel and the Jews will be gone.
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So what is the obvious policy to pursue? Do not be afraid to say it. You know deep down beneath that Ghetto mentality what the truth is. You know deep down that really Kahane was right and the whole of Jewish patrimony must be cleared of an existential threat,
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just as Torah said about Amaleq, but with removal rather than violence.

And that an understanding come about in Israel and among Jews internationally (and among non-Muslims also worldwide) that as long as Islam is militant,
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as long as it excuses terrorism, kidnapping, rape and murder, one cannot expect to live in peace with it, and pandering to it simply emboldens it."
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