Avi Aharon

The Netanyahu UN speech (YouTube) is widely accepted as a success. For the first time for two decades, certainly ever since the October 2000 war, Israel stands for its own.

Nice, isn’t it?

It’s always nice to hear that Israel has a right to exist and wage defencive wars whenever it finds appropriate. If you have a problem with that, Israel with stand for its own and tell you that calling for its annihilation is unheard of. The Netanyahu speech, if given right after the 1948 war of independence, would be considered as a success.

In 1948, Israel was a newborn political body, where some people didn’t like that, waged a war, got defeated, got their population kicked out, end of story. However, by 2009 the state of Israel has been losing wars for four decades consecutively (1970, 1973, 1982, 1987, 2000, 2006, 2009).

The UN – a political body that for some reason finds itself closely related to genocides all over the world – had published its report exactly because Israel is so weak. The UN report – dealing with the way Israel has acted in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead (December 2008 – January 2009) – tested Israel’s will to further destroy itself. After all, it worked in 1991 (following Israel’s inability to react to the Iraqi missiles shot during Operation Desert Storm). The UN justly identified Israel’s weakness, and initiated a move that ended up in the Oslo accord, and almost ended Israel itself.

Netanyahu should have taken these facts into account. Instead of playing the UN game (you give a speech, we take a further step towards ruining you), he should have pulled Israel form the UN. In addition, as the UN report deals with Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, it would be nice to launch a new operation, commemorating the UN report with additional killed terrorists.

I’d further suggest that from now on, The Gladstone report day – Sep-16 – will be a day of broad Israeli attacks on Gaza, a reminder to the entire free world for the proper way to deal with the UN.