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When Is A War Not A War?

When is a war, not a war? When your leaders tell you it’s not a war.

Unfortunately, for the people of Northern Israel, this is their reality as they find themselves marooned in a political game of ‘cat and mouse.’ The cat is the United States, and the mouse is the Jewish State.

This charade of limited conflict visited Katzrin in Northern Israel this morning as some fifty rockets were launched towards the idyllic town set in the foothills of the Golan. Leaving a young man in his thirties lightly injured from shrapnel as he escaped the burning house, watching it disappear before his eyes.

This tragedy begs the question of when, if ever, our leaders are going to acknowledge what every resident of the north has known since October 7: Israel is at war with Iran and its proxies. With 100,000 displaced residents from the North and mounting casualties and deaths, towns like peaceful Katzrin come under deadly fire.

I don’t need to know what it will take for Israel’s leaders to put Israel’s self-interest above that of American self-interest. The two no longer converge. What the country needs to know is if our Jewish leaders are prepared to stop this self-destructive trend wrapped in a containment policy that verges on the suicidal. Most Jews today would disagree with this bankrupt American defeatist policy and insist the nation stop compromising with world opinion and the United States that has Jewish interests at the bottom of their priorities.

If our leaders don’t do what is necessary to save the nation from its enemies, then they need to get out of the way and let the Jews of Israel, who face adversity in their daily lives without complaint, get the job done. No more jaw-jaw; it’s war-war stupid!

The time is now for the Jewish State to launch a pre-emptive strike on Hezbollah and its Syrian counterparts right into the heart of the Iranian beast before they have the chance to do the same to Israel.