Palestinian Islamic Jihad, one of Iran’s proxy arms, held a victory rally in Gaza today.
Yes, really.
Thousands of Islamic Jihad sympathizers participated in the group’s victory rally celebrating the end of the current round of violence against Israel on Tuesday. The rally was attended by senior Islamic Jihad officials while the group’s secretary-general, Ramadan Shallah, sent a video message from Damascus.
Shallah boasted that this is the first time that the Palestinian resistance forced a new type of truce on Israel. He threatened that the Islamic Jihad’s military wing will extend its rocket fire deeper into Israel, in response to Israel’s threats to increase the scope of its attacks on Gaza. “They (the Israelis) know where they (the rockets) can reach,” Shallah said.
Let us recap: The Palestinian terrorist groups lost 21 members, including the head of the PRC and another senior member of that group. Not a single Israeli died, though several were wounded. They demanded that as part of the truce, Israel swear off targeted killings in the future. Israel refused. In fact, here is the PIJ demand from a day or so ago:
“The ball is in Israel’s court,” he said, adding that a truce would require the Jewish state to halt its aggression and pledge to refrain from assassinations against Jihad operatives.
Wow, what a victory! Israel did nothing that they demanded. So, what, they’re celebrating that they can drive Israelis into bomb shelters? That they can cause the IDF to bomb Gaza? That Iron Dome worked so well that only one missile did any damage to an Israeli city?
They’re effing insane. This is why Israel can’t deal with them. They’re simply. Effing. Insane.
They fought Israel and were not totally destroyed. For Arabs that counts as a victory. It’s the same kind of victory the Hezbullies won in 2006, the same the Egyptians won in 1973, etc. Then there is also the Arab penchant for fantasy thinking.
They are still in Gaza with their 20,000 rockets, or however many they have. Simultaneous attacks by Hamas and its allies, and Hezbollah with its 40,000 in the north, combined with a simultaneous ground threat (so that Zahal cannot simply turn its ground and air forces loose on the rocketeers), may be too much for Israel to handle, especially if the rockets are launced over a short time span in order to saturate Israel’s defenses. Such a bombardment would do enormous damage to Israel. Between the northern threat and the one from Gaza, everyplace in Israel is within range of some rockets. The rockets need to be taken out in the pre-boost phase.
The Arabs will continue trying to destroy Israel and annihilate the Jews until Israel makes it so painful for them to continue, that they finally decide that accepting a two-state solution is preferable to continuing to suffer. Since, for various reasons, Israel never hurts them badly enough, peace will come in the Greek Calends.
After the 1956 war, which ended with the IDF on the Suez Canal, the Egyptians issued Victory postage stamps. After the 6-Day war, arguably the greatest military defeat in history, the Egyptians again celebrated their victory. After the Yom Kippur war,which ended with two Egyptian Armies surrounded and facing annihilation, a bridge over the Nile was named in honor of the crossing of the Suez Canal.
So why not celebrate the loss of the head of the PRC and more? It’s par for the course.