The document discusses Israel's current conflict with Palestinian terrorists as Israel's "last stand". It summarizes that over 2,000 rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza in the last five days, and Israel has nowhere else to go as the only Jewish state. The document argues that while Israel tries to minimize civilian casualties, it cannot tolerate thousands of rockets being fired at its cities and will respond forcefully to defend itself, as no other country would allow such attacks. It asserts that those who want to continually attack and boycott Israel do not understand Israel's determination to survive, as the Jewish people have learned from history that they cannot back down from anti-Semitic threats to their existence.

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Andy Blumenthal
Israel’s Last Stand
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It is the mere fact of our Jewish existence that irks our Anti-Semitic, terrorist
enemies. This is why the world does not care, and may actually even cheer while
Palestinian terror rockets y overhead, hundreds at a time, into major
population centers in Israel. From 5-year old, Ido Avigal, killed by shrapnel in
Sderot to an 87-year old woman killed near Ashdod while running from rocket

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re, nowhere seems safe, including in cars, homes, walking down the street,
and even “safe rooms.”
In the last ve days, over 2,000 rockets have been red against Israel from Gaza.
And this is nothing compared to the 150,000 rockets that Hezbollah has
stockpiled with Israel’s name on them. To these terrorists, looking to use
everything from Gaza rockets to Iranian nukes, nothing but “from the river to
the sea” will suf ce, meaning the total annihilation of Israel and the absolute
genocide of all its Jews.
Already in the 1967 War, against Israel, when the combined armies of Egypt,
Syria, and Jordan were menacing Israel and threatening to “throw every Jew
into the Mediterranean sea,” former Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol said:
For Israel and the Jewish people, having suffered 2,000 years of exile,
persecution, Inquisition, pogroms, expulsions, and the Holocaust, we have
nowhere else to go and this is our last stand. Israel will ght tooth and nail
against our enemies, while showing incredible compassion, brotherhood, and
generosity to our friends, allies, and even those being used by the radical
Islamic terrorists as human shields. The Israel Defense Forces is the only army
the history of the world that I know of that routinely warns civilians to ee
before they conduct a mission against terrorists, and that go out of their way,
even endangering their own troops, in order to safeguard civilians wherever and
whenever they possibly can. But to Israel’s enemies, you had better watch out,
as Prime Minister Netanyahu warned this week:
We cannot afford to lose. This may be our last stand in history…We cannot
survive if we experience again what happened to us under Hitler.”
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We’ll in ict blows on the terrorists they couldn’t even dream of.”
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Let us be clear, no country in the world would permit the ring of thousands of
rockets at its civilian population centers as well as its critical infrastructure.
When we look back at modern history, we need not look far to see the “shock
and awe” devastation that the United States brought down on Iraq and
Afghanistan after 9/11, what Russia did to Grozny, Chechnya in 2000 leaving it
“the most destroyed city of Earth,” or even what the Allies did to the attacking
Axis nations in World War II where Germany was wholly destroyed and
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan had the atom bomb dropped on them to force
them to unconditionally surrender. Certainly, I don’t condone unnecessary or
disproportionate killing and destruction, and certainly no sane person likes war
and its horrible aftermath. Nevertheless, when war is thrust upon us, we have
no choice but to ght it and win it, especially when losing it would mean the
end of the Jewish people.
General Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States and defender
of African Americans in the Civil War, said about war and ghting:
Israel is the Promised Land to the Jewish people, and the single Jewish State in
the entire world. Israel, the size of New Jersey, is surrounded by a Goliath of 22
Arab League nations from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean who are awash in oil
money for their people. Therefore, to the hateful detractors of Israel and the
Jews, who want the rockets and suicide bombs to endlessly kill us, and boycotts,
sanctions, and divestment (BDS) to choke us economically, I say you have no
idea the will and determination that you are up against, let alone the hand of G-
d in history. We have learned our lesson about Anti-Semites such as you many
times over, and we will not cower in fear or stop from rightfully defending our
nation and our people. Like it or not, every rocket, every suicide bomber, every
attacker will be met and defeated—from north to south and east to west—
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as
soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can. And keep moving on.”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andy Blumenthal is a business and technology leader who writes frequently about Jewish life,
culture, and security. All opinions are his own.
because the Jewish people will not be driven out; this is our last stand and we
will survive.