Former president Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, an ex-White House senior adviser, wrote the following on his X account on Motzei Shabbos:
September 27th is the most important day in the Middle East since the Abraham Accords breakthrough.
I have spent countless hours studying Hezbollah and there is not an expert on earth who thought that what Israel has done to decapitate and degrade them was possible.
This is significant because Iran is now fully exposed. The reason why their nuclear facilities have not been destroyed, despite weak air defense systems, is because Hezbollah has been a loaded gun pointed at Israel. Iran spent the last forty years building this capability as its deterrent.
President Trump would often say, “Iran has never won a war but never lost a negotiation.” The Islamic Republic’s regime is much tougher when risking Hamas, Hezbollah, Syrian and Houthi lives than when risking their own. Their foolish efforts to assassinate President Trump and hack his campaign reek of desperation and are hardening a large coalition against them.
Iranian leadership is stuck in the old Middle East, while their neighbors in the GCC are sprinting toward the future by investing in their populations and infrastructure. They are becoming dynamic magnets for talent and investment while Iran falls further behind. As the Iranian proxies and threats dissipate, regional security and prosperity will rise for Christians, Muslims and Jews alike.
Israel now finds itself with the threat from Gaza mostly neutralized and the opportunity to neutralize Hezbollah in the north. It’s unfortunate how we got here but maybe there can be a silver lining in the end.
Anyone who has been calling for a ceasefire in the North is wrong. There is no going back for Israel. They cannot afford now to not finish the job and completely dismantle the arsenal that has been aimed at them. They will never get another chance.
After the brilliant, rapid-fire tactical successes of the pagers, radios, and targeting of leadership, Hezbollah’s massive weapon cache is unguarded and unmanned. Most of Hezbollah fighters are hiding in their tunnels. Anyone still around was not important enough to carry a pager or be invited to a leadership meeting. Iran is reeling, as well, insecure and unsure how deeply its own intelligence has been penetrated. Failing to take full advantage of this opportunity to neutralize the threat is irresponsible.
I have been hearing some amazing stories about how Israel has been collecting intelligence over the past 10 months with some brilliant technology and crowdsourcing initiatives.
But today, with the confirmed killing of Nasrallah and at least 16 top commanders eliminated in just nine days, was the first day I started thinking about a Middle East without Iran’s fully loaded arsenal aimed at Israel. So many more positive outcomes are possible.
This is a moment to stand behind the peace-seeking nation of Israel and the large portion of the Lebanese who have been plagued by Hezbollah and who want to return to the times when their country was thriving, and Beirut a cosmopolitan city. The main issue between Lebanon and Israel is Iran; otherwise there is a lot of benefit for the people of both countries from working together.
The right move now for America would be to tell Israel to finish the job. It’s long overdue. And it’s not only Israel’s fight.
More than 40 years ago, Hezbollah killed 241 US military personnel, including 220 Marines. That remains the single deadliest day for the U.S. Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima. Later that same day, Hezbollah killed 58 French paratroopers.
And now, over the past six weeks or so, Israel has eliminated as many terrorists on the US list of wanted terrorists as the US has done in the last 20 years. Including Ibrahim Aqil, the leader of Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad Organization who masterminded the 1983 killing of those Marines.
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14 Responses
Nothing about Assad’s Syria which is the keystone of Iran and Russia’s whole operation. Because loyalty to the international right is more important than loyalty to Israel.
Brilliant. Vote for his shver!
@DrYidd- Well said!
he is a scavenger…..his remarks mean nothing, married a goy…so did his brother…two converts and a dad who embezzled monies….who knows if this person is the same…..hands that lift and prosper, he isn’t an Israeli, he should keep his mouth shut or dress his wife with more clothes ……not interested in human waste
He’s young enough to join the IDF the worm just wants to build hotels after the dust settles.
We destroyed the temple bec of sinas chinam. We continue to destroy it and prevent moshiach coming bec of sinas chinam. For those who commented so cruelly I would be worried that whatever mitzvos I made and Torah I studied might be tarnished by my loshon horah and sinas chinam. Tochachos can only be given with love. usually when you say something negative about another yid it’s not coming from a good place. Remember HKBH loves each of them more than you can possibly imagine.
tzedikis: Even those of us who disagree strongly with Kushner on most issues, support his unequivocal statement regarding the need for EY to totally destroy Hezbolah and other Iran proxies. I’m surprised that any yid would deliberately dig a hole for herself just days before Rosh Hashanah, but considering your nonstop invective against America over the past year, its should be surprising.
Keith it’s obvious you don’t have cousins or relatives in the IDF or you wouldn’t be so cheap about finishing the job. It’s easy to watch footage and cheer.
“Even those of us who disagree strongly with Kushner on most issues, support his unequivocal statement”
Thank you. I agree.
“the worm”
It is really inappropriate to call any Jew a worm, no matter how you disagree with him. Last night at Selichot someone whose politics I absolutely abhor sat right behind me. We were still courteous and respectful to each other and neither of us brought up politics.
“Nothing about Assad’s Syria which is the keystone of Iran and Russia’s whole operation”
Trump’s other son in law is from a Lebanese family that is a major supporter of the pro Assad and pro Hezbollah political coalition in Lebanon.
this kid of no value is a treacherous money grabber and with far too many details that can be corrupt…..for two brothers of wealth to marry gentiles of conversion makes a statement that a good jewish girl wasn’t good enough….let this piece of garbage shut up…he is not Israeli
it is up to Hashem to destroy….not to destroy Israel by panhandling with Americans…..thankfully ..I am not one of your Americans and I will never be one….shameful disease…..shopping in malls, shameful neglect of Torah as well. you are harming Israel…..
We should not be waiting for America to tell us/Israel what to do or when to do it. ISRAEL needs to tell ISRAEL that it’s long overdue that Iran and all its proxies should be nullified permanently.
As with Pearl Harbor, in which the failure of certain military leaders to follow orders and prepare for probable attack (the Japanese codes had already been broken) resulted in their dismissal, those Israeli leaders who failed to take action or to follow up on reports of pending attack need to be relieved of duty. Those who allowed Pearl Harbor to occur as it did, and those who allowed Oct 7 to happen are NOT the ones to be trusted with leading the year long fight against Iran and its proxies. They’ve already shown they cannot be trusted.