A foreign policy and security analyst and ex-Israel Defense Forces paratrooper is warning about the dangerous powder keg brewing on Israel’s northern border while also offering up some important warnings to world leaders who are pressuring Israel.
Daniel Flesch said Israel’s current battle against Hamas is the “longest war for Israel since its war of independence” in the late 1940s — a struggle sparked on Oct. 7 when Hamas terrorists attacked and killed over 1,200 innocent Israelis. With U.S. President Joe Biden and other world leaders beginning to put pressure on Israel to amend war operations, Flesch said it’s essential these leaders understand to whom they’re communicating.
“When you start putting pressure on Israel to take certain steps and how it conducts this operation, you have to consider the audience, and the audience is not just Israel,” he said. “A lot of it from this [Biden] administration is obviously their constituents … their voters.” Flesch continued, “But also, Hamas is watching, other bad actors in the world are watching, and so Hamas has been rejecting ceasefire deals left and right.”
He believes the terror group is likely assuming they have the Biden administration on their side “putting pressure on Israel” and not pressuring Hamas. Rhetoric from world leaders, he argued, is thus deeply important. Israel has repeatedly made it clear the nation is no longer interested in being surrounded by terrorists bent on its destruction, with Oct. 7 proving to be a day validating fears of violent incursion.
While some have questioned Israel’s war strategy, Flesch said the Israeli government has three clear objectives — and the first of which is returning the hostages still being held by Hamas to Israel. “The second objective is to dismantle the Hamas political and military infrastructure in Gaza,” he added, explaining the central objective is to render Hamas “unable to perpetrate an October 7th invasion and massacre again.”
Flesch said the third objective is to restore overarching security to Israelis — something that was shattered during the October attack. Considering Israel is intended to be a place of “refuge and security for the Jewish people,” he said the ramifications for what happens next are massive. Watch him explain.
