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To: Les H who wrote (43282)8/15/2024 9:30:43 AM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 51270
 
From Bar Kochba to Bibi: How the PM Secured His Place Among Jewish History's False Prophets

In terms of goals, there's no difference between him and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, whom he released from prison, armed to the teeth and smoothed his way with suitcases containing tens of millions of dollars. Nor is he different from Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, or Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah who was the first to identify (even before Netanyahu) the spiderwebs.

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Let's make note of what's on the agenda: a perpetual war in the south and the north; no rehabilitation for the border communities and no returning the residents to their homes; Iran joining the war; efforts by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, as Netanyahu's emissary, to ignite the West Bank; a large and continuous economic crisis; the flight of intellectuals and liberal democrats; international boycotts and isolation; and of course abandoning the remaining living and dead hostages in Gaza.

Netanyahu decided on these a long time ago, already in November, when he refused to complete the sixth part of the first deal, which as far as he was concerned, was also the last. He knows that returning the hostages will bring an end to his rule. Not only because his government is weakening, but also because of the public's reaction when we discover how few have returned alive from Gaza, and what they experienced there.

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Bar Kochba was temporarily successful, but considered one in a long list of failed messiahs, not a false messiah. Some have argued Jesus was also a failed messiah as he failed to inspire a Jewish uprising to overturn Roman rule.