Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has killed the messenger because he didn’t like the message, and simultaneously has also shot himself in the foot.  Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon publicly attacked the acceptaince of a  “ceasefire,” and asserted “It was a slap in the face to every Israeli.”

Danon was right, and he expressed the outrage of all Israelis, of anybody who cares about Israel’s existence.

Did Danon undermine the Prime Minister?  Danon’s public position against the ceasefire only strengthened Netanyahu’s hand in dealing with the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, with Obama and other countries.

Instead, Netanyahu will lose in the next Israeli elections.

Netanyahu could have played good-cop/bad-cop to the world powers. He should have said, “Look, Danon is expressing the real and legitimate rage every Israeli is feeling in being indiscriminately bombed by a bunch of rabid terrorists. Therefore, I have to cut a better deal against Hamas.” He showed weakness by firing someone who is telling the truth.If the Prime Minister cowers at the world’s reaction to Danon’s musings, imagine how scared he will be when it comes to truly attacking Hamas instead of bombing a bunch of empty buildings.

And the real problem is Hamas knows how truly weak and powerless Netanyahu is and that he won’t truly attack Gaza.

The Prime Minister has “Lady Macbeth” Livni constantly whispering “War-crimes, war-crimes” in his ear. Livni and dozens of other current and former Israeli officials can’t travel to many places in Europe because there are outstanding war-crime warrants for their arrest for their roles in Operation Cast Lead.  It’s likely that Livni’s pushing the 2-State Solution isn’t because she believes in a PA State, but that she is being literally blackmailed by the EU, and by Obama into herding Israel’s Jews into a new Auschwitz.

One could say, “Danon made Bibi look bad to the Israelis.” But is the Prime MInister so politically fearful of Danon? If that’s the case then Israel is really in trouble, because its leader would then be 1) strategically scared of the world powers, 2) locally afraid of local Likud politicians, and 3) afraid of fighting Hamas – exactly when he should be fearless. Netanyahu said that “Hamas has unified all of Israel”, but  Instead of acting on that, he is proving to the world he really believes Israel is hopelessly fractured.

Is Netanyahu so desperate for a ceasefire deal that he believes that it was Danon’s comments that upset the apple cart when Foreign Minsiter Lieberman has been attacking his policies louder that Danon did? Firing Danon, a loyal Israeli Deputy Defense Minister, shows that Netanyahu can’t stop Hamas missiles, he can only fire an honest MK.  Israel should brace itself for weeks of missiles and of weak and feckless leadership of a Prime MInister who has lost his moral and military compass.

Now that China has just invested hundreds of millions of dollars into Israeli hi-tech, leaving the EU to cry for all the billions of patent-profits it just lost out on, Livni has to junk her “boycott” hoax, and replace with a newer, fear-mongering hoax: the “Bi-National State”.

Hot off the new and improved Arutz Sheva presses:

“Justice Minister Tzipi Livni blasted Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett on Thursday, over his plan for Israel to annex Area C of Judea and Samaria, where there is a Jewish majority (and all the Jewish communities of Judea and Samaria, ed.). Livni said during a speech in a conference in Eilat that ‘There is a group, part of which is represented in the coalition, which does not want a diplomatic settlement and does everything to sabotage it. This group and its leaders should tell the truth to the citizens of this country: they are leading to a Bi-National state,’”

What does she mean? When Israel’s Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni called Bennett a “Bi-National-Stater” she legalistically called Bennett nothing less than a South-African-Apartheid-war-criminal.  Now to be fair to Livni, .  For, unfortunately, she isn’t the only Israeli politician intentionally using the “Bi-National State” bogeyman as a self-deprecating code for an Israeli “Apartheid State.”  Netanyahu, himself, Israel’s sitting Prime Minister, is the Abuser-in-Chief of the term “Bi-National State”.

What is this dreadful “Bi-National State,” and why does it evoke fear and dread?

First, let’s look at the use of the term “Bi-National State” in Israeli political history.

On April 12, 2012, in an Op-Ed in the New York Times, Jimmy Carter quoted no less a personage than Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of the State of Israel in 1999, over 15 years ago, as having stated that:

“Every attempt [by the State of Israel] to keep hold of this area [the ‘West Bank’ and Gaza] as one political entity leads, necessarily, to either a nondemocratic or a non-Jewish state.  Because if the Palestinians vote, then it is a bi-national state, and if they don’t vote it is an apartheid state.”

Eight years year, in 2007, another sitting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was reported by Ha’aretz to have stated:

“If the two-state solution collapsed, he said, Israel would ‘face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, and as soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished'”. Israel’s supporters abroad would quickly turn against such a state, Olmert said.

“‘The Jewish organizations, which were our power base in America, will be the first to come out against us because they will say they cannot support a state that does not support democracy and equal voting rights for all its residents,’ Olmert said.”

Three years after Ehud Olmert’s 2007 “Apartheid” statement, and a full 5 years after Israel “disengaged” from Gaza, in 2010, Ehud Barak, now as sitting Defense Minister of Israel, stated:

“The simple truth is, if there is one state [including Israel, the ‘West Bank’ and Gaza], it will have to be either Bi-National or undemocratic. … if this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.”

Now, fast-forward  to the present-day 2014, where Ha’aretz recently quoted Benjamin Netanyahu, sitting Prime Minister of the State of Israel, as saying:

“’The reason why we’re willing to reach this agreement isn’t because we’re denying our history, but because there are two million Palestinians and the question is what we do with them,’ he said. ‘There’s a problem that the Palestinians are there, and I have no intention of removing them. It’s impractical and inappropriate. I don’t want a Bi-National state, and I don’t want them as either citizens or subjects. On the other hand, I don’t want another Iranian state or Al-Qaeda state. Currently, we have no solution.’”

Let’s be clear, Ehud Barak’s 1999 and 2010 studied formulation of an Israeli “Bi-National State,” and Ehud Olmert’s “South-African-style struggle” are exactly the same as Netanyahu’s 2014 studied formulation of an Israeli “Bi-National State,” except Netanyahu didn’t explicitly state the “A-Word.”

Under Netanyahu’s own wording, the Palestinian Arabs in the ‘West Bank’ “won’t” vote.  (This is strange because the Palestinian Arabs have already voted several times for a Palestinian Authority President and a National Legislature that installed the arch-terrorist Hamas as their leaders) Netanyahu seems to be saying the ‘West Bank’ Palestinian Arabs are somehow “second-class-apartheid-citizens” if Israel hasn’t allowed them to create an Iranian styleTerror-State in the ‘West Bank’.

Any reader of  Barak’s, Olmert’s, and Netanyahu’s statements can only lead one to conclude that Netanyahu formulated that an Israeli “Bi-National State” is an Israeli “Apartheid State” exactly as Barak and Olmert had once declared that Israel would be an “Apartheid State.”

Therefore, Netanyahu, as the current sitting Israeli Prime Minister, has only himself, to blame for Israel being explicitly labeled as an “Apartheid State.” Israelis seem to believe that you have to give two-million ‘West Bank’ Palestinians Arabs bent on mass-murder the ability to annihilate Israel in one evening with a massive Iranian chemical-katyusha rocket barrage into Tel Aviv.  Otherwise, “Israel is an Apartheid State.”

If that’s the right-of-center Israeli Prime Minister’s “thinking,” then it’s time to make sure you have a valid second passport for another country for you and your family.

The Titanic was “unsinkable,” until it sunk on its first voyage. France’s Maginot Line was “unbreachable,” until the German Panzers simply went around it. The Nazi secret-code Ultra was “unbreakable,” until the Allies continuously broke it throughout World War II.

General Haim Bar-Lev, and the entire IDF, thought his eponymous “Bar-Lev” line on the Suez Canal was unbreachable, until, one morning when Jews were in synagogues fasting in October 1973, the Egyptians breached it in two-hours-flat with water cannons.

So much for “genius” engineers and generals..
General Bar-Lev’s son, Omer Bar-Lev, is an MK (Labor) in the present Knesset. MK Bar-Lev is a highly decorated retired IDF officer. And MK Bar-Lev is not just a highly-decorated officer – he was the commander of the elite legendary commando unit, Sayerat Matkal. And, MK Bar-Lev also commanded the Jordan Valley unit of the IDF and worked with Achari, which encourages Israeli army enlistment. All of these are great achievements.
MK Bar-Lev, however, seems to think he has invented a new “unbreachable” defense line – the 1967 Green Line (more or less) or The Clinton Parameters. At the recent JPost conference, he stated he wants to unilaterally retreat from much of Judea and Samaria. This resembles a case of like-father-like-son. In 2014, MK Bar-Lev is invested into a chimera as was his father in 1973. And, MK Bar-Lev has just as sure a sense of invincible military power as had his father.
MK Bar-Lev uses three elements of “logic” to “prove” Israel should unilaterally leave Judea and Samaria, and let whoever, and whatever fill the void.
1) Israel is a “Jewish” country, and by Israel’s unilateral retreat from large areas of Judea and Samaria, it will return Israel to being “Jewish.”

2) After the 2005 Gaza retreat, although 15,000 Gaza rockets have since been fired into pre-1967 Israel, MK Bar-Lev says, “No one wants to re-invade, and re-occupy Gaza, so how was retreating from Gaza so bad? Therefore, it was the right decision to make.”
3) Since Israel is apparently content with the Gaza situation, Israel will be happy with the “West Bank” unilateral retreat situation of the future, even when that brings rockets to Tel Aviv.
MK Bar-Lev is Labor’s “point-person-expert” for military and foreign affairs, but has failed to understand some simple facts.

1) Unlike the Gaza, Judea and Samaria’s westward flowing underground water aquifers supply or are responsible for over 50% of Israel’s water supply. This water source would be destroyed and diverted by the Palestinians for their own use.
2) MK Bar-Lev wants to put US troops into the PA ‘West Bank’ Palestinian state to protect Israel. So, MK Bar-Lev accepts the fact that US troops will get killed by al Qaeda.

3) The pre-1967 Israeli land around Gaza is almost all empty farm land, and the land that abuts Judea and Samaria holds 70% of Israel’s population, 80% of her industrial base and Israel’s only international airport.

Firing a short-to-medium range rocket from Gaza into Israel is like firing a rocket from North Dakota into North Dakota- it’s likely not to hit anything. But, any Fatah or Hamas rocket fired from Judean and Samarian mountains into Tel Aviv is like firing a rocket from Brooklyn into Manhattan, it’s bound to kill many people.
4) The Jews who live in Sderot and Ashkelon aren’t the established, politically-connected Jews of Tel Aviv, but are generally newer immigrants. The millions of politically connected Tel Aviv Jews will demand the re-invasion of Gaza at all costs. Israel’s failure to re-invade the Gaza Strip, and to allow Israel’s citizens and children in Ashkelon and Sderot to live in abject fear certainly does not show that retreating from Gaza was a good military-political strategy.

5) Now that Iran and Hamas have armed Gaza to the hilt, re-invading Gaza would be a blood-bath for Israeli soldiers.
6) MK Bar-Lev should come to the United States Congress and tell US senators that his “plan” is that after rockets fall into Tel Aviv, the IDF is going to re-invade the “West Bank” with US troops smack dab in the middle. MK Bar-Lev will be laughed out of the building.

7) Even though General Bar-Lev’s Suez Canal defense-line failed, Israel could tactically fall back to the Milta and Gidi passes in Sinai outside of the Egyptians SAM air-defense umbrella. When MK Bar-Lev’s Green Line defense fails, Muslim Arab armies tthere is nowhere else to fall back. It will be game-over for Israel.
8) Worst of all, MK Bar-Lev’s unilateral retreat creates a Palestinian Arab “demographic” problem because hundreds of thousands if not millions of Palestinian Arabs can then enter the evacuated areas without a resolution of the “right of return.”
MK Bar-Lev isn’t joking about his idea for a unilateral retreat from Judea and Samaria. He’s deadly serious. And that is something to worry about.