Negotiating with the Inevitable: The Fantasy That Endangers Israel
Imagine it's 1944. Allied troops are preparing to storm Normandy. The Nazi war machine is exterminating Jews by the millions, threatening Europe’s survival. And into this moment step the moral philosophers of our time—Peter Beinart and Shaul Magid—urging calm, restraint, and of course, negotiation. “Trust and verify,” they say. Don’t “distrust, dismantle and verify”—that’s too aggressive. After all, we wouldn’t want to leave Hitler no space for reconciliation.
Absurd? Of course. Offensive? Yes. But this is precisely the logic Beinart and Magid apply to Israel today.
Faced with Iran—a regime that funds terror across continents, develops nuclear weapons under the table, and openly declares its intention to destroy the Jewish state—these men still argue that the moral failing lies not with Tehran, but with Jerusalem. Israel, they tell us, must never strike first, never act on suspicion, and never interrupt the carefully choreographed diplomatic theater of American-led nuclear talks.
Beinart reposts accusations that Israel targeted Ali Shamkhani—the architect of Iranian terror—during negotiations, as though thwarting genocidal plans is some moral scandal. Magid, meanwhile, frets that Netanyahu’s doctrine of “distrust, dismantle, and verify” leaves no room for reconciliation. As if reconciliation is a greater imperative than survival.
Here’s the problem: history is not lived in the classroom. The Yom Kippur War wasn’t a seminar on conflict resolution. It was a war of no alternative. On that October day in 1973, 177 Israeli tanks faced 1,400 Soviet-backed Syrian tanks on the Golan Heights. A single five-minute window—pleaded for by a commander—meant the difference between holding the line or losing the north. Several dozen tanks arrived. Israel held. That’s not militarism. That’s what standing on the edge of annihilation looks like.
Menachem Begin understood the moral universe these critics refuse to inhabit. He knew peace was never handed to the Jewish people—it had to be defended, won, sometimes preempted. Because when your enemies don’t recognize your right to exist, the question isn’t whether preemption is moral. The question is whether your children live to see another sunrise.
To suggest that Israel should face a nuclear Iran with “trust and verify” is the same as urging Churchill to trust Goebbels and verify with Himmler. It’s not diplomacy—it’s delusion. And Israel does not exist to serve as a sacrificial case study for the moral anxieties of academics.
Peace is a blessing. But survival is a duty. Those who confuse the two should not be advising a nation that knows all too well the cost of waiting too long.
Do you really have to write to respond to those idiots? Netanyahu said it clearly in his speech yesterday. If someone says they are going to kill you believe them.
Everything Goldberg says is true.
But and it’s an enormous imperative
conditional to make it real now,
our time. Which is that Israel must conduct nothing less than
an all out Annihilating War on Iran: reducing it to. and it must use EMP and Nuclear Weapons to achieve the actuality of
this unconditional victory it must have to guarantee its survival and future
Existence.
This is absolutely not what Netanyahu and his woke generals have done and have utterly failed to do. And failed Israel and the Jewish people of the world to be do. They are completely incapable of bringing it because They are governed by an irrational, appeasing, degenerate woke regressive fantasy of managing
implacable enemies as morality-which endlessly goes on sacrificing Jewish
lives as a virtue signaling offering to the Jew Hating world in order to garner
their all important approval, to prevent at all costs their fear driven fantasy of
the unbearable consequences of disapproval. And could never be borne.
And is the true existential threat-this emotional rejectionism of the
world rather than the oncoming nuclear physical annihilation of our
enemies. Therefore in combination with their conviction of Virtue signaling self sacrifice and approval seeking as the highest morality, it is
unthinkable for them, and makes them absolutely unfit as leaders of
The Jewish People, who are commanded to Annihilate the Amalekites
reappearing in every age for the last three thousand years.
The terrible bloviating fraud Netanyahu has not gone away at
last nor been transformed into all out destroying warrior Israel
must have. He has merely pulled off his crowning publicity stunt
a completely non strategic, non determinative, non decisive
phony war on a massive, genocidal relentless metastasizing
force, making a political show of “managing” it, leaving it alive to
grow back, do anything but take on the obligation to destroy it.
The absolute proof of everything I’m saying is he now has the Jewish
People of Israel and the world wondering and waiting for what the
Nature of Iran’s counter attack will be. Rather than having absolutely
destroyed them as must be done, and he has traitorously left open
remaining to be done, there would not be anything left of Iran to
make a counter arrack.
have done with their disastrous limited, self defeating
“precision, targeted strike” on the multidimensional, psychotic
Jew Genociding, transnational monster of Iran. None of
the mutiple super hardened, deep mountain buried (Frowdo)
Nuclear armed ICBM infrastructure sites Can be allowed to survive.
The Ayatollah must be eliminated
Killed not merely some of his lieutenant commanders and some of
the nuclear scientists. But absolutely all of the political, military and
academic establishment must be wiped out, at whatever cost to the
so called civilian population in which they are embedded makes no
difference whatsoever if Annihilating Strategic unconditional victory
Over this genocidal Judeophobic, psychotic regime