Dan Schueftan. Steely, steely, steely Dan.
To paraphrase:
"Israel lives in a region where if they are not afraid of you, you must be afraid of them. We are surrounded by barbarians. None of which have had success anywhere near that of Israel. Israel does it by not taking seriously any of the elites in the West, not the media, not the academy, not the politicians, who continue to give Israel gratuitous — palpably incorrect — advice.""We live in a region where they want to make war on Israel, but don't, because they can't afford to. They can't afford to because they know that if they attack Israel, they end up like Gaza. So if we did not do Gaza, we would be in more wars."
Dan talking to John Anderson, ex Aussie Deputy PM, and with whom I did some trade-related stuff back in the late 1990s, in China. A good man. Now a success in PodcastWorld.
Thomas Sowell was once asked what could Israel do to be less hated. His one word answer: "Fail". Because success breeds envy, jealousy, contempt and hatred. But even if Israel failed, surrounding Islamic states would still wage war because it’s about killing all the Jews. It’s in the Koran. In the Trinity of Islam
