{"id":23737,"date":"2006-08-04T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:20:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:20:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:20:36","slug":"the_reality_is_that_israel_is_winning_big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/08\/04\/the_reality_is_that_israel_is_winning_big\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reality Is That Israel Is Winning Big"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Now folks, I have a thought here, actually a bunch of thoughts, and I want to share them with you. I could be wrong about some of this, but I want to share it with you and a lot of it is the product of just turning on television and watching the pundits\u2019 playground opine on what\u2019s going on in the Middle East. You know how I keep talking about how you got to be vigilant and not get caught up in the daily media bubble (because it\u2019s so easy to do)? I think some of our guys, some of our pundits, some of the people on our side in Washington can\u2019t help themselves either. They get caught up in the whole action line, the whole media bubble of any story, but particularly this one. Now this is my take on this. <\/line> I think the battle between the Israelis and Hezbollah really is the first battle in the war between Israel and Iran. Iran is fighting Israel right now via their proxy, Hezbollah, and they\u2019re testing Israel\u2019s resolve. They\u2019re testing Israel\u2019s Commitment. They\u2019re checking Israel\u2019s weaponry. This Ahmadinejad guy believes the world\u2019s going to end in three years and he\u2019s going to bring it about, and the first step toward that is destroying Israel and after that he wants Arab nations to unite and take out the United States. I\u2019m not making this up. This is what the guy is saying. He\u2019s having little back door meetings with Vladimir Putin from whom he is buying arms and weapons. <\/line>When you look at Hezbos, see Iran. Here\u2019s what\u2019s happening though. This is where I part ways with what appears to be the conventional wisdom. Israel is winning this. Israel is winning this and I think Israel is winning this big, and when this is over there will be no debate that Hezbollah will be much, much weaker, that it was no match for Israel, that it will have been forced out of southern Lebanon despite years of digging in, rocket attacks on Isreal, Iran\u2019s regional influence will have been weakened. It will not destroyed, it will have been weakened. Now this is all predicated on the Israelis continuing this assault and even ratcheting it up. They have to obliterate these guys. They have to leave no doubt about this because of this so-called PR offensive, PR war that the media is just itching to claim Israel has lost. They can\u2019t wait to declare the Hezbos the victors. There can\u2019t be any question about it when it\u2019s all over. I don\u2019t think very many people see this the way I do. <\/line> They\u2019re too focused on PR victories, they\u2019re too focused on what the Hezbos are saying to see the truth. It\u2019s been said that we\u2019re in World War III. We are. But this is one of the major battles of WWIII just as Afghanistan and Iraq are too I believe. Iran is going to be weaker for this as a result of this. It will be weaker. Its proxies will suffer a devastating defeat. I think they have already despite the reporting and handwringing even by some of our own people. I think the Hezbos are in much worse shape than anyone dare discuss. One of the reasons I think this is all the continuing calls for ceasefires. We must stop the suffering and killing. It\u2019s gone on long enough. Do you think if the Israelis were getting their clocks cleaned anybody would care to stop it? Hell no, folks. If the Israelis were losing this thing and getting their clocks cleaned and on the way to being defeated, you wouldn\u2019t hear one person in France, in Germany, or Russia, or the United Nations talking about a ceasefire. You got to learn to read the stitches on a fastball here. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you seen any of the mainstream media raising these doubts about Condoleezza Rice\u2019s competence? Is she up to the job? I think there\u2019s a little racism in this questioning and I think there\u2019s a little sexism obviously. I know it was never asked of Madeleine Albright, and it was never asked of Ron Brown. It was never asked of Joycelyn Elders, except by us, but we didn\u2019t care if she was competent or not because she was funny. She was good material. I tell you. I ask this –and speaking of competence, the other day I told you about this idiot, the French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy (I\u2019m just Americanizing the pronunciation of his name). He called Iran a stabilizing force in the Middle East, and he just blew everybody away by saying this. <\/line>It was just two days later that Ahmadinejad came out and said the whole solution to the problem is to destroy Israel, and so now Douste-Blazy said, “I totally condemn these words,” responding to Ahmadinejad\u2019s statement that the solution to the current Middle East crisis was to destroy Israel. “Peace and security in Lebanon and the borders has to be preserved by the Lebanese government and people. Deployment of foreign forces is not acceptable in any shape unless it\u2019s just, based on UN rules and preserves the unity and territorial integrity of Lebanon.” These words, Douste-Blazy says, are absolutely unacceptable on anybody\u2019s part. Just two days prior to this he talked about what a “stabilizing force” Iran was. You want to talk about incompetence. Go to the United Nations and go to France specifically. <\/line>These points that I made to you before the commercial break that Israel is winning, that they\u2019re fighting Iran via the proxy, the Hezbos, that this is WWIII, that Israel is going to win and they must win big. They already are. The Hezbos will be weakened. Iran either doesn\u2019t have the ability right now or the will to attack Israel from its own territory. I\u2019m not saying they won\u2019t have it any time soon, but right now they\u2019re content for the Hezbos to do this. All this talk about massing an army. The Syrians won\u2019t go in there because they know they\u2019ll be blown off the map. The Israelis are just waiting for a chance to level Damascus. One thing the Syrians and Iranians know, is if the Israelis wanted to they could level Damascus tomorrow and they could level Beirut. <\/line>They could level Beirut, they could level Lebanon if they wanted to and this these people know. What they\u2019re testing here is the resolve of the Israelis and it doesn\u2019t help when you have all these nincompoops in the diplomatic community ringing their hands saying, “Oh no, we must stop the suffering!” This is a whole different era and a whole different day. I think what\u2019s also been demonstrated here folks is that Syria\u2019s military is a hollowed out shell of its former self. It\u2019s helping the Hezbos, Syria is too weak to take on Israel directly. There\u2019s a whole lot to see from what\u2019s happening here and so few do. <\/line> They get caught up, as I say, in the media bubble and that becomes the frame and the context. I\u2019ll tell you something else this shows. Despite all the early upsetedness that I shared with you and a lot of other people did too, it shows that Israel is not weak and it shows that Israel is not afraid to take on this enemy and that the Israeli people still have the will to fight. Hezbollah and Syria and Iran are clearly stunned by Israel\u2019s unrelenting attacks. I don\u2019t think they thought the Israelis would do this, especially over the kidnapping of a couple of soldiers. I don\u2019t think they had any idea that the Israelis would go as deep, send in ground troops in the numbers they have and bombed the areas they have bombed. As I say, all these calls for a ceasefire for several weeks now, that is because they know if the Hezbos suffer any further devastation they\u2019re weakened.<\/line><\/p>\n

Regardless of the propaganda everybody is spewing, which is repeated by our media. I\u2019m looking at the reality of the situation on the ground. I\u2019m not paying any attention to PR except to the extent that I\u2019m ignoring it, to the spin. Where are all these aids? Where are all the allies of Hezbollah? Where is Iran? Where is Syria? Where are all these calls for ceasefires? Week after week, day after day, ‘We have to stop this.\u2019 I just tell you again that if Israelis were losing and losing big there wouldn\u2019t be one voice calling for a ceasefire anywhere. Another thing this shows is these terrorists can indeed be destroyed. Not just Hezbollah but al-Qaeda as well. I know a lot of people are out there criticizing Israel\u2019s approach. I was one of them, demanding the immediate insertion of massive ground troops and so forth. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a general and the people leading the Israeli defense forces are. They apparently were right and critics like me were wrong. Israel used its far superior and massive air strength to soften up enemy strongholds. They just took out a bridge this morning that connects Lebanon to Syria. Just totally wiped out the bridge. That cuts off supply lines and the ability to escape. Now the massive numbers of ground troops are in there and they\u2019re in there to mop up the enemy who cannot escape. All they can do is hide among the civilians and that is going to get civilians. In fact, just how many civilians are there in Lebanon anyway? When you get right down to it. How many quote on quote innocent civilians? Exempting the children. But this is all part of the PR spin that the Hezbos are a small bunch of people and Israel is wiping out all these innocent civilians. The media doesn\u2019t get what is going on but I tell you who does. The enemy. Iran sees what\u2019s happening, Hezbollah feels what\u2019s happening. That\u2019s why all the demands of ceasefire, cessation of hostilities, complaints about disproportionate use of power. If the enemy were winning this we wouldn\u2019t be hearing any of these complaints. These cries in the darkness for ceasefires. I think a lot of conservative commentators too are ending up following on this rather than engaging in independent thought. <\/p>\n

When they think things aren\u2019t going well they line up with the naysayers and people\u2019s moods and people\u2019s attitudes can shift multiple times a day on this based on the way a media story is reported or not. You need to be an independent thinker. You need to be of resolve when watching this. You have to understand the context. It is a new day and a new way of doing things over there. What do we need to do? The United States needs to simply continue to support its ally Israel, fighting exactly the same enemy we face. Israel is winning. Israel is doing great. Damage to the enemy. Get off this ceasefire stuff. Let them finish what needs to be done. <\/p>\n

A lot of people are complaining about the prime minister. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s the best but he\u2019s not the story. The military is on the move. Israel is in fact winning and Hezbollah and their patrons are losing. They\u2019re getting their butts kicked. Let me tell you point blank: they\u2019re getting their butts kicked and it doesn\u2019t take brilliance like mine to see it. Anyone can see it if you know how to read the players here as you immerse yourself in the media. Syria is impotent. Yeah, they\u2019re sending munitions down there, but they can\u2019t strike on their own for fear of being annihilated and the all powerful Iran can\u2019t do anything either but sit by and watch and hope and pray that the Hezbos are somehow able to make a comeback. But it ain\u2019t happening. The Hezbollah is losing. Israel is winning big and it\u2019s not time to pull back at all. Time to mush forward. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Just a final thought here, folks. By no sensible analysis can it be said that Israel is losing militarily, and that\u2019s another reason by the way we keep hearing spin about a ‘PR victory\u2019 or ‘ideological victory.\u2019 What the hell is that? Remember what I said about reality versus spin. The Israelis don\u2019t care about the spin. They know they\u2019re not going to win a PR or spin war with the media today and diplomatic community today. Not a chance. They\u2019ll focus on what real victory is and that\u2019s wiping out the enemy, which is happening. The enemy is losing and they want this to end before more of their forces are destroyed. Mark my words.<\/p>\n

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