The extraordinary Caroline Glick ponders Israel's precarious existence after the Mavi Marmara incident. The future looks scary and war-filled.
Israel is endangered today as it has never been before. The Turkish-Hamas flotilla two weeks ago precipitated a number of dangerous developments. . . Since the Navy's lethal takeover of the "Mavi Marmara", Israel has been stood before an international diplomatic firing squad led by the UN and Europe and supported by the Obama administration . . . In the very near future, Israel will face off against Iranian, Lebanese, and Turkish ships . . . The "Mavi Marmara" showed Iran and its allies that they can win strategic victories against Israel by giving the IDF no option other than using force against them. This means that Israel can bank on the prospect that all the ships they are dispatching will be populated by suicide protesters. Indeed the Iranians have openly admitted this . . .
Glick foresees suicide squads used to move the world to war against Israel.
The Lebanese ships are being organized by Hizbullah-affiliated individuals and the Turkish ships are being organized by the IHH terror group that organized the "Mavi Marmara." Hizbullah's penchant for dispatching suicide squads is of course well known. And the IHH showed its devotion to suicide protests on the Mavi Marmara. So it is fairly clear that the passengers aboard the ships from both countries intend to force the IDF to kill them.The intensification of the suicide protest campaign against Israel is dangerous for two reasons. First, it is a model that can be and in all likelihood will be replicated on air and land and it can be replicated anywhere. Israel can and should expect mobs of suicide protesters marching on Gaza to force Israel to surrender control over its borders. Israel can expect mobs of suicide protesters marching on Israeli embassies and other government installations around the world in an attempt to increase its diplomatic isolations.In the air, Israel can expect charter flights to take off from airports around the world with a few dozen kamikaze protesters who will force the IAF to shoot them down as they approach Israeli airspace.
There's much more. If we learn nothing else from this article, it is that the pressure on Israel will only dramatically increase, and that war looms more and more likely. Obama's abandonment of Israel only escalates the tensions.