Gaza is not Fallujah עזה היא לא פלוג'ה
- Ariel Avidar
- Apr 14
- 4 min read
Updated: Apr 20
Its all fake news. Everything you just asked, it's fake news, it's false narratives, it's straw men that have been fed to us by our leaders and mainly at the behest of the Americans.
Now Fallujah, which they mentioned yesterday, Fallujah is the example, that's true, of dangerous urban warfare. And the reason why the Americans had to go into Fallujah has nothing to do with the reasons why we have to go into or don't have to go into Gaza.
Why did they go into Fallujah? They went into Fallujah as part of a larger war. Fallujah was the heart of the insurgency. When you have an insurgency in one location, you have to deal with it with the hopes and the plans that you'll stop the insurgency in other parts of the country.
The United States also was involved there in nation building. When you're doing nation building, you have to win the hearts and minds, as we heard. You have to win the hearts and minds of the local population. The reason why is you have to use them to create the next future military, the next future bureaucracies, the next future government. That's what's called nation building.
There were also genuine war goals. They had to capture high value targets, the senior leadership, political leaders, military leaders. They had to also gather intelligence because the war was not isolated to just one location at one time. It was extended war. So they're gathering intelligence.
Now, if you have some of those, many of those, all of those elements, you have justification to be on the ground. You need to use precision strikes. You need to take risky operations. Again, none of which apply in Gaza.
In Gaza, you have Hamas. Hamas come from Gaza. There's no Hamasville off the coast. There's no island where these people came and they invaded. Hamas comes from Gaza. And before there was Hamas, there was another acronym, and there was another alphabet soup, and there was another group. And this dates back to the Balfour Declaration and the Hebron massacres. It's not anything new that we're discussing. It's the same population.
And why? There are various reasons for this. They believe that their land was stolen. Before the land was stolen, there was another reason. It was a religious cause. It's in their educational system. They preach to kill Jews. There's plenty of information on this out there that we don't have to get into it. But the point here is to distinguish between this narrative that Fallujah and Gaza are one and the same.
So now we're into a Fallujah-style war by choice, and we have to send soldiers into alleyways. We put 21 reservists into buildings, so the buildings have to use smart precision technologies so that we could limit civilian casualties.
Now, by the way, when the U.S. goes to war, they don't call them civilian casualties. It's called collateral damage. And they don't use smart technology. If anyone remembers, they use carpet bombs. They use JDAMs. They call it shock and awe. Have this reliance on the U.S. smart weapon technology that we don't need in the first place for this battle. It's not relevant.
If this is a conventional war, don't tell me that Elbit and IAI and other domestic companies can't produce enough regular munitions for a conventional war. If you go to Gaza, you go to Yehudan Shomron, which some call the West Bank, they're making rockets and machine guns in a mechanic shop.
So this all started day one, 7 October. If we paid attention, Netanyahu telegraphed exactly what his plans were. His calls went to the left. He called Gantz, and he called Lapid, and he brought in Eisenkot and Gallant, and most importantly, he called Biden. The same Biden who wouldn't even call him or meet with him. He ran specifically to Biden. That was day one, if you pay attention.
He didn't have to expand his coalition. But if he felt the need to do so, he could have taken those who are ideologically aligned in this sense. Lieberman, Elkins, there's a slew of them.
And what did they do? They then fed us this Hamasville narrative. And then they also throw in this Iran narrative. Of course, Iran is our enemy. Of course, Iran is funding them. Of course, Iran is doing all these terrible things. Don't tell me the story that there was no conflict before 1979, before the Iranian Revolution. That's just the latest supplier.
So why do they do this? So for Gantz and Lapid, it's ideological. For those in that camp, they want to be and remain part of the US Commonwealth. They agree nationally, politically, socially, everything the United States does, and want to create an Israel in that image. We have a talk on that.
For Netanyahu, it's his legacy. The crown jewel of his legacy is will come from the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. We also have a talk on that. Bibi's legacy will not come from yet another fight in the North, South, or even in the territories.
So really, this all leads to the question. And I think we're going to put our next talk on this one. We talk about sovereignty in the West Bank. Do we have sovereignty in Israel? Without having to hear that the US Department of State is deeply disappointed. I don't have a silver lining on this one. But let's play the happy music anyway.
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