The dirtiest words in foreign policy speech are “ceasefire” and “armistice.”
They never end hostilities, and they leave tyrants in place. They abandon a nation’s dissidents and lay off authorities that target civilians.
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Alas, our president has fallen into that trap with confusing messages while Iran executes protesters and citizens who are non-compliant with sharia law.
History should be instructive. World War II ended when Japan surrendered aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945 — a twenty-three-minute ceremony, officially managed by General Douglas MacArthur, followed by representatives from China, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.
Japan became a peaceful democracy. And that was the last time a major war ended with surrender.
The Korean War, June 25, 1950–July 27, 1953
Following the Russo-Japanese War, Korea was made a Japanese protectorate in 1910. Japan surrendered Korea as part of the terms of the end of World War II, and the peninsula was partitioned at the 38th parallel into the Russia-controlled North and the America-controlled South.
On June 25, 1950, heavily armed North Korean troops crossed the parallel, reaching far into the south.
Counter-offenses on both sides ended with a brokered armistice, signed on July 27, 1953, leaving a demilitarized boundary roughly near the 38th parallel, leaving in place the brutal and savage Kim dynasty, which remains today. The present Kim is a dangerous participant in global threats.
The Suez Crisis, 1956
After months of threatening rhetoric, on July 26, 1956, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal Company, ending the control of the British-French association, which had operated the Suez Canal since its construction in 1869.
The British and French held secret military consultations with Israel, continually threatened by Nasser with crude, racist, and militant tantrums. Israeli forces attacked across Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on October 29, 1956, advancing to within 10 miles of the Suez Canal. Britain and France landed troops of their own a few days later.
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President Eisenhower pressured Israel, Britain, and France to accept a ceasefire on November 6 and acceded to a U.N. resolution condemning the invasion.
That invigorated Nasser’s reputation, giving him time to plan the war in 1967.
1967 War, June 5–10
Six months before June, Israeli intel reported increasing cooperation among Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, with a variety of mutual defense pacts, cooperation treaties, and high-level meetings.
Further intel revealed a heavy Egyptian military buildup, the withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeeping forces, and closure of the Straits of Tiran, which occasioned a pre-emptive Israeli attack, which destroyed nearly the entire Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian air forces on the ground.
The Six-Day War ended on June 10, 1967, when a United Nations–brokered ceasefire took effect to halt the fighting between Israel and the Arab coalition of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
The Yom Kippur War, October 6–26, 1973
This attack was launched on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, catching Israel’s military and intelligence apparatus off guard.
After initial devastating losses in lives and national confidence, Israel rebounded, successfully crossed the Suez Canal, pushed Syrian forces to the outskirts of Damascus, and surrounded the Egyptian Third Army.
The U.N. Security Council adopted a ceasefire resolution, which took full effect on October 26, 1973. Nasser was vindicated and died a peaceful death.
The Hamas Wars
Since 2007, Israel and Hamas, along with other Pal-Arab terrorists in Gaza, have engaged in four wars, in 2008–2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021 — and October 7, 2023, during the Jill Biden administration, when Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 civilians, including babies and elderly people…
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And took hundreds hostage…
After all the dirty ceasefires.
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