At a moment when the state of Israel is under siege from all sides, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA), the architect of the “Contract with America” that led to the Republican Party gaining control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years in 1994, stated bluntly, “Israel’s survival and America’s survival are linked.”
“The future history of our civilization is currently being written in the Middle East,” Gingrich declared. “The Israeli Defense Forces are deeply committed to urban warfare against Hamas in Gaza. Israel is also engaged in selective strikes against Hamas and Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon and Iran – and punitive strikes against the Houthis in Yemen. At the same time, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is threatening retaliatory strikes against Israel.”
The long term survival of a nation requires three elements of strategic planning, Gingrich posited. “A country’s security must be adequate and prepared to fight this year. … The second level considers the next 15 years. What are the indicators of potential danger? What would be required to overwhelm those indicators? And is the country prepared to make the investments, restructuring, and planning to achieve survival? The third level for survival is long term. Is the country managing its environment over time in such a way that it is more likely to survive than be overwhelmed?”
“Two-out-of-three is not enough – and anything less is a potential crisis,” he warned.
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“Anti-Israeli forces are inherently anti-American,” he pointed out. “Israel’s war is America’s war. We have as great a vested interest in ensuring that Israel survives on every front against the Houthi, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and others as we would if it was Maine or California.”
“When the leadership of Hamas says, ‘not a single Jew will remain,’ I think that’s really clear, and Israel should take it seriously. When Iran’s Parliament chants ‘Death to America’ – and the Ayatollah explains on Iranian television that this is policy, not a slogan – a rational America should take that seriously,” he asserted.”When Iranian proxies being targeting Americans abroad, we can’t ignore that.”
“If Israel is defeated, all our shared enemies will become stronger – and they will continue attacking us. They will not be appeased or sated,” he opined. “Israel’s survival requires precisely the strategic planning efforts that America needs. We cannot focus solely on winning kinetic wars or the immediate threats in front of us (although they are important). We must focus on winning the cultural, political, and economic arguments at home and abroad – and we must do so decisively.”
He concluded. “We must be at least as tough as our opponents, because they will wipe us out if they get a chance. Make no mistake, our entire civilization is at stake. We must be prepared to defend it with the intensity it is worth.”
