Weekly Commentary: Urgently Need Post-Biden Blackmail Strategy
Dr. Aaron Lerner 28 November 2024

There's a bullet in the chamber of the gun pressed up against our temple.

And we are fully aware that once a United Nations Security Council
Resolution invoking Chapter VII of the UN Charter "bullet" is fired, a
Russian veto would prevent President Trump from readily undoing the damage.

Yes, Obama's "parting gift" to the Jewish State was a UNSC Resolution that
didn't invoke Chapter VII.

But times have changed.

So, for all my anger and frustration that my prime minister yielded to the
blackmailer's bullet, I understand why Mr. Netanyahu accepted a ridiculous
deal that, if implemented, will ultimately result in Hezbollah, under the
(at best) blind eyes of UNIFIL and the Lebanese Army, completely rebuilding
and restocking their forward positions for a massive ground invasion.

The challenge Prime Minister Netanyahu faces is to prepare a "package" for
President Trump - a viable, robust resolution of the situation in the north
that Trump can embrace and adopt as his alternative to the sham deal imposed
by the Biden administration.

Such a package would include intuitive features like a deep "no man's land"
north of the Lebanese border.

To be clear: this won't be a simple task.

Yes, we have many allies in Mr. Trump's team, but all kinds of international
players will reach out to President Trump with exciting, ostensibly
"groundbreaking" deals.

Our package must be capable of being implemented in days rather than weeks
or months.

And with no cost to America.

Of course, I am not describing something to be shared only with Mr. Trump on
January 20th.

We should already be working feverishly, in coordination with our American
allies, so the program can be locked in with President-elect Trump in the
days to come.

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