You know what a ceasefire is? It’s when the other side is out of ammo or dead. I’m okay with either. Hamas could have ended this thing on October 8th or any day since—any day—by releasing all hostages and surrendering unconditionally. They would have had to face justice, but no one else would have had to die—no one but the 1,200 they slaughtered. Those calling for anything else are complicit in the crimes of that day and the 415 days since. Anyone who cites unverified death tolls is spreading Islamist propaganda. Who are these criminal nations to judge Israel, to threaten its democratic leader with arrest? The number of Israelis killed, kidnapped, or otherwise brutalized would amount to 50,000 Americans if the same ratio held here. Given Biden’s border policies, that’s well underway. Netanyahu is the leader his people need. May our new president (same as the old!) be the same for us.
Given that Israel started with a debit balance of over 2000 dating from Oct 7 and Hamas had a totally asymmetrical 'free hit' against them, the tallies aren't so bad. Giving Hamas a bloody nose from time-to-time became known as 'mowing the grass' in the IDF. Oct 7 was so egregiously different that digging out Hamas root and branch became necessary. South Lebanon is on a par given that the hapless Unifil was on hand tasked with policing the border. The UN force in Sinai enabled the Sadat peace initiatives, so these strategies do work.
We’ve been hearing the same propaganda since the 6 day war. I don’t play their game. My concern is first and last for the Israelis. I say it loudly and proudly every chance I get. Do we hear blacks express guilt that their liberation from slavery caused starvation and death among the Confederates? Of course not. Why should they? It is not 1938 anymore. Jews fight back now, and thank god for that
I wonder at the number of freed blacks who starved to death or were otherwise left destitute with the collapse of slavery... not that I'm defending slavery.....but anyone ever do a study of this in Africana studies deptartments.?
I understood, I guess Im just reiterating my point that people (Israelis or American slaves) have the right to fight back and the enemy’s casualties are the soul responsibility of the enemy.
Yes, I agree , I always say that you have a problem with dead Arab children? Send your outrage to to the mullahs in Iran who are a thousand percent responsible and their proxies of course for this....just as the lovely children of Harvard wrote in their screed Oct. 7 or 8th about Israel's alleged culpability for raping and pillaging itself apparently.
I seldom read anything new in books or blogs anymore but Richard Landes' Can The World be Wrong is superb. He succinctly describes.........using 2014's war.....the West's malevolent excusing of the violence and barbarism as some kind of post colonial "legtimate response" of the oppressed of the world....in particular the Muslims who are allegedly under assault for extinction everywhere and must rally to save themselves...................from Jews/Zionism. Not from Russia. Not from China. Not even Myanmar. JEWS. He cites the same one to one statistic for civilian to terrorist casualties...in 2014! The same accusations. The same campus and street organizing for Jew Hate rallies. The same unhinged Norwegian and Spanish? ? sick posturing against the "Chosen People." So 2023-24....this is all a repeat...a metastisizing of the Jew Hate on campuses, the media, the street, if anything. And if Hamas and the lethal Iranian so called Islamic rep regime of murderers survives, this will be repeated a few years hence with new encampment and new photos on the front page of NY Times showing distressed Arab child begging for a scrap of food that somehow evaded the Jewish aim to use starvation to bring the proud Muslim to kneel.
It is really hard to grasp what has become our new normal. When will we get back to normal normal?
You know what a ceasefire is? It’s when the other side is out of ammo or dead. I’m okay with either. Hamas could have ended this thing on October 8th or any day since—any day—by releasing all hostages and surrendering unconditionally. They would have had to face justice, but no one else would have had to die—no one but the 1,200 they slaughtered. Those calling for anything else are complicit in the crimes of that day and the 415 days since. Anyone who cites unverified death tolls is spreading Islamist propaganda. Who are these criminal nations to judge Israel, to threaten its democratic leader with arrest? The number of Israelis killed, kidnapped, or otherwise brutalized would amount to 50,000 Americans if the same ratio held here. Given Biden’s border policies, that’s well underway. Netanyahu is the leader his people need. May our new president (same as the old!) be the same for us.
Slight correction. A ceasefire is when the enemy has been totally defeated and surrendered
I’ll take that too.
Given that Israel started with a debit balance of over 2000 dating from Oct 7 and Hamas had a totally asymmetrical 'free hit' against them, the tallies aren't so bad. Giving Hamas a bloody nose from time-to-time became known as 'mowing the grass' in the IDF. Oct 7 was so egregiously different that digging out Hamas root and branch became necessary. South Lebanon is on a par given that the hapless Unifil was on hand tasked with policing the border. The UN force in Sinai enabled the Sadat peace initiatives, so these strategies do work.
We’ve been hearing the same propaganda since the 6 day war. I don’t play their game. My concern is first and last for the Israelis. I say it loudly and proudly every chance I get. Do we hear blacks express guilt that their liberation from slavery caused starvation and death among the Confederates? Of course not. Why should they? It is not 1938 anymore. Jews fight back now, and thank god for that
I wonder at the number of freed blacks who starved to death or were otherwise left destitute with the collapse of slavery... not that I'm defending slavery.....but anyone ever do a study of this in Africana studies deptartments.?
I understood, I guess Im just reiterating my point that people (Israelis or American slaves) have the right to fight back and the enemy’s casualties are the soul responsibility of the enemy.
Yes, I agree , I always say that you have a problem with dead Arab children? Send your outrage to to the mullahs in Iran who are a thousand percent responsible and their proxies of course for this....just as the lovely children of Harvard wrote in their screed Oct. 7 or 8th about Israel's alleged culpability for raping and pillaging itself apparently.
I condemn slavery wholeheartedly, but to suggest that victory is wrong because the enemy suffered, is just laughable.
somehow you misinterpreted my comment. I want victory.
I seldom read anything new in books or blogs anymore but Richard Landes' Can The World be Wrong is superb. He succinctly describes.........using 2014's war.....the West's malevolent excusing of the violence and barbarism as some kind of post colonial "legtimate response" of the oppressed of the world....in particular the Muslims who are allegedly under assault for extinction everywhere and must rally to save themselves...................from Jews/Zionism. Not from Russia. Not from China. Not even Myanmar. JEWS. He cites the same one to one statistic for civilian to terrorist casualties...in 2014! The same accusations. The same campus and street organizing for Jew Hate rallies. The same unhinged Norwegian and Spanish? ? sick posturing against the "Chosen People." So 2023-24....this is all a repeat...a metastisizing of the Jew Hate on campuses, the media, the street, if anything. And if Hamas and the lethal Iranian so called Islamic rep regime of murderers survives, this will be repeated a few years hence with new encampment and new photos on the front page of NY Times showing distressed Arab child begging for a scrap of food that somehow evaded the Jewish aim to use starvation to bring the proud Muslim to kneel.