Posted on 10/09/2023 4:27:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Hamas invasion was designed to shock Israelis through their pre-civilizational desecration of the bodies of the dead.
There have been plenty of terrorist attacks on Israel. A dozen or so conventional wars of various magnitude have been waged against the Jewish state. And more often there have been mixtures of both.
Yet never have hundreds of gangs of black-clad murderers carefully planned to swarm Israel, with an agenda to pull random Jews out of their homes and off the street, murder them, and toss their bodies in the street.
In fact, the closest parallel to the sort of methods Hamas is now embracing is something close to the Rwanda 1994 mass killing, when swarms of Hutu militia killers launched a preplanned murder spree against thousands of Tutsi civilians.
Note one common theme of these horrific videos of the murdering of young women: the bloodthirst of the Gaza crowd. There appears a natural desire of everyday Gazans to video the mutilations, an embrace of the spitting on the doomed, a frenzied effort to mutilate the dead—and the absence of a single Gazan objecting to the group murder of a civilian.
Hamas did not act out of the ordinary, but in sync with its people. In truth, there is something so terribly wrong in Gaza that the United States should keep as far away as it can from such barbarity—and hope that it too feels the same about America and keeps to itself.
So again why did Hamas mount such a long-planned and multifaceted assault on Israeli towns, public buildings, soldiers, and civilians?
The invasion was not so much a surprise attack, in the conventional Pearl Harbor sense, as a carefully calibrated land, sea, and ground effort at mass killing and hostage taking. It was designed to execute noncombatants...
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For example, he says,
"Israel will have the backing of most of the civilized world and its own people, since there is no other choice once Hamas has adopted its campaign of death.
Simply not true. The Marxists in the U.S. (who are massive in numbers and in control of our major institutions) will side with Hamas because they hate Israel and believe that Hamas is justified in its actions.
VDH also asks,
"So again why did Hamas mount such a long-planned and multifaceted assault on Israeli towns, public buildings, soldiers, and civilians?Why indeed. It's called "holy war." Hamas is merely following the commands of Mohammed AND Hamas knows that it has huge support within the United States.
VDH might consider Hamas' actions to be indicative of "pre-civilization" but again he is wrong.
Being a classicist, he is thinking of "civilization" in the "classical" Greek sense.
Islamic society may not appear civilized to Westerners, but it is perfectly civilized to Hamas.
Just another instance of the mental illness that is sweeping our nation. That it is tolerated is the mystery. True evil walks among us.
Were they...?
“Heinous mass murder of civilians, rocket barrages against people in their homes, hostage taking and brutal violence on a scale never seen.”
Never seen? What rock are you under? KGB-Putin’s Russia has been doing all that and far more in Ukraine for the last 20 months. They’ve killed many more civilians, destroyed many more homes (and cities) and taken many more hostages back to Russia than Hamas has done in Israel. KGB and Hamas have the same objectives -murder and conquest of neighboring peoples.
Somebody knew, but didn’t tell.
A side note. I read that Debkafile news site us shutting down following the death of its founder. One less alternative news outlet.
Thank you for giving us the link to this very informative, heartfelt talk by the very wise Caroline Glick. I’ve always valued her. Now more than ever.
I’m not. I live 40 min from Patterson NJ.
America needs to consider prioritizing deportations from areas that celebrate rape, mutation & murder of civilians. Green cards need to be pulled for criminal behavior, for membership in gangs.
Oh, and for the older Freepers:
Remember the Tet offensive? Remember Hue? What happened to the citizens when the NVA and Viet Cong first entered Hue on the Tet holiday cease fire? Seeing a pattern? That’s because it’s a template. All the belligerents are KGB-trained and directed.
Don’t be so gullible. Stop compromising with evil.
May Israel have the strength & resolve to do what is necessary to make Israel & her people safe. May her enemies hubris and barbarianism be the downfall of those enemies.
While all this is going on, the top three priorities of the Biden administration remain 1) abortion, 2) climate change, and 3) White supremacy.
“I find myself wondering why the hell Israel would ever have border crossings there and allow entry to the country from that place.”
Because we demanded it.
That’s why.
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Bottom line......... It’s actually all President Donald Trump’s fault
But as always, VDH got it exactly right
President Trump exposed and ended the foolish, intellectually vacant and diplomatically stupid efforts of the Obama administration to try to appease Iran
Trump sent his envoy to Israel and the Gulf Arabs and to Egypt and to Moracco and established the Abram accords. The Abram accords were followed up subsequently by the Negev Summit. The result is that all the Arabs that matter and Israel are united in an effort to move forward. The Palestinian question is resolved. The Palestinians including Hamas are just ignored. The new effort promotes economic ties on an unpresented scale that is strongly supported by all involved. The new effort includes military cooperation that is bad, very bad, trouble for Iran
The Hamas assault had to take place because it was the only possible way to react to the Trump creation of the Abram Accords. Absent some attack and effort to restore the Obama status quo, all was lost.
The result is going to be that all Palestinians are mortally screwed and Iran is completely isolated
October 7 is 10/7.
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Double, nay triple AMEN!
Wonder how much of a kick back Biden and Dems will receive for releasing the $6 billion when they did?
The result of this madness is that there was a general Hamas and Iranian perception that the Biden administration had resumed the discredited Obama insanity of empowering Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. This discredited agenda aimed to “balance” the power of Israel and the moderate Arab Gulf governments to achieve “creative tension,” and was certainly exacerbated by Biden’s loathing of the government of Benjamín Netanyahu.
Note as well that the Biden administration has insidiously siphoned off key weapons and munitions from emergency stockpiles inside Israel apparently to transfer them to Ukraine. The so-called “War Reserve Ammunition—Israel” is reportedly all but depleted of just the sorts of weapons and shells that will be likely needed in the present crisis.
Who knows, we should soon expect that some of the multibillion-dollar arsenal abandoned to the Taliban—who have now voiced a willingness to help Gaza in the killing of Jews—will end up with Hamas. So we deplete strategic arsenals in Israel, but leave them to the Taliban.
In this regard is there a Carteresque pattern here?
A well thought-out article from Prof Hanson. While long, it is certainly worth your time!
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American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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The 9/11 attacks are so yesterday.
Is VDH still all in on the Uke quagmire? Does Hanson offer any mea culpas on his foolish take that NATO had to react to stop a revanchist Soviet Union in Ukraine?
Because any Muslim religious EXTREMIST is better than a Christian extremist.
Killing in the name of Allah is better than praying to Christ to those people
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