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A 50th Anniversary War? Victor Davis Hanson
Twitter ^ | October 7, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/07/2023 2:36:54 PM PDT by billorites

Edited on 10/07/2023 2:52:07 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Why did Hamas stage a long-planned, carefully executed and multifaceted attack on Israeli towns, soldiers, and civilians—one designed to instill terror by executing noncombatants, taking hostages, and desecrating the bodies of the dead?

And how were the killers able to enter Israeli proper in enough numbers to kill what could be hundreds and perhaps eventually wound what could be thousands?


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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fjb; hamas; islam; islamic; israel; israelattacked; muslim; muslims; vdh; war; yomkippur
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1 posted on 10/07/2023 2:36:54 PM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites

The NeverTrumpers will get VERY MAD at you for posting this, as it sounds like you’re siding with Israel, just as Trump is doing.


2 posted on 10/07/2023 2:40:00 PM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: billorites

We got precisely the government all the fake ballots voted for.


3 posted on 10/07/2023 2:48:26 PM PDT by nicollo ("This is FR!")
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To: billorites

Rest assured, that whatever the “right” thing to do is, BIDEN WILL DO THE OPPOSITE!!

Biden has been described as some kind of foreign policy genius.

NO, BIDEN IS A F*CKING MORON. Always picks the WRONG side!!!

BOMB Gaza until only the Rubble Bounces!!!


4 posted on 10/07/2023 2:49:39 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: billorites

I remember the Yom Kippur War, Oct 1973...

I was in the military at that time...

All leaves were cancelled and the US prepared to send our troops over there...

We didnt go then but whats to stop Joe sending troops this time as cannon fodder ???


5 posted on 10/07/2023 2:51:04 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: BobL

If the Never Trumpers are against America (”no MAGA”)and against Israel, what’s the difference between Never Trumpers and the Left and the DEMONocRATS?


6 posted on 10/07/2023 2:52:16 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: OHPatriot

Joes first announcement this morning was a demand that Israel not defend herself or regtaliate...

The threat was scrubbed later but he made us look disloyal to our allies and cowardly...

Shameful treason...


7 posted on 10/07/2023 2:53:44 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: billorites

good questions all. looks like our alphabets missed yet another one, or worse, didn’t bother to inform our best ally.


8 posted on 10/07/2023 2:55:37 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: billorites; LegendHasIt

“ 2) The Biden administration had recently released some $6 billion to Iran through a prison swap deal…”

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In lieu of what LegendHasIt posted on another thread, someone needs to update Victor and most Americans:

“ It wasn’t 6 Billion dollars Biden gave Iran. It was actually 16 billion....The Six billion was made public, but he kicked in another ten billion a week later, and that was kept fairly quiet.”

https://www.jns.org/column/iran/23/8/31/315367/


9 posted on 10/07/2023 2:56:04 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

“We didnt go then but whats to stop Joe sending troops this time as cannon fodder ???”

He won’t send troops to Israel, regardless of how desperate their situation might become, as that would mean endorsing Trump’s policies of friendship towards Israel.

Now Ukraine, of course, is just the oppose...and it makes sense that he would support them, given their Nazi infestation.


10 posted on 10/07/2023 2:58:33 PM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: BobL

Obama is running this show. This is Obama’s third term.


11 posted on 10/07/2023 2:59:39 PM PDT by SFmom
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To: OHPatriot

BOMB Gaza until only the Rubble Bounces!!!
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God warned Israel to destroy ever last one of their enemies...men women and children...

But Israel didnt and so they have to keep on suffering due to the evil from the descendants of those enemies...


12 posted on 10/07/2023 3:02:53 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: billorites

Make no mistake, these attacks were terrorism for terrorism sake. The attacks were not (in my opinion based on what I have seen so far) by military units, they were at most young men given a little training on how to fire a weapon and told to go out and kill and or capture as many as possible.

Hamas leadership have a reason for doing this (I don’t know but suspect it is at the behalf of those providing financial support) aka Iran.

By declaring a state of war it opens up options they would only have if in a state of war. I would expect Israel will hit Iran at some point and possibly Lebanon.

If Israel declares war against Iran hang on for a bumpy ride.


13 posted on 10/07/2023 3:03:27 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: BobL

Biden is siding with Israel too.


14 posted on 10/07/2023 3:05:09 PM PDT by DavidThomas
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To: Jim W N

If MAGA is pro-Israel and Biden is pro-Israel, what’s the difference between MAGA and Biden?


15 posted on 10/07/2023 3:07:08 PM PDT by DavidThomas
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To: SFmom
Obama is running this show. This is Obama’s third term.

I think you're correct.

16 posted on 10/07/2023 3:11:46 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: billorites

Dr. Hanson broke all this down for us further on:

“1)In February Secretary of State Blinken had bragged that not only had the Biden administration resumed massive aid to the PLA cancelled by Trump, but cumulatively had transferred $1 billion—even as Palestinian authorities bragged that they would continue to pay bounties to the families of “martyrs” (i.e., those killed while conducting terrorists attacks against Israel).

And millions of American dollars also went into Gaza, run by Hamas—despite the Biden administration’s efforts to keep mostly quiet the resumption of such inexplicable support. In this regard, note the current shameful State-Department (“U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs”) website news release that was posted after today’s attack. It ended with this quite embarrassing, morally equivalent admonition:

“We urged all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.”

“All sides?” “Refrain from retaliatory attacks?”

So Israel is the moral equivalent of terrorists executing civilians and brutalizing their corpses? And the IDF then is not supposed to retaliate against these killers?

This Biden State Department insanity cannot stand. So expect some apparatchik to take down this Munich-like posting as soon as possible.

2) The Biden administration had recently released some $6 billion to Iran through a prison swap deal that saw South Korea hand over embargoed Iranian money to Qatar—despite Tehran’s increased anti-Israeli rhetoric and its loud brag about the escalation. We should assume money for rockets (Hamas claims they have launched 5,000, and have received 100,000 of them via the Damascus airport) and weapons in general for Hamas were supplied by Iran, which again is likely the chief catalyst for this surprise attack.

3) Almost immediately, after his inauguration Biden mobilized to resume the bankrupt Iran deal. And in unhinged fashion he appointed the anti-Israeli bigot, pro-Iranian journalist Robert Malley as America’s chief negotiator. Note that Malley is now under FBI investigation for security breaches, involving disclosing classified U.S. documents and also for allegedly helping pro-Iranian activists and propagandists land influential billets inside the U.S. government.

In short, there was a general Hamas and Iranian perception that the Biden administration had resumed the discredited Obama madness of empowering Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. This discredited agenda was to “balance” the power of Israel and the moderate Arab Gulf governments to achieve “creative tension”, exacerbated by Biden’s loathing of the government of Benjamín Netanyahu (who has been snubbed by Biden and never invited for an official visit).

Note as well that the Biden administration has siphoned off key weapons and munitions from stockpiles inside Israel to transfer them to Ukraine. The so-called “War Reserve Ammunition—Israel” is all but depleted of just the sorts of weapons needed in the present crisis.”


Chalk up this absolute horror as another usurper regime “achievement”. As if destabilizing our own country isn’t enough for them.


17 posted on 10/07/2023 3:18:38 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Justice for the gulaged J-6ers. Rope for their persecutors.)
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To: DavidThomas

I think that that is a pretty stupid question.


18 posted on 10/07/2023 3:37:10 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Jim W N

I wouldn’t let emotions get in the way of logic.


19 posted on 10/07/2023 3:40:32 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: telescope115

There’re a lot of stupid people.


20 posted on 10/07/2023 3:44:28 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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