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There’s been a pattern to these conflicts. Hamas launches an attack on Israel. The White House announces that it has Israel’s back. Israel carries out some air strikes. People die in the air strikes. Hamas claims that there were a lot of civilian deaths. Local Arab Muslim countries offer to negotiate a ceasefire. The White House pressures Israel to accept and demands a timetable for the end of the fighting.
Considering the sheer horror and scale of the Hamas attack, the seeming unity, will this play out any differently?
As I mentioned earlier, Biden’s speech had some good moral outrage in it. But moral outrage is rhetoric. What about policy? Unlike outrage, policy is about specifics. And while people rightly zeroed in on Biden’s condemnation of Hamas atrocities, there’s an entire section that strikes a very different and very familiar note.
“I just got off the phone with — the third call with Prime Minister Netanyahu. And I told him if the United States experienced what Israel is experiencing, our response would be swift, decisive, and overwhelming. We also discussed how democracies like Israel and the United States are stronger and more secure when we act according to the rule of law. Terrorists purpo- — purposefully target civilians, kill them. We uphold the laws of war — the law of war. It matters. There’s a difference.”
Behind the slick language (that of the speechwriter, not Biden) is a familiar narrative. Israel has to take out Hamas, which operates in urban areas and hides behind its own civilians, somehow without killing enemy civilians.
Hamas has told Gaza residents not to evacuate and leave the areas where Israel has warned that it will strike because it wants them to die.
“Ahead of airstrikes against targets belonging to the terror groups, and out of a desire to minimize civilian casualties, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has been sending warning messages to the residents of the Gaza Strip urging them to evacuate areas that are about to be targeted in strikes. In response to these messages, media outlets operated by Hamas and PIJ have been instructing residents of the Gaza Strip not to heed these warnings and not to share them or forward them to others.
On October 10, 2023, the spokesperson department of Hamas’s interior ministry wrote on the ministry’s Telegram channel: “An important note: We repeat our call on the residents to ignore the voice messages being sent randomly by the occupation to their phones demanding that they leave their homes. Their goal is to arouse panic and fear as part of a psychological warfare [campaign] accompanying the occupation’s aggression against us.”
These are the same rules that Israel has been playing by in earlier conflicts and they don’t work.
The Biden administration is also warning Israel not to be “disproportionate”.
“We remain focused on holding the terrorists accountable for their attacks, and we support Israel taking necessary and proportionate action to defend its country and protect its people, and in doing so U.S. citizens living, working and traveling in Israel,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in an emailed statement.
“Proportionate” action.
What’s a proportionate response to having entire communities wiped out, women kidnapped and raped, children abducted, babies killed by a genocidal Islamic terrorist group?
I don’t think Watson wants to consider that proposition too closely.
But the Biden administration is, despite some aggressive rhetoric, following the old familiar playbook. Hopefully, Israel will deviate from it or the end result will be the same as it was during previous campaigns against Hamas.
UPDATE: Much stronger warnings in private
US President Joe Biden reportedly urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their Tuesday phone call to minimize civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip as Israel continues its massive aerial campaign and readies for a potential ground incursion in response to Hamas’s terror onslaught.
While Biden offered full-throated support for Israel in a public address Tuesday that was overwhelmingly welcomed by Jerusalem, he apparently struck a relatively more balanced tone in his call with Netanyahu.
Biden was more direct than in prior calls that the IDF should work to avoid civilian casualties, NBC reports, citing two US officials
How do you defeat a terrorist organization that operates behind civilians without civilian casualties? You don’t.
Your first paragraph sums up the old “moral outrage but Israel must restrain itself” demands put forth by previous White House administrations, maybe with the exception of President Trump. Another cut and paste job by a regime speechwriter. “Think of the civilians! {muzzlim}, of course}! Think of the {muzzlim} chiiildren”! Those same civilians and chiiildren who were spitting on Jewish captives and defiling the bodies of murdered Jews? I hope that PM Netanyahu tells the traitorous Biden regime what to do with its “demands” and does by whatever disproportionate means necessary to destroy the islamic threat to his country once and for all.
I am just praying that they didn’t enter a quid pro quo whereby the US sends its special forces and naval destroyer in exchange for Israel not completing the job. The Bi Dung regime is not a friend of Israel.
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Biden is the laughing stock of the international political stage, and rightly so. The only leader that takes him even remotely seriously is the comic turned thug Zelenskyy, and that’s only because each time he sticks his hand out, Biden puts something in it.
Netanyahu will give Biden’s recommendations all the thought it deserves but, if you’ve seen any pictures of the horrors coming out of this attack, a “proportionate” response allows Bibi an extremely wide range of retaliatory options.
“Proportionate” would be Israel wiping its enemies off the map.
That’s what I would do if I could.
I think they should ask for the same number of children they killed to be handed over -forget handing over the women please. And those children are gone from their families. Let the families mourn, if they have such emotions, IDK. Thats proportionate.
Oh, you thought I was going to murder those babies? No, I would give them a different life. Perhaps they would not hate and love may spread. Just a wild idea.
Sorry Jojo. Israel isn’t going to behead any children no matter how much you want them to.
Ain’t that the truth.
As the slaughtered are buried, it is obvious that Biden aka Obama and his Hamas-friendly administration of elected and unelected, appointed traitors strive to bury the rest of Israel, God forbid.
Just remember back a few months: Biden’s rejection of Israel’s duly elected government and US interference in how Israel resolves her internal issues. Financing and inciting protests against the Jewish State. Also, appointing ambassadors openly hostile to Israel. Bypassing the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and, instead, treating Isaac Herzog, the appointed, never elected, supposedly non-political, but not really, non-policy making, ceremonially-tasked, “president” of Israel, a “meeter and greeter” of diplomats and visiting dignitaries to Israel, as the anointed go-to leader of Israel.
Oh yes, prancer, dancer Blinken is coming to Israel to ‘speak with’, i.e. pressure, manipulate, Herzog – about what exactly?
If there were no American Jews among the murdered dead, would this unrighteous government care?
Delaying an immediate from-the-gut response, the government, it seems, has been forced into – appearing to care. And as you say, the foreign policy supporting and enabling terror against Israel oozes out between every slimey phrase.
Because all political opposition to the government seems to be in a state of paralysis, do Americans have to rely on Israel to end this evil charade and save them from the global tentacles of terror sure to come if nothing’s done?
It seems so.
It’s high noon.
God bless Israel.
“Islam is a vibrant faith. Millions of our fellow citizens are Muslim. We respect the faith. We honor its traditions. Our enemy does not. Our enemy doesn’t follow the great traditions of Islam. They’ve hijacked a great religion…
The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends; it is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them….
Some of the comments that have been uttered about Islam do not reflect the sentiments of my government or the sentiments of most Americans. Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion, a religion that respects others. Ours is a country based upon tolerance and we welcome people of all faiths in America.” – George W. Bush
9/11 to this day goes unavenged, on the contrary the criminal nations responsible for 9/11, Saudi Arabia and Iran are rewarded with billions of dollars by America, and now the Muslims are being invited to invade America. Ilhan Omar (an illegal alien) and Tlaib, two rabid anti-American and anti-Israel, Jew haters, are now in Congress. That’s all you need to know as to how this new Israeli war against The Religion Of Peace will most likely end.
If Muslims want to show their religion is not responsible for atrocities like this, they should not celebrate them and dance in the streets when Israel and America are attacked. They should round up the traitors to their faith and publicly execute them, like they do with anyone who violates Islamic Law.
joe biden is an absolute moron. How do you fight true evil by following the rules that evil does not follow.
I don’t claim to have any answers to the muslim insanity other than total destruction as in WWII. This stall and bait tactic has been used by Americas enemies , democrats and their allies, since Korea. It’s always one step forward three steps back until they win.
To paraphrase Patton the more of them we kill the fewer of them there are to murder women and children.
Why should Israel take that bumbling imbecilic seriously anyway?
The rest of the world doesn’t, Why should Israel?
Everything Israel does do to protect themselves and fight back is declared “disproportionate”.
And the last time I checked, ALL terrorists are civilians.
Exactly the case. If the attackers were members of the military, they wouldn’t be terrorists. They would be enemy soldiers. Those that did this are civilians, hiding behind more civilians. What you’re going to see as a result of retaliatory strikes is dead civilians. There is no way around it. And I hope Israel does proportionate retaliatory strikes. Those calling for it do not know what they’re asking for. What they mean is for Israel to not hit them too hard. What a real retaliatory strike is will be very ugly.
Old Joe’s handlers should be told to stop using him to further their agenda and allow Netanyahu to do his job and eliminate the Hamas threat to Israel once and for all. And If I were in charge I’d shut off the utilities to the UN building and tell them to shut up, go home and watch how it should be done.
Why does Israel have to listen each time how to handle their wars? Why does every country in the world feel entitled to give instructions to Israel as on how much thet can fight? And worse of all, why does Israel even listen to the clique of morons telling them how to defend itself and to what extent and how many muslim subhuman criminals are they entitled to wipe out?
Gaza 2023 should be the turning point. If Erdogan wants to join the battle, let him come and take a rifle and stand next to the muslim butchers cowardly hiding in a kindergarten. That’s the answer (if at all) that he should get from Israel. If France’s president or Canada’s PM feel the need to set out rules of engagement for Israel, let them send their troops over and give their own troops their ridiculous rules of engagement. Gaza is in desperate need of a cataclysm of Biblical proportions. Gaza needs and urgent makeover, a re-engineering, a Gaza 2.0
Frankly, so does the “West Bank”.
Israel should have formally annexed the West Bank in 1967 and been done with it instead of appeasing the appeasers of the EU, UN, US and whomever else feels compelled to dictate Israeli self determination. And while they’re at it, make Gaza a parking lot.
Make Gaza a smoking crater. And then piss in it.
Netanyahu has already betrayed the Jewish nation he doesn’t need Bi Dung to do it. He is covering up the massacres by not showing the world the barbarity of of Hamas. Luckily we have Hamas to brag about what they did to show us.
Second by bringing Gantz into a coalition Gantz is a terrible leader that won’t hesistate to sacrifice Jewish Soldiers for a mild show of force. He tried to destroy the Country with the Judicial reform and all he cares about is his own power (like all leftists)
You’re wrong about Netanyahu but right about that piece of shit, Gantz.
The only way to bring lasting peace to Israel is to remove the homicidal barbaric Arab population and transfer them to any Arab country they choose. The Arabs have demonstrated time and time again that they don’t want peace until Israel is gone.
Not only are the so-called “Palestinians” not wanted in other muzlim countries; but other muzlim countries actually want them to stay in Israel to be used as a cudgel against Israel every time something happens.
Like all rational civilized people, Netanyahu should ignore Biden. These “innocent civilians” are the ones who elected Hamas in 2007 and still support it, who have for years been giving out candy and baked goods whenever Israelis are murdered, who teach their children from the youngest age to hate AND KILL Israelis, who were throwing things and striking Israeli hostages as Hamas paraded them in Gaza just five days ago. Innocent civilians my ass.
Many years ago I said that ultimately the Jews would put on the star of David and hoist their Galils.
Also I told the Christians that they would wear the Cross of St. George and pick up the M-4 rifle.
And together we would have our reckoning with Islam.
This was around 2013 when most people still believed in the Golden Calf of elections and the political process.
And here we are today.
PS…….just 3 weeks ago everyone was talking about how Islamic terrorism had vanished from the consciousness.
“The farther you are from the last Muslim atrocity……….the nearer you are to the next.”
Some of you might remember my comment.
Proportionate response? In this case that leaves it wide open. Hamas called the tune. The IDF aren’t ones to waste ammo targeting civilians, but human shields should be SOL. Daycare center over C3 bunker? Bye-bye daycare center, quit doing it, or don’t, but it doesn’t work anymore. Anybody in the world that has a problem with it, talk to hamas, or whoever is using human shields.
“Don’t his Hamas too hard.” Sure and be sure to tell Hamas to be gentle as they decapitate babies.
Don’t hit Hamas too hard?
The US should loan some B-52s and enough bombs so no building stands.
Israel should fight this war to win not to please Biden and his left wing woke base
The rules of avoiding civilian casualties and using proportional responses are out the window when your enemy refuses to evacuate civilians and has engaged in Holocaust like conduct Israel should fight and destroy Hamas and turn Gaza into the Stone Age by all means at its disposal
Pervie Joe says we must be peaceful because that’s not “who we are.” How peaceful is this dirty bastard when he’s railing against MAGA supporters? How peaceful is he when he allows illegal immigrants to flood across our border an kill hundreds of thousands of Americans with fentanyl? What a POS Biden is.
You can kill them, just don’t make them too dead.