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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.
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, grab Jews for bargaining leverage, and to shock Israelis through their pre-civilizational desecration of the bodies of the dead.
It targeted first a youth concert near the border, on the theory the cowardly killers could gain maximum media traction and Arab solidarity by sensationally butchering and kidnapping helpless adolescents. Will the murderers in the weeks ahead transfer their killing zeal to attacks on the IDF? They will soon have their long desired and ample opportunity to showcase to the world their bravado as they face real soldiers and not unarmed elderly and youth.
Apparently, the Palestinians in their now ISIS role also thought their descent into even greater barbarity, rarely witnessed in even the most savage parts of the world, would shock Israelis into assuming some sort of collective fetal position, with hands over their ears screaming, “make all these demons just go away.”
If so, Hamas sorely miscalculated.
The sheer horror of their methods, and the cowardice shown by focusing on teen-aged girls and children rather than the IDF, will have the exact opposite effect, both in Israel and worldwide.
Israel now knows there is no living with a precivilizational Hamas. It must destroy it, permanently block off Gaza from itself, and adopt a strategy of chronic disproportionate response from now on out.
In such a change of strategy, 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. We will likely see things in the next month that no one has anticipated, and yet the Israeli response will be in the eyes of most of the world long overdue.
In other words, few will pay any more attention to the Squads of the world, or the radical Jew-haters of the Western Left, or the Democratic-Socialists of America who cheered on the killing. They are now revealed on the side of death for death’s sake and cannot be reasoned with.
We are not yet 80 years out from the Holocaust. Yet here again we witness black-clad cadres of special killer units trying to round up Jews and execute them on the spot. There is one strange difference though between the current Hamas SS cadres and their spiritual forefathers in Nazi Germany.
Between 1941-45 America fought to destroy the SS and its hired local death squads. But in 2023, the Biden administration has restored hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority and to Gaza under Hamas, despite the commitments of both to the destruction of Israel and the mass killing of Jews—and regardless of the warnings of its own State Department.
That too will change, as there will soon be zero American support for giving one more cent to any Palestinian “organization.”
Why the attacks now? Other than the usual reasons the Palestinians slaughter Jews—envy, the easy preference to destroy others than to create a successful modern state of their own, ethnic and religious hatred—the timing and methods of this particular killing spread were predicated on some particular catalysts.
Palestinians wanted to stop any rumored rapprochement between the Gulf monarchies—their traditional purse strings—and Israel, by forcing the issue of Arab solidarity in times of “war,” especially through waging a gruesome attack aimed at civilians and encompassing executions and hostage taking. They wished to force, for example, the Saudis to endorse their mutilation of corpses or else to be seen as sell-outs to the “Jews.”
Iran is the likely driving force in prompting the war. Its greatest fear is a Sunni Arab-Israel deal that would finally transcend the anti-Semitic and ethnic hatred that now resides most prominently in Palestine and Iran.
In addition, Arab forces only achieve success against Israel in surprise assaults during an Israel holiday. So the current attack was timed 50-years after the October 6, 1973 beginning of the Yom Kippur War. They struck during Simchat Torah, coming at the end of a weeklong Jewish celebration of Sukkot. And yet despite the iconic date, Hamas caught both the sophisticated intelligence networks of Israel, the United States, and the West in general completely unaware.
Did Hamas think Hezbollah and Iran would join in? Will they? If one believes their rhetoric they will; if one believes that they do not wish to experience what will likely follow in Gaza, they will not.
For the time being, after all, there are now zero restraints on Israel for the first occasion perhaps in its history. Few other than the international relations major AOC or a bigot in the American State Department will call for proportionality, an immediate ceasefire, or an Israeli stand down.
Hamas may also have reckoned that recent Israeli turmoil and mass street protests over proposed reforms of the Israeli Supreme Court had led to permanent internal divisions and thus a climate of domestic distraction if not an erosion of deterrence.
True, there was something eerie about the Israeli left’s opposition that extended to the politicization of IDF recruits. This propensity to commit collective civilizational suicide is now toxic in Western society, from Sweden to America. But in a frontline state like Israel it could prove fatal–as Hamas apparently also reasoned.
Let us also be candid, the Biden administration has contributed to the notion that Hamas was a legitimate Middle-East player. It fueled the perception that the U.S. was backing away from its traditional support for Israel—to the delight of Hamas—based on inexplicable policies.
Remember there is an iron law in the Middle East: anytime the U.S. distances itself from Israel, and gravitates to Iran, its violent enemies see that as a de facto greenlight to ratchet up their aggression. It is now a tenet of the base of the new woke Democratic Party, whether on campuses, among its Squad, in the media, or as championed by its identify politics caucuses, that Israel is an illegitimate state, while radical Palestinians are freedom fighters.
Do we remember that in February the ridiculous Secretary of State Blinken bragged that not only had the Biden administration resumed massive aid to the corrupt PLA, canceled by Trump, but also cumulatively had transferred $1 billion—even as Palestinian authorities and Abbas bragged that they would continue to pay bounties to the families of “martyrs” (i.e., those killed while conducting terrorists attacks against Israel)?
All such funds are fungible. So the more Biden’s people brag that the money goes to humanitarian purposes or has not yet arrived in Iranian accounts, the more these terrorist entities preemptively free up cash to mobilize for war.
So millions of American dollars 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 shameful State-Department (“U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs”) website news release that was posted instantly after attack (since mysteriously taken down). It had 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 to be the moral equivalent of terrorists executing civilians and brutalizing their corpses? And all this from the U.S. government? And what exactly is the “U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs,” a megaphone for “normalizing” Hamas?
The IDF then is not to retaliate against these killers?
Does the Biden administration now also call upon Ukraine, “to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks?” Does it believe that Ukraine’s “violence” in response to Putin’s “terror” will “solve nothing?”
Remember also 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.
In fungible fashion and in anticipation of the arrival of this cash windfall, Iran no doubt accelerated its shipments of arms to Gaza. We should assume Iranian 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, a terrorist state that the Biden administration apparently sees as a strategic partner.
Almost immediately, after his inauguration an eager Biden mobilized to resume the bankrupt Iran deal. In unhinged fashion, he appointed the anti-Israeli bigot, pro-Iranian zealot journalist Robert Malley as America’s chief Iranian negotiator. Remember, Malley was the special ISIS advisor of Barack Obama (who kept mum during the 2009 mass uprising against the Iranian theocracy), when ISIS overran Iraq.
Our envoy Malley apparently advertises himself, to quote his Wikipedia bio, as “an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and has written extensively on this subject advocating rapprochement with Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood.”
We are now witnessing the reification of our Iranian envoy’s idea of “rapprochement” in the streets of Israel.
Note that Malley is now under FBI investigation for security breaches, involving disclosing classified U.S. documents. He also is under further scrutiny for allegedly helping pro-Iranian activists and propagandists land influential billets inside the U.S. government.
Imagine that: Iran now cheers on mass death in Israel while its agents and provocateurs burrow into the U.S. government (which might explain the Biden State Department’s immediate call to cease Israeli retaliation).
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?
Upon the ascension of Biden and his woke strategic agendas, we witnessed the following chain of events: 1) the 2021 complete humiliation of the U.S. miliary in Kabul in its greatest defeat in 50 years; 2) followed by Vladimir Putin’s 2022 opportunistic invasion of Ukraine; 3) followed by China’s new belligerence and escalating threats to Taiwan; 4) followed by Turkey’s new de facto alliance with Russia and recent drone encounter with the U.S. air force in Syria; 5) followed by the Hamas/Iranian inspired attack on Israel—6) with more to come unfortunately.
Will Biden finally get the message from the attacks on the Ukraine and Israeli borders, that borders matter? We too are being invaded, with the encouragement of the Mexican government and to the advantage of the cartels. Biden should carefully digest the ranting of President Obrador who seems to feel he has veto power over the White House, as he demands our own borders remain open to his citizens for whom he cannot provide, while he seeks to influence U.S. elections.
In a sane world, the Biden administration would immediately cancel all talks with Iran, renew sanctions, and stop any cash transferences. (Why were the Obama and Biden administrations so fond of sending so much money to theocratic Iran)? It would stop all aid to the West Bank and Gaza. It would put a travel ban on anyone from Iran or the West Bank and Gaza and pull visas of any currently from Palestine in the U.S. It would immediately ramp up defense spending, especially on missile defense, dismantle the woke commissariat in the Pentagon, and prepare for the unthinkable and existential abroad.
And there is likely zero chance that the handlers of Joe Biden will do any of that.
All of this is echos of the SS from not long ago. History repeats.
You are correct sir. History repeats, only the names change.
Nothing positive happens until Trump is elected in 2024. he alone is unconnected to the lobbying money sources that run most of the Federal Govt – Democrat or Republican. At root Trump wants to dismantle that money base – sending power back to the States with “the law” being returned to the Constitution. There must be a fundamental reckoning with the Supreme Court deciding that the fundamental Constitution rules once again. Trump is an amazing, courageous force – having learned his way into the job, the hard way
Next that will happen – threatened by Trumps move into winning, the State will order Trump into silence. He will refuse He will be gagged and jailed. This is the best that could possibly for his reelection – martyrdom! He will refuse bail.
Not able to be at rallies he will send out videos from the jail to be presented at the rallies by Vivek – chosen by Trump for VP, and groomed to follow him as president in 2008.
Vivek talks “revolution” – non violent – a return to the Constitution. In his way – he is as amazing as Trump. And his time will come. Trump will embrace him – and this will prove Trump’s selflessness.
The revolution must be Ml King Ghandi style 100% non violent. And Vivek the Hindu can well articulate this. His “non Christian but religious status is a plus. “God is real” he says. And God – ecumenical, non denominational – all religions accepted, must be reintroduced with prayer in the schools and the many and varied religious “rituals” articulated on a common field.
Revolution – a return to 1776 – but 100% non violent, will hold moral sway and will win.
Embrace violence. Violence against animals is justified. The next time I think I see a Moslem I’m going to smash his face.
I will shoot him in the head
Both you and Bargholtz are speaking utter nonsense. Neither of you is going to do any of your “boasts” and you know it. Pathetic twaddle.
Meant 2028 in previous text.
Meant “non-violent” AS A TACTIC!
Clear, lucid and reality from Victor Davis Hanson.. If only the Biden and his administration would read, understand and follow this excellent factual analysis we could begin the critical path to a more safe and sane world. Evil could actually start declining. Pray for miracles though.
Unfortunately for America and the world, Alzheimer Joe’s handlers are irredeemably evil. They’ll never do the right things, only the wrong ones. They’re scum, like that capering little troll, Antony Blinken, who’s on TV right now infuriating me with his shit eating cowardice and lying. He says he doesn’t want to talk about diplomacy but he’s supposedly America’s top diplomat. And the slimy little turd said the Psuedosimians we’re “victims” too.
Tell that to the babies who had their heads sawed off.
The left and its zombies will NEVER even consider following VDH’s wise advice. They view him as an enemy. What we should do is insist our next Prez, hopefully Trump, understands VDH or maybe holds conference with him as needed. He has a clear understanding of history including that our corrupt are making this minute in DC.
You believe the problem is one of ignorance. It is not. It is intentional evil.
Biden and his administration understand perfectly what they are doing. They are enriching themselves by selling the influence of their offices to our enemies in exchange for millions in kickbacks. How do you think they make so many millions on their meager salaries?
They comfort themselves that they are making war less likely by destroying all western nations with their religious and ethnic particulars. Open borders will make one people with world citizenship, digital world currency, all sharing human suffering and scarcity while the managerial elite feed upon our labors. We will own nothing and be happy. They will own everything and jetset around the world, living luxuriously behind well-guarded walls so as not to be disturbed by the noise and smell of the hoi polloi.
That sounds bad, but it is essentially true.
Irans and its agents in Barry’s clique have sunk deep roots into the deep state.
Well, if I cannot be for myself, probably Trump will be in ’24.
I’m a long time VDH fan. But I think he missed something here. Hamas’ planned this extreme barbarity in a desperate desire for bring back their good old days. – when all the Arab media daily spotlighted their Arab martyrs’ corpses being trundled through the streets. I saw it during my 40 years residence in those countries. It is written in stone in the Arab street that these people were innocents shot dead by these awful Zionists occupiers. Any of my attempts to convince anyone there that the policy – written in stone again – of the Palestinian leaders was to parade as many corpses as possible in front of the cameras through deliberate Palestinian provocation of the IDF was met with disbelief. The story was that those Jew devils just wanted them dead fort the hell of it.
Now Hamas wants very very much Israel’s tough response. They know it’s coming. The desperately the rank and file indoctrinated Arabs and Muslims of all those countries to scare their governments away from the Abraham Accords or any further rapprochement.
Don’t get me wrong. I want Israel to wipe out Hamas in Gaza. But Hamas leaders hiding in Qatar see the long game. They can start over. And their videos and pictures of Israel’s rooting out Hamas rank and file will bring back those good old days when the Palestinian mafia kept those Gulf leaders in line.
This time Hamas as it exists in Gaza will be destroyed, there will be no “starting over” for Hamas.
I sure hope so. I’ve had enough of those animals and I don’t live anywhere near them.
Shocking to read that “the Biden administration has insidiously siphoned
off key weapons and munitions from emergency stockpiles inside Israel
apparently to transfer them to Ukraine.” Israel’s war reserve is now
reportedly depleted of just the types of war weapons needed in the
current crisis.
First of all, where does Biden get the authority to do that? Israel is a
sovereign nation. Or were globalist Israeli politicians allowing it to
make their country vulnerable to takedown. In the tinderbox known as
the Middle East, Israel is the tinder. No emergency reserve of weapons/
ammunition should be depleted by anyone ever..
And while Biden was assisting in Israel’s vulnerability by siphoning arms –
the corruptocrat was also giving Iran – Hamas’ constant backer – 6 BILLION
dollars!
There are two deadly forces assailing humanity today: Islam and globalist
Communism. Both wanting to dominate the world. And right now the evil
monsters are in cahoots. It is therefore no surprise that Iran’s agents and
provocateurs have burrowed into the U.S. government.
If Iran is behind this latest attack against Israel, as is very likely, I wonder if the deliberate and unprecedented large-scale barbarity of this latest Hamas attack against primarily civilians was to provoke Israel into launching an overwhelming military response against Gaza and in order to carry out such a response the IDF are going to have to withdraw much of its military capability back from the Judea and Samaria area where it has been concentrated recently. By doing so Israel will be defensively much weaker in the north therefore allowing Hezbollah (who like Hamas are supported by Iran) to attack in force from their bases in Lebanon as the bulk of the IDF focus in on and in Gaza?
Uh, aren’t Judea and Samaria in the East of Israel?
Actually they are right in the center, the heartland equivalent of the American Midwest.
Where the Hell is the F.B.I.!? Crickets! Mexican gangs have been setting up shop here in the good ole U,S.A!
Open borders have allowed who knows ( Hamas, Hezbollah, Cartels,etc.) into our country. Will we be seeing
whats happening in Gaza happening here?
We more than likely will. Why do islamopithecines jump our border when it’s so much easier to get into Europe and the stupid Frogs and Brits give them 100% welfare for life?
Because they want to commit terrorism, that’s why.
Both the US and Israel have been allowed to be overcome by their enemies…. God is trying to wake up and shake up the awareness of people to the facts of reality…..Why do people vote for their enemies, who deceive, it is blindness of those who don’t have wisdom and discernmen through the Holy Spirit.
Key paragraph:
Iran is the likely driving force in prompting the war. Its greatest fear is a Sunni Arab-Israel deal that would finally transcend the anti-Semitic and ethnic hatred that now resides most prominently in Palestine and Iran.
Beginning with 9/11, murder porn videos have sold throughout street markets in the Muslim world. Whole families sit and watch unspeakable horrors, beheading, people burned alive and murmur ‘Allah is great”.
Spot on Dr. Hanson.
Shame our Founders didn’t have a crystal ball!.
Will the responsible people in the biden administration ever be punished criminally for the future actions of the terror cells they invited into our country? This should extend to co-conspirators like former Democrat officials?
Probably not. Probably the corrupt will never be brought to justice. Our DOJ is done. The FBI is done. They need to be recreated with better written scopes.
With all her obvious crimes, anyone notice the supreme confidence Hillary presents with?
Prior to this attack on Israel, we’ve seen Muslims somewhere in the world, on a daily basis killing innocent people. Africa, SE Asia, even their own countries. There’s little world condemnation of this barbaric sect. The only silver lining coming from this attack on Israel, is vivid illustration to the world of the nature of Muslims, murder, rape, torture, violence, it’s their religion, it’s their cult, it’s their DNA.
It fascinates that the West always yammers about the “barbarity” of pre-modern people killing women and children. Pre-modern people ALWAYS kill women and children. The idea of sparing them is a modern, Western idea found nowhere else in history. Today’s children are tomorrow’s warriors. As long as we allow pre-moderns to attack moderns, this will occur and should be expected to occur. As to what to do? Well, we have a few thousand amazingly productive weapons with which we can remove pre-moderns after they attack us, with no American casualties whatsoever. NOT using our most productive weapons is ahistorical (countries used to love productivity – machine guns replaced bow & arrow for that reason, OBTW) idiocy. The answer in Gaza, from where the attack originated and in which no one complained, as noted, is to evaporate it. Anything less is unserious.
DC is full of UNserious dudes and duddettes.
“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.” These are the “innocent civilians of Gaza” (i.e., those who elected and support Hamas) on whose behalf our morally bankrupt administration is advocating with the Israelis and trying to establish “safe corridors.” I’m old enough to remember when Robert Malley was fired from the Obama campaign because it became public he was holding illegal talks with Hamas. Of course, notwithstanding his longtime public sympathy for Iran and Hamas, the Biden administration made him its point man on Iran “negotiations.” We are being led by, at best, morons.
Hussein Obama is probably scheming how to bring tens of thousands of Gaza “refugees” into a town near you in the American heartland after the Hamas operation is done.
Yes, and its all about creating divisions and wars between peoples.
Good article on the volatility of the situation. There are woke in Israel too you know, and their policies are destructive. They are divided from common sense just as we are here in the U.S.
Many are unaware that there has never been a sovereign Arab anywhere in Palestine. They are equally unaware that the West Bank happens to be the heartland of Jewish civilization with many of the Bible’s familiar events playing out there. Its not Israel’s fault that the PLO, Hamas and Hezbollah don’t consider their own people’s lives and prosperity. Over 2 million Palistinian Arabs of the West Bank chafe under non—-Muslim rule and the presence of nearly 400,000 or more Jewish civilians. They don’t want to be under Islamic rule.
The Age Old battle continues for Israel’s land. Israel is going to receive the Land God promised them in the Abrahamic Covenant, Genesis 12:1-7 and Genesis 13:14. The final conclusion is coming after thousands of years of persecution, and wars.
There must be more to the Biden financing Hamas than the kindergarten level “Trump cut their funds so were reinstating them” attitude. I don’t get the concept of having starving people on the streets while diverting billions of dollars to people that want to kill us.. !
Do Democrats understand the Koran, without understanding the bit about “turn the disbelivers into belivers or kill them” statement. Pay attention idiots, it’s what the Koran tells all muslims to do ..
Woo,,, is the muslims, they have no electricity, and they have no water, the scumbag captains are stealing the billions offered for aid,,,, how can you feel for someone that will turn the water pipes you give them to create services, no but “the pipes are better used making rockets” ….
They have no electricity or water but somehow each woman manage to have 10 childern, what kind of a life are those children going to have ?? they are just Islamic fodder.
Brainless uneducated fools that will stand in front of a tank with a hand gun ..