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A day does not go by without some politician or talking head demanding that Israel worry about killing fewer Palestinian civilians. Sorry, while we do not wish for human suffering, the Palestinians have brought upon themselves everything they are currently suffering.
You live in Chicago and you’re in the kitchen making a steak. The TV in the background is blurting out the news. Suddenly, there is a news flash. “A jumbo jet with over 300 people has crashed into multiple residential buildings. Details to come.” You stop what you’re doing and wait for the report to continue. Let’s imagine two scenarios:
1. The crash was in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.
2. The crash was in Chicago, a few blocks from your kids’ school.
In the first instance, you would feel bad for those killed and wounded, but you would probably go back to making dinner and think no more about the event. In the second case, you would frantically start making phone calls and probably rush out of the house to see if your kids are okay and if anyone you know was harmed.
Such a reaction is normal. Professor Mike Sandel of Harvard is a bigshot. When I had his course on Moral Reasoning 40 years ago, he was an assistant professor. Professor Sandel had a theory of “justice” that involved a person having concentric rings of interests and connections: family, job, country, religion, etc. These rings move according to the situation at hand. An example he brought forth back in the day was Mujaheddin from Afghanistan asking you if you were a freedom-loving person. The response was ‘Yes, I am.’ He’d then counter, ‘So come fight with us against the Soviets!’ But the natural response was, ‘Well, my family, country and job come before my ring for foreign freedom lovers, so sorry guys.’
We all feel closer to some than to others. And sometimes a religious obligation trumps work, or work trumps a family event. That is normal. But every night for the past six weeks we have been treated to some news host, or even Kamala Harris, demanding that Israel be more careful and invent bullets and bombs that can only kill card-carrying Hamas members. I will not deny that the Palestinian people in Gaza are suffering. One can see the destroyed buildings, their moving south with their belongings and the taking apart of aid trucks out of desperation. The IDF today estimated 2 civilian shields killed for every Hamas terrorist. While the Palestinians are suffering, they alone are responsible for their plight:
1. Hamas started the war. I think that Colin Powell called it “the Pottery Barn Rules”. You break it, you pay for it. Everything that happens in Gaza is on them. Everything.
2. The Palestinian population was and is ecstatic about Jewish suffering. Remember the Palestinian civilians (including the old guy with a walker) shown on CCTV coming into Israeli settlements to steal, rape and take captives? Remember their wild reception in Gaza of Hamas barbarians and the raped women they brought back in their trucks?
People here in Israel generally feel towards the Palestinians EXACTLY what the latter feel towards Israelis. No, Israelis do not hand out candies when Palestinians are killed en masse, but the Palestinian suffering is something of their own making. If Israeli tanks and planes for no apparent reason on 10/7 simply went into Gaza to kill civilians, I hope that I would be at the front of any protest, demanding an end to the killing. But details matter, and Hamas started the war, and those Palestinians with the mule-carts are the same ones who spit on the Israeli women abused by Hamas psychos.
The media and politicians often like to leave out or bend details, as they can then push forward whatever agenda they have. I remember during the Trump presidency Forbes touting immigrants who had been super-successful and had made it big in the US. Their list included Sergei Brin of Google and Jan Koum of WhatsApp. Wonderful. Those immigrants were LEGAL immigrants who filled out the forms, paid the fees, stood in line, and completed the legal process to enter the US. They have nothing to do with the millions illegally entering the US with few skills and little education.
An Israeli-Russian captive succeeded in escaping his Hamas handlers and was hiding for four days. He reported after his release that Palestinian citizens turned him over to Hamas. A UNRWA teacher held a captive in his house. A woman with a gunshot wound was treated by a veterinarian. The Palestinians started the war and were enthralled with the killing, raping, and plundering. Now that Hamas is receiving its comeuppance, the world demands that Israel treat Palestinian human shields with kid gloves. Sorry. As Kurt Schlichter always writes, if the Palestinians want to protect their citizens, then let Hamas put down its weapons and stop fighting.
Those demanding so much from Israel are antisemites. Why? Because when Syrian civilians were being slaughtered by the Assad government or Uyghurs were being abused by Chinese authorities, they said nothing. They did not form some BDS movement or demand a halt to the killing and torture. But when they can stick it to the Jews and demand that Israel fight an impossible war against a cowardly enemy that hides in population centers, then they are marching endlessly.
Israel does not kill civilians. It actually puts its soldiers into harm’s way to reduce civilian deaths. But civilians will continue to suffer and die as long as Hamas is still around. So blame Hamas and not Israel. It will make the war end more quickly when the murderers realize that they have lost their fans in the West.
Why don’t they ask the United Nations in interfere in this I thought the UN was here to make all the Nations settle their problems peacefully. The UN has been a Big Lie all along its World Government not World Peace they want
UN just voted and almost unilaterally (only ten voted against it) sided with Hamas and Jew-haters.
The UN has been a dictator’s club, and always Islamist friendly. The wrong building was destroyed on 9/11.
The last thing Israel would want is the UN in Gaza protecting Hamas
How about a bit of common sense ?
I’d go as far as saying that the UN was founded with the sole intention of attacking Israel!
Well you can thank FDR for that. The United Nations was his idea, and his creation. That’s what he wanted out of WW2, and he got it.
islam…………………….. the anal curse of SATAN’S PIGS.
Alan, I just say stop. Stop trying to make a comparison between Jews and others. Stop trying to make others understand if this was people of any other religion how people would feel. Just stop trying to feel better for killing those who’s screamed at the top of their lungs they want Jews dead, and they are willing to do whatever it takes. While I know exactly the horrible feeling of killing someone after some 14 years in the IDF, 2 wars living in the north of Israel with terrorists trying often to either kill us with rockets, or come onto the beach to our homes to kill us, I learned if someone wants us dead, and we have the chance to kill them we must. Thousands of years of persecution, living in foreign lands we didn’t have an army to protect us, now we do and must use it to its fullest, and make no apology for it. I prefer to be alive and hated than dead and pitied.
During WWII, over 600,000 German civilians (65,000 of them children) were killed due to relentless bombing of German cities by Britain and the US. Germany’s elected leaders were 100% to blame.
yup. the balewailing over Dresden. a city that if Deutchland had come out on top would be chocked full of homes replete with french chefs, polish servants and dutch gardeners. and their vehicles food electrons made in factories manned by slave labour from russia.
thats what dresden voted for in 1933. buuuuuuut didnt play out that way. a confounded thing called the war was still going on and then a meteorlogical fluke same time as the bombing raid showed us a man made hurricane of flame right on top of them.
tsk tsk tsk dresden you brought it on yourself, be carefu waht you wish for.
Dresden – a fire bombed city, What was the original population and reduced to what? How many casualties and how many fled~
Elections have consequences. The Germans elected a monster without thinking of the consequences he might provide. Then after he demonstrated his intentions, they allowed him to remain in office and allowed him to off some 6,000,000 Jews. Much of that 1930s misbehavior by voters is seen here today performed by the leftists dominating the US and its media.
Hamas could put on their uniforms but that would take guts and is something Islamofascists lack
Islamofascists=plain old, garden variety, ordinary Muslims.
Indeed. It is almost comical how they bellow how much they lover death but then run and hide behind women and children and hospital patients. They present with a subspecies, psychotic and dangerous mindset and merit irradicating from the modern world.
Thank you. Agree agree agree. I will share this.
“F around and find out” ….Well, they found out. But they will never learn the lesson. I dont know why they cant learn the lesson, and I no longer care why they cant learn the lesson.
Handing out candy and balloons when Israeli children are murdered, yeah, that will stick in someones craw.
How could one expect and Israeli soldier to give a —– that a few so called civilians get in the way.
Recall the 1980 film STARMAN, (John Carpenter director, The Alien ((Jeff Bridges) is asked, “What do you think of human beings?” His reply, “You are a primitive, violent, selfish species. But there is great diversity in your kind. There is your hope”.
Yes. There are good and bad ones. Skin color, language, belief in one supreme being or another does not matter. Let’s put a hold on DEI and focus on behavior.
An ”intelligent” weapon designed to only kill terrorists and spare civilians would immediately become the standard weapon of the Israel’s army.
Obviously, it would be bad news for Hamas as it would render its human-shield tactics ineffective. But what is even more important, it would deprive the terrorists of its strongest propaganda asset i.e., dead Arab children.
OTOH I don’t doubt Hamas is capable of killing Arab children and blaming Israel in order of scoring points in its propaganda war. There is no end to the cynicism of these sub-animals.
That is exactly what Iran is thinking. They will nuke Israel and somehow destroy only Jews. The Muslims will survive.
They actually would have no problem with the Palestinians dying, too….since they are Sunni and Iran is Shia. It’s rather ironic, don’t you think? They send their sworn Sunni enemies to kill and be killed by their other sworn enemy, Israel. Meanwhile, very few if any Shia Hezbollah fighters are risking their lives in the north to support the Sunni Hamas.
Machiavelli wrote in “The Prince” that a political leader who wanted to “maintain the state” had to be able to do things that were “not good” when it was necessary, because there were so many evil people out there that anyone who stuck to doing things that were “good” all the time would inevitably come to ruin. This is known in philosophy as the dirty hands problem.
During the second world war, Winston Churchill ordered the Royal Navy to attack the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir (to stop the ships falling into German hands), declared war on Finland (to keep the Soviets happy), ordered the Arctic Convoy PQ16 out to Murmansk, in the expectation that half the boats would be sunk (to keep Molotov happy – he was coming to the UK to sign the Anglo-Soviet Treaty), gave up on the Baltic States as early as December 1941 (Anthony Eden told Stalin this when he visited Moscow), looked the other way when the Katyn forest massacre came to light (rather than accuse the Soviets), built a fleet of heavy bombers that was used to area bomb German cities (to persuade the Soviets that the British were doing something, while the Red Army was fighting on the Eastern Front) oh and of course – made an alliance with the Soviet Union (who had begun the war by invading Poland on 17th September 1939 as co-signatories of the Nazi-Soviet Pact). And more . . .
All of these decisions that were made by Winston Churchill during world war 2 are described in my book “The Road to Gomorrah.”
Here is the bottom line: Every political leader will be faced with the “dirty hands problem” in a time of war. The successful leaders who manage to “maintain the state” will have it in them to give the necessary orders, and have things done that are “not good.” It’s war.
If the people governing Gaza didn’t want all these things to happen to the people they were responsible for, then they shouldn’t have started a war in the first place.
It’s really that simple.
If ever there was a “casus belli” in the history of humankind, then the events of 7th October were it.
So – war it is then.
You’ll notice that none of these do-gooders are trying to argue that Israel shouldn’t have declared war after 7th October, and none of them are saying that what’s happening now isn’t a war.
They can’t make that argument.
What they’re saying instead is that Israel should fight a nice, friendly war where no one is hurt and no 0ne’s property is damaged. They’re saying that Israel should fight a war the way Chamberlain and Halifax did, during the period between September 1939 and May 1940. This is known as “the phoney war.”
As Churchill understood, that is no way to fight a war – not if you want to end up on the winning side. In one famous passage in one of his books, he wrote about what is would take to defeat Germany and Japan (after the USA had entered the war as a belligerent party) – he said that defeating the enemy would take “the proper application of overwhelming force.”
And one thing we can say is that Winston Churchill knows a little bit more about waging war than these pathetic, virtue-signalling snowflakes wandering around in our midst today, who haven’t got a clue what real life is all about.
@Alan Joseph Bauer
There is a science fiction book by John Darton, book is called “The Experiment”
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780525945178
It basically describes how rich/powerfull raise their biological clones on an island, to act as organ donors, in case the originals will need that.
The Gaza is West Bank is that island, and people there raised there to believe that Israel must not exist.
Their masters use them as a essentially organ donors to destroy Israel.
So the only people that are responsible for the causalities on both sides are the Arab Muslim masters that treat the Gaza and West bank population as weapons of war.
In US, if there is a serial rapist and killer, that barricades himself with live humans, and then some of those live human shields become causalities will police captures the animal, the courts will make him liable for the lives of the human shields he used.
The police would not be liable.
This is how the world (including Israel), including everywhere else — must be looking at what is happening in Gaza.
I’m sorry but “Palestinians” do not exist that very name was created by the Muslim leaders in response to the British planing to give the Jews back their land as described in the Bible after world war 2. The land of Israel, Garza and the area was empty of people until the British decided to help the Jews have a nation. However Muslim don’t want that and started a mass migration to oppose the people of Israel which caused the current circumstance. Muslim will never stop this violence against Israel unless they face a catastrophic violent response sadly due to their ideology it’s the only language they understand. That’s what the crusades did after 700 years of Muslim violence. Give Gaza 24 hours for all civilians and add workers to evacuate. If you disagree with Hamas leave and after 24 hours level the entire area with rockets and explain that any attack against Israel will be met with a retaliation times 7. And watch the Muslim’s crumble out of fear. Sadly it the only language they understand.