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We know the multifaceted strategy of the monstrous Hamas operation of October 7.
In precivilizational fashion it wished to kill and mutilate the most vulnerable of all Israeli civilians and thus to shock the world that it was capable of—and proud about— anything, from decapitation to necrophilia. Such animalistic savagery, in the reckoning of Western therapeutic society, was supposedly to be seen as forced upon Hamas murderers by the “occupation.”
The killers felt they would shock the Israelis into concessions given their eagerness to commit the unspeakable. They took captives for tripartite reasons: to barter children and the elderly for their kindred terrorist murderers in Israeli jails; to use captives to force the Israelis to grant cease-fires and pauses in their retaliation; and to bank them as shields to protect Hamas kingpins from retaliation.
Hamas invaded during a holiday in the early hours, in a time of peace, and on the iconic 50th-annivesary of the Yom Kippur surprise Arab attack. Their aim was to prove that Israeli soil was for the first time porous and 2,000 killers could enter sacred Israeli ground with impunity and kill in one day more Jews civilians than at any day since the Holocaust.
The terrorists shot thousands of rockets into Israel to overwhelm Iron Dome and terrify the entire civilian population.
All these tactics were aimed at long-term strategic goals: stop the Abraham Accords; obey the directives of Hamas’s Iranian terrorist masters as payment for their arms; discredit the radical Palestine Authority and Arab moderate nations as anemic in their opposition to the supposedly shared hated Zionist entity; and prompt an Israeli response that by necessity would involve collateral damage to human shields, and schools, mosques, and hospitals atop subterranean Hamas headquarters.
Yet if we know their despicable methods, aims, and strategies, why did they think the civilized world would support their barbarity or at least excuse it?
One, Hamas assumed anti-Semitism was prevalent throughout the West and was canonical in the Middle East. Palestinian authorities count on the fact that being an enemy of the Jews of Israel wins them empathy of the world and creating their own unique rules of passive-aggressive victimhood.
So Palestinians demand to be the only “refugees” in the world—not Greek Cypriots, Eastern European Germans, and Prussians, Kurds, Armenians, and certainly not a million Jews cleansed from the Arab Middle East.
Israelis are to be “settlers,” not millions of Middle Easterners who surge and settle into the West, form resistance communities, sneer at integration and assimilation, and use Western liberality to protect and project their own illiberality.
Second, Hamas relies on useful Western idiots. It understands its terrorists repel the majority of Americans. But it figures Western and globalist institutions—academia, the media, popular culture—in their wealth, ignorance, and self-importance, alleviate guilt and find resonance by mouthing the shibboleths of the “underdog.”
In particular, Hamas understands that the Palestinian cause has fused with the leftwing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry. Thus Hamas becomes the Middle-East counterpart to BLM, aggrieved minorities, and, more preposterously, the trans/gay/feminist movement. Meanwhile, Israelis are recalibrated as the demonized Western “colonialist” white supremacists.
Third, the Islamic expatriate populations of Europe and the U.S. have soared. In the strange logic of the Middle Easterner in the West—on a green card, or a student visa, or either as an illegal alien or a first-generation immigrant—he will envision the magnanimity of Americans and Europeans who offered him refuge from the violence, hatred, tyranny, racism, sexism, terrorism, and violence of his homeland all too often as weakness to be manipulated, not as generosity to be appreciated much less reciprocated.
Middle Eastern expatriates brag of their growing numbers and the political clout that Islam accrues in liberal democracies, without a clue of their hypocrisy of supporting illiberal tyrannies whose violence drove them out to the West in the first place.
So, we watch Middle Easterners in the U.S. trying to ruin iconic events such as crashing “Black Friday” shopping, disrupting the New York Thanksgiving parade, or tearing down American flags on Veterans’ Day.
Only in America would the Iranian terrorist theocracy’s ex-ambassador to the UN, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, be accorded a professorship at Oberlin or a former top diplomat for the Iranian regime Seyed Hossein Mousavian land a coveted billet at Princeton.
From such perches these expatriates are free to promote pro-Hamas, Iranian, anti-Semitic—and Anti-American—agendas. They consider their hosts not so much tolerant as stupid, in the sense that any American expatriate in Iran who whispered criticism of the theocratic regime would either be hanged or used as a barter hostage. Why would those whose careers were devoted to demonizing and harming the United States from their coveted billets in Iran even wish to move to the Great Satan, while keeping warm relations with their theocratic kingpins in Tehran?
Four, behind all these considerations, is the reality of terrorism and the fear it instills in the West, given the 21stcentury history of Middle Easterners slaughtering thousands of Americans and Europeans. In crude terms, Hamas and its terrorist affiliates signal us, “damn Israel or be prepared for another 9/11.”
Five, Hamas is a death cult, an updated terrorist version of the more organized SS—with the qualifier it broadcasts rather than hides its savagery.
Radical Palestinians brag that they love death more than Israel loves life. So they count on Israel giving up three convicted terrorists to get back one elderly or young Israeli captive, on targeting civilians with rockets while Israelis drops leaflets warning of their bombing attacks, on coercing human shields that they assume Israel will avoid, on sanctioning raping, mutilating, and beheading in a way Israel would never conceive of reciprocating in kind, and on and on.
So will all these tactical and strategic methods work? For all the UN, media, and globalist support for Hamas, still perhaps not.
October 7 was a declaration by Hamas that all barbarity imaginable was now fair game. Yet its sheer evil has unleashed the IDF that perhaps not even Joe Biden, hostages, and “world opinion” can permanently stop.
For all the boasts about loving death, it was Hamas who cowardly murdered the unarmed, scampered back to the safety of their tunnels, and used their own kindred Gazans to shield them from death—delivered to them by supposed nerds who love life too much.
Europeans also have had it with unlimited immigration from the Middle East. Restrictionist politicians throughout Europe are ascending as never before, in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Holland, Spain, and Sweden.
They all reflect growing public anger that Europeans are hated by the very people who seek them out and wish to destroy their Enlightenment institutions by manipulating and discrediting them. The thousands who hit the streets to cheer on October 7 and damn their hosts only confirm a growing global consensus—in the West, Latin America, Asia, and even throughout the Middle East—that admitting migrants from Palestine or Gaza, or their supporters, is a veritable death wish.
Pro-Hamas protestors calling Joe Biden “Genocide Joe” and boasting about the Arab or Muslim vote in Michigan is incoherent. Not only do harassing Thanksgiving shoppers and parades, disrupting iconic American holidays and events, swarming highways and bridges, and preying on Jews alienate Americans. But also taking credit for ensuring Biden’s defeat will only distance the Democratic establishment, such as it is, from its embarrassing, loud, but ultimately relatively impotent Islamic constituency.
Shouting for mass death “From the River to the Sea” does not endear the pro-Hamas crowd to half of their fellow Democrats, much less unabashedly strutting their anti-Semitism. The current overt support for Hamas, in other words, has revealed to the nation the bankruptcy of the entire pro-Hamas/DEI base of the Democratic Party and will do much to ensure a conservative president in 2024.
And that president will likely deport anyone on a green card or student visa promoting Hamas terrorism, or violating U.S. law, while ensuring a travel ban from terrorist supporting regimes in the Middle East. Such measures will win overwhelming public support, despite media and academic outrage.
Strategically, Iran, Hamas, and the Palestinians may seem to have flummoxed Israel into endless concessions by metering out hostages for serial pauses. But again, no Israel government can retain power by allowing the mass murdering Hamas to survive and so it will not.
Despite all the blood-curdling rhetoric of Hezbollah and Iran, neither will attack Israel or U.S. assets in force, given no American president could afford not to retaliate disproportionately. And “disproportionately” would mean rendering Iran’s military and Hezbollah to something akin to the current status of Hamas.
So for now, Hamas and its American-residing apologists are full of themselves and feel they are leveraging and manipulating the West. But such haughtiness may be a delusion. Hamas in the Middle East and its enablers in Europe and America have done more to harm the Palestinian cause and the idea of Middle Eastern immigration to the West than at any time since 9/11.
It is hard to anger Westerners, but continue the death chants, the violent demonstrations, the creepy anti-Semitism, and the proud support for the Hamas bloodwork of October 7, and they will be surprised at the growing anger of otherwise postmodern Europeans and distracted Americans.
Just as Israel realizes that there is no living with Hamas killers, so the West is learning that it can no longer sustain universities that despise the culture that nourishes it or Middle Eastern immigrants, visiting students, and residents that use the gift of freedom and tolerance to promote their abhorrent anti-Semitism, violence, intolerance—and, yes, hatred of their generous hosts.
They were thinking that by deft use of psychology via a well organized PR campaign that they could obviate Israel’s military advantage. This appears, at the moment, to be working.
It’s a lull, nothing more. Hamas signed its death warrant on 10/7.
Israel has the same disease we have.
Yeah but Netanyahu resumed the destruction of Hamas yesterday or the day before. America allows the Alzheimer Joe administration, the Douchebagocratstheir fake news media and other leftists, BLM, antifa, Disney, the alphabet people and colleges/universities/K-12 to continue to destroy society.
I sincerely hope that you’re right, Jeff.
This is all well and good that Israel is doing what it must. But fellow Americans- do not get
comfortable. Don’t forget the estimated 2.5 million or more illegal immigrants that crossed un-
checked into America just waiting to do their own damage. Our treasonous Biden administration
from the FBI, State dept., CIA, etc. do not have a clue who or where they are! AND NOT EVEN
TRYING TO FIND THEM! Biden still has 1 more year no matter what happens in 2024.
Nine million illegal aliens minimum since vote fraud and cheating installed Alzheimer Joe as the meat puppet Resident of the Disunited states of Post-America.
With the help and financing of Biden’s/Obama’s USA.
I object somewhat to the “useful idiot” explanation for compliance from our intellectual and elite classes. There is no reason to believe that people who are smarter than us average people know not what they do.
This is a fully, conscious, fully integrated, planned, typical response from our intellectual classes.
The pattern is the same one. Useful idiots go along to get along. The demonic in us is based in intelligence, and not the innocence of ignorance, nor even the cowardice of herd behavior.
I disagree because intelligent people tend to be decent and our anti-intellectual elites tend to possess average intelligence at best. They do know what they’re doing, though. They aren’t misguided, they’re evil, or demonic as you wrote.
Israel has no choice but to win this war. I quite frankly fail to understand why people refuse to grasp this. There is no grey area here, it’s either them or us.
Unfortunately, Ireland has already capitulated to them WEF and the Islamists.
Ireland’s PM is a dhimmie traitor but the people are fed up. And the rioters and protesters described as young hooligans were mostly middle aged and old. They’re going to keep pushing back against their corrupt and traitorous government.
The Irish have no choice but to fight back and escalate.
Yeah, I noticed how the rioters are Hooligans. The looters were the Muslims, but the “Hooligans” were blamed.
I hope the Irish are smuggling in weapons for the defense of their home.
Yes, I never thought I’d miss the IRA, although they operated in Northern Ireland. Irish terrorists versus Moslem terrorists? No contest.
However the IRA’s political party Sinn Féin fully supports the mass immigration of predominantly muslims into Ireland.
I hope you are right Victor.
Islam and Iran hate not only Jews but all who don’t follow Islam, kafirs as they are called in Islam. Islam is the only modern day religion that calls for killing those who will not convert to Islam. Most of those who understand this are afraid to say it.
Islam needs to be eradicated fully. I’m listening to a lot of good Youtube videos where Islamic scholars who convert to Christianity are really good at discrediting the Koran and the Hadith.
this video is one example. Priceless
All true but Islam is a cult of Mo-ham-mad, not a religion and the unholy Koran is a war and conquest manual.
It’s also a religion, but Allah specifically demands the forced submission of every human on Earth to Islamic law. And terror is the explicit way.
It’s a fake religion. A cult of personality and political system based on forced conversion, conquest and genocide. The unholy Koran has far more references to Mo-ham-mad than “Allah” the moon, and the Hadith and sura are completely dedicated to the pedophile prophet pretender.
7th century-style war and conquest. Very, very ugly, as 10/7 reminded us.
All true. Barring these monsters from coming to the West is not enough. The monsters among us must be escorted to their homelands. Let them stew in their own juice.
Spot on. Those rioters supporting Hamas and its butchery should be deported there right away.
The World’s media has forgotten about the Hamas barbarism in their coordinated CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE!
The one-sided coverage, and disinformation and outright lies coming from Hamas, is promoted as fact. Our MSM won’t reveal the suffering and torture endured by the released hostages.
BUT, all this is now The World is Choosing Sides. Suspicious quiet… university professors who ALWAYS side with the enemy. Their silence and hiding proves they support HAMAS. Where are the administrators? SILENT.
Where are the DEI czars who now have to, at least pretend, to care for the Jewish students but will end up doing nothing to those students and professors who retaliate against Jews, like they did nothing to support MAGAS! Their main purpose is to protect gays, Muslims, and Blacks. What happened to the mob that held Jewish student hostage in a library? What if a MAGA MOB did the same to a gay, Muslim, or Black?
FACE IT…. conservatives are NERDS and will let the bullies punch them in the nose and if their nose broke the bully’s hand, they’d say, “Sorry my nose broke your hand!”
That would be the so-called “Conservatives.”
I think Hamas made a mistake by basing its despicable and contemptible 10/7 atrocities on hatred and blood lust. Sleazy psy-ops usually work but it obviously went too far this time, as VDH noted.
I look forward to Israel exterminating those vermin. Of course, what organization will take over once Hamas is history? Likely the PA, which is also comprised of monster rats. And the West will probably rush to fund them.
Islam must be banned in Israel. They cannot live beside Muslims in Gaza again. Survivors must be forced to the Sinai or to a large artificial island ten miles off the coast.
Islam should be banned everywhere.
I’ve long thought the Sinai is the place to exile them, including the ones in Judea and Samaria, East Jerusalem and every other square foot of Israel.
Egypt could be forced to accept them but is powerful enough to handle them and ruthless enough to kill any trouble makers. Jordan wouldn’t be able to handle them.
The extermination MUST include the fat cat Hamas leaders enjoying their lives of grotesque luxury in Qatar. Those leaders and voices for Hamas in the UK and here also must be included. They are a subspecies that simply does not merit existence among civilized people.
Hamas forcibly evicted the PA from Gaza in 2007. The PA was right there with them and the other terrorist groups taking part in 10/7.
Is the West learning that? I’d say the jury is still out. Our institutions are almost entirely controlled by Leftists and for decades the Left has been in league with Islamists to destroy Western Civilization. An, in case you haven’t noticed, most of the policies being followed in the West, and especially the U.S., have precious little to do with what the populace supports. Does a majority in the U.S. want the border open? How about banning internal combustion engined cars, or gas furnaces, or incandescent light bulbs, and so on?
No, the West is not learning. The West is in decline with low probability of being able to save itself from barbarians. The West considers it a sin to discriminate 1 from 2, good from bad. The West has grown too damn superficial. Witness the entertainment industry.
Well, yes, that too. The West has been hamstrung by the infiltrated unelected, hijacked legislators, and rigged elections. We are forced to litigate unconstitutional actions, which at best take 18 months to fix. Meanwhile the government actors continue to act illegally, sometimes the very same way that brought about judicial rulings that stopped them the first time. They are lawless. We have an administrative regulatory system that also ignores constitutional limits and further erodes our God given inalienable rights. The law abiding follows the rules in overturning bureaucratic and legislative wrongs. The usurpers do not. They must be brought to heel, the administrative state stripped away. We take our Republic back, something the fascist corporations are fighting hard against. Many forces absolutely oppose America operating as the Constitutional Republic it was created to be. Fighting on all fronts, we have a real shot at taking it.
Absolutely! Our populace has become so shallow that, if it was water, you could walk through it barefoot and scarcely get your feet wet. The movie “Idiocracy” had it nailed, only the similar future it portrayed was 500 years in the future. We reached it much, much, earlier.
I’ve noticed foreign TV series are better than ours, at least the ones I’ve watched on Netflix. UK, Spanish, French, Danish, Belgian, Italian, German, Polish, Balkan, Russian, Israeli, Korean, Australian and I even saw a good series from Turkey, which I wouldn’t have thought possible. All the stars were descendants of the Janissaries, of course. I watched a bit of the Sultan stories with swarthy actors and they SUCKED. Except for Turkey, all those countries make good movies, too, especially crime dramas.
I still can’t get into movies from India, though. I wasn’t able to get through the ones I tried. They just sucked too hard, which is weird because Bollywood makes more movies than Hollywood. You’d think some of them would be good but if any are, I’ve never seen one. Usually just a quick perusal of the plot and photo of the actors is enough to spot the suck, just like American movies that have women holding guns in the advertisement photos/movie posters.
Good American entertainment is buried under so much crap, it might as well be an enormous septic tank. I haven’t watched network TV in seven years and even then it sucked and I only watched it at my mother’s house because she likes some of that crap. I ditched cable years ago too. It sucks, it’s expensive and you can’t watch its features when you want to or pause, rewind or fast forward. Not to mention the movies are all old.
Western entertainment is superficial, all right. I think the so called music industry is even worse than Hollywood, and even most sports have been corrupted, particularly football.
Thank God Christmas is almost here.
You have a lot more confidence than I do that the “good” people of the west not susceptible to the brainwashing cult of Islam will rise up before it is too late. They seem to be laying down and making excuses for terrorist mass murder. The souls of American youth appears to be lost; the look more like the Hitler youth.
The Irish Moslem prophet: O’Hammid
As usual, Victor, you are remarkably spot on and cogent. Thank you so much for sharing your philosophy, your knowledge, and your wisdom with all of us. The world is a much better place with you in it AND on our side.
The rich woke left – many of them Jews – created a BLM ANTIFA Frankenstein monster in order to get rid of Trump. But the monster is hungry and is now turning on its creator. This is the result of decades of PC, DEI, CRT ,etc
What we are seeing in Gaza is a a clash between civilization rooted in Athens and Jerusalem and HAMAS barbarism akin to Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan, .
Except that Attila and Ghengis had some good points and the Hamas subhumans have none.
72+ virgins etc
If The USA was on any true track of understanding that involved revulsion of HAMAS and its barbarism, these supposed spontaneous protests would be ended rapidly, and out of necessity, violently.
Unfortunately it’s wishful thinking to assume that a Conservative president elected in 2024 could be successful in most efforts to deport any foreign Muslims. Hamas understands that the courts are chock filled with leftist (and increasing numbers of Muslim) judges who have absolutely zero regard for the Constitution, America or Americans. Those judges will swiftly place injunctions on any such effort to rid this country of terrorists or their supporters.
Let them try. There are conservative judges, too, and conservative lawyers to litigate the cases that the left creates.
True but a strong President could tell judges to try and enforce their rulings, as Andrew Jackson did. The majority of Americans would support that. University and media trolls direct a distinct minority, and even many Douchebagocrat voters want Moslems out of America.
I don’t see any expulsion happening either, though.
Then do like the leftists, ignore the courts.
Until we start dealing with the cause, not the effects, of the Mohammad/Allah dilemma, i.e. a religious/spiritual war pitted against a humanity which is not in compliance with Islamic Shariah law, non-Muslim sympathizers will continue to advance on the path to their own enslavement.
The sad truth and terrible reality is that many times history repeats itself, as then evil happenings do reoccur.
As with that October 7th. 2023 murderous jihadists attacks against all those young people at that music festival, which was intended by the Israeli’s to be a joyful event but the vicious and death infecting jihadist of Hamas turned it into a tragic event.
Six years before that Islamic abomination occurred at that place in the State of Israel ,there was that murderous jihadist bombing at a music concert in the city of Manchester of the United Kingdom, the British of the city had intended that concert to be a joyful event but that vicious and death inflecting jihadist suicide/homicide bomber turned it into a tragic event.
The deluded dangerous deadly and demonic evils of Islam’s jihadists has no limit.
Well, they certainly can’t bear to see anyone happy, as they themselves are so miserable.
That demonic and murderous jihad entity, Hamas, has no limits, at all, to its horrendously horrific evils that it so maliciously and unconscionably commits.
We should avoid using the word “Palestinians” because that is only a fake identity which legitimizes their claim to the territory of the British Palestine Mandate. They are no more “Palestinians” than a transgender woman is a woman. These are only Moslem Arabs many of whose ancestors lived in the territory of the British Palestine Mandate before 1949. We should call them Moslem Arabs, not “Palestinians”.
“Paleosimians” works for me, or “Psuedostinians” or “Paleostinians” in a pinch. Most of those wogs came to the region formerly known as Palestine after Theodor Herzl and his fellow Zionists turned a barren, barely populated wasteland into a thriving concern. The wogs were drawn to the success and proceeded to leech off of it, as is their wont. You probably know more about that than I do.
“Palestine” is the Roman word for for “Philistine,” the ancient enemies of the Jews who’d been extinct for 700 years when Hadrian renamed the region he knew as Judea as an insult to Jews. I suppose he knew the Mizrahi never left when he drove all the others out. He was a good Emperor for Rome but not so much for the Jews.
Of course the son of deception, Bar Kokhba, is the dolt Jews should blame for the second Diaspora, not Hadrian. He knew what everybody else around the Mediterranean knew: if you rebel or cause too much trouble, Caesar would send in his legions and that would be the end of you. He was a stupid belligerent asshole, in my opinion. The indignity of a temple of Jupiter on the Temple Mount could’ve been solved diplomatically because Hadrian didn’t want to commit his legions to a backwater unless it was necessary. The Romans referred to the Mediterranean as their “pond,” you know. The coast of the pond was a really foolish place to challenge Rome. Hadrian lost a lot of legionnaires in that rebellion and it really pissed him off, hence the lesson he taught with Jewish banishment.
I’m sure you already know all this stuff but there are doubtlessly people who read this comment section who didn’t.
VDH has a whole bunch of books and videos which chronicle this stuff. “The Odyssey of Western Civilization” is an especially good video series.
bring back orange man bad , it has to be better than decrepit, phoney old white man bad . the left will continue its love affair with the left because jew hatred has a higher calling than condemning barbarity . as long as it isn’t in their suburb . unfortunately jews are their own worst enemy believing that altruism will win the day . short memories , ie the holocaust bring short life spans . nothing will change as the next holocaust will occur during the great tribulation of revelation . its just around the corner . gird up your loins for a rough ride as the next barbarity will make oct. 7 look like a sunday school picnic .
Let’s be honest…. The term “Middle Easterners” is just a euphemism for Muslims. The problem isn’t their geography; rather, it’s their murderous religion.
And their body odor. Have you ever smelled one?
No Muslim or communist can honestly and truthfully pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States.
Very few Douchebagocrats in Congress can, either.
Hamas proved that the devil walks with earthly feet by their actions on October 7.
One thing missing from the Article and the comments – JOE BIDEN!! PRESIDENT TRUMP ended the funding of hamass and then joe comes in and REWARDS them with MILLION$! Joe ended the sanctions and freed BILLION$ for Iran, the funder of hamass! They also figured – or were guaranteed – that Joe would not let Israel destroy them! We should not assume that Joe will act in the best interests of the USA or Israel – his ACTIONS show otherwise!!
I still find it hard to believe that we did not confiscate those funds to pay the VICTIMS of Iran’s terror organization!
It’s time to read or re-read
WHEN DEVILS WALK THE EARTH
The Mentality and Roots of Terrorism, and How to Respond, October, 2001
by Ralph Peters
His part three of this essay, “Fighting Terror: Do’s and Don’ts for a Superpower” lays out what is needed; with rule #1 being, “Be feared.”
The other victim of the 10/7 attack is the Left in Israel. No longer do they get to call Netanahu a Nazi. The 2 state solution is as quite dead. More like the two state delusion.