No There Is Not A "Genocide" In Gaza

August 24, 2025/ Francis Menton @ Manhattan Contrarian

The accusation that Israel is committing a “genocide” in Gaza has become pervasive on the Left, and particularly in academia. I think that the accusation is absurd, so much so that until now I haven’t thought it worthy of a response. However, the accusation has recently arrived on my own website. In the comment thread on the prior post, one of the commenters (regular readers can guess who) has leveled against President Trump the charge that he “is sending weapons to Israel for the genocide in Gaza.” Really? It’s time for a response.

In my opinion, what’s going on in Gaza is not a genocide, but a war. Deaths in war are not a genocide. On October 7, 2023, the governing entity of Gaza, Hamas, conducted an unprovoked attack on Israel, killing approximately 1,200 people, and taking some 250 hostages. Israel has responded with a military action. This is a classic war. The norm in war is that the parties fight until one of the parties surrenders, or there is an armistice. When the parties are fighting, the whole idea is to kill as many of the enemy as possible. Hamas could end the war by surrendering. It has not done so. Moreover, it continues to hold hostages. Therefore, the normal expectation of war would be that Israel will continue to kill as many of the enemy as possible until there is a surrender.

You may disagree with my characterization that the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel was “unprovoked.” It doesn’t matter. Assume that the attack was provoked. This is still a war. In war, it is entirely the norm that a party that has been attacked tries to kill as many of the enemy as it can until the enemy surrenders.

Is there any other example of the term “genocide” being applied to a full-scale military response to an armed attack by an enemy state actor that has not surrendered? If there is, I don’t know of it.

Consider, for example, the Russia/Ukraine war. In this case I would say that Russia’s attack and invasion were unprovoked. The Russian version of events of course differs, and accuses the Ukrainians of provocations that caused the conflict. But again, even if Russia’s invasion was completely unprovoked, the conflict is still a war between enemy state actors, where neither has surrendered. Unlike Israel, which makes extensive efforts to minimize civilian casualties, Russia regularly sends drones to bomb civilian targets and residential buildings in Ukrainian cities. But does anyone call Russia’s conduct toward Ukraine a “genocide”? Not that I’ve seen. Contrast this with the conduct of the Soviet Union toward Ukraine in the 1930s, when it imposed an intentional famine in which millions of innocents starved to death. There was no war going on; Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. That was a genocide.

Or consider World War II. Today that conflict is quickly fading out of living human memory. But it provides some obvious guideposts to distinguish between “genocide” and deaths from combat in war.

During World War II, Hitler and his minions engineered the deaths of some 6 million Jews and others, selected largely by racial and ethnic criteria, who were noncombatants and residents of either Germany or conquered territories. That is the classic “genocide.”

But there were far more deaths from fighting in the war. Here is a quote from a famous speech given by U.S. General George Patton to the Sixth Armored Division of the U.S. army (under his command) on May 31, 1944 (a few days before D-Day and the Normandy beach invasion):

We’ll win this war, but we’ll win it only by fighting and showing the Germans that we’ve got more guts than they have or ever will have. We’re not just going to shoot the bastards, we’re going to rip out their living god.....ed guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We’re going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-f.....g-basket.

(Quoted in Michael Walsh’s recent book A Rage to Conquer.)

In other words, with a war going on, we are going to kill the enemy, and as effectively as possible. And Patton was only talking about killing enemy soldiers. The U.S. and allied war effort was by no means limited to killing soldiers. For example, in 1943 and 1944 the U.S. and England carried out saturation bombing campaigns directed at German cities like Dresden, Bremen, Essen and even Berlin itself. There were many military targets, but these campaigns essentially leveled the cities, with very large numbers of civilian casualties. Indeed, a large part of the reason for these campaigns was the attempt to undermine civilian support for the Nazi regime. Nobody thought that the U.S. or England were under any obligation to deliver food aid to the suffering German civilians.

And then there were the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed in these bombings. Shortly thereafter, Japan surrendered unconditionally, at which point the indiscriminate killings ended immediately.

I have no idea how it is that new rules seem to have emerged, applicable only to Israel (or maybe to only Israel and the United States) whereby any civilian casualties in war are now deemed “genocide.” The use of the term seems to be directed at appealing to soft-minded and historically ignorant students and academics in Western countries. But endless repetition of an inapplicable term cannot change a classic war into something else.

Hamas can end the deaths in Gaza by the simple expedient of unconditional surrender. Until then, it can expect large numbers of deaths, many of them civilians.

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A Nation in Dispair

By Harold Goldmeier

Non-Israelis seem incapable of understanding the depth and despair we have suffered daily since the October 7, 2023, attack. Unprovoked violent racism by Palestinians who chose war over peace, barbarism over humanity. There is no room for forgiveness. The world blames the victims.

We are a forlorn nation with grief in our pits. Israel feels alone, distanced from humanitarian world leaders and media, and pursued by profiteers tormenting us with falsehoods and accusations. We are drenched in agony.

We are angry at our leaders. We lash out at a former US president who, reluctantly, resupplied our armed forces but declared, “I am a Zionist.” We wait for the wrath of hell the new president swore is coming. We are seething with anger at every instigator of antisemitism overseas and those who defend evil. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Lannan Foundation, The Proteus Fund, and many others are reportedly financing many anti-Israel protesters and harassing Jews.

Half the number of hostages and many of those slaughtered by the Palestinians are foreign nationals; their national leaders have forsaken them.

Israelis and the Jewish people are small in number. There is little more we can do than defend ourselves. In memory of the strangulation of the Bibas children, Israelis give no quarter to talk of a Palestinian state. General Moshe Dayan allegedly observed that Israel is too small to defeat unified Arab armies, but we can make them bleed. The government has unanimously decided to do more, to obliterate the attackers and perhaps sacrifice any living Israeli hostages, as commanders have done in all wars.

On the attack

Alan Silverstein, a rabbi and PhD in political science, has written a 235-page book addressing every anti-Israel canard. Every Israel advocate, no matter how ignorant of the history of the Palestinian Israel issue and post October 7 slanders, can find truth in slanderous fiction. Israel’s War of Self-Defense (Gefen Publishing House, 2025) ought to be gifted to every Birthright participant, given free at every Hillel and Chabad house, evangelical church gift shops, gifted to tourists visiting the state, and attendees at Middle East conferences around the world.

Israel boasts 8,600 sq. miles, standing 150th out of 200 for its size. The population is around 9.8 million, giving Israel a global ranking of 98 among the 200. Muslims, Christians, and Druze comprise 20%, Jews 74%, and other faiths and ethnicities about 5%. Its military has the 17th-most powerful firepower. Israel is a world leader in advanced technology, its air force and special forces are among the top three best in the world, and Mossad and Shin Bet receive the highest accolades from global spy and intelligence agencies. Less spoken about are the more than 75,000 charities and nonprofits serving every kind of cause. They raise about $7 billion annually compared to the $558 billion that American charities raised in 2023.

Silverstein attributes a shift in polling data, suggesting that favorability numbers for Israel are slipping among Gen Z. They get their news from short clips on social media which are frequently sponsored.

Silverstein points out that the Right and the Left decry academic studies in “religion, the humanities, and philosophy.” It is fashionable to consider these subjects a waste of time and tuition. It is these subjects that develop a moral compass in students.

Western civilization thinkers and America’s founders were morally educated and largely set a standard of behavior of truth and justice.  Silverstein quotes one thinker who charges that without religion, the humanities, and philosophy in favor of “business, technology, economics… the opportunity to think, to debate with individual people who differ with you, and thereby confront the big questions of life,” erodes. Science and technology are cold and heartless. What is medicine without bedside manner?

Israel’s War of Self-Defense is a far more useful book than the David Friedman manifesto, One Jewish State. However, they complement each other. In the end, both authors can only foresee a one-state solution and the annihilation of Hamas. Silverstein claims no deal is worth an- other Jewish sacrifice. His closing chapter captures the position of most Israelis after October 7:  “A Two-State Solution Is Not Possible.” 

The tragedy is that the hostages are other people’s children. Our son, a former sergeant in the IDF, is dead, though not in fighting; some of our oldest grandchildren and nephews have been in this war, and our three youngest were called to duty. Sacrifice is a haunting, awful memory.

Dr. Goldmeier teaches at Touro College Jerusalem. He is an award-winning entrepreneur, receiving the Governor’s Award for family investment programs in the workplace from the Commission on the Status of Women. He was a Research and Teaching Fellow at Harvard. He is a managing partner of an investment firm, a business management consultant, a public speaker on business, social, and public policy issues, and has taught international university students in Tel Aviv.

Israel’s War of self-Defense by Rabbi Alan Silverstein Gefen Publishing House 160 pages; $18

Points to Ponder

 By Rich Kozlovich

How did Hamas get control of Gaza?  In 2005, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who was Israel's Prime Minister then, embraced leftist dogma about getting along with Muslims, which has failed over and over again, but he thought it would be a great idea to just give Gaza over to the Muslims and even provide necessary services for them they could not and would not provide for themselves, that way Muslims wouldn't hate Israel, and the world praised him.

It's clear the man either never read a history book or didn't believe history mattered.  Well, it does.  Hamas was an Islamic genocidal movement, it has always been such, and the people of Gaza like their genocidal insanity as they demonstrated by dancing through the streets as the coffins of innocent children who were hostages of Hamas were paraded before them.

Giving Muslims Gaza and the West Bank was in effect a practical application of the Two State solution. It was stupid then, it’s stupid now, and will always be stupid. Israel should take the example of Jordan and other Arab states who kick all the “Palestinians’ out, and tell the UN, the EU nitwits, American leftists, Jewish leftists, in and out of Israel, and the rest of the world to shove it.

After the Reconquista of Spain the first ones they kicked out were the Jews. Sephardic Jews who were well assimilated, but they thought the Muslims would adjust and all would be just fine and dandy. They were wrong, and had to kick all the Muslims out of Spain. They were Muslims and Muslims will always be Muslims, and assimilation isn’t an Islamic concept, domination however is.

Now Spain seems to have forgotten their history and are allowing Muslims to pour in, almost uncontrolled, and guess what, they’re acting like …. Muslims …… as Muslims have acted for almost 1500 years.

As for these EU nitwits, Does the European Union actually think radical Muslims will reform themselves?  Which means rejecting the foundational philosophy if Islam, jihad.  It they do that, they're not Muslims, they're heretics, and the Koran demands death to heretics.  If the EU wishes to commit suicide, well, I really don’t care since Europe is a spent force, and the EU is doomed anyway, but they need to stop demanding Israel commit suicide.

Definition leads to clarity, and it boggles my mind how people play with words to alter reality. I've read recently how Trump's cabinet needs to stand up to Trump, as it's an advisory board to the President.  Let's try and get this right once... just once.. please.  While cabinet member may make suggestions and give advice, their job as cabinet members isn’t to be an advisory board, it’s a management team whose job is to salute, say yes sir, and carry out the instructions of the President of the United States. If they can’t live with that, then they need to find other employment.  

I keep reading about this new Golden Age that's coming as a result of tariffs and trade agreements, all of which I think are necessary, and beneficial to America, but there will be no golden age. I've read three books on historical cycles, all hard drudging, since they all have their own terminologies and time frames.  If there ever was a subject that needs a formalized academic disciple, that's it.

But the one thing all the books dealing with historical cycles agree on is we’re in an end cycle, which entails huge economic downturns, and violence. Unlike many of the world’s nations America will survive intact for six reasons. We can feed ourselves, fuel ourselves, arm ourselves, defend ourselves, create our own internal market, and pay off our national debt.

The rest of the world cannot meet all of those six basic necessities to remain stable.  They're taxing, spending, over regulation, national debt, and immigration will kill Europe.  As this end cycle progresses there will be a lot of restructuring before the beginning of a new historical cycle, but Europe as we know it will no longer exist, and who knows what direction that will take.

The world's leaders are divided into two groups. The Winston Churchill’s, and the Neville Chamberlain’s. Everyone loves the Chamberlain’s, they go along to get along guys, and everyone hates the Churchill’s, who just can’t seem to get along.At least until the go along to get along crowd’s failure to deal with what’s going wrong hits the fan. 

Then, all of a sudden, they discover they need a Winston Churchill to be the answer, and they hate it, and they hate him.   And no matter how successful a Churchill may be, they just can’t stop shooting arrows at the Churchill’s, which in America's case right now involves Donald Trump and Elon Musk. 

Why?  

Neither Trump or Musk is one of them, and the only thing they excel at is criticism, not problem solving. Adam Schiff epitomizes that quality. Go along to get along elitism is a human physiological disorder that’s plagued humanity throughout history, and it’s always going to be with us. Most leaders aren’t leaders, they’re managers who organize the direction everyone wants to go, no matter how foolish that may be. 

A leader stands up and says…. You’re all wrong, and I’m gonna tell you why! And if or when that person gets a leadership role, they act accordingly. If they’re successful, they’re hated all the more. No matter what you may read, that explains everything. How insane is that?

Netanyahu Defends America Before Congress

Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had come to D.C. to defend Israel’s war against Islamic terrorists, instead he ended up defending America in a city and Congress overrun with them.

Marxist and Jihadist mobs prowled the streets of D.C., tearing down and burning American flags, and putting up the terrorist flags of the PLO in their place. Hamas supporters openly waved the green flag of the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist organization and even the black ‘battle flag’ used by ISIS and other Jihadists made an appearance in the capital of the United States.

The Columbus fountain outside Union Station was vandalized with the red triangles supporting Islamic terrorist attacks and “Hamas is Coming”. “Long live the intifada” was scrawled on the Freedom Bell. A courageous lone individual rushed to save an American flag being burned by a mob shouting “Allahu Akbar” which quickly gave chase. The Capitol Police, formerly so beloved by Democrats and media, battled more of the red-shirted radical thugs with no support.

“Allahu Akbar! Hamas!” a Muslim protester shouted. “We’re gonna kill all the Jews.”

Then in a few hours the insurrectionist mob that assaulted Capitol Police officers was set loose.

The message from the Biden administration and Democrats was once again that terrorist mobs could freely vandalize landmarks, threaten members of Congress and assault Capitol Police.

The White House offered no specific condemnation of the anti-American violence. Rep. Pelosi and many top Democrats instead blasted Netanyahu for refusing to surrender to Hamas. None of them spoke out against the hatred not only for Israel, but for the United States of America, for the calls to murder Jews and the chants for the destruction of America.

Inside the situation was no better. Kamala Harris, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and many top Democrats had decided to boycott Netanyahu’s speech. Those who attended offered little applause and sat scowling through much of the bipartisan address. A few behaved disruptively including Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a longtime terrorist supporter, who held up a protest sign during the speech.

It fell to Netanyahu to condemn the mobs who “burned American flags even on the fourth of July. And I wish to salute the fraternity brothers of the University of North Carolina who protected the American flag against these anti-Israel protesters.” Followed by chants of “USA, USA.”

It would not be the first or last time that chants of “USA” were heard during the address.

Netanyahu’s speech often sounded like a State of the Union address that no one was around to give anymore, praising America as “the guardian of Western civilization”, and urging that “for the forces of civilization to triumph, America and Israel must stand together.” He invoked Pearl Harbor and 9/11 and condemned the failures of colleges to teach basic values.

Netanyahu described clarity as “knowing the difference between good and evil.” He denounced those protesters who “stand with evil, they stand with rapists and murderers” who found babies hidden in an attic and murdered them. While Speaker Mike Johnson stood up to applaud, the ranking Democrat, Sen. Ben Cardin applauded lightly but remained seated .

“Some of these protesters hold up signs saying: ‘Gays for Gaza’ they might as well hold signs saying ‘Chickens for KFC’”, Netanyahu said. Cardin did not applaud that one. Few Dems did.

With rescued hostages and hostage families in attendance, he described the Hamas atrocities of Oct 7 when “these monsters raped women, beheaded men, burned babies alive, they killed parents in front of their children and children in front of their parents, they dragged 255 people, both living and dead, into to the dark dungeons of Gaza.”

Meanwhile Rep. Jerry Nadler boasted that he was “trolling” Netanyahu by reading a book.

“We also have families with American hostages here,” Netanyahu said, while Kamala was off attending a sorority event, and some 70 Democrats were officially boycotting the speech.

He introduced Avichai Reuven, an Ethiopian Israeli soldier who ran 8 miles during the Oct 7 attacks, killed terrorists and saved lives, and three other heroes of the fight against Hamas, two of whom had lost limbs. “These are the soldiers of Israel, unbowed, undaunted and unafraid.”

Democrats like Pelosi and Nadler, along with Kamala, Schumer and many others demand that they be daunted and surrender to Hamas. They are doing the dirty work for Hamas and Iran.

Recently, as Front Page Magazine reported, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines admitted that Iran was financing some of the pro-terrorist protesters. Netanyahu suggested that could include the Hamas riots outside and called them “useful idiots” for Iran. He described Ayatollah Khomeini’s promise to “export the revolution to the entire world.”

America stands in the way of Iran’s plan to impose Islam on the world, he argued.

“That’s why Iran sees America as its greatest enemy.” He quoted a Hezbollah terrorist official who said that, “the real war is with America.” Iran had sent “death squads” to kill Americans, including Trump administration officials and even “brazenly threatened to assassinate former President Trump.”

“Iran realizes that to challenge America, it must first conquer the Middle East… but Israel stands in its way. That’s why the mobs in Tehran chant ‘Death to Israel’ before ‘Death to America.’”

Netanyahu laid out a compelling case for Israel as the barrier to Islamic expansionism. And for America to support Israel so that it doesn’t have to put boots on the ground in the Middle East.

But he was also speaking to a very different Washington D.C. than when he first spoke in 1996.

The idea of America as “the guardian of Western civilization” would now be outright offensive to the average Democrat. As is the idea of fighting Islamic terrorism instead of surrendering to it.

But in a Washington D.C. where Islamic terrorist flags are freely waved and Jihadist graffiti is scrawled across national monuments, that may no longer be so. The nation’s capital, under Biden and Kamala, is no longer the “guardian” of anything except pork and privilege.

Rather than defending Israel in D.C., Netanyahu was tasked with defending America, making the case for it as a great nation and a force for good even while members of Congress, congressional staffers, wealthy brats and Islamic terrorists made their stand for evil.

Israel lacks support in D.C. not just because the left is antisemitic, but because it hates America. And a movement that hates America cannot be expected to love Israel or support civilization.

Netanyahu was the product of a better America. When he left in the sixties to fight for Israel, he had imbibed the best of this nation in his time here. Yet each time he returned America had grown worse. Had he jeered America, denounced it as a racist, capitalist and imperialist enterprise, many of the Democrats who boycotted the speech would have come and cheered.

This was a speech meant to remind Americans of what Israel and we are fighting for. But despite his eloquence, the red and green mobs outside waving terrorist flags, chanting “Allahu Akbar” and burning American flags did that better than even the greatest speech ever could.

No matter how many lies the media put out there, the choices are painfully clear.

One of the protesters, the sorts of people whom Kamala described as “showing exactly what the human emotion should be”, stood holding a sign reading “Allah is gathering all the Zionists for the ‘Final Solution’ with a nuclear mushroom cloud overhead.” In his other hand, he waved the black battle flag of the Caliphate with its call for imposing Allah and Islam on America.

The choice between good and evil is all too clear. All that remains is to make it.

 

 

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

Letter to Dr. Einat Wilf

By Carl Goldberg, PhD

Editor's Note:  This is one of the commentaries selected from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors. Any cartoons appearing will have been added by me.  If you wish to get the full edition,   E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free.  RK

Again, my compliments on your outstanding presentation on Michael Shermer's show  (YouTube: How to Achieve Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.) I sent the recording to all of my email groups with my high recommendation. In your presentation, you correctly got to the root of the conflict over Israel, namely, that the Arabs/Moslems adamantly refuse to countenance any Jewish sovereign state in any borders in the territory of the former British Palestine Mandate. 

You were cautiously optimistic that this Arab/Moslem position could change, and you pointed to the Gulf states as an example of how Moslems can reinterpret their religious texts to become "Muslim Zionists."

In my opinion, there are no grounds even for cautious optimism for the following reason. The Abraham Accord states do not represent a reinterpretation of Islam's sacred texts. The leaders of the Gulf states are dictators who recognize that the sacred doctrines of Islam contradict the state interests of a modern state, and they use their dictatorial power to pursue state interests against their own Islamic religious establishments and their own religious subjects. They have not reinterpreted the Koran or the Sunnah; they are just ignoring them in the interests of state.

The unfortunate fact is that the Koran commands Moslems explicitly to make war on the Jews (and Christians, too.) in order to subjugate them to Islamic rule. This precludes all Jewish sovereignty. The Hamas Charter makes this very clear and even says that the very existence of Israel is an affront to Allah. 

Muhammad, as you well know, said in a notorious genocidal hadith that the Moslems will fight the Jews and kill them. That is also sacred Islamic text, and it too is reproduced in the Hamas Charter. This is why the Moslem Arabs have always refused a state when it was offered to them on condition that they live alongside a Jewish state. Allah prohibits it! There is no way to come up with an interpretation of these texts which means the opposite of what the text says.

Unfortunately, we are all stuck with those immutable Islamic sacred texts. If there is any hope for the Moslem Arabs to agree to coexist with a sovereign Jewish state, it is that masses of Moslems will become more secular, less religious and simply ignore these parts of their sacred texts. Ultimately the root of the Moslem (not only Arab! See the Islamic Republic of Iran!) war against Israel is Islam, itself, preached in all the mosques. 

Any Palestinian Arab leader who aspired to peace with Israel, would have to go against his own religious establishment and against his own religious population -- in addition, of course, to going against the multi-generational anti-Israel narrative of the "naqba."

What America Can Learn From Israel on the Battlefield

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

America has never successfully liberated and held territory from Islamic terrorists. After thousands dead in Afghanistan and Iraq: both countries are now controlled by Islamic terrorists.

Many top current and former defense officials who oversaw both disasters, despite a track record of zero wins, have been criticizing Israel for not following in their footsteps.

Everyone from former Gen. David Petraeus to current Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. C.Q. Brown offer the familiar criticisms that Israel is not following the COIN or counterinsurgency model.

“Not only do you have to actually go in and clear out whatever adversary you are up against, you have to go in, hold the territory and then you’ve got to stabilize it,” Chief Brown argued.

The problem with this model is that it failed and left a lot of widows and orphans along the way.

The United States spent over 50 years losing wars, prestige and young men by trying to follow the familiar strategy for defeating guerrilla armies through conventional warfare followed by efforts to hold and stabilize the territories. And what exactly do we have to show for it?

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) discarded this conventional wisdom for another approach.

Rather than trying to hold territory filled with an enemy population among whom the terrorists move, it has used its manpower to attack concentrations of enemy forces, moving quickly and at times unpredictably, while refusing to get bogged down by trying to ‘hold’ any particular area.

This strategy has frustrated the entire Hamas war plan which like that of Jihadis in Iraq and Afghanistan depended on using terror attacks to pin military units in place, forcing them to defend and patrol a territory, and then exploiting their weaknesses to launch ambushes.

Israel learned a hard lesson from Oct 7. It’s not interested in playing defense anymore. Instead the goal of the initial stages of the war has been to keep the terrorists forces on the defensive. Complaints that Israel has to ‘reclear’ areas that it’s already taken miss the point. The enemy population supports the terrorists and so the area can’t be ‘cleared’ or ‘stabilized’. But once Israel has taken control of terrorist infrastructure, it’s better able to understand their operations.

When Israel ‘re-cleared’ Al-Shifa hospital, it took by surprise and captured much of the leadership of Islamic Jihad and some Hamas leaders as well. Rather than a weakness, re-clearing is a strength because when terrorists return to territory that Israel is now familiar with, it can turn the tables and launch surprise attacks on those old positions.

Israel is not fighting to take land, but to grind down enemy forces wherever they operate.

“The measure of effectiveness will not be enemy killed,” Gen McChrystal told the Senate about his Afghanistan strategy in 2009. McChrystal’s strategy killed a lot of Americans instead.

Israel is betting that McChrystal is wrong. It’s measuring effectiveness in just that way.

Holding and stabilizing territory, the basis for the COIN model, bogs down armies in defensive modes, while Israel’s approach is purely offensive and plays to its strengths. The IDF is bad at defensive operations, but quite good at rapid assaults. COIN would play to Israel’s weaknesses and the strengths of the terrorists, much as it did with us in Iraq and Afghanistan, but discarding COIN has made the IDF’s campaigns far more effective even if they’re nowhere near the end.

COIN advocates cite their ‘successes’ against ISIS in Iraq. But those successes pitted one group of Islamic terrorists against another. They would like Israel to pit the PLO against Hamas, but not only is the PLO unwilling to fight Hamas (and lost badly the last time it tried to do so) but the end result would be the same disaster in which Iraq fell into the hands of Shiite terrorists.

The problem with COIN when applied to Muslim countries is that whoever wins, we lose.

COIN in Afghanistan propped up an ineffective warlord and kleptocrat alliance that couldn’t survive without our military support while COIN in Iraq turned over the country to Iran. Not only did both pathways lead to dead ends, but neither one is even available for Israel to utilize.

The Biden administration and some former defensive officials have proposed finding Muslim nations willing to help “stabilize” Gaza afterward. Not only aren’t such nations available, but Egypt, which controls the Rafah crossing into Gaza, did everything possible to stop an Israeli advance in order to cover up the massive tunnels leading from Gaza into Egypt.

Once Israel went into Rafah, Egypt cut off aid through its crossing into Gaza in order to manufacture another “humanitarian crisis” and allow Hamas to take control in Rafah again.

That is what Israel’s prospective Muslim “partners” are really up to behind the scenes.

But that was also exactly how America’s Muslim partners acted. While America searched for Osama bin Laden, Pakistan was harboring him in one of its military towns. Qatar harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, and Saudi Arabia, which provided most of the hijackers (along with our other regional allies) rushed to defend the terrorists at Gitmo.

Israel has a more realistic assessment of those Arab Muslim “partners” than D.C. does.

Oct 7 was enabled by generations of peace accords overseen by D.C. beginning with the Camp David Accords, that enabled Egypt to recover territory that it had lost in a war without actually offering anything more than the coldest possible peace, and then followed by the Oslo Accords and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza which turned over the territory to Hamas.

The Camp David Accords, the Oslo Accords and the withdrawal allowed Hamas to not only dominate Gaza, but connected it directly to Egyptian territory and forced Israel to refight the conflicts that it should have left behind in the 50s because there was no longer a security zone.

If Israel still controlled the Sinai and Gaza, Oct 7 would have been impossible.

Oct 7 happened because Israel put diplomacy and its hope for peace ahead of its strategic imperatives. After Oct 7, it’s finally putting strategic imperatives ahead of diplomatic ones.

Nation-building, currently referred to by politicians as a ‘day after plan’, is not on the agenda. Israel is not trying to “hold” or “stabilize” territory. Even if such considerations emerge later, it will only be when the situation on the ground has shifted significantly. The current focus is on destroying concentrations of Islamic terrorist forces and their infrastructure.

Biden administration critics claim that the collateral damage from the war will allow Hamas to recruit more men, but the Israelis know that what really allows terrorists to recruit is leaving them in power. Allowing Hamas to control Gaza for 17 years is what built it an army.

Israel is out to destroy Hamas as an organized force. The goal of the war is to take out its leaders and reduce the enemy to its smallest possible components.

“If they leave and get out of Gaza, as we believe they need to do, then you’re going to have a vacuum, and a vacuum that’s likely to be filled by chaos, by anarchy, and ultimately by Hamas again,” Secretary of State Blinken complained on CBS News.

Chaos and anarchy, while not ideal, are still a better deal than Hamas. Given a choice, Israel would prefer to live next door to Haiti than Iran. Islamic terrorists fighting warring gangs over territory are far preferable to terrorists building rockets and missiles.

After Oct 7, Israel is applying a crude realpolitik to the problem. It’s insufficient as a solution, but it’s a whole lot more pragmatic than the nation building and counterinsurgency rabbit hole that swallowed up a generation of our finest fighting men with nothing to show for it except despair.

Israel is trying to limit its casualties while maximizing its results. Our politicians and generals could learn a thing or two from that. The IDF is not being tasked with digging wells, winning hearts and minds or having three cups of tea with the terrorists. Its soldiers are tasked with pushing out and engaging enemy forces to expose their leaders and command structure.

In Afghanistan and Iraq, we used military force to achieve political and diplomatic aims, while Israel is using military force to achieve military aims. What a shockingly sensible notion.

Perhaps our politicians and generals ought to consider it next time we get involved in a war

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.

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The ‘Rabbi’ and ‘Peace Activist’ Who Cheered the Hamas Oct. 7 Attack

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

When pro-Hamas insurrectionists stormed Capitol Hill, Brant Rosen, described as “one of the demonstrators”, was quoted as falsely accusing Jews of genocide. He was later arrested.

In Chicago, where he claims to have co-founded the “first anti-Zionist temple”, he showed up at a rally urging, “stop the violence, and then, to work toward a true and lasting and just peace.”

‘Rabbi’ Brant Rosen, a co-founder of the pro-terrorist JVP Rabbinical Council (the misleadingly named Jewish Voice for Peace is neither Jewish nor peaceful) is a public face of the political campaign against Israel disguised as calls for “peace” and a “ceasefire”. The media describes him as a “rabbi” and as a “peace activist”. Much like JVP, he’s as much of one as the other.

Rosen actually became a regional director for the American Friends Service Committee, a radical anti-American and anti-Israel Quaker group, after being pushed out of his synagogue for his hatred of the Jewish State and support for Islamic terrorists. In its 5-year tribute to him, AFSC did not use the ‘rabbi’ title. While at the AFSC, he claimed to have opened the “first anti-Zionist temple”. In reality, the “temple” appears to be a PO Box opposite a Little Caesars.

Whether the “temple” exists is unclear, but Brant Rosen’s hatred for Jews is all too real.

“When I heard the initial reports of Hamas’ attacks on Israel this past Saturday, I will be completely honest – my first reaction was ‘good for them,’” Brant Rosen wrote in response to the Hamas attacks of October 7.

When Hamas terrorists burst into homes in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, massacring families and livestreaming the horrors on Facebook, Brant Rosen described it as “not the first time this community had experienced Palestinian armed resistance”.

This is Brant Rosen and the Jewish Voice for Peace’s idea of “Palestinian armed resistance”.

“A father huddles over a mortally injured girl lying in a pool of blood as his wife wails.”

In his column, published at the People’s Voice (formerly the Communist Party’s Daily Worker), he claimed that “this latest violence did not occur in a vacuum. It is but the latest manifestation of an injustice that Israel has been perpetrating against the Palestinian people for decades.” 

Later in October, Brant Rosen argued that, “Hamas’ abduction of hostages – brutal and heinous as it was – occurred in response to a colonial, apartheid regime that (sic) been governing their lives for the past 75 years.”

Brant Rosen gets a great deal of mileage for his activism by claiming to be a “rabbi”. In reality, he was “ordained” by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College: an atheistic movement which believes neither in the Bible nor the G-d of the Bible, or in any actual form of Judaism. He speaks most convincingly about faith when discussing his love of Quaker spiritual teachings.

When he announced that he had founded the “first anti-Zionist temple”, the story popped up everywhere, including at the JTA: always eager to provide a platform for anti-Israel activists.

But the only address for Tzedek Chicago, the tattooed clergyman’s “anti-Zionist temple”, is a Chicago post office box seven miles from Rosen’s house and opposite a Little Caesars pizza place. The weekly “services” are happening in closed Zoom sessions.

The launch meeting for Tzedek Chicago was held in the basement of a Lutheran Church of the kind whose staff all list their pronouns. And he has described himself as “a Jew who also finds a comfortable spiritual home in the Quaker community” who testified that “my spiritual life has greatly benefitted from my encounter with Quaker thought and practice.”

The American Friends Service Committee had developed extensive Communist ties early in the last century and went to work covering up the worst horrors of these regimes. It even defended the Khmer Rogue genocide, claiming that the United States was spreading lies to undermine an “alternative model of development and social organization.”

After the fall of the Communist regimes, the AFSC turned to Islamic terrorism: its people met with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and traveled to Iran. The AFSC defended the Hamas fundraisers of the Holy Land Foundation and ran a piece arguing for “Decriminalizing Hamas” urging that the Islamic terror group be removed from the list of terrorist organizations.

“When the Palestinians chose Hamas as their ruling party, by and large, they were choosing another alternative,” another AFSC article argued. “In this instance, they were mistaken in thinking that the world would respect their choice.”

Rosen claims that by opposing Israel he’s advocating for Jewish values, the actual values he’s advocating for are those of a Quaker group that partners with Hamas’ backers in Iran.

He established the “Jewish Fast for Gaza” back in 2009 a few years after Hamas took over.

Brant’s purpose in fasting was, among other things, “to call upon Israel, the US, and the international community to engage in negotiations with Hamas.”

By 2012, Brant Rosen had become so extreme that he was actually attacking Hussein Ibish, a leading anti-Israel Arab figure, for writing too harshly about Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.

“It was only the armed resistance of Hamas in Gaza that managed to bring Hilary Clinton to the region and actively engage with the Israelis and Palestinians,” Brant Rosen argued.

“Meshaal’s opening went utterly unregarded by the Obama administration, who refused to deal with Hamas and chose to maintain its support of Israel’s crippling siege of Gaza.”

After the Hamas kidnapping and murder of three Jewish teens in 2014, Brant Rosen complained that Israel “knew full well that the teens had been murdered shortly after their abduction” and was “using the pretense of their kidnapping to brutally crack down on Hamas members.”

“If Israel was truly interested in following the course of justice in order to preserve life, it could have dropped its abject refusal to deal with Hamas following the November 2012 cease-fire and pursued further negotiations aimed at ending its crushing siege,” he went on to argue.

That same year, Brant Rosen left the synagogue he used to work at after his “views, work, and words on the Israel/Palestine issue caused deep rifts among the members” and got a job with the Quakers working against Israel and learning from the teachings that had praised Pol Pot.

The “close collaboration” between the American Friends Service Committee and JVP is such that some critics have questioned whether JVP isn’t just a Jewish suit that AFSC wears. Lynn Gottlieb, another member of JVP’s Rabbinical Council, used to head AFSC’s Middle East Program. May Ye, a current member, had ties to AFSC when she was a “musician”.

It’s unclear to what extent Tzedek Chicago exists off Zoom, but as a ‘church’ it doesn’t have to file 990 forms or reveal its financials. And there’s no way to know what the anti-Israel group could be hiding behind its “temple”. But Tzedek Chicago has the advantage of also advancing the “rabbinic” credentials of random anti-Israel activists.

May Ye, a Chinese-American activist from Maine who claimed that she “became a rabbi to be a Jewish voice for Palestinian liberation”, who was quoted in stories about the pro-Hamas assault on New York’s Grand Central Station over the Sabbath, had worked as a “rabbinic intern” at Tzedek Chicago before branching out as a “radical rabbi” with a focus on destroying the Jewish State.

What does it mean to be a “rabbinic intern” in a P.O. Box opposite a Little Caesars?

The media is too busy promoting collaborators like Brant Rosen to ask such basic questions.

And while Brant compares Israel’s Jews to the Nazis, his wife Hallie Esbin Rosen, who worked for the ADL for 15 years and used to work for the Illinois Holocaust Museum, has taken part in Brant’s anti-Israel rallies.

But Brant Rosen, like many other activists, would not exist if the media did not prop him up. And that is especially true of the JTA which has published multiple articles promoting a “rabbi” and his PO Box congregation whose main claim to fame is supporting terrorists and hating Israel.

The JTA ran 9 articles promoting Brant Rosen over the years. It ran two articles alone about his new “temple”. The average synagogue would never get such publicity. Stories about Rosen then popped up in every Jewish local paper in America reprinting the JTA’s publicity for Rosen.

Rosen, JVP, If Not Now, and other hate groups and terrorist collaborators have been blown up into public figures by the JTA and supportive media without revealing what they really believe.

Brant Rosen’s first reaction to Oct 7 was, “when I heard the initial reports of Hamas’ attacks on Israel this past Saturday, I will be completely honest – my first reaction was ‘good for them.”

That is the story about the Quaker Rabbi of the PO Box Anti-Zionist Temple the media won’t tell.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

The World as I See It, March 25, 2024

"You know that little voice in your head that keeps you from saying the things you shouldn't say? Yeah, I don't have that!" - Lotus Flower Press

By Rich Kozlovich

2024 Election

Here are the issues Joe Biden and his band of misfits will be running on in 2024, Bidenomics, which is a disaster, the legalization of mind altering drugs, the murder of the innocent unborn calling it health care, destroying American industry and calling it saving the planet, promoting ever transsexual agenda there is, all of which will require a total abandonment of reason, logic, truth, facts, history, real science, and reality.  

No problem, just as long as the Republicans fail to stop all the voter fraud that's going on, that's all Joe will need.  It was all he needed in 2020, and that's all the Democrats will need in 2024. Even in Ohio, where it wasn't believed voter fraud was as big a deal as it is in the rest of the country, we Ohioans are now shocked to find....that's not entirely accurate.

It turns out it's been discovered by civilian volunteers there are massive irregularities in Ohio's voter database, stuff that elected and hired state officials should have known about and fixed.  Why didn't they?

Violence in America

Violence in America is frightening.  Racial violence is pandemic.  Black culture in America is now a criminal culture, and it's not just against whites, Asians, and Hispanic.  Black thugs are non discriminating.  They hate everyone. 

Outrage Over Hung Jury in Brutal Beating of Asian Jewelry Store Owner Despite Clear Video Evidence  The video has been deleted in this link, but it is available in this one.  Trial for man seen on video attacking jewelry store owner ends in hung jury Surveillance video shows 68-year-old Chang Suh being stomped on and hit in the head at least a dozen times - twice with a hammer..........

A hung jury? Ya just gotta be kidden me!   How in the world could there possibly be a hung jury? The video blatantly demonstrates this man was guilty as sin?  I can't prove it but I'm willing to bet there were blacks on that jury who would have acquitted him if he'd publicly murdered a dozen people and filmed it.  And that's been the trend for decades.  Black leadership, prominent black movements, and the media not only excuse that kind of behavior, they lie about the events, and then they applaud it, and they benefit from it.

Eight monsters abducted, tortured, raped a young mother and then murdered her, and these monsters even videoed the whole vile event. Her name was Mahogany Jackson.  What did they have in common? They were all black.

There are entirely too many people, black and white, who sympathize and justify what all  these black criminal thugs are doing!  Fortunately there are some prominent blacks who see this for what it is.  Sharika Soal addressed this horror by saying:  Stop Sympathizing With Black Criminals – It Harms Americans.  

A man in New Orleans was almost beaten to death because he accidentally stepped on a black kid's shoe.  Lesson?  Don't step on a black kid's shoes, but if that's the lesson, one has to wonder how can you line in and/or revive any major city if the inhabitants live in a culture that’s undisciplined, irresponsible, refuse to be educated, and violent? One in which an unacceptable percentage of the inhabitants of the city think that’s just fine and dandy.

I don't think that's possible because they've abandoned all the Judaic/Christian values that make a society stable.  If there is no stable moral foundation for a society, there is no stability, then society becomes a mob.

 

It appears the victim is now finally able to breath on her own, but her head injuries were severe, and I'm betting she will suffer from this beating for the rest of her life, and now, "here's the rest of the story".   The suspect who smashed Kaylee Gain’s head into the pavement claims she’s the victim.  If you watch that video you can only conclude one thing.  No one picked on this girl.....ever.  She looks like she could beat up the guys.

Race and punishment: truth over facts January 8, 2024 The destructive effects of such lies don’t seem to matter to politicians like Joe Biden, who spoke for D/s/cs when he said: “we believe in truth over facts."...... 

Here’s what ‘white rage’ in the heartland really looks like - And what MSNBC partisans are getting woefully wrong........MSNBC won’t report on what local Republicans are doing, because it would bore the audience to death.............You want to know what rural Illinois Republicans want? They send people to a Democrat-supermajority Legislature and hope for some scraps for their districts. Maybe get some of the worst potholes filled, or signage for school zones. They don’t expect much, except more tax increases. There’s no rage. There’s definitely lots of disgust, but no rage. The folks in flyover land don’t really have much time for such. They have bills and taxes to pay.......

In Cleveland 100 year ago you couldn't get a job in the factories if you were a Jew or an Italian, yet they're both successful parts of the American culture today because of family commitment, education, and hard work.  Those are the choices black culture in America has eschewed, and that failure of responsibility belongs to black America, and black America alone.

Stop the blame game, marry the women they're impregnating, raise those children in a nuclear family, get a job, go to work everyday, don't steal from the employer, do the work without five hundred pounds of attitude, educate their children and raise them with those same values.

Problem solved.   Does anyone think that's going to happen any time soon?  Black Americans have been told by Democrats that they are completely unaccountable no matter what they do and are actively backing up that narrative officially. In addition it is insisted now that everyone else put up with this to make up for past racism....or something. This is unsustainable.

Violence by blacks against white people is so prevalent because we reward them for it. It is that simple. When you reward someone (or a group) for a behavior - you will get more of it. When you punish someone (or a group) for a behavior - you will get less of it. This is really not rocket science.

Yet what do we see?  The promotion of blatant insanity from academia is unending, all of which is a stench in the nostrils of sane people. 

'Woke' Insanity Continues: University Professor Says Traditional Marriage Promotes 'White Supremacy'  - The following story illustrates the reality of the insane world of the woke in today's America and our desensitized reaction to it. Let's be frank: The radical woke are hellbent on destroying every moral tradition in this country, including traditional marriage. Or, as a George Mason University professor chooses to call it, "marriage fundamentalism." "Marriage fundamentalism," argues Professor Bethany Letiecq, is an "ideology and cultural phenomenon in which adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family."  It gets weirder. According to Letiecq, the federal government has coerced:

 Red line, red line, whose got the red line?

   Kamala Harris says there will be consequences!!!! Really?  Okay, it looks like we have a new red line.  Right?  So then, where are those red lines?  Oh yeah, there they are, the ones left over from the Obama administration.  Oh, yeah, that was really great press.  It didn't accomplish much, but hey, this time its different.  Kamala said it, and Kamala has studied the maps!   Ya know, like she studied that maps of the America/Mexico border maps. Well, if that's the case, Israel has nothing to worry about, it's not a real "red line"......it's just another "red herring".   But she did say it with a lot of conviction. 

Everyone is so worried about Israel killing "innocent" Gazans, calling it "genocide".  but no one is interested in the worldwide violence Muslims perpetrate against Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, and even other Muslims.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been murdered by Muslims in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. In all these countries, the humanitarian situation was orders of magnitude worse than in Gaza, but the worldwide protests against these crimes were orders of magnitude weaker than the powerful anti-Israeli demonstrations and accusations of Israeli genocide of Muslims in Gaza.

These Gazans aren't soldiers. They are terrorists, terrorists, terrorists. Did I say terrorists?  Yep, terrorists, that's called repetition for emphasis,  to remind everyone Hamas was declared a terrorist organization by the United States in 1997. 

All of which Kamala, Hollywood, the media, and the leftists screaming about Israels "murder" of "innocent civilians" seems to ignore.  Not a thing to say about the fact these terrorists are using these "innocent" Gazans, including women and children, as human shields to prevent Israel from attacking them.  

All  outrageous propaganda claiming Israel is putting civilians at risk, with death toll numbers that are highly inflated.  Genocide is what China did to the Chinese, what the Nazis did to the Jews and Eastern Europeans, what Castro did to Cubans, what Turkey did to Armenians, what Pol Pot did to Cambodians, and those numbers were in the millions, and it was deliberately planned and done.  War casualties are accidentals, not genocide. 

It's great propaganda, but the fact is, there are no innocent civilians in Gaza.  They're all Hamas supporters who danced in the streets watching the videos of the atrocities these monsters perpetrated against actual innocent civilians in Israel, especially women and children.  

These terrorists who are so convened about the women and children in their society happily use them as suicide bombers, even as young as seven years old.  Perhaps Kamala and the rest of these Muslim supporting nitwits should read a history book on occasion.  Lot of good it would do though since ideology makes smart people stupid, and leftist ideology makes stupid people like Kamala look even dumber.  

The Republican party is a mess.  

It has no shared vision or goals.  The leadership in every state is filled with RINO's who are lying to their base, just like DeWine in Ohio and their choice for the Senate, Matt Dolan, whose vision is far more in line with Democrat Sherrod Brown than with Donald Trump.  Fortunately Bernie Moreno, an America First conservative won. 

 First off, I have no idea why any Republican willing goes on CNN to be interviewed, but GOP Representative Chip Roy did stating his opinions on how and why the Republicans are a mess, and how they need to get their act together.  

 

Well, while I think that sounds really nice, but, given the reality of the Republican party, it's really stupid.  

 

How does a party get it's act together when one side wants to continue going along to get along, spending and borrowing as if there's no penalty for such insanity, and is willing to scheme to destroy the Republican majority in the House?  Somehow I find that to be a bit....just a bit... insurmountable.

 

How is a party to find common goals when it has members like Alaska Senator Murkowsli who is so outraged that Trump is the Republican nominee and says she won't vote for him, and is telling that to the world.  The difference between Murkowski, Romney, John Kasich, Liz Chaney, and so many of these others in the Republican party and the Democrats is...... wellllllll ...... let me think about this...... hmmmmm ........I guess there is none.   Imagine that.

 

So how exactly does Ole Chip plan to get them together?  Oh, wait, I know, I know, every one of these moderates and lefty Republican traitors will resign, and hope for a massive red surge of actual conservatives in November.  Otherwise, it's all a bunch of clabber.

The World as I See It, March 24, 2024

Your Daily Dose of Leftist Insanity

By Rich Kozlovich

My regular readers know I hold the view America has no skin in the game when it comes to the Russo/Ukrainian War, and it's Europe's problem.  Let them solve it or not.  I'm also stunned at what I consider ridiculous analyses attempting to show the west, especially the United States, pushed Putin into attacking Ukraine because he was afraid of NATO.  How laughable is that?  Without America NATO couldn't fight its way out of a wet paper bag, and in no way did America want to attack Russia.  This "special military operation" was all about Putin's desire to restore Russian imperialism, and now Putin's finally calling it a war, as he's destroying the energy infrastructure of Ukraine. 

On the other hand these same people declare America has little interest in the Israel/Hamas War, and these are smart geopolitical analysts.  That's where we have skin in the game because the real threat to America, and western civilization isn't Russia, it's Islam, and Israel is the canary in the coal mine.  

Before this war started Russia was relatively debt free, but let's face it, Russia isn't a natural capital generating nation for a number of reasons, including it's central planning economic system and the corruption is so massive it's mind boggling.  He had trouble funding the retirement plans for Russia before this war, now, who knows how bad it is, but it's going to get worse. 

Russians are actually very nationalistic, but they're also not really suffering badly as a result of this war because their economy isn't doing badly, on the surface.  But its based on war production, and this war has exposed just how bad that is since now they're buying arms from Iran and of all nations, N. Korea.  How bad is that?

Putin's been careful about forcing all their young men into the army, up until now. So far he's been forcing non-ethnic Russians into the army, and using private armies, which after he murdered the head of the Wagner Group, Prigozhin, placed them all under the control of the Russian military high command.  Now, after murdering Navalny he was "re-elected", and now we're going to see changes in his domestic policies, including an income tax, and that may trigger domestic resistance to Putin, and his schemes. 

He will expand his efforts in Ukraine, and will now force more young Russians into the military, he will have to cut domestic spending as now he's accrued massive debt he can't repay.  His assets are being confiscated around the world, China is careful how much they support him in fear of triggering more economic sanctions from America, which continues to confirm what I've been saying for years.  China's economy is all smoke and mirrors.   

There was an interesting, and thought provoking, 1999 article in Foreign Affairs today entitled, Give War a Chance, saying:

An unpleasant truth often overlooked is that although war is a great evil, it does have a great virtue: it can resolve political conflicts and lead to peace.  If policymakers truly want to bring an end to wars, they need to let the belligerents involved exhaust themselves, such that accommodation proves more attractive than further combat......... Otherwise, no real resolution can be reached intensifying and prolonging a struggle that otherwise would have ended. 

While noting wars bring about massive human misery, cause long term geopolitical problems, he points out it's decisive victories that resolve issues, which "ceasefires and armistices alone will not resolve", because "the underlying resentments that fuel conflict" are not resovled.  The armistice at the end of WWI is example as historians note that was merely a footnote leading to WWII.  

However, even a decisive victory by Israel in this Israel/Hamas War will not resolve the underlying issue: Islam!  We have 1500 years of history to show Islam is a political, criminal movement masquerading as a religion.  Muslims will never cease to be murders, rapists, and marauders, since that's what Arabs were before Islam.  Islam gave them permission to continue to do so, and in point of fact, required them to continue to do so calling it Jihad, a Koranic requirement, and the horrible and vile atrocities by HAMAS against defenseless civilians in Israel is testimony to that fact.   

In this case the best western civilization can hope for is to keep them isolated and disarmed as much as possible, and it's failing....badly!

I've often heard "war's not the answer"!  Well, if that's true, then I think it's well to ask, "what's the question?"   By nature I'm like most Americans, I hate war, but the fact is history has shown over and over again, war really is the answer, and war really does resolve issues, which is why we're speaking English instead of Japanese and German.   

The 2024 election is one of the most interesting elections of my life.  There were two articles in Liberty Nation News I thought were worth discussing, Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr, and Trump – A Show Worth Watching, and this one, which I published today, House GOP Majority Shrinks as More Republicans Call It Quits.  

There's been a lot of clabber about Tulsi Gabbard as a Trump VP.  Not gonna happen, and I explain why in my piece, Tulsi Gabbard as Trump’s running mate?, but as a candidate for VP with Kennedy, I think that's a real possibility and the Liberty Nation article has good arguments for that potential.  

One thing is becoming clear to Americans. The nation is facing an existential crisis.  America Thinker asks, Will our republic live to see her 250th anniversary?, and  Is Article V the Solution to Our FBI Problem?, and We Should Fight First for the Bill of Rights.   In those three articles these statements appear:

1. As the United States inches closer to 2026, marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the gravity of our current predicament cannot be overstated.  This upcoming milestone, meant to celebrate the enduring spirit and foundational values of liberty, democracy, and unity, is now shadowed by the specter of internal decay and external threats, much like the fall of the Roman Empire.
2. The FBI has clearly shifted its mission from law enforcement to political enforcement.  Only the geniuses of The View, the TDS-afflicted “journalists” of CNN, and the beneficiaries of the FBI’s legal exemption policy (the Democrats) would argue otherwise.  Video of armed FBI agents raiding the home of a former president dispelled the myth of “Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity” for the rest of us.
3. Would you be willing to fight and die for multiculturalism?  Would you put your life on the line for “Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity” (DIE); “Environmental, Social, and corporate Governance” (ESG); or other Marxist worldviews?

It's clear those are issues that must be resolved.  Immigration is out of control, and the real issue is the 2030 census.  All people in America will be counted, citizens, migrants, and illegal immigrants, and if that's not resolved, that will probably give Democrats 30 more seats in the House of Representatives.  

By Clarice Feldman published this article today, Domination Through Chaos and Fear, saying:

In the decade I served on a school board, I learned a great deal about group dynamics. The most important lesson, I suppose, is that there are people -- most often highly neurotic people -- who deliberately create chaos. They undermine every effort to rationally deal with issues that require solutions. They violate norms like crediting the work of committees that were designated to analyze what needs to be done and offer solutions for the board to act on, dispiriting those desirous of accomplishing what must be done. They go behind the backs of board members to undercut the systematic workings of the board, and then drag out meetings that should take a few hours into the late night.  

 In consequence, many just cede power to them rather than endure the endless churning of conflicts, bad decision-making and stirred-up animus. Psychologist Wilfred Bion analyzed group dynamics, something I later wished I had studied beforehand. As I recall the experiment he did, it went like this (much simplified): People were divided into two groups only one of which was without a clear mission of what they were to do. The portion of the group that was charged with a particular task was able to accomplish it. The second group with no such mission defined fell prey to the various emotional drives of the participants.

For many years I served in leadership roles in my industry and she's right, they're great at creating chaos, and it takes a Serbian to overcome all that outrageous behavior, or a Trump, who is being targeted by misfits she describes who are destroying America's system of justice.  How in the world is this decision not a violation of the Constitutions Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government?  If all these so-called "legal" undertakings can be launched against a former President of the United States, what can they do against the rest of America?  

No matter what flaws Trump may have, one thing is clear, he feels the nation is in jeopardy otherwise why would he put himself through all this misery, not to mention the massive expense involved in fighting all these corrupt judges and prosecutors.  

One final thing, the budget!  Republican have given Biden and the Democrats everything they desire, and the House is filled with RINO traitors, with McCarthy leading this movement even now.  The question as to whether the Republicans can hold the House until the election is now debatable.   

Update 12:27 PM EST

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to expel Rep. Gallagher so he can be replaced immediately. He’s resigning before his term ends and when he can’t be replaced until the election – April 19, leaving the majority in danger. She said every Republican leaving now is putting the majority in danger.  They should expel Gallagher so his constituency can vote for someone to take the seat quickly. She said his departure date is deliberate.

 

The Greenfield Gazette

By Daniel Greenfield @ The Point 

While Biden Fundraises in Texas, Illegal Aliens Attack Border -March 22, 2024 - “100 migrants broke through razor wire and knocked over guards.”After years of denouncing the term “invasion” as fearmongering and claiming that the mass invasion of America by millions of illegal aliens is just “migration” by “refugees” suffering from “root causes” like poverty, we’re seeing the reality here. Tellingly this is happening to the Texas National Guard, not the federal authorities who have been ordered to keep the border open, because they’re actually trying to secure the border............

The Islamist Transformation of Ohio in One Video -  March 21, 2024 - Open borders is just the first step. This is the next step. If you’re wondering why they’re wearing blue, that’s the color of the Somali flag. Rep. Ismail Mohammed was one of the state legislators whom the Freedom Center covered in our Election Jihad report..............

Ex-CIA, UN Firm Backed by Hamas Sponsor Linked to Gaza Pier Project -  March 21, 2024 - “We look forward to the port transitioning to a commercially operated facility over time.”Last week, I wrote that Biden’s announcement of a two-month project to build a pier to transport aid to Gaza was a “trojan pier” that made no sense.“Why not just use those existing ports and have Israel look at what’s going through and bring it in?  It seems like this is a lot of work for 60 days out when there are people starving, frankly,” a reporter asked. And the spokesman responded with a confusing word salad because he had no good answer..............

We Need Chinese Products to Fight a War With China - March 21, 2024 -  “Among the deficiencies: components of solid rocket motors, shell casings, machine tools” Between the “peace dividend” and “outsourcing”, our defense industry is reliant on Chinese products.  But a swift response may not be possible, in large part because of how shrunken the U.S. manufacturing base has become since the Cold War. All of a sudden, Washington is reckoning with the fact that so many parts and pieces of munitions, planes, and ships it needs are being manufactured overseas, including in China. Among the deficiencies: components of solid rocket motors, shell casings, machine tools, fuses and precursor elements to propellants and explosives, many of which are made in China and India. There’s nothing sudden about this...........

Biden Demands Majority of Americans Buy Electric Cars They Can’t Afford - March 21, 2024 - Most Americans oppose it.   The EV sales plan crashed and burned. It was always based on the lie that the majority of Americans would be able to afford electric vehicles.  They could not and would not...........

Gen. Milley: “I Don’t Know the Exact Number of Americans That Were Left Behind” - March 20, 2024  - Miley took his disputes with Trump public when no lives were at stake and kept his private with Biden when lives were at stake. We have court martialed men for less, but there’s no accountability at the top.At the Congressional hearing on Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan disaster, Gen. Milley showed the presence of mind and command of detail that he was famous for. “I’ll be candid, I don’t know the exact number of Americans that were left behind, because the starting number was never clear,” Milley admitted. “Same is true of at-risk Afghans, SIVs the commandos, other Afghans that served with us — those numbers varied so widely that they were quite inaccurate.” The upshot of the testimony from Milley and Gen. McKenzie is that the whole thing was a mess because of the State Department which refused to evacuate until the last minute....................

Illiterate Kids Will Go to School to Learn Nothing in Electric Buses -  March 20, 2024 - Finally, there’s some good news out of the Bronx.  here was a time when the Bronx was known for literary giants like Edgar Allan Poe, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, Mary Higgins Clark and Stan Lee amongst others. Today, the Bronx has the lowest literacy rate across the five boroughs and, until recently, no bookstores.  Oh wait, not that good news. This good news. Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday kids in the Bronx will be saying goodbye to diesel school buses and hello to 180 new electric ones. Due to a $77 million federal grant, the Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure law is quadrupling the number of electric buses already present in the city. It’s also funding the nation’s first-ever electric truck charging depot to be placed at the Hunts Point Market..............

Sen. Schumer Attacks Trump’s Comments on Israel - March 20, 2024 - ‘Jews for Hamas’ strike back.  After Sen. Schumer took to the floor to the Senate floor to claim that Israel, along with Hamas was an obstacle to peace, and to threaten that unless there was regime change and a terror state in Israel, there would be sanctions, he’s back complaining about President Trump’s comments. So is the rest of the ‘Jews for Hamas’ caucus. Including the No. 2’s number two.

Biden Admin Denies, Confirms It Doesn’t Want Israel to Defeat Hamas March 19, 2024 “That’s just nonsense.”  The Biden administration has continued rolling out a pressure campaign against Israel in order to save Hamas. The despicable Schumer speech was just one prong of a larger effort that includes political and economic pressure, as well as implicit threats of even worse things to come, even as the administration continues to lie about its goals and agendas. Here’s Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at a press conference claiming that Hamas can somehow be defeated without defeating it.........

It Takes the World’s Largest Plane to Deliver Green Energy Wind Turbine Blades - March 19, 2024 -  And specialized runways too.  Remember, we need to build solar panels and wind turbines for “clean green energy” to save the planet. Now those turbine blades are not really recyclable, have a limited shelf life and delivering them will require the world’s largest plane (which doesn’t run on wind or solar) and it will require special airport facilities.......

Anti-Racism Training Fails to Cure AI of Racism -  March 19, 2024 - What hate crimes did the AI commit? Racism is everywhere. Highways are racist. Milk is racist. AI is racist. And even trying to subject AI to struggle sessions doesn’t work. A small team of AI researchers from the Allen Institute for AI, Stanford University and the University of Chicago, all in the U.S., has found that dozens of popular large language models continue to use racist stereotypes even after they have been given anti-racism training. What hate crimes did the AI commit?.....

Supreme Court to Decide First Amendment is Null and Void - March 19, 2024 - Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson is getting some attention for stating that, “my biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.” But the only problem there is that Jackson was dumb enough to say the quiet part out loud in which the Supreme Court, notably including Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh appear to be leaning on the idea that the government has a right to tell companies to censor particular individuals for political reasons, as long as the government doesn’t do anything more than say it, without making further blatant threats to the company. Yes, Jackson is terrible, but consider the obnoxiousness of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Justice Elena Kagan and Chief Justice John Roberts snickering together about the idea of government censorship.