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Friday, October 20, 2023

Israel/Hamas War Commentary: Defense is an Obligation

By Rich Kozlovich 

We've already seen how Biden and his corrupt cabal are dealing with this.  A lot of rhetoric that's largely meaningless.  He's demanding Israeli's not "hit back too hard", and make sure there aren't any civilian casualties, but why isn't he demanding Hamas stop preventing Palestinians from leaving targeted areas?  Areas the Israeli's are warning about in order for them to have time to evacuate?  

Do you get the impression they're not putting any blame or responsibility for civilian deaths on Hamas in spite of the fact they use their own population as human shields?  Well, if you do, you have the correct understanding.   But this is an undeclared war by Hamas, Iran, and Islam.  And it's a war where the enemy has no ground rules.  Everyone is subject to abuse, murder, rape, and kidnapping.  

In a war between the barbarians and the wimps, the barbarians win every time.  Okay, so, let's see a show of hands. How many would have liked for either of these two misfit to have been President on December 7th, 1941?

There are those who keep claiming HAMAS really doesn't represent the Palestinian people, and seemingly that kind of thinking also applies to the people living in the GAZA strip, so Israel shouldn't attack GAZA, Lebanon with HAMAS' ally the Hezbollah are busy attacking Israel becasue Palestininas are actually innocent.  Really?  They elected HAMAS, and so we should ask.  Did Mao Tse Tung represent the Chinese people?  Did Hitler really represent the German people?  Did Idi Ami faithfully represent the Ugandan people?  Was Pol Pot in harmony with the people of Cambodia.  Did Cubans love the horrors Fidel Castro heaped on them?  Does it matter?  The horrors they perpetrated went on irrespective of what the population thought, and that has to be the mind set of Israel as they orchestrate the defense of their nation.  

Will Israel finally abandon policies driven by moral hazard? - October 8, 2023 By Andrea Widburg - For decades, Israel has graciously allowed herself to be subjected to slow bleeds by a hundred pinpricks here and a hundred pinpricks there. This was because of a form of “moral hazard, a term I’ll explain in a minute. The savage brutality of this latest Palestinian-launched war, though, may finally have broken through that essentially passive mindset and forced Israel to reckon with the real costs of a genocidal enemy on her border. “Moral hazard” is a fascinating concept that has nothing to do with morality and everything to do with risk assessment. In its simplest terms, moral hazard means that, the more you feel insulated from risks, the more likely you are to engage in dangerous activities....... 

Will Israel Do What it Takes to Secure Peace? - The joint aerial bombing by the British and the United States of Dresden, Germany between February 12-15, 1945, killed up to 25,000 people. They were mostly civilians. The bombings had a devastating effect on Hitler’s Germany and played a key role in Germany’s surrender in the Second World War on May 8, 1945.  On August 6th and 9th of that same year, the United States of America detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The explosions killed between 129, 000 and 226,000 people. Less than a month later, the Japanese surrendered, thereby ending World War II and Japanese imperialism...........
 
 Legal Expert: Israel’s Siege of Gaza Is Lawful, Not ‘Collective Punishment’ - Joel B. Pollak  Legal expert Mark Goldfeder, Special Counsel for International Affairs at the American Center for Law and Justice, has written a detailed post on X/Twitter explaining why Israel’s seige of Gaza is legal under international law, and not “collective punishment.”  Goldfeder, who is also Director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, was responding to a claim by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who accused Israel of a “war crime” and “collective punishment” due to its blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza........

Pompeo: ‘If You Want to Stop the Carnage, the Answer is to Eliminate Hamas, to Go at the Iranian Regime’ - Jeff Poor - Friday on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed his concern about how the Biden administration was handling a threat potentially triggered by the Israel-Hamas war. Pompeo suggested the solution to pursue involved going at the “source of the problem,” which he said was the Iranians.......

Graham: ‘If Israel Does Not Occupy Gaza, They Will Get Hit Again’Jeff Poor Friday on FNC’s “Hannity,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) argued Israel had to occupy the Gaza Strip or face a renewed threat from Hamas. The South Carolina Republican described it as a “World War II-type action.” “Well, you know Israel has no choice but to go into Gaza and occupy the Gaza Strip and destroy Hamas, or they’ll get hit again,” Graham said. “The old way of doing business died with those babies. So this is a World War II-type action, total war against Hamas. I’m not calling for the eradication of the Palestinian people. There are plenty of Palestinians I know I consider friends. All Palestinians are not Hamas, but I’ll tell you this, Hamas and the ayatollah of Iran want to kill all the Jews just like the Nazis.”.........

Anne Bayefsky: The UN Is Denying Israel’s Right to Defend Itself - Joel B. Pollak Human rights expert Anne Bayefsky has written a detailed timeline showing that the United Nations (UN) denied Israel’s right to defend itself after the brutal Palestinian terror attack Oct. 7 — long before Israel began responding by attacking Hamas in Gaza. At the Times of Israel, Bayefsky writes that the UN has “blood on its hands”:.................

ISRAEL FIGHTS TERROR: Response to Hamas Legal and Justified?… Breitbart News Joel Pollak, a graduate of Harvard Law School, explains why Israel’s response to the horrific Hamas terror attack is both legal and necessary as it attempts to destroy the terrorist threat to its populace while minimizing civilian casualties in Gaza...............

 25-Year-Old Israeli Woman Kills 5 Terrorists, Leads Team to Save Kibbutz from Hamas - Katherine Hamilton A young Israeli woman is being hailed as a hero after her early action helped to save an entire kibbutz from being brutally killed by Hamas terrorists.  Inbal Lieberman, the security coordinator of Kibbutz Nir Am since December 2022, is being credited with leading a group of residents to kill more than two dozen oncoming terrorists, as well as killing five herself, the New York Post reported..........
 
 Secretary of State Blinken Joins Hamas Ally in Calling for ‘Ceasefire’ Despicable even for this administration.  - by It didn’t take long. On October 8th, Secretary of State Blinken tweeted that, “Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and I spoke further on Hamas’ terrorist attacks on Israel. I encouraged Türkiye’s advocacy for a cease-fire and the release of all hostages held by Hamas immediately.” As FDD’s Jonathan Schanzer, a former terror finance analyst at the Treasury Department pointed out, “Hakan Fidan was the intelligence chief who presided over the establishment of a Hamas headquarters in Turkey that included an active terrorist commander directing attacks in the West Bank, Saleh al-Arouri.”...............
 
The Hamas terror attacks shattered the gun control ‘safety’ myth - By D. Parker  October 14, 2023 - Have you noticed that the ghouls of the gun grabber lobby have been awfully quiet the past few days? These cynical control freaks who are all too ready and willing to exploit other people’s pain for their political gain would normally be coming out of the woodwork with all the ‘gun violence’ going on, citing the mass Hamas attack in Israel.  Why has it only been crickets from the gun confiscation crowd?  Despite perceptions, Israel was a dream state for these people. Israel had strict controls on guns, and the people’s common sense civil right of self-defense. That made it nearly a Utopia for the likes of groups with names like Mom’s Demanding Civilian Disarmament in Everytown and Brady United Against Your Second Amendment Right to Own A Gun........The serious problem for the fascist far left and the gun grabber lobby in particular is that the Hamas terror attacks have shattered the gun control ‘safety’ myth.............
 
A History of Pogroms: The Case for a Jewish State - October 20, 2023 By Huck Davenport-  Beneath the seemingly civilized exterior of man lies tribal hatred, desperately trying to claw its way out. When it does, man can easily rationalize even the most heinous of his acts as virtuous. His target invariably becomes a demonized, marginalized group he can scapegoat as needed. No group has suffered more of this tribal hatred than the Jews.  The Twelve Tribes of Israel, descendants of Jacob, inhabited the land now known as Israel since antiquity. Ten of those Tribes ruled the Kingdom of Israel until the Assyrians expelled them in 722 BCE. The other two tribes ruled the Kingdom of Judah until the Babylonians dispersed them in 586 BCE. Jews restored Judah by around 538 BCE. It was only in the Second Century AD that the Romans ended the Jewish Kingdom, starting 1,800 years of colonial occupation............
 
Thinking Seriously About Deterring Iran and Hezb'allah  - October 20, 2023 By Robert F. Turner - Roughly 2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu wisely observed, “For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”We call that deterrence and its success generally depends upon two key perceptions. (At this stage, realities are only relevant to the degree to which they contribute to perceptions.) A wise potential aggressor will ask first about the relative correlation of forces—the relative strength of each side. Can his armies defeat their opponents, and what are the chances that other nations will join in collective defense to defeat his plans? The second variable, equally important, is perceived will. It doesn’t matter how strong other players are if the potential aggressor believes they lack the will to engage.Individuals decide to engage in aggressive behavior...........
 

Life is cheap in the Arab world -- and the West won't grasp the evil - October 20, 2023 By Victoria White Berger - If Americans do not have good background history, or very good intuition and common sense, it is increasingly difficult to cognitively negotiate the mainstream media war ‘news’ since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.Our gut tells us that we must sort this one out, quickly.  Concurrently, our decision-making as a free people is being hijacked by the leftist Democrats’ neurotic permaglue in massing to support the indefensible, e.g., the horror of Hamas (this leftist germinally fascistic stance that might also serve them well, briefly, as ‘socialists’). Putting these phenomenally purblind Democrats aside, let’s look at what happened this week in Palestine..............

The goal is clear and obvious following the October 7 attacks: eliminating Hamas as a political and military force. The terrorist organization reportedly has 40,000 fighters ready to battle in the streets and the network of terror tunnels they’ve constructed over the years. This expected ground war will not be a cakewalk, but the invasion is said to be “imminent.”

 

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