Hamas Deal Puts U.S. Boots on the Ground

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

American soldiers are on the ground in Gaza. They’re not there to fight Islamic terrorists, but to secure the disastrous Biden deal that saved Hamas by monitoring and inspecting the Gazans traveling across the ‘Netzarim corridor’.

One of the companies is UG Solutions founded by a former Special Forces veteran which hires US military vets to provide security. Hiring veterans as contractors became a common practice during the War on Terror because it allowed politicians to avoid accountability for US casualties.

Hundreds of Americans were killed working as contractors in Iraq including, in one of the most infamous incidents in the war, when four ex-Special Forces contractors working for Blackwater had their bodies dragged through the streets, were beaten, hacked and hung from a bridge while the Arab Muslim mobs of men, women and children cheered. The scene played out again in Benghazi when two former Navy SEALS working as CIA contractors were murdered.

How soon until it plays out in Gaza?

Bringing in veterans as contractors has been a longtime way to disguise ‘boots on the ground.’ But the men in those boots are still veterans who believe they’re serving their country. And when they die, it’s Americans dying to carry out the policies of their Commander in Chief.

Gaza is every bit as dangerous as Fallujah, Iraq or Benghazi, Libya. One American soldier already died in Biden’s futile pier aid delivery effort. This will be far more risky.

In 2003, Islamic terrorists bombed an American diplomatic convoy in Gaza, killing three security contractors, John Branchizio, Mark Parsons and John Martin Linde Jr. Branchizio was a former Navy SEAL, Linde, an ex-Marine and Parson’s family sued the Palestinian Authority which freed the terrorist killers of the three men. Sadly, nothing was learned from their murders.

Reportedly the ex-military and CIA operatives are already there and planning operations.

No matter how they’re disguised, American boots are back on the ground and the lives of American soldiers are being risked in a nation building project to create a terror state.

The UN is estimating that it will take $50 billion to rebuild Gaza with an estimated completion date of 2040. And it’s already set to put armed Americans on the ground to secure a nation building operation that is doomed to fail.

So why are we doing it all over again?

The Biden administration rolled Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy, into signing off on their deal to save Hamas and by Phase 3, begin building a ‘Palestinian’ state paid for and protected by us.

Witkoff admitted to FOX News that he had done nothing but agree to the Biden administration’s May 27 protocol, had nothing to do with “the mathematics behind the prisoner release and the hostage release” and all he had done was to “speed up the process” by pressuring Israel into making every possible concession to Hamas. By getting Trump to accept the Biden deal, Witkoff and his allies in the Trump transition team, some of whom are associated with the pro-Iran Koch network, had also bound Trump to a comprehensive nation-building project that would force him to spend his whole second term rebuilding Gaza and put ex-soldiers on the ground to secure it.

At an event, President Trump has correctly said that he is “not confident” that the ceasefire will hold, described Gaza as “a massive demolition site” and said that it would need to be “rebuilt in a different way”.

“Beautiful things could be done over there, fantastic things,” he suggested. And asked if he’ll help rebuild Gaza, Trump answered “I might.”

And that would be a catastrophic mistake.

America should not be in the business of nation-building in Gaza or anywhere in the Muslim world.

President Trump is right to be skeptical. And he was right when he said that, “You certainly can’t have the people that were there. Most of them are dead. But they didn’t exactly run it well. They run viciously and badly. You can’t have that.” But the deal foisted on him by Biden, Qatar, Witkoff and his Koch network allies does just that. It saves Hamas and puts the terrorists back in power.

Any rebuilding will be to the benefit of Hamas. And will put millions into the pockets of Islamic terrorists just the way that our reconstruction projects in Afghanistan financed the Taliban.

And having US vets risking their lives to inspect terrorists moving around Gaza is senseless.

The Israelis have shown that they are more than capable of controlling the Netzarim corridor and securing Gaza. They don’t need us to do it for them. Hamas and its allies need that. And once Americans are on the ground, they’ll attack us to regain control of the zones in Gaza.

The Biden trap for the Trump administration will have us spending blood and treasure in Gaza.

Our people will have the thankless job of replacing the Israelis to keep them away from Hamas. Not only won’t Hamas thank us for it, the terrorists will set traps for us, accuse us of attacking them, and then attack us. Just like it already happened in Afghanistan and Iraq.

We’ll be there to enable a ‘technocratic’ unity front government negotiated by Hamas and the PLO under the aegis of Communist China and Russia at meetings in Beijing and Moscow.

Biden personnel have trapped the Trump administration into nation-building one more time.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. The Trump administration can exit the Biden deal and the sooner we do it, the easier it will be. Not a single American has to die and not a single dollar should be spent on nation-building in Gaza. And won’t be if we exit the Biden deal.

No one in the Trump administration or the conservative movement should take ownership of the Biden deal. That’s falling into a trap that will task them with the blame for the deal when it falls apart. Witkoff admitted what we already knew. It was the Biden deal. It should end with him.

By exiting the deal, President Trump can demonstrate once again that America is no longer in the nation-building business: that we will not squander blood and treasure for globalist agendas.

The Israelis do not need us or want us in Gaza. All they want is a free hand to finish off the terrorists. And when they do that, it will be one more global problem we don’t have to deal with.

The U.S. should have no ‘boots’ or ‘sneakers’ on the ground. After the murders of John Branchizio, Mark Parsons and John Martin Linde Jr, not one more American should die for Gaza. We don’t need to rebuild Gaza, inspect it or try to teach its people about democracy.

Let’s leave Gaza. Leave the Biden deal with Hamas. And leave ‘Palestinian’ nation-building to those countries stupid enough to think that what failed since the early 90s will work now.

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.

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Biden's Deal for Israel “Nearly Identical to Hamas’s Own Proposals”

Under the terms of Biden’s proposal, Hamas wins and Israel gets back survivors and corpses. 

By Daniel Greenfield  @ Sultan Knish Blog

After families across Israel had lit their Sabbath candles, returned home from synagogue services and begun their festive meals, President Biden looked at his watch in D.C.

“Just checking it’s afternoon,” he said. And then got started on his speech to save Hamas.

There was nothing accidental about the timing of the speech on Friday afternoon at a time when much of America’s political establishment was heading out for the weekend while Israeli Jews were celebrating the Sabbath and many of them were not even using electronic devices.

After celebrating former President Trump's conviction, Biden announced a new deal under which Hamas would rule Gaza, get billions in U.S. aid and dozens of its terrorists would be released from prison in exchange for every hostage. Or every hostage's dead body.

Under the terms of Biden’s proposal, Hamas wins and Israel gets back survivors and corpses.

Finally, American taxpayers will be on the hook for an “extensive three- to five-year reconstruction program for Gaza that’s fully backed by us” that will cost endless billions.

The deal that Biden laid out gives Hamas everything it wanted including staying in power. An end to Israeli attempts to eliminate the terror group. And all the money it could possibly need. Rather than an Israeli proposal, this is almost the exact same ’ceasefire’ deal that Hamas, Qatar and Egypt had assembled and that Hamas then made a show of accepting a few weeks ago.

All Biden did was brush off the Hamas proposal and then declare that it was the Israeli proposal.

Indeed, a follow-up call with a senior White House official had him admit that, “it’s nearly identical to Hamas’s own proposals of only a few weeks ago” and that “what is now in front of everybody is basically the terms by which Hamas was prepared to move forward.”

Again, he repeated, “Hamas has said they’d be prepared to do deal X, and what is now on the table is basically that with some very minor adjustments.”

Biden described the Hamas proposal as the “Israeli proposal” and urged Israel to accept it. In reality, he had taken an Israeli counter-proposal, changed crucial elements so that it matched Hamas demands at a time when the Israeli government would not be able to respond and unveiled it to the world while daring Israelis to call him a liar. All to save Islamic terrorists.

Netanyahu poured cold water on the proposal, stating that, “Israel’s conditions for ending the war have not changed: The destruction of Hamas military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel. Israel will continue to insist these conditions are met before a permanent ceasefire is put in place. The notion that Israel will agree to a permanent ceasefire before these conditions are fulfilled is a non-starter.”

Israeli Defense Minister Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated that the country would "not accept Hamas rule" and was fighting to destroy Hamas and liberate the hostages.

Benny Gantz, the third member of the 'war cabinet' whom the Biden administration had been relying on to force acceptance of the deal, made no initial statement at all. An anonymous White House official expressed "disappointment" that he hadn't endorsed the proposal. When he did issue a statement, it was a confusing word salad that praised Biden but stated "the State of Israel stands united in our wish to return the hostages, it is a superior moral obligation that does not diminish our commitment to achieve the war’s objectives".

So much for the “Israeli proposal”.

Not a single member of the Israeli government had explicitly gotten behind Biden’s proposal to leave Hamas in power (or with a fig leaf “technocratic” government to handle the foreign aid.) Neither did they explicitly take on the Biden administration by disavowing it. And the Biden administration is doubling down on forcing Israelis to accept the proposal and save Hamas.

Had this really been an Israeli proposal, it would not have been announced on the Sabbath, and would have been featured at a press conference in Israel. Instead it was met with uncomfortable silence and awkward statements in Jerusalem. The pressure campaign out of D.C. on specific Israeli government officials made it all too clear whose “proposal” this really was.

This is a proposal by Hamas and its allies, Egypt and Qatar, along with Hamas allies in the Biden administration who are fighting to keep it alive, that Biden is imposing on Israel.

It’s a proposal to allow Hamas to cash out hostages and their bodies in exchange for victory.

While the Biden administration demanded that the Israeli government endorse his proposal, there were no such expectations of Hamas.

The White House on a follow-up call claimed that Hamas "just got this last night" and that he was "not going to respond to public statements made by some Hamas officials here and there. They know what’s in the deal. They know it’s nearly identical to what they put on the table."

Hamas, the administration, claimed "know what's in the deal" but also "just got this" and what Hamas leaders say does not matter because they keep saying that they intend to go on attacking Israel until it is destroyed and that flies in the face of a “permanent ceasefire.”

The White House official announced that the administration will ignore Hamas promises to go on waging terror as part of a cover-up to push the Hamas proposal to save the terror group.

He also explicitly rejected the Israeli expectation Hamas would be destroyed.

Introducing his proposal, Biden claimed that it "would bring about a better 'day after' in Gaza without Hamas in power" and then laid out a deal with Hamas that would keep the Islamic terror group in power. Having begun his speech with a lie, he kept on lying all through the rest of it.

But Biden assured Israelis that they don’t have to worry. “The people of Israel should know they can make this offer without any further risk to their own security because they’ve devastated Hamas form- — forces over the past eight months. At this point, Hamas no longer is capable of carrying out another October 7th.”.

Getting to that “point” took 8 months of fighting and over 600 Israeli soldiers killed in action.

How long will it take Hamas to rearm and rebuild especially once Biden’s proposed “major reconstruction plan for Gaza” moves billions of dollars into the terror zone? Months? Years?

And how many people will die in the next terror attack enabled and financed by Biden?

The Biden administration had assured Israel that it had nothing to worry about from Hamas in the weeks before Oct 7 when a deal was reached. The assurances are just as worthless now.

But Biden promised Israelis that “Egypt and Qatar have assured me and they are continuing to work to ensure that Hamas doesn’t do that.” Qatar is a state sponsor of Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups while Egypt was caught red-handed propping up the Egyptian origin terror group which had begun as part of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and began carrying out terrorist attacks under Egyptian sponsorship while Gaza was under Egyptian occupation.

The state sponsors of terrorism will police the terrorists. And Biden will police Israel.

Biden’s deal is “nearly identical to Hamas’s own proposals”, it saves the Islamic terrorist group just as it’s on the brink of destruction, and commits America to financing its reconstruction.

It’s not a deal to end a war, but to save and finance Hamas so it can begin the next 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. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.

The Greenfield Gazette

By Daniel Greenfield @ The Point

Editor's Note:  Normally I wait a few days and organize his posts topically, but this is an issue that needs addressed daily.   At the end I've listed a number of articles dealing with this.  It seems clear Joe Biden isn't making the decisions, it's the far left antisemitic Obama myrmidons who are in charge.  RK 

Before and After, Iran Communicated Attack to Biden Admin - April 15, 2024 -  “Iran communicated through the Swiss channel that its strike on Israel was complete” How many ways could Iran have announced its attack? We were being told beforehand in the media that Iran would attack in the next 36 hours. That’s the opposite of a conventional surprise attack. And Iran passed on word to Turkey, whose terror regime is one of the backchannels being used by the Biden admin.......

 126 Killed in Chicago Since Mayor Called for Ceasefire in Gaza - April 15, 2024 - A child is dead and 10 other people are injured.  At the end of January, Mayor Brandon Johnson, the corrupt pro-crime leftist in charge of the city, whipped votes and broke a tie to demand that Israel stop attacking his Hamas pals under the guise of calling for a “ceasefire”. Gaza hasn’t been doing so well since, but neither has Chicago. Since Mayor Johnson and the cowards and leftists on the City Council called for a ceasefire, 126 people have been killed in Chicago........ HJ also shows 539 shot and wounded so far this year.)

U.S. Diplomat Warns Iran That Next Time It Will Be Held Responsible - April 15, 2024 - Or maybe next, next time.  It’s getting serious. U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Wood on Sunday strongly condemned the Iranian attack on Israel and warned that Iran will be held responsible for any further actions taken against the United States, Israel or their allies. “Let me be clear — if Iran or its proxies take actions against the United States or further action against Israel, Iran will be held responsible,” Wood said, in his remarks at a U.N. Security Council briefing on the situation in the Middle East.......

My Take - Next time?  Daniel lists all the attacks that have occurred and nothing was done....until next time.  Remarkable.  Who could possibly take these halfwit Bidenites seriously? I'm betting Iran doesn't.    RK

The Chinese Don’t Want Electric Cars Either - April 15, 2024 - But they have no choice in the matter.  The automobile market in this country was wrecked on the assumption that everyone would be switching to electric cars. As I wrote in, “No Cars for the Working Class”, that’s not happening. Ford and GM bled billions to fail at capturing a tiny niche market already owned by Tesla. Most people don’t want, can’t use and can’t afford electric cars......

This Was Not Iran’s Actual Attack -April 14, 2024 -So does that mean it’s over? No. This is not the actual Iranian attack. This is the ‘attack’ prearranged for show between Iran and the Biden administration through backchannels. It’s an attack that allows Iran to show off that it can reach Israel (look at those lights over the Temple Mount) without inflicting any real damage.  The Biden administration has already made it clear that it will oppose any Israeli response. There will be public condemnations and warnings about escalating the conflict further. So does that mean it’s over? No..............By starting a crisis and then allowing itself to be talked into standing down a little bit, before beginning the cycle again, Iran has been able to expand its sphere of influence without paying a price. It will strike more seriously, but it will do so in a way that will allow it to go on manipulating its diplomatic collaborators in D.C. and building power in the region.............

After Calling for Arms Embargo, Pelosi Claims She Stands With Israel - April 14, 2024 - Is there some version of ironclad and unwavering solidarity that covers an arms embargo?  How much contempt for their voters do politicians like this have? Almost limitless.  Rep. Nancy Pelosi, along with Rep. Jamie Raskin and others, just signed a letter calling for an arms embargo on Israel alongside Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib and other ‘Squad’ members.  After the Iranian attacks, Pelosi and Raskin tweeted about their “unwavering” and “ironclad” solidarity with the Jewish State. “America’s support for Israel’s security is resolute as we condemn Iran’s horrible attacks,” Pelosi’s account tweeted. “Our commitment to the Israeli people and support of their defense remains unwavering – and we must pass the Senate’s national security supplemental.”............

Leftist Activist Cries in Court After Murderous Threats to Council Members for ‘Ceasefire’ -April 14, 2024 - “We’ll see you at your house. We’ll murder you.”   California city councils have seen a wave of “ceasefire” solutions complete with public commentary and protests that fall somewhere between violently antisemitic to just plain violent. In Bakersfield, CA, Riddhi Patel showed up with a message of hope and peace for the ceasefire resolution. “People in the global south believe in violent revolution against their oppressors, and one day I hope someone brings the guillotine and kills all of you motherf*ckers… We’ll see you at your house. We’ll murder you.”.............In short, if you’re wondering where this psycho came from, she emerged from a political machine built to train, promote and employ exactly this kind of ‘revolutionary’ behavior.......

More here: 

1. Chicago Leftists Filmed Cheering Iran’s Attack on Israel  
2. The Biden Drone Attack on Israel
3. Biden Let U.N. Sanctions on Iran Missiles Expire Before Unprecedented Israel Attack
4. America’s Moral Authority Is at Stake in Gaza
5. Actions Biden Should but Will Never Take to Neutralize Iran 
6. What Happened Over the Skies of Israel Was Extraordinary
7. If This Report Is True About Biden and Iran, There Should Be Impeachment Hearings
8. Israel's right to defense in the face of unprecedented challenges

 

No Truce With Terrorists

Daniel Greenfield December 04, 2023 @ Sultan Knish Blog 

In the 6 days of the truce with Hamas, the Islamic terror groups targeted Israeli soldiers with two IED attacks and murdered a pregnant woman and a 73-year-old Rabbi in Jerusalem.

And the latest truce, ceasefire or whatever you want to call it is still young.

So far the death toll from the truce includes Liba Dickman, a 24-year old preschool teacher pregnant with her first child, Chanah Ifergan, a 67-year-old principal and Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, a 73-year-old rabbi. Who knows what more deaths the bloody truce will bring.

3 dead and at least 11 wounded after only 6 days of truce.

That’s what truces, ceasefires and peace agreements with Islamic terrorists amount to.

Wait two years, the way Hamas did before Oct 7, and the ceasefire will kill a thousand people. After 30 years of the Oslo Accord peace deal with the PLO, it’s around three thousand.

The one thing sure to happen after negotiating with terrorists is that the body count will go up. Reaching agreements with Islamic terrorists doesn’t end the violence because they never stop wanting to kill you. All it does is give them the time and space to plan their next attack.

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar used the truce to issue a statement declaring that, “October 7th was just a rehearsal”. Ghazi Hamad, the head of Hamas’ political operation, previously vowed that the Oct 7 attacks “is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth” until Israel is destroyed. What is the point of a ceasefire with terrorists who exist to destroy you?

And yet the streets of every major city are filled with Hamas supporters and Marxists howling for a “ceasefire”. Some members of the House and Senate have called for a “permanent ceasefire”. The only way to achieve a “permanent ceasefire” with an Islamic terror group is to destroy it.

Hamas is thrilled by its supporters and urged them “to continue their rallies in solidarity with our Palestinian people and our just cause” and against Israel and “to call for an end to its barbaric aggression” even as Hamas bosses boast that they will go on attacking until Israel is destroyed.

But that’s what a ceasefire is. The Islamic terrorists get to attack you, you don’t get to fight back.

The entire ceasefire narrative is a lie. A means to recruit useful idiots to a genocidal cause. A ceasefire with terrorists doesn’t end the killing, it enables it, it doesn’t end the violence, it perpetuates it. The killing and the violence won’t end until the Islamic terrorists are destroyed.

The only reason that Hamas isn’t killing Israelis at any given moment right now is that its capabilities have been reduced by weeks of bombings and assaults. The Islamic terror group has lost some of its top commanders, weapons caches and command centers. Its Jihadis have been dispersed among the civilian population and no longer control some of their old positions.

That’s why they want a ceasefire to regroup, consolidate and stage another assault.

Hamas leaders have been open about this: it’s their ceasefire propagandists rioting in our streets, staging insurrections at the Capitol and blocking bridges who are lying about it.

But then again when has the anti-war movement not lied about the intentions of its allies?

When Communists protested against the United States entering the war against Nazi Germany during the Hitler-Stalin Pact, when they marched in the streets to save Communist China, North Korea, Pol Pot and every Communist monster in Asia, every Marxist madman in Latin America, and after that every Islamic terror state around the world: they did it in the name of peace.

The blood of over 100 million people are on the hands of a century of “peace protesters” who have been consistently on the side of evil every single time in 100 years of riots and rallies.

Theirs is the credit for camps and famines in China and North Korea, for the devastation (and the constant migration) out of Latin America, and the destruction of the Middle East.

Now they’re out there demanding that Hamas get a chance to finish what it started.

When they call for a ceasefire with Hamas, what they’re really calling for is Jewish genocide. They’re pulling on the soldier’s hand that holds the gun so the terrorist can stab him in the back.

There are no truces or ceasefires with Jihadists: only a balance of power. The moment they can attack you and kill you, they will because that is their entire purpose in life and the primary means of expansion of the religion that they represent. The only way to stop them from killing you is to kill them or to build a wall and watch it every second of every day.

The moment your attention wanders, they will come across, as they did on Oct 7, and kill you.

No agreement that Hamas or any Islamic terrorist group, including the Palestinian Authority, makes is worth anything to anyone except it. A truce or ceasefire with Islamic terrorists gives them the ability to carry out a surprise attack and robs you of the right to strike first.

Truces or ceasefires with Islamic terrorists don’t work for Israel, nor do they work for anyone else. The Taliban violated every part of the agreement that they negotiated with us through their intermediaries in Qatar (who also negotiated the previous Hamas ceasefire and the current truce.) Ceasefires and truces in the Syrian and Yemen civil wars were violated more often than kept. Saddam Hussein broke every truce, whether it was with Iran or the United States. Iran violated all the agreements that it signed with us. Agreements with Islamic terrorists and terror states are worthless whether they’re with non-Muslims or even with fellow Muslims.

The only sacred rule that holds in Islam is the law of force. It is the only true law in Islam. From the earliest days when Mohammed ethnically cleansed the Jewish population of Arabia to the wars of the present day, everything is settled by the sword, and nothing by treaty or humanity.

The Sunni and Shiite wars have gone on for nearly as long as Islam existed, and they continue. All the endless agreements, truces and ceasefires never stopped Muslims from killing each other for 1,400 years over whether Mohammed should have been succeeded by his father-in-law or his cousin and son-in-law. What hope do non-Muslims have for peace? None.

There can be no truce with terrorists. The only two choices are terror or victory.

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.

 

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A Deal with Islamic Terrorists is Always a Mistake

When you think of terrorists in diplomatic, not military terms, you can’t win.  

By Daniel Greenfield • November 22, 2023

The reports of a deal with Hamas brokered by its state sponsors in Qatar are a disaster and a disgrace. But such a deal was tragically inevitable.  A deal with Islamic terrorists is always a mistake. One of the reasons it’s a mistake is because the real terms of any deal give the terrorists control over your decision-making process. That is their goal.  Israel has suffered 30+ years of escalating terror because it made a deal with Arafat. Oct 7 happened because Israel made deals for quiet with Hamas.

When you think of terrorists in diplomatic, not military terms, you can’t win.............To Read More...

 My Take - I've stated this over and over again.  There's only one thing Islamists respect. Power, and the willingness to use it.  Anything less is viewed as weakness and invites attack.  

The real historical moral foundation of Islam is greed, hate, envy, jealousy, lust, and violence.  That's history, and that history is incontestable.

Which makes you wonder if the bugman knows that, how is it all these highly educated diplomats, politicians, and intentional experts don't?  Easy.  Ideology makes smart people stupid, and after years of being contaminated with the fallacious history and corrupt education inculcated by academia into their brains, stupid is the rule, not the exception.  And Henry Kissinger is the perfect example.  

Texas: Muslim on Terror Watch List Murders SWAT Cop and Two Hostages, Had Bomb-Making Materials - Robert Spencer November 22, 2023 -   If a Muslim in Texas had been able to carry out his plans, there could have been dozens, even hundreds killed. He was stopped, but others will keep trying.  Ahmed Mohamed Nassar, 35, a resident of South Austin, was on the terror watch list, but the feds clearly weren’t watching. They were too busy hunting for Jan. 6 “insurrectionists” and “white supremacists.” CBS Austin reported that on Saturday, “the incident began at 2:49 a.m. with a 911 call from a stabbing victim.” Police arrived within about ten minutes, and discovered that two others had been hurt as well. They were inside the house with Nassar..........

My Take - If there ever was a deal that demonstrates just how right Daniel is, this is it, and it's blatantly stupid!!!!! 

BREAKING: Israel, Hamas Strike a Hostage Deal -- Here are the Details - Katie Pavlich  |  November 21, 2023 - After more than eight hours of deliberations, the Israeli government officially agreed to a ceasefire with Hamas Tuesday night in exchange for 50 hostages who were kidnapped by the terrorist organization and taken to the Gaza Strip on October 7. The rest of the 186 hostages held by Hamas and other Islamic terrorist groups will not be released. The public now has the option to appeal the government decision to the Israeli Supreme Court. Ten Americans are among the hostages. It is unclear if they will be released in this deal.  

A Questionable Deal - November 21, 2023 — John Hinderaker An agreement between Israel and the government of Gaza for a partial hostage release apparently is about to be finalized. The details are not yet clear, but it looks something like this: Various reports of the deal have indicated that somewhere between 50 and 100 Israeli and foreign hostages would be released, in exchange for a five-day break in fighting and the release of somewhere between 150 and 300 Palestinian »

 

What's a "Proportional Response"? A Cease Fire?

By Rich Kozlovich

On Nov 06, 2023 Allen West posted this piece, The Idiocy of the Theory of ‘Proportionate Response’, quoting 1st Sgt (Ret) Jim Reisinger (USMC). "If you ever find yourself in a fair fight, it is all because your tactics suck".  West went on to say:

The quote above is probably one of the most profound maxims I learned in my service to the nation in uniform. I also carry it with me to this day. Engaging with your enemy is not about having a fair or proportionate contest; it is about crushing them and their will. Austrian General Carl Von Clausewitz asserted, "War is the imposition of your will upon the enemy."   

This is why I find it abjectly absurd and ludicrous to hear the rhetoric about "proportionate response" when it comes to the sovereign nation of Israel defending itself. It is pretty disconcerting to watch the international community express grief and sorrow when Israel is attacked, especially after the savage, brutal, and heinous assault of October 7, 2023, while that sentiment quickly fades as soon as Israel takes to the offense in defense of their right to exist...

So, I think it only fair to ask all these blithering idiots what exactly is a proportional response to these Muslims "murdering the husband, [placing] the baby in a burning hot oven, and the wife, to the screams of her dying child, was gang-raped and then killed"?

Mass rapes including old women and children, even to death.  Burning babies alive and cutting off the heads of children.  Cutting open a pregnant woman, removing her unborn child and then cutting off the babies head in front of the mother then killing her.  A family where the "father had his eyes gouged out, the mother's breasts cut off, the girl's foot amputated, the boy's fingers cut off before they were executed, and then their executioners sat down and had a meal. That is what this society is dealing with."

What could these blithering idiots who are demanding a "proportional" response possibly think would be proportional to that?  And what about those "30 children, including babies, who are being held hostage by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza"? What's the "proportional" response to that?  

Apparently exposing all that information to the world is offensive to Muslims, but, then again, truth and Islam are rarely on the same side.  Historically, Islam and western culture, with civilization's laws and values have never been on the same side with Islam. That's why they can perform such vile acts and consider them praiseworthy, because as one of these monsters notes:  Allah Had Sent Me the Jewish Woman and I Understood that I Had to Kill Her”.  And this isn't an exception, it's the rule:

In 2019, a Palestinian Muslim named Arafat Irafaiya raped and murdered a nineteen-year-old Israeli girl named Ori Ansbacher. The murder was so brutal that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu specifically noted its “shocking brutality.” Irafaiya emphasized that he had raped and murdered Ori Ansbacher because she was Jewish............

What could possibly be the "proportional" response to such a mind set?  Oh, wait, I know, I know, a cease fire!  Yes, of course, that's it!  A cease fire because you see, it's Hamas and the Gazan people who really are the victims here, not Israel.  So Israel must stop defending themselves against Hamas' holy jihad, and then all with be fine. And don't let the vile atrocities fool you, Hamas, as with all Islamists, really wants peace.  

 

Okay, is that a snarky exaggeration?  No!  That's the reality theme we're seeing everywhere. 

 

Let's try and get this right, just once, please.  The real moral foundation of Islam is greed, hate, lust, envy and violence, which is what binds Islam and leftism.  They're both epitomize all that's evil in the world. 

 

The ultimate goal for both isn't just to destroy Israel and Jews.  Israel is merely the stepping stone to the destruction of Western Christian based civilization, and "Christian" church leaders are supporting them. 

 

When the Muslims besieged Constantinople here's Sultan Muhammad al-Fatah speech to his army:

Children of Muhammad, be of good heart, for tomorrow we shall have so many Christians in our hands that we will sell them, two slaves for a ducat, and will have such riches that we will all be of gold, and from the beards of the Greeks we will make leads for our dogs, and their families will be our slaves. So be of good heart and be ready to die cheerfully for the love of our [past and present] Muhammad.

The end result:

“wretched citizens of Constantinople” dragged before his men during evening festivities and “ordered many of them to be hacked to pieces, for the sake of entertainment.” The rest of the city’s population—as many as 45,000—was hauled off in chains to be sold as slaves.

Nuns were even stripped naked, raped and dragged through the streets.  Does anyone see anything different between Islam hundreds of years ago, and today?  Also, in spite of Islam's admonition against homosexuality:

Muhammad was a notorious pedophile. His enslavement and rape of Jacob Notaras—a handsome 14-year-old nobleman’s son in Constantinople, whom Muhammad forced into becoming his personal catamite until he escaped—was only one of the most infamous. The sultan stabbed to death another Christian boy who “preferred death to infamy.”

 

Greed, hate, lust, envy and violence!  That's Islam! There's no such thing as Islamophobia.  The fear is real.  The fear is justified. That's history!  That history is incontestable!

 

One final thought.  The one good thing that's come out of this is we now know there was an unending number of undercover anti-Semites who have now willing exposed themselves for who and what they are.  Paraphrasing a Marine legend Chesty Puller when told they were surrounded and cut off he said:

 

“They’ve got us right where we want ’em. We can shoot in every direction now.”