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[Make sure to read Joseph Klein’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
With the support of the Iranian regime, its terrorist proxy Hamas unleashed horrific attacks on a massive scale against Israeli civilians by land, sea, and air on October 7th. The terrorists launched their savage rampage on the Jewish Sabbath and holiday of Simchat Torah, committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against defenseless Israeli civilians in what is being called Israel’s 9/11.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “We are at war, not an operation, not rounds, but at war.” He vowed that Hamas will pay an “unprecedented price,” adding, “We will defeat them to death and take revenge for this black day.”
The war could be on the cusp of widening, with Iran’s Lebanese-based terrorist proxy Hezbollah firing missiles into the northern part of Israel. A two-front war would put all of Israel’s population in mortal danger.
Israel has not faced a war of this magnitude since the Yom Kippur War that Egypt and Syria launched against Israel on October 6, 1973.
Israel’s counteroffensive has already begun. Hopefully, this time the Israeli military will finally do whatever it takes to destroy Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad once and for all and that Israel will reject any calls for a ceasefire in the interim.
Hamas fired several thousand rockets into Israel from Gaza in one day. The huge barrage overwhelmed Israel’s Iron Dome defense system, which could not prevent some of the rockets from reaching their targets with devastating results. The terrorists also broke through border fences between the Gaza Strip and Israel to carry out their barbaric ground attacks.
The terrorists so far have murdered at least 700 Israelis and wounded many more. Several Americans were also reportedly killed. The terrorists have taken at least 100 hostages, including dozens of American citizens, and transported them to Gaza. In scenes reminiscent of Nazi Germany, the terrorists shot civilians at point blank range and abducted Israeli women, children and the elderly from their homes and Israeli streets. Some of the hostages have been reportedly taken into the tunnels beneath Gaza where the Palestinian terrorists store their weaponry, effectively turning the hostages into human shields. No doubt, the hostages who remain alive will serve as bargaining chips for the release of terrorists imprisoned in Israeli jails.
The sub-human terrorists also paraded Israelis’ mutilated bodies in Gaza to cheering crowds of Palestinians.
”The child’s silent cries for the missing parents, the silence of soldiers under siege, and the gunfire breaking out in front of kindergartens and supermarkets in Sderot, echo the unspeakable horrors of a conflict that knows no boundaries, a vivid testament to the wanton brutality and ruthlessness of Hamas’s aggression and unprecedented invasion against Israel,” wrote Gregg Roman, Director of the Middle East Forum, in a blog published by the Times of Israel. “The current situation is not just an act of terrorism: it is an invasion, an orchestrated massacre gleaming with the sinister glare of genocidal intent.”
The United Nations Security Council was called into emergency session on Sunday, the day after Hamas’s invasion. Prior to the closed meeting, the Palestinian Authority’s representative to the UN placed all the blame on Israel for the war that the Palestinian Authority’s archrival Hamas initiated. He recited the usual litany of charges against Israel, including that it is “racist” and “colonialist,” that it prefers war and occupation to peace, and that it denies the Palestinians their humanity.
We have seen this movie too many times before. Indeed, UN senior officials are already engaging in their usual exercise of moral equivalence. Once again, they refuse to acknowledge Israel’s moral and legal right of self defense against the Palestinian terrorists’ systematic invasion and ruthless killings and kidnappings of innocent Israeli civilians.
The spokesperson for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres issued a statement urging “maximum restraint.”
“I appeal to all sides to stop the fighting immediately and protect civilians everywhere and at all times,” said Martin Griffiths, the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
Calls to exercise “maximum restraint” and to “stop the fighting immediately” after Hamas’s massacre and abduction of hundreds of Jews insult the victims and their grieving families and friends. Hamas started this brutal war. Israel must finish it, using all military means to destroy the Palestinian terrorists’ military and intelligence infrastructure, their weapons production capacity and supply lines for weapons parts, and their leaders’ known hideouts (hopefully with the leaders inside). Whatever collateral damage the Palestinian civilian population may suffer as a result is on the Palestinian terrorists’ hands, not Israel’s.
Palestinian terrorists and their enablers will no doubt trot out in the coming days their usual accusations, using doctored photos, that Israel’s forceful military response to the war that Hamas started is inflicting collective punishment on “innocent” Palestinians. Anti-Israel human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, Arab and other Muslim leaders, and UN bureaucrats will amplify this propaganda as they have done so many times before.
The truth is that Hamas, the de facto governing authority in Gaza, is collectively punishing the Palestinian civilians living in Gaza under its rule, not Israel. Hamas has diverted valuable resources from helping to improve Gaza residents’ day-to-day lives to fulfilling the terrorists’ number one priority instead – trying to destroy the Jewish state in a genocidal war. And Hamas has used Palestinian civilians as human shields in this war.
Hamas could not have conducted this kind of complex, multi-dimensional invasion of Israel on its own. It depends on the Iranian regime, the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism, for military, financial, logistics, training, and planning support. There is a report that the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps coordinated planning for the invasion of Israel with Hamas for weeks before Hamas moved forward with Iran’s blessing.
A statement posted on Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s account on social platform X (formerly Twitter) extolled the terrorist attacks on Israel conducted by Hamas: “God willing, the cancer of the usurper Zionist regime will be eradicated at the hands of the Palestinian people and the Resistance forces throughout the region. #AlAqsaStorm”
“In this operation, the element of surprise and other combined methods were used, which show the Palestinian people’s confidence in the face of the occupiers,” said Iran’s ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani as quoted by ISNA, Iran’s semi-official news agency.
The Iranian regime has a common interest with the Palestinian terrorists it supports to scuttle the prospects for an historic normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Hamas’s invasion and Israel’s strong military response have brought the Palestinian issue to the fore, playing into Iran’s hands. The Arab countries, especially Saudi Arabia, are suddenly put on the spot. They are forced to choose between making peace with Israel first before the Palestinians’ demands are fully met or standing with the Palestinians in their fight against the so-called Israeli “occupation.” This strategy appears to be working.
Saudi Arabia is blaming Israel for provoking Hamas to attack. “The kingdom calls for an immediate halt to the escalation between the two sides, the protection of civilians, and restraint,” the Saudi Foreign Ministry said on the day of Hamas’s bloody invasion. “The Kingdom recalls its repeated warnings of the dangers of the explosion of the situations as a result of the continued occupations, the deprivation of the Palestinian people of their legitimate rights, and the repeating of systematic provocation against its sanctities.”
President Biden expressed strong support for Israel. He said that his “administration’s support for Israel’s security is rock solid and unwavering.” He warned that “This is not a moment for any party hostile to Israel to exploit these attacks to seek advantage.”
A good sign is that the Pentagon is sending military assets to the Eastern Mediterranean region in a show of support for Israel. However, the Biden administration had made it easier for the Iranian regime to finance Hamas’s terrorist activities in the first place. The Biden administration freed up $6 billion in frozen funds as part of a prisoner exchange deal, a windfall that Iran can spend without any real accountability. Moreover, the Biden administration has allowed Iran to sell much more oil than it would have been able to do if the sanctions had been strongly enforced. The Biden administration’s lax enforcement has resulted in an extra bonanza of nearly $30 billion dollars in revenue.
President Biden still has a chance to at least partially reverse the perception that he is a weak leader and appeaser. He must remain steadfast in supporting Israel’s right to defend itself for however long it takes and must authorize special operations missions to free the American citizens held captive by the Hamas terrorists.
Joseph Klein is obviously a “Harvard-trained lawyer”.
He hopes Israel will do whatever it takes to destroy Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad once and for all. Nice wish list.
Again, he’s a “Harvard-trained lawyer” but that doesn’t make him a perceptive analyst when it comes to Muslim fanaticism.
Israel cannot do it alone, and the spirit is not there to do it in Harvard or anywhere else where the power still exists to defeat the Jihadis. Western leaders are craven rent-seeking cowards.
As for Americans, who are they better off being ruled by – the Democratic Party or Iranian-type theocrats, or is it a toss-up?
Clear Gaza as a start. Expel all the people there and annex it permanently.
Exactly right. Reduce it to rubble and then bring in the bulldozers. Any survivors can go to Syria, Soggy Arabia or better yet, Iran, where they can debate the Shias. Then repeat the process in Judea and Samaria.
“and they created a desert and called it peace”
To reverse Sharon’s mistake & take control of Gaza will be costly. There is no. other option. Many Gazans would welcome being free of Hamas & informers can be established. This takes time.
Gaza must be administered. What Arab nation has successful self-rule? Syria? Libya? Several have stable dictatorships … for now. Oil rich dictators buy off their populace. There are no liberal democracies. Gaza won’t be the exception.
shoot first, ask questions later. kill the viper, clean up afterwards. if you start worrying and debating about all the possible consequences, options in the future, etc., you will never get off your duff and you’ll fail to shoot the damn snake dead.
“Hamas could not have conducted this kind of complex, multi-dimensional invasion of Israel on its own. It depends on the Iranian regime, the world’s top state sponsor of terrorism, for military, financial, logistics, training, and planning support.
But it is the US under Obama that supports Iran. So, the US under Obama is effectively “the world’s top sponsor of terrorism”. This is another example of Obama “leading from behind”, in this case, leading in the murder of Jews.
“The Arab countries, especially Saudi Arabia, are suddenly put on the spot.”
Oh, please. Saudi Arabia could not care less about the Arab terrorists in Gaza. Saudi Arabia cares about its own survival against a nuclear Iran. If Israel resolutely stands up to the Arab terrorists, who are supported by Iran and the US under Obama, that will help foster closer ties to Saudi Arabia, and help “jumpstart the stalled Middle East peace process”.
After those most recent bloody murderous jihadist attacks by Muslims by Muslim terrorists of Hamas , an Israeli government official said “They made a big mistake.”
The jihadists of Hamas did ,indeed, did make a “big mistake.” For it’s very fitting and even necessary that the Israeli military and police need to and have to engage in extensive measures of retribution for those Hamas terror /murder attacks.
For it’s very obvious that the jihadists who make up Hamas only understand the language of violent brutal force, therefore that’s exactly they should be dealt with.
Concerning those most recent jihad attacks by Muslim terrorists of Hamas.
It’s very important and necessary for the Israeli government to launch retaliatory strikes against Hamas.
The reason why this is so had been explained over 200 years ago by a US President , Thomas Jefferson, who had wisely declared “With every barbarous people…force is law.”
amusing that it was this same Thomas Jefferson who used ample naval force sustained over a long period to clean out the Barbary pirates terrorising and destroyig ocean shipping off their coast and further out. He understood that brutal force persistently applied no quarter is what will work, and nothing else. Interesting as well how he figured out “what makes them tick”: he got a coy of THEIR “holy” book (much more accurately referred to as “satanic verses’ by a much later also brilliant individual). He read that book and learned what drives those people, then realised how to break them. He did. Else we’d still be paying them tribute two centuries on. And all this money Biden has been making available to those people is nothing but more tribute tto “make them go away”. But just like the dog you feed today.. he’ll be back on the morrow for more. After a season of this, you OWE him and had better not fall short.
The pirate’s ambassador explained why American ships were taken and their sailors enslaved despite the US not having done anything hostile or wrong. The reason was the Koran.
Don’t be silly the BBC is already getting to work on this. Israeli casualties are unfortunate incidents and they spare us the upsetting details before moving on in embarrassed haste, Violins will be playing for every Hamas/PLO casualty that gets packed into the family car. Even with a smile on the face of one pallbearer for his glorious martyrdom presumably.
Besides which the world is crazy for peace and Israel is far away. Sympathy you will not find with the BBC and the rest of the networks generally take their lead. The optics are bad because Israel is a modern state and her soldiers look like Stormtroopers. PLO/Hamas animals look like Ewoks even when they are raping and murdering a young woman in broad daylight in front of the embarrassed or just stupid world,
The clock is already ticking,
To hell with the BBC
The Israeli politicians were morons for surrendering Gaza to Islam in 2005.
That move we were told would bring “peace in our time” but of course, anyone who knows the true teachings of the “religion of peace” knew that surrender would only wet the appetite of the bloodthirsty Mohammedans.
Gaza was a beautiful fertile land under the Jewish people. Now its nothing more than a corrupt sharia shithole that spews Islamic hate and violence.
Everything that ideology touches turns into death and destruction.
It was Ariel Sharon’s biggest mistake. It was heavily criticized by Likud members but welcomed on the left. Ten thousand Jews were forcefully expelled from Gaza by Sharon, some whose family farmed there for over a century. Sadly, many Israelis approved as they were getting tired of policing Gaza … now it will be 10 times harder.
“Maximum restraint”? Is the UN for real? But, who listens to those cretins anyway?
Go, Israel. Hit ’em hard!
like the old Mafia kingpin said as he gave his underlings their marching orders… go get that guy and hit him three ways: hard, fast, and continually.
The only maximum restraint should be the restraints put on the Hamas leadership should they be captured and not taken off until after their execution for war crimes.
And keep the water and electricity supplies permanently turned off.
No surrender no compromise whatsoever.
Let them stew in their own sewers until the pips squeak. Allez Israel !!
“We unequivocally condemn the attack of Hamas terrorists and the loss of life that has incurred.”
That’s what the biden administration said, which could be read as ON hamas by most leftist elites.
Deliberate misinformation created by a communications manager.
This administration. funded the attacks through Iran….they will not be forgiven….especially By God.
Does anyone note that these statements mentioning “two sides” and “restraint” occurred prior to any Israeli response?
Did we all lose our ability to understand time and logic?
They call the victim of obscene deadly attack “colonial” and “oppressor” for a ‘get out of jail card,’ then cheer and smirk at our stupidity. Are we stupid, scared, or just fat and lazy?
Philosophical and constitutional question: if media and social media must be monitored and censored for disinformation and wrong opinions ( assuming we accept that premise), why can ruthless killers parade in American streets cheering wanton killing of babies and old ladies? Does the the 1st Amendment only apply to them?
Existential question: what’ could be a sufficient punishment? Death seems puny.
Thanks Cat! Execution isn’t enough to deter them. I was reading about African warriors in the 1800s. They weren’t afraid to die, but they were horrified by the prospect that enemy cannibals would eat them after they died, so wouldn’t fight against them.
So execute the terrorists humanely, then feed their body parts to pigs or to cannibals.
Goory, gory, hallelujah.
Praying hard for you, Israel. Show them no mercy and
take no prisoners (no quarter). And screw what the rest
of the world thinks.
Or be silly. Maybe silly is better
Israel has now declared war for the first time in 50 years, this time with Hamas. The Taliban have asked permission to march through Iran to attack Israel with the Equipment that our idiot president gifted to them. Bidens State Dept office of Palestinian Affairs has demanded that Israel not defend itself against rocket attacks.
This Joe Biden’s and Obama’s war on Israel. He is openly hostile to Netanyahu. Our pathetic “president” has been playing footsie with Iran by returning prisoners to that country and sending them money along with sending money to the Fakestinians.
Meanwhile the world is rapidly advancing towards a major world war. The American Left/RINOs are basically war mongers. We are getting dragged deeper and deeper into the Ukrainian sinkhole to the tune of wasted billions. When will the lid finally blow off that disaster?
Israel should finally stop screwing around. Clean out the Gaza strip and deport all the “palestinians” back to Jordan. Destroy the Al Aqsa mosque and rebuild the Temple on the Temple Mount and finally clean out the West Bank as well. There is no negotiation with these murderers and animals. There is no such thing as a palestinian.
The Jews have been in Israel for in excess of 3500 years. Act like it.
This kind of crap didn’t happen on Trump’s watch.
“Once again, they refuse to acknowledge Israel’s moral and legal right of self defense against the Palestinian terrorists’ systematic invasion and ruthless killings and kidnappings of innocent Israeli civilians.”
The calls for “maximum restraint” from all of the usual leftist sources belies the hypocrisy of the left.
So typical of the moral equivalence of the pathetic left. In the U.S. the communists in charge of our government would have patriotic Americans disarmed and left at the mercy of our Hamas/Hezbollah equivalents BLM and Antifa. Defending yourself in the face of an attack from street leftists will land you in jail.
The excrement is going to hit the fan soon in the big city areas. Defend yourself….leftist governments be damned.
This latest outrage by Hamas proves what I’ve always suspected about the “Palestinians”. During the Holocaust German hid behind curtains while Jews were deported to their death at factories of death such as Auschwitz. The “Palestinians” would need no apparatus of industrialized mass murder. They would have MASS PARTICIPATION by men, women and children using knives, guns, automobiles and their bare hands. An orgy of killing that would give them orgasmic pleasure.
Netanyahu has already declared he won’t do the job. Time to get rid of him. He is worthless
Netanyahu never made that statement. The woke plot and scheme, and try to remove him, just like they do President Trump, they don’t want a stable sovereign nation in Israel or America.
Biden doesn’t care what we think of him. He’s completely invested in Iran like his predecessor Obama and his only concern is how far he can go without completely alienating the American people.
“The Kingdom recalls its repeated warnings of the dangers of the explosion of the situation as a result of the continued occupation, and deprivation of the Palestinian people of their legitimate rights, and the repetition of systematic provocations against its sanctities,” stated the Saudis historically.
Galloway should be appearing with Saddam Hussein’s Mustard Gas not Scotch and cigars. He wasn’t around for what befell his pal Saddam but he knows how you garbage do things. The fat pig doesn’t care because you’re trash like him. Only you’ll believe any stupidity that’s paraded in front of you in.
Whether it’s a public lynching by you throwbacks or anti-war nonsense it makes no difference to Galloway.
You inbreeds are very lucky you’re dealing with a peaceful and restrained state like Israel because if people like me were in charge your pals would be dead before they hit the ground.
Ditto.
Let’s hope Israel ditches the coerced restraint this time.
NO MERCY.
Can you imagine what they’d do if they had our kind of power?
Gaza shouldne turned int0 the stone age-This shoul;d not be a mowing of the grass in Gaza as were previous Israeli expeditions into Gaza
May Biden and Blinken die or go to hell very soon.
well, considering that Israel had NO CHANCE of winning in any of the several past wars, hostage situations, etc, yet prevailed almost miraculously, I’m not so sure Iran would come out on top, at least unless Dopey Joey tthrew OUR might into the ring in the side of Iran. If he does that, however methinks he will have bigger problems than he thinks he has now.
Yes, Israel has prevailed against all Odds. They have a Watchman on their walls….its God Almighty himself. These wars will continue until their Messiah decides to come and redeem HIS land too from Israel’s enemies.
I would just use WW1 tactics: a rolling artillery barrage, starting in the north say. Giving time for civilians to walk south. The barrage then clears the area of all hazards, booby traps, mines and such, so Israeli soldiers can just walk in and occupy the area, which is now just a desert cleared of all buildings and such.
Maximum restraint, Hell! F*** the UN filth! If the war ends and there is so much as one brick on top of another in Gaza, Israel hasn’t gone far enough. Anything less means Palestinian serial terrorism survives to murder again.
If an attack like this happened to any other country, that country could carpet bomb the place and expel all the inhabitants that were left alive, and the UN would not hold any meetings; no country would call for restraint.
Any call for Israeli restraint is Jew-hatred under the IHRA definition.
While Israel doesn’t need any more blood donors for the time being, in turn they are in dire need of physicians. Should any US-licensed physicians be interested to temporarily volunteer their services, they may contact the Hadassah hospital.
Joseph, as a soldier in the IDF in 1982 war with Lebanon one of the 1st units called up was so happy. Living in the north we used to get shelled all the time my children grew up knowing where every shelter was on the Kibbutz and the minute a siren went off to get in. My unit made it all the way to Beirut, thinking this will be it, we will destroy the terrorist Arafat and the PA. Sadly we know how well that turned out, so I don’t give it much credit that the world will let Israel do what it much to stop the killings.
Netanyahu said, “We will turn them to rubble.”
There will be no fooling around this time. They have awakened the Lion of Judah.
Hope all remember in the days or a few weeks ahead, when “world leaders” start pressuring the Israeli’s to broker peace, use restraint, cease fire, etc. as they ALWAYS do, that almost none have urged Zelensky and Ukraine to do the same in over 2 years.
FYI Israel has the title deed to the Land of Canaan, Israel, The Abrahamic covenant Genesis 13-17 was made between God, Abraham, and His descendants. THE JEWS DID NOT STEAL THE LAND FROM THE PALESTINIANS. This is the age old myth that is used to push guilt for Palestinain oppression being used on campuses, that the Palestinians were oppressed or dnationalized. These allegations are false by the mainline press, here, and internationally. They are satanically-inspired myths used to deceive, ( because GOD is fulfilling promises that were made to the Jewish people thousands of years ago. ) These promises rest on a series of legal agreements, called covenants, made between God and the Jewish people, that center on the Land of Israel.
This covenant was renewed with Isaac’s son, Jacob…called Israel.
True prophecy. The Arab nation posesses more land and countries than Israel, but the Arabs are not satisfied, they want all the land, pushing the Jews into the sea. The Abrahamic covenant stands apart as an eternal covenant without any preconditions. Israel should never give up any more lof their land for peace, they would be giving up what God gave them, their heritage! Israel belongs to God too.
I have little doubt that the Obama/Biden anti-Isreal administration will place conditions on significant military support, such as forbidding the pulverizing of Hamas or a prolonged siege.
After those most recent bloody murderous jihadist attacks by Muslims by Muslim terrorists of Hamas , an Israeli government official said “They made a big mistake.”
The jihadists of Hamas did ,indeed, did make a “big mistake.” For it’s very fitting and even necessary that the Israeli military and police need to and have to engage in extensive measures of retribution for those Hamas terror /murder attacks.
For it’s very obvious that the jihadists who make up Hamas only understand the language of violent brutal force, therefore that’s exactly they should be dealt with.
The same kind of attacks are coming to America. Our borders are breached with many enemy combatants already here.