America had a right and a responsibility to defend our nation and hold the terrorists responsible for the heinous murder of innocent civilians accountable. A vast majority of Americans were shocked, horrified, and fully supportive of this righteous response towards these barbaric sub-humans. To not respond would have invited further terrorism.
On October 7th, 2023, the terrorist detritus of Hamas left their tunnels and other hiding places in Gaza and gleefully murdered, raped, beheaded, and tortured more than 1200 innocent Israeli civilians, while taking over 250 civilian hostages. To this day, these despicable scums still hold 130 hostages, of which six are U.S. citizens.
The 1,200 Israeli victims of terror, in that tiny country of some 9.5 million, would be the equivalent of killing more than 40,000 innocent people in our country of over 330 million.
Just as America had the responsibility and right to defend itself after the 9/11 attacks, so too does the nation of Israel. Indeed, it is an absolute necessity for Israel to eradicate the responsible terrorists as this is a nation that is surrounded by other states in the region that wish Israel ill, while many terrorists and terrorist nation proxies from Iran and elsewhere seek the complete annihilation of Israel “from the river to the sea”.
Last November, a month after the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel that claimed the lives of these 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians, 55% of Americans approved of the military action that Israel enacted in response to this attack.
My first question is why only 55%? Why do barely over half of Americans think that a nation does not have a right and responsibility to defend its citizens? Of course, the answer lies in the antisemitism and oppressor/oppressed indoctrination being taught in academia and other leftist circles of our nation and propagated by the leftist media. Sadly, the most recent Gallup polling in March shows that 36% of Americans “approve of Israeli military action in Gaza” and 50% disapprove.
Indeed, I have had this very argument presented to me recently by another blogger that over half of Americans think Israel should enact a cease fire against the very terrorists that initiated this war once again. His flawed logic seemed to suggest that since a majority of people were for a cease fire, that must be the right action to take. The irony is that there was a “cease fire” in effect until this pernicious attack by Hamas. Israel is fighting for its very right to exist, while some Americans are blinded by antisemitism and critical theory doctrines it seems.
To exacerbate the problem our feckless and incompetent president is trying to curry favor with pro-Hamas Muslim Americans in this election year by undermining Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s war on terrorism. Even Biden’s callous and clueless Secretary of State Antony Blinken has effectively accused Israel of dehumanizing Palestinians but Blinken’s accusation is disgusting and utterly without merit.
While the duplicitous Biden continues to trash talk Netanyahu in public and private, his regime has also considered slow-walking the delivery of needed munitions to Israel to force a slowdown in the war.
Further, Biden sent the number-two man at the National Security Council to Dearborn, Michigan, in February to offer a mea culpa to Muslim-American leaders. The apology came after Muslim Americans complained bitterly about support for Israel from “Genocide Joe.”
The apology was delivered to leaders of a city labeled, with justification, the “Jihad Capital of America.” Public celebrations erupted in Dearborn after Oct. 7. Three days later, a jubilant crowd gathered at the Ford Performing Arts Center to celebrate the carnage against the 1,200 innocent Israelis. A local imam told the crowd that Israeli actions in the past put “fire in our hearts that will burn that state (Israel) until its demise.”
Then the Biden administration betrayed Israel in the U.N. Security Council vote that demanded Israel enact a cease-fire without any requirement for Hamas to release hostages. Rather than using the U.S.’s power to veto the measure, and automatically end the U.N.’s farcical cease-fire demands, the Biden administration simply abstained from the vote.
It almost feels as if the left, especially Biden, are viewing this war through diametrically truth opposed lenses. It has been determined that at least 12 UNRWA staffers joined Hamas on Oct. 7 to kill innocent Israelis. Another intelligence report indicates an additional 30 UNRWA staffers also joined the savage attack. The Wall Street Journal reported in late January that at least 10% of UNRWA workers, some 1,200 Gazans are Hamas terrorists. And half of UNRWA’s 12,000 Gaza employees have close relatives who belong to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Further, keep in mind that Hamas came to govern Gaza by being democratically elected by the people. Since then, of course, Hamas has “eliminated” any political opposition and cancelled all further elections.
Continuing, and by strange “coincidence,” Hamas placed a sensitive underground data center some 65 feet directly below UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) found power cables linking the Hamas data center to an UNRWA data center above ground, suggesting close collaboration between the two.
These stunning revelations provoked nearly 20 nations, including the U.S., to suspend all aid to UNRWA. And while that is the correct response, it is not nearly enough. Congress should immediately cut ALL aid to the ENTIRE United Nations apparatus which has continuously proven to be single-mindedly antisemitic in its actions and voting.
The Biden administration threatens to cut off or slow-walk aid to Israel if it continues to retaliate against Hamas, even though Hamas started the war. So, the administration promises to give more aid to Gaza after the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorism than it gave to Gaza before Hamas’ attack.
The leftists and various other antisemites are attempting to portray Hamas and Gaza as the victims here as they clamor for a cease fire. They claim that Israel is using disproportionate force in retaliation to the savage Hamas attack. They fear for the non-Hamas Gazans that are being killed due to the war time operations here. They see Israel as the egregious aggressor here. The truth is something far different, however.
“Despite the unique challenges Israel faces in its war against Hamas, it has implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties than any other military in history,” asserts John Spencer, co-director of West Point’s Modern War Institute. Indeed, Israel drops leaflets from planes in civilian areas to inform people that an attack on Hamas targets is imminent and that they should evacuate. Sometimes door to door warnings are given. Hamas, as it has no concern for life even of its own people, will purposely embed its operations in civilian neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, and mosques. Israel risks the lives of its soldiers to prevent civilian deaths. Hamas risks the lives of its civilians to prevent terrorists’ deaths.
As I have written previously, Israel and Netanyahu have an obligation to defend itself. Allowing a cease fire now before Hamas has been completely eliminated would only allow these terrorist vermin to regroup, resupply, and continue their unjust and hateful war of extermination against Israel. Indeed, if Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and all of the other terrorist proxies in the region were to simply lay down their arms and live their lives, there could be peace in the region. If Israel were to lay down its arms or enact a permanent cease fire, they would be eradicated and cease to exist.
So, does a cease fire enacted by Israel still seem like the
right course of action for this tiny Jewish nation to take? Does one reward terrorism by giving in to
their demands as they still hold Israeli (and American) hostages, or does such weakness only
invite more terrorism? I, for one, think
Israel must stay the course and eliminate EVERY LAST MEMBER of Hamas. Further, they should endeavor to destroy every
other proxy group that attacks them with extreme prejudice and disproportionate
force as required to permanently eliminate the threats. No two-state solution can ever be enacted
with intractable enemies that refuse to seek peace or even acknowledges Israel’s
right to exist. And the United States of America should be the greatest supporter and ally of Israel in this fight!
If you have ever wondered what you would have done in Nazi Germany as the Jews were rounded up for extermination, today you now have an answer to that question. The answer to that question is the same as for the answer you provide regarding Israel’s right to survive and live in peace today.
4 comments:
Fully agree with your main premise. A ceasefire under these conditions would be madness. It would give Hamas time and space to regroup, as you say, and for its leaders to escape. Having embarked on this counter-attack and taken all the casualties (and hypocritical international condemnation) that comes with it, Israel should at least press on to achieve its goal of destroying Hamas or at least driving it out of the Gaza Strip. Anything less would be a betrayal of the dead and wounded.
As you correctly point out, there was already a ceasefire in effect when Hamas launched its initial attack. Ceasefires don't work with terrorists who have no respect for their own commitments. I don't know whether you saw my post in January about this.
As for the "two-state solution" drivel, rewarding the jihadists for October 7 with a new state on Israel's border would be like rewarding al-Qâ'idah for September 11 by giving it an independent state bordering the US. No American politician who accepted such madness could survive politically, and with good reason.
I am sure the Israeli people are as uninterested in what 55% of American voters think as Americans after September 11 were in what the population of some foreign country thought we should do about that attack. If memory serves, after September 11 even Russia pretty much stood aside and acknowledged that the US could not be swayed from whatever course of retaliation it chose to pursue -- as we did for Russia after the Beslan attack. Israel must be given the same respect.
The slogan "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" chanted by the "progressive" Nazis in our streets, is an English-ization of the original Arabic slogan "Min al-miyyah lil-miyyah, Falastîn 'Arabiyyah" which literally translates as "From the water to the water, Palestine is Arab". (I have studied the Arabic language to a fairly high level.) There is no word meaning "free" in the original, and jihadists make no pretense of caring about freedom. It's not one of their values. The word "Islâm" itself literally translates as "submission" and the verb aslama, "to submit", is also used to mean "to convert to Islam". The original Arabic version of the slogan makes the goal of annihilating Israel clear. It means there must be only Arab territory there.
Concerning the low level of support among Americans for the Israeli counter-attack, I think there are multiple causes. Yes, the universities and some other institutions are cesspits of woke anti-Semitism, but only a minority of Americans have been through those institutions while that was the case. The relentless bias of the MSM, I think, is the biggest factor. They dwell upon every incident that makes Israel look bad, and always put Israel in the worst possible light. The atrocities of October 7 vanished from the headlines very quickly after the attack and are barely mentioned now. Israel's extraordinary efforts to minimize enemy civilian casualties are never reported. Baseless casualty figures generated by Hamas (which the Gaza "health ministry" is part of) are repeated without question. The deaths of the seven World Central Kitchen workers -- the kind of tragic mistake that inevitably happens in wars -- is being, and will be, rehashed and chewed over endlessly. It's part of the same pattern.
There's also the traditional anti-Semitism which has existed in the West for centuries and which, we can now see, was only temporarily driven into disrepute by the Holocaust.
The British and American bombing of German cities during World War II also killed a lot of innocent civilians and caused a lot of destruction. That was unfortunate, but there was no alternative. The Nazi regime was so evil and dangerous that it had to be destroyed no matter what the cost. The situation in the Gaza Strip now is analogous. Imagine if FDR had kept pestering the British to offer Nazi Germany a ceasefire, to open avenues to let humanitarian aid in, to refrain from bombing certain parts of Germany for humanitarian reasons, to consider allowing a Nazi state to be set up somewhere after the war, and all the rest of the nonsense we're seeing now. Fortunately, Americans back then had a better grasp of reality.
[Had to split this into two comments -- the system said it was too long to post all at once.]
Infidel, every single well-stated point you made I find myself in complete agreement with.
I have traveled in the region and served in Desert Storm, so I have some knowledge of the Middle East and the various cultures, sects, and mindsets of the people there. I am always unpleasantly amused how so many Americans try to argue with that jihadist mindset from a western perspective. Typically jihadists don't respect mercy from their enemies. They see it as a weakness to be exploited. This is precisely what Hamas is doing. They do not believe in freedom, as you said. They want the eradication of Israel, America and the West. Given the power to do so, they would kill or enslave all that are not of their particular sect of Islam.
"Imagine if FDR had kept pestering the British to offer Nazi Germany a ceasefire, to open avenues to let humanitarian aid in, to refrain from bombing certain parts of Germany for humanitarian reasons, to consider allowing a Nazi state to be set up somewhere after the war, and all the rest of the nonsense we're seeing now. Fortunately, Americans back then had a better grasp of reality."
And THAT perfectly encapsulates the issue at hand here today and the absurdity of those making that argument.
Thanks for the great comments, sir.
I have lived through this argument since Israel was created. It used to be called the two-state solution. The Palestinians have said no to their own state (more than once). So where do we go from here? Nowhere. They just want to kill Israel. An unacceptable option. It's sad that many Americans support Hamas. It is Hamas and its supporters that should be eliminated.
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