07/10/2023
After reading the “heritage media’s” coverage of today’s events it is clear to me that the rest of the world does not even remotely understand what has happened here today.
Today is Israel’s Pearl Harbor and 9-11 rolled into one.
Like in Pearl Harbor, our vaunted military failed to protect us, and like on 9-11, most of the victims were not soldiers, but innocent civilians.
Even worse, less than 80 years after the Holocaust, the world once again witnessed Jews huddled together with their children as they awaited their impending death.
In some cases, families were burned alive in their houses because they refused to leave the safety of their bomb shelters.
In one case, Hamas terrorists kidnapped a five-year-old and a three-year-old with their mother and grandmother. Promptly veiled with hijabs, the women were carted off to Gaza where they were paraded in the public square of the Jabaliya refugee camp.
Elsewhere, unarmed partygoers at a nature lover’s music concert were mercilessly gunned down in the field where they had set up their tents. In all, over 250 people have been killed.
This is not propaganda. At least not Israeli propaganda. There are short video reels of murder and mayhem running on Arab sites that are being proudly distributed by the Hamas media machine.
So, what do I think is important for non-Israelis to understand about the current situation? First of all, Hamas is a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Much like other Islamist groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda, they are immune to negotiations unless there is some short-term benefit for them.
This is because, like the N***s and Imperial Japan, they are members of a death cult. Unfortunately, what this means is that the only way to deal with them is to give them exactly what they say they want i.e. their death.
This is necessary because, much like in the case of Germany and Japan after their unconditional surrender, or the Chechens and Tamil Tigers (after they were pound into dust), the sane voices in a society cannot come to the fore so long as the death cultists are in power.
What I am saying (and perhaps I am deluding myself) is that I believe that there must be some moderate voices in Gaza that are not being heard thanks to their fear of what Hamas would do to them. Certainly, so long as Hamas is in power, we will never know if there is a partner for peace over there.
So – I know that the NYT and BBC and WaPo and CNN, etc. are already going off on their tried-and-true scripts from the previous rounds of fighting. They will use passive voice when describing the actions of “militants”, reverse cause and effect in their headlines (e.g. Israel attacks Gaza), blame the “occupation” (that ended in 2005), employ words such as “disproportionate” whenever Israel retaliates, and obsessively focus on casualty numbers as if this were some macabre football game.
Don’t be fooled by any of this! Israel tried in the past just to “mow the grass”; Gazans were granted exit permits to travel or work in Israel; and state-of-the-art health care was given for those who required surgeries unavailable in the strip. We even went so far as to ethnically cleanse ourselves entirely from Gaza in the hopes that this would demonstrate our serious desire for peace.
Meanwhile, the post-colonial West, with its post-colonial guilt (here’s looking at you, Britain!), expressed reservations, condemned, tut-tutted, and generally disapproved of any Israeli attempt to establish a quantum of deterrence. As a country in a sea of enemies and in need of allies, Israel inevitably focused on limited goals.
But all that this did in the end was provide Hamas with almost twenty years to indoctrinate a whole generation of young Palestinians who showed us today what they believe. 22 Israeli communities were invaded and occupied today. More Israelis died today than in the entire Second Lebanon War and some sixty Israelis were taken to Gaza where they are more than likely being tortured while serving as Human Shields.
What we witnessed today is sadly reminiscent of the ancient Jewish dictum that, “He who is compassionate to the cruel is ultimately cruel to the compassionate.”
This time in Gaza will not be like the last rounds in Gaza. This time Israel is playing for keeps.
