"And what is very sad, as the U.S. Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken has revealed, a Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair was dragged into Gaza and was taken hostage. Thus, on these days we are with Israel. Solidarity with Israel, we are all Jews!" Dimitris Eleas
The real problem is Iran - American Thinker “Stand against Hamas’ terror or stand with them,” was the title of an article in New York Daily News a few days ago.
"It is exactly like this. It is not easy to understand what the people who govern Gaza really think. In the wake of Hamas's recent terror attack on Israel, it's clear that Hamas’ ultimate goal is to commit again a genocide against the Jewish people. It openly wants to do it, as is written in its founding documents.
"Hamas, unlike its secular rival, Fatah, has declared that Israel has no right to exist. And sadly, Israel did not see “the strategic meaning of the rhetoric of Hamas” said Shlomo Avineri, a former Israeli officer and political scientist. For Hamas “every civilian is a soldier; this was not rhetoric but identifying the vulnerability of the Israeli communities inside Israel,” he added.
"IDF, Mossad, and Shin Bet were focused on individual terrorism in the West Bank. And that was a fatal mistake. To gather intelligence is an art, but to gather intelligence from the Arabs is on another level. What come to my mind on this are some words by a Greek-French philosopher: "[The Arabs] present themselves as History’s eternal victims" (Cornelius Castoriadis, 1991).
"We need somehow to look at history and a particular letter by Stuart Gottlieb – a professor who teaches at Columbia University – to the New York Times.
Re “The Yom Kippur War Led to Peace. This One Can, Too,” by Bret Stephens (column, Oct. 9):
"The 1973 Yom Kippur War led to peace because the parties involved recognized and accepted a new status quo in the Middle East. In 1967, Israel upended the status quo with a stunning military victory, including the seizure of the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt." . . .
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