Victor Davis Hanson; American Greatness
There are 500 million Arabs in the world, and nearly 2 billion Muslims—but only 9 or so million Israelis. Nearly fifty percent of the world’s oil reserves are found in the Muslim Middle East. Westerners, like tiny Israel, are considered too rich and powerful, while non-Westerners are romanticized as blameless, victimized underdogs.
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| One incredibly distressing picture shows blood smeared across a nursery |
"There is something surreal, even sick about the current Gazan war.
"Throughout European and American cities and campuses, tens of thousands of Middle East immigrants and students, and radical leftists chant nonstop “Free Palestinian from the River to the Sea.”
"More recently, they are also yelling, “Israel, you can’t hide, we caught you in genocide.”
"Consider the hypocrisy of that dual messaging.
"Hamas and its supporters are openly and eagerly calling for the genocidal end of Israel by wiping it out from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
"Yet at the same time they also claim it is Israel that is committing genocide—the very current self-described agenda of Hamas and its expatriate community of devotees!
"The war has become crazier still.
"Hamas and its megaphones abroad also blast Israel daily for retaliating for the October butchery of some 1,300 Israeli infants, children, women, and the elderly.
"They further demand Israel must be selective in its airborne targeting of the Hamas killers, who burrow beneath hospitals, mosques, and hospitals and use civilians as shields.
"Hamas takes for granted that a supposedly heartless Israel nevertheless will be reluctant to strike the Hamas terrorists when and if they are surrounded by civilians.
"Indeed, Gazans are put in more danger by Hamas than they would otherwise be by the Israel Defense Forces." . . .
Kfar Aza kibbutz attack: Children, women, elderly 'butchered' in Hamas attacks on border communities, IDF says | CNN . . ."Maj. Gen. Veruv said his soldiers spent “about 48 hours” fighting “waves and waves of terrorists” on roads and in neighboring communities. He said he had started fighting militants in the Yakhini moshav (community) on Saturday, moving then “from battle to battle,” on the road to Sderot, before reaching the Be’eri kibbutz on Monday evening.
“ 'I saw hundreds of terrorists in full armor, full gear, with all the equipment and all the ability to make a massacre, go from apartment to apartment, from room to room and kill babies, mothers, fathers in their bedrooms,” Veruv said." . . .
Hamas killers 'roasted babies in an oven' during October 7 terror attack, Israeli first responder claims | Daily Mail Online . . ."Continuing, he says: 'As they opened the bag there was a gruesome sight, what appeared to be a baby.' He said the 'body was really swollen [and had] what looked like a heating element attached.
" 'They told us afterwards, after we left the room and they had worked on the body to identify it [that] after the terrorists murdered the parents in a very gruesome way at home, they then took the baby and literally put him into the kitchen oven.
" 'While the baby was still alive they put him into the oven and they cooked the baby alive,' he claims. 'The body was burned and unfortunately, as far as I could see, the body became swollen as a result [a] heating element of the oven became attached to the body itself.
" 'We must show the world these gruesome sights and to tell the world that it impossible to deny what these savages did,' he says." . . .
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