by STEPHEN GREEN
They must have felt like gods, the Hamas terrorists who invaded southern Israel on October 7. Indeed, they enjoyed almost godlike powers, first blinding Israel’s remote-control border cameras and then bulldozing through the security fence as though it were hardly there.
All so they could lord their powers over Israeli civilians — raping, torturing, murdering… and not always in that order. The “lucky” Israelis survived long enough to be dragged back to Gaza to be used as human shields and worse.
Hamas even had the ambitions of gods. A report earlier this week claimed that captured maps and reconnaissance indicated that Hamas had hoped to reach the West Bank, cleaving Israel in two, and sparking a wider war — Armageddon, to borrow a local word with global currency. “If that had occurred, it would have been a huge propaganda win — a symbolic blow not only against Israel but also against the Palestinian Authority,” a U.S. official told the Washington Post.
What a difference a few weeks make because now it’s Israel’s turn.
“Proportionality” is the diplomat’s word for “fair.” “How do we fight this war fairly?” is a question no victor ever asked, and one not being asked by Israel’s government or military.
IAF jets roam the skies at will, raining death and destruction on the terrorists who briefly fancied themselves as gods. Once thought to be impregnable, Hamas tunnels — dug under hospitals, civilian apartment buildings, and mosques — are now killing grounds for IDF and Hamas alike.
PJ Media’s own Richard Fernandez — or as I like to call him, The Smartest Man in the World™ — tweeted Monday that current reports from Gaza “appear to confirm my earlier estimate that Hamas is collapsing and increasingly focused on individual survival. IDF infantry probably shifting to pursuit and raiding in deeper forays.”
“The Hamas organization has lost control in Gaza: Terrorists are fleeing south, civilians are looting Hamas bases. They have no confidence in the government,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Monday. Hamas’ days are numbered, twilight is upon them, and every Hamas knows it.
The German word for it is Götterdämmerung, “the twilight of the gods.”
Comparisons to Hitler’s Germany almost write themselves. Flush with easy victories over Poland, Norway, the Low Countries, and even France, Hitler believed he could take the Soviet Union with as much ease. “We have only to kick in the door,” Hitler assured his generals, “and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.”
Even with the USSR’s almost inexhaustible manpower, resources, and land to retreat across, Hitler — drunk on his seemingly godlike power — believed he could defeat the Soviets in six weeks.
Two hundred two weeks later, Germany no longer existed as a functioning country. Its cities had been burned or smashed, the countryside ravaged, and its reduced territory split into four zones occupied by the victors in the war Germany had started.
The Nazis hidden in Hitler’s underground bunker were dead, like Hamas will be in their tunnels. Several high-ranking Nazis managed to escape in the confusion, and some Hamas will, too. But understand that Jerusalem will patiently hunt them down for killing or kidnapping back to Israel for fair trials. They’ll take years to complete the job, if necessary.
But that’s the future. There is still a capital city to capture — never an easy task.
Taking Berlin cost the Soviets more than 360,000 casualties, including 81,000 or so dead. At the end, the city was a burnt-out, blown-up shell of its prewar glory. Israeli casualties won’t be anything like the Soviets suffered, but for a small country, the losses may prove nearly insufferable.
It’s a price Israel has paid before.
Casualty list shows 2412 Israelis died in Yom Kippur War of 1973.
Between 1,200 and 1,400 Israelis died just on Oct 7th when Hamas attacked.
Many have died since, both military and civilian because bombs keep being launched into Israel from Hamas and its allies Hezb’allah and the Houthi of Yemen.
Most of the weapons killing Israelis come from Iran.
Why does joe want to give Iran another $10 BILLION?
Why do you people lie so much? Has some moral midget you look up to set a bad example?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/11/13/biden-state-department-considering-waiver-for-10b-to-iran-n2631127
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-iran-oil-hamas-israel-gaza-df192c53
Consider your source. The Washington Free Beacon is a right-wing propaganda rag founded in 2012 by predatory capitalist and hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer.
Iran has yet to get its paws on the $6 Billion of unfrozen Iranian assets previously “given” to them.
Still no clue I see.
A simple search would show multiple news outlets reporting on the story. Only a supplicant of the left would deny real news.
Any that aren’t part of the whack-a-doodle right-wing echo chamber? The Washington Free Beacon doesn’t even give a source.
I think we’ll make a specific point of repeatedly reminding you of this story. That’ll be fun.
11/13/23 – ‘The boss is not going to leave’: Proffer videos show ex-Trump lawyers telling Georgia prosecutors about efforts to overturn 2020 election
…”And he said to me, in a kind of excited tone, ‘Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave,'” Ellis said of the alleged Dec. 19 conversation with Scavino. “And I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said ‘Well, the boss’, meaning President Trump — and everyone understood ‘the boss,’ that’s what we all called him — he said, ‘The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.'”
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Ellis continued, “And I said to him, ‘Well, it doesn’t quite work that way, you realize?’ and he said, ‘We don’t care.'”…
11/14/23 – Georgia prosecutors seek emergency protective order in Trump case after confidential video disclosure
Just like shooting someone on 5th avenue it didnt happen, seems GA attorneys are jumping ship
It must be true. There’s even a picture of an Iranian flag.
You don’t see a lot.
Oh, yeah, how ridiculous to believe they would give Iran billions and billions of dollars or enable them to make billions off their oil sales, which Trump had stopped. Oh… wait. That’s what they’ve already done.
Nevermind.
Why do you lie so much, fuckhead?
Sounds like the muslim brotherhood is running the biden regime.
Because Obama pulls the “fund Islamic terrorism” string.
hamas and by extension the moslem brotherhood being removed from the living will leave the world a much better place to live.
Aside from the fact that Hamas should have never initiated hostilities, especially in such a horrific, animalistic manner, but with war waging, Hamas could have saved the Palestinian people all their suffering and death by surrendering. But, like Hitler felt about the German people who had “let him down” (none of it was his fault), Hamas doesn’t care about how many Palestinians are killed. In fact, the more Palestinians die, the better the propaganda, which has a strong influence on those whose brains have been rotted by anti-Semitism.
While it seems inevitable that Israel will achieve their goal of eradicating Hamas, it remains to be seen if they can withstand the propaganda onslaught. Those stupid enough to succumb to the anti-Semitic propaganda can never understand than after absorbing attack after attack, Israel has no other choice, which only intensifies their fighting spirit.
There is a former Muslim from Gaza who converted to Judisiam, he tells that EVERBODY from an early age to hate Jews, to kill Jews, the entire population is like our very own Greg, brainwashed fools that don’t know any better, even when they work in Israel they still want to attack.
Kiddos war is an evil racket, propaganda, lies, daddy warbucks and death lots of gory death.