Just a couple of quick points. 1) Israel is in a “until we say it’s over” gloves off mode. 2) Nobody, and I mean NOBODY(yes I know it’s a cliche) gives a tinker’s dam about Hamas -- except Iran who will be reluctant to expose a. Hezbollah And b. themselves.
I’m usually on board with your analysis but not this time. No matter what happens to Hamas this won’t end. In my opinion history will show this as the beginning of the end of the Israel experiment. It’s apparent now that without “mommy” USA they will be overwhelmed. I guess the Samson Initiative may be how this ends.
Hamas must be ended, not even a maybe, but given the overwhelming support of Palestinians in Gaza for Hamas' ethnic hatred and barbarism one might well assume that in time another such group will fill the void unless Israel occupies Gaza indefinitely. I'm not suggesting I have a solution to offer just noting the intractable nature of the problem. Ultimately Israeli intelligence and defense forces must be prepared to protect defenseless civilians from that radical hate and savagery without EVER falling asleep at the switch.
As a US Army vet I'll also note I was stunned to learn the Israeli people, surrounded by monsters who want to kill them, have largely been disarmed leaving them wide open to the slaughter they've now suffered. Affording Israelis the opportunity to defend themselves, particularly with all the military vets in Israel, seems like a no brainer. While some may still have been overwhelmed at least they'd go down defending their families rather than just cowering with them as they are being slain. Of course they might in fact have repelled many or all of those deranged barbarians. From the videos it looked like the Hamas gunmen, though mind numbingly vicious, were tactically remarkably inept. They also appeared to be working with room temp IQ's.
"Victory for Israel may ensure the necessary demoralization of the next generation's Islamist fundamentalists."
This right here shows the fundamental misunderstanding of americans, of conflicts outside the western world. To you (and to most all westerners) conflicts can be resolved by coming together to work out what's the real problem and to try and find a mutually acceptable and beneficial solution, because in our view being intractable is wasteful, dangerous and simply not rational.
But the jewish/arab conflict isn't rational in the slightest, it's purely emotional and therefore rational solutions always fail.
Furthermore, it assumes all cultures are equal, share goals, and have a similar trajectory of societal development - the same fallacy that was and still is the basis of US foreign policy: all nations, peoples and cultures are progressing towards liveral capitalist democracy as if it was a natural process and all can be helped to arrive there by various efforts by western nations.
This is flawed in so many ways, but I'll simply refer to the fact the founder of the hypothesis himself has retracted and rethought it (Francis Fukuyama) and that reality has proven Samuel Huntington right.
Finally (well not really but this is a comment, not a thesis paper), it fails to take into account that your (or mine) mores, values and norms doesn't matter to the involved parties, since we as westerners have no standing amongst them - we and our opinions only count as to how they can milk and bilk us for support, moral or monetary, nothing more. You are not an imam, not an arab leader, and therefore what you say and think simply doesn't matter even if you bring the entire US military behind you to enforce your will.
The arabs as are all peoples of the MENA are used to warlords and harsh rulers, and any US military rule is a much lighter touch than their indigenous ones. They simply endure until the occupying force goes home again; they always do in the end precisely because the natives don't award them any significance whatsoever.
That's why US policy in MENA and Africa and most of Asia has failed, again and again: race (as you call it, totally erroneous) matters more than other factors. Just because you americans decided in the 1960s it doesn't because all americans are americans regardless of heritage doesn't make it so.
An arab isn't an afghan isn't a japanese isn't a vietnamese isn't an italian isn't a german - yet your policies assumes all those you have imposed military might upon behave like germans after 1945.
And all the while Biden was pretending to support Israel, he was getting ready to send 100 million dollars to Hamas -- under the pretense of "humanitarian aid," which will of course fund ongoing attacks against Israel.
Channel 4 News chief correspondent confirms audio recording allegedly of #Hamas admitting faulty rocket over hospital strike is fake.
Several experts confirmed to Channel 4 News that the “tone, syntax, accent and expressions are absurd.”
#IsraelAttack
1:37 PM · Oct 18, 2023
3. Hananya Naftali, Netanyahu's Digital Spokesperson, posted (and later deleted) a tweet claiming IDF responsibility for the attack shortly after it happened.
4. This tweet:
dana @dana916
BREAKING: Israeli Channel 12 admits it was an Israeli airstrike on the hospital!
Ohad Hemo, Israeli TV's Palestinian Affairs reporter, admits Israel is responsible for last night's bombing of the BaptistHospital in Gaza resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties.
The explosion is much bigger than typical Hamas amateur rocketry. Dented car roofs look compatible with a 500-lb US-made JDAM with low-shrapnel casing, in air burst mode.
The invincibility of the West’s/America’s wonder weapons has been shown questionable in Ukraine. Hamas has US weapons that were left in Afghanistan as well as others from Ukraine which could prove deadly to many Israeli military vehicles. I fear this may be a trap Israel is walking into.
Also, I believe every time you kill a terrorist you create more terrorists, and since the US and Israeli government make sure their government facilitates are super hardened, civilians will pay the price as usual.
Your dissection of the pseudopandemic these past three and a half years has been outstanding. All the more disappointing to see you become a mouthpiece for Zionist propaganda.
Wow, up until now I’ve really enjoyed your work. This one though, is completely biased towards Israel. Are you not aware of the atrocities Israel has committed against Gaza in the past 20 years? As many have said, Gaza is the largest open air prison in the world. Also, Zionism really is a thing, not just something jihadists talk about. And I’m not trying to give Hamas a pass, they’re a terrorist organization and must be eliminated. But carpet bombing Gaza is not the answer and will lead to more war and terrorism. I truly hope Israel shows some restraint in their response, but obviously it’s a tense and complex situation.
WOW! One of the SS wannabe commenters below said this:
"No amount of negotiating or Western aid packages is going to settle the dispute."
But here is the BIG question:
What is the single issue that insures this dispute will never be settled peacefully?
(Jeopardy theme music) <BUZZER!>
The answer is ; "What is the murderous doctrine of Islam?"
If you study Islam (as I have) then you'll know (I say again; *KNOW*) that Islam wants every single non-muslim dead. Well, actually they would not mind if some of us were their slaves. This is , in fact, and without any possibility of contradiction the single salient issue.
The 'true believers' of islam are those who take their "holy (gag-cough) books literally.
These books teach them over and over that they can kill, lie, cheat, steal, molest, ...pretty much do whatever they like, *AS LONG AS THEY CLAIM IT IS IN THE SERVICE of Islam and allah. Now you don't have to take my word for it, these are not secret texts. Or you can listen to the countless recorded speeches of their mullahs.
This is why they eagerly kill other muslims of diff sects who they claim have some doctrine wrong. It;s why they happily kill their own sect if they can kill some enemy. It's why they will hold a grudge between families in the same sect for generations.
IN CASE you had not noticed it, this is a pretty unique feature to islam.
It is something shared by other ancient and blood thirsty cults and cultures but is DIRECTLY in opposition to the teachings of GOD's word both old and New Testament.
The real GOD (not that 'allen' guy) does not hate violence when used justly. But HE forbids it against the innocent. HE promises hell to those who use HIS name to persecute and abuse the innocent.
Since forever the term 'god' has been used by wicked men to do evil deeds.
Still today men claiming to be believers in the Bible do precisely the things forbidden in HIS word. GOD is blamed only by morons for the acts of evil men using HIS name.
islam codifies this stupefying demonic murderous behavior and demands and encourages it for all 'true believers'.
Anyone who denies this or is too stupid or lazy to understand it is an enemy of reality and truth.
GOD is truth.
(Now watch the GOD haters dig out some passages from the OT trying to prove the GOD of the Bible killed people for no reason. LOL, too bad they can't study the context and are too cowardly to seek HIM and meet HIM as they are invited to do)
Just a couple of quick points. 1) Israel is in a “until we say it’s over” gloves off mode. 2) Nobody, and I mean NOBODY(yes I know it’s a cliche) gives a tinker’s dam about Hamas -- except Iran who will be reluctant to expose a. Hezbollah And b. themselves.
I’m usually on board with your analysis but not this time. No matter what happens to Hamas this won’t end. In my opinion history will show this as the beginning of the end of the Israel experiment. It’s apparent now that without “mommy” USA they will be overwhelmed. I guess the Samson Initiative may be how this ends.
Hamas must be ended, not even a maybe, but given the overwhelming support of Palestinians in Gaza for Hamas' ethnic hatred and barbarism one might well assume that in time another such group will fill the void unless Israel occupies Gaza indefinitely. I'm not suggesting I have a solution to offer just noting the intractable nature of the problem. Ultimately Israeli intelligence and defense forces must be prepared to protect defenseless civilians from that radical hate and savagery without EVER falling asleep at the switch.
As a US Army vet I'll also note I was stunned to learn the Israeli people, surrounded by monsters who want to kill them, have largely been disarmed leaving them wide open to the slaughter they've now suffered. Affording Israelis the opportunity to defend themselves, particularly with all the military vets in Israel, seems like a no brainer. While some may still have been overwhelmed at least they'd go down defending their families rather than just cowering with them as they are being slain. Of course they might in fact have repelled many or all of those deranged barbarians. From the videos it looked like the Hamas gunmen, though mind numbingly vicious, were tactically remarkably inept. They also appeared to be working with room temp IQ's.
"Victory for Israel may ensure the necessary demoralization of the next generation's Islamist fundamentalists."
This right here shows the fundamental misunderstanding of americans, of conflicts outside the western world. To you (and to most all westerners) conflicts can be resolved by coming together to work out what's the real problem and to try and find a mutually acceptable and beneficial solution, because in our view being intractable is wasteful, dangerous and simply not rational.
But the jewish/arab conflict isn't rational in the slightest, it's purely emotional and therefore rational solutions always fail.
Furthermore, it assumes all cultures are equal, share goals, and have a similar trajectory of societal development - the same fallacy that was and still is the basis of US foreign policy: all nations, peoples and cultures are progressing towards liveral capitalist democracy as if it was a natural process and all can be helped to arrive there by various efforts by western nations.
This is flawed in so many ways, but I'll simply refer to the fact the founder of the hypothesis himself has retracted and rethought it (Francis Fukuyama) and that reality has proven Samuel Huntington right.
Finally (well not really but this is a comment, not a thesis paper), it fails to take into account that your (or mine) mores, values and norms doesn't matter to the involved parties, since we as westerners have no standing amongst them - we and our opinions only count as to how they can milk and bilk us for support, moral or monetary, nothing more. You are not an imam, not an arab leader, and therefore what you say and think simply doesn't matter even if you bring the entire US military behind you to enforce your will.
The arabs as are all peoples of the MENA are used to warlords and harsh rulers, and any US military rule is a much lighter touch than their indigenous ones. They simply endure until the occupying force goes home again; they always do in the end precisely because the natives don't award them any significance whatsoever.
That's why US policy in MENA and Africa and most of Asia has failed, again and again: race (as you call it, totally erroneous) matters more than other factors. Just because you americans decided in the 1960s it doesn't because all americans are americans regardless of heritage doesn't make it so.
An arab isn't an afghan isn't a japanese isn't a vietnamese isn't an italian isn't a german - yet your policies assumes all those you have imposed military might upon behave like germans after 1945.
And that is why you fail.
And all the while Biden was pretending to support Israel, he was getting ready to send 100 million dollars to Hamas -- under the pretense of "humanitarian aid," which will of course fund ongoing attacks against Israel.
It’s all propaganda, wake up people
Just about done... since 1947 and billions in US aid. Lmfao. Appreciate your covid reporting but this is complete nonsense.
I see you got as far as the IDF's "intercepted audio" and then stopped. Here are some followup data points:
1. Where were these sophisticated surveillance methods prior to 10/7? https://madhavasetty.substack.com/p/israels-911
2. This tweet:
Arthur Morgan @ArthurM40330824
Channel 4 News chief correspondent confirms audio recording allegedly of #Hamas admitting faulty rocket over hospital strike is fake.
Several experts confirmed to Channel 4 News that the “tone, syntax, accent and expressions are absurd.”
#IsraelAttack
1:37 PM · Oct 18, 2023
3. Hananya Naftali, Netanyahu's Digital Spokesperson, posted (and later deleted) a tweet claiming IDF responsibility for the attack shortly after it happened.
4. This tweet:
dana @dana916
BREAKING: Israeli Channel 12 admits it was an Israeli airstrike on the hospital!
Ohad Hemo, Israeli TV's Palestinian Affairs reporter, admits Israel is responsible for last night's bombing of the BaptistHospital in Gaza resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties.
resistornewswireEUR
9:50 AM · Oct 18, 2023
5. Analysis of video claims made by both sides: https://youtu.be/rII2CwIOrDM
The explosion is much bigger than typical Hamas amateur rocketry. Dented car roofs look compatible with a 500-lb US-made JDAM with low-shrapnel casing, in air burst mode.
The invincibility of the West’s/America’s wonder weapons has been shown questionable in Ukraine. Hamas has US weapons that were left in Afghanistan as well as others from Ukraine which could prove deadly to many Israeli military vehicles. I fear this may be a trap Israel is walking into.
Also, I believe every time you kill a terrorist you create more terrorists, and since the US and Israeli government make sure their government facilitates are super hardened, civilians will pay the price as usual.
there are no lessons for the ages. war anywhere is easily thwarted by blocking the money spigots. it never suits enough entities to get that done.
Your dissection of the pseudopandemic these past three and a half years has been outstanding. All the more disappointing to see you become a mouthpiece for Zionist propaganda.
All that can or should be asked of Americans is their government does not betray another ally.
Which it has and will keep doing.
Excellent commentary. Thanks.
Wow, up until now I’ve really enjoyed your work. This one though, is completely biased towards Israel. Are you not aware of the atrocities Israel has committed against Gaza in the past 20 years? As many have said, Gaza is the largest open air prison in the world. Also, Zionism really is a thing, not just something jihadists talk about. And I’m not trying to give Hamas a pass, they’re a terrorist organization and must be eliminated. But carpet bombing Gaza is not the answer and will lead to more war and terrorism. I truly hope Israel shows some restraint in their response, but obviously it’s a tense and complex situation.
Excellent commentary
WOW! One of the SS wannabe commenters below said this:
"No amount of negotiating or Western aid packages is going to settle the dispute."
But here is the BIG question:
What is the single issue that insures this dispute will never be settled peacefully?
(Jeopardy theme music) <BUZZER!>
The answer is ; "What is the murderous doctrine of Islam?"
If you study Islam (as I have) then you'll know (I say again; *KNOW*) that Islam wants every single non-muslim dead. Well, actually they would not mind if some of us were their slaves. This is , in fact, and without any possibility of contradiction the single salient issue.
The 'true believers' of islam are those who take their "holy (gag-cough) books literally.
These books teach them over and over that they can kill, lie, cheat, steal, molest, ...pretty much do whatever they like, *AS LONG AS THEY CLAIM IT IS IN THE SERVICE of Islam and allah. Now you don't have to take my word for it, these are not secret texts. Or you can listen to the countless recorded speeches of their mullahs.
This is why they eagerly kill other muslims of diff sects who they claim have some doctrine wrong. It;s why they happily kill their own sect if they can kill some enemy. It's why they will hold a grudge between families in the same sect for generations.
IN CASE you had not noticed it, this is a pretty unique feature to islam.
It is something shared by other ancient and blood thirsty cults and cultures but is DIRECTLY in opposition to the teachings of GOD's word both old and New Testament.
The real GOD (not that 'allen' guy) does not hate violence when used justly. But HE forbids it against the innocent. HE promises hell to those who use HIS name to persecute and abuse the innocent.
Since forever the term 'god' has been used by wicked men to do evil deeds.
Still today men claiming to be believers in the Bible do precisely the things forbidden in HIS word. GOD is blamed only by morons for the acts of evil men using HIS name.
islam codifies this stupefying demonic murderous behavior and demands and encourages it for all 'true believers'.
Anyone who denies this or is too stupid or lazy to understand it is an enemy of reality and truth.
GOD is truth.
(Now watch the GOD haters dig out some passages from the OT trying to prove the GOD of the Bible killed people for no reason. LOL, too bad they can't study the context and are too cowardly to seek HIM and meet HIM as they are invited to do)