Why did Hamas send murder squads into Israel? Same reason we see packs of feral people looting stores in the USA: because it was allowed.
This is going to be the hard part for everyone to swallow. Nobody wants to hear that they are responsible for something bad happening. When we see packs of looters we blame their parents, the police, the government; never ourselves. But we allowed it. To be sure, the fight to forbid it would be long and difficult and there are those who essentially encouraging it who bear even greater responsibility…but we all allowed it. Whenever we tolerate any bad behavior, we’re giving permission, even if not encouraging. Looters in our stores are the result of decades of everyone letting things slide. So, too, the attack in Israel.
Lets recap here, guys. In 1948, the Palestinians were offered the lion’s share of the land. They rejected it and attacked and then lost. Almost immediately after this defeat Arab terrorism was born…and all through the past 75 years it has been an on-going activity. To a greater or lesser extent, the Muslim people have sought to murder Israelis. Through war after war – all unprovoked attacks on Israel – the terrorism has continued. The Muslims have again and again been offered deals they could not secure by battlefield efforts. They were given back the entirety of the Sinai as an inducement to land for peace. Nothing doing. It just keeps going on and on. Because the Israelis allow it.
To be fair, the world does act as a restraint upon Israel; this does make us partially responsible as well. We’re always telling them to hold back, to pull back, to not hit too hard. One of the most infamous examples of this as at the conclusion of the Yom Kippur War when we directly forbade Israel from destroying the surrounded Egyptian Third Army. It was said that we didn’t want Egypt humiliated.
But, why not? I don’t really know. I can’t explain it in any rational terms. It was a perfect opportunity to give the Egyptians – and the larger Muslim world – an object lesson. A reminder that Muslim arms always have been second rate. In just 48 hours Third Army would have had to raise a white flag for lack of water…and that would have been the time to dictate peace to a prostrate Egypt and instruct the Muslim world that war against Israel leads to humiliating defeat. But, no. And while the peace between Egypt and Israel has held, the larger war has never stopped. Because Third Army was allowed to live…it taught the lesson: fight Israel. Do your worst…and when you get your ass kicked, the world will step in and Israeli conscience will kick in and you’ll be spared total defeat.
Hamas did not think it was going to march on Tel Aviv with a few murder squads. And they also know that the Israeli response was going to be very strong. They don’t care about that. They don’t care about their own people any more than they care about dead Israelis. Its all part of their game – a war game which keeps them in power (and banking NGO money in Switzerland) and which they believe will eventually destroy Israel. They expect after a few days or maybe a week of Israeli attacks that the whole thing will be called off. Money will pour in to rebuild damage in Gaza, the global Left will be thick with denunciations of Israel, Leftist Jews would deplore Israel’s response and so on to the next round. In other words, Hamas would be given permission to send more murder squads in. Just as the Muslim terrorists have been repeatedly given permission since 1948.
So far, the Israeli response is far harsher than any I’ve seen before – but I do note that they are taking Hamas fighters alive and they are giving warnings to Gaza before buildings are hit. This is not the way; in fact, any softness at all just tells Hamas that they are winning. This has to get very, very harsh…a humiliating defeat for Hamas or it’ll just happen again. There are some indications that Israel is willing to go that route. Its going to be hard, though, because the whole world will tell them not to. They have to steel themselves to it. They can’t be held back by false morality.
Already you’re hearing the stories of Palestinian civilians being killed. The Palestinian propaganda outfits made sure that the reported number of dead Palestinians was greater than the number of dead Israelis…that is crucial for the propaganda; Israel is the bad guy. This must be ignored. There are no non-combatants in Gaza.
Do you remember about 12-15 years ago when you first started seeing videos of cute, little Palestinian pre-schoolers being taught to hate Jews and to consider killing them glorious? Well, those cute, little Palestinian pre-schoolers are now the men who just went on a murder spree. Get it? The whole of Palestinian society – parents, teachers, religious and government leaders – is creating generation after generation of Palestinian men who yearn for the chance to murder Israelis and parade their naked bodies around. It is very much Hitler Youth stuff. Everyone in Gaza is complicit in this. Sure, I understand that the bully boys of Hamas enforce conformity but there is still consent. There is still culpability…and more important, as the whole of Palestinian society is engaged in creating men who can murder people randomly, the whole of Palestinian society must be destroyed. So: no non-combatants. If Israel leaves Hamas in place then all they’ll be doing is giving Hamas permission to raise another crop of murderers.
Gaza has to be attacked until the survivors raise their hands as they emerge from the rubble. There has to be acknowledged defeat on the part of the Palestinians. However long it takes, however many lives it costs. This must end…or Israel will end in the long run.
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When we see packs of looters we blame their parents, the police, the government; never ourselves. But we allowed it. To be sure, the fight to forbid it would be long and difficult and there are those who essentially encouraging it who bear even greater responsibility…but we all allowed it. Whenever we tolerate any bad behavior, we’re giving permission, even if not encouraging. Looters in our stores are the result of decades of everyone letting things slide.
This is only happening in certain areas of the country, and it’s in the areas where the perpetrators know they will not be challenged or held accountable, and those whose sworn duty it is to uphold the law also know that they will not be held accountable if they don’t. The legislators who pass laws to enable shoplifting up to $999.00 without consequence also know that they will not be held accountable, or at least they ARE NOT YET being held accountable. There are two inevitable outcomes, either those places will disintegrate into chaos and anarchy and Escape from New York/LA will become documentaries, or the majority of citizens will finally say, “enough,” and either elect people who will fix the problem or the people will take it upon themselves to fix it. Stein’s Law applies.
Not long ago I would have agreed with you about the looting being limited to certain areas. But a few months ago I went into a Best Buy in a very nice shopping center in a very nice little city and was told they had a small computer inventory because people would come in, drag a ladder over to a shelf with boxed computers, take down as many as they wanted to walk out with them—and no one was allowed to stop them.
Yesterday in a nice upscale supermarket I was talking with a clerk who said they have a horrible shoplifting problem, again with people just strolling out with steaks, etc.
I am wondering why the store management tolerates this. Both of these are in a county with a pretty good law enforcement record and a decent DA so this seems to be a management decision. It seems to me that a store with a clearly marked notice that all shoplifters will be detained and law enforcement will be called, along with a visible security presence, would head off lawsuits. Would there be demonstrations? No doubt. But I think the people in these areas would push back.
If, for example, there was a coordinated support system, so if Store #1 is being “protested” every other store in that chain could have a notation made on receipts that the customer was there to show support for Store #1. I would, if I were in upper management, shut down a store as soon as it was being harassed and send the message that the thugs can’t control the people. Take the fun out of it. Oh, I would also get big speakers and play German opera. Loud.
The thing is, it is up to management as much as law enforcement when this kind of thing happens out here in the heartland. And it is up to us. We’ve seen the video of the fat guy being harassed by a couple of citizens as he tried to take a grocery cart of meat out of a store. There have been other cases like this. This is the kind of rebellion that can take place in our own neighborhoods.
Your comments remind me of an incident about 20 years ago. My wife and I were on our way to Walmart and were in the traffic lane in front of the store looking for a parking place. An obese couple came out of the store pushing two full shopping carts, and instead of crossing the lane and into the parking area they proceeded to go down the center of the lane in front of us — VERY slowly. After a while I beeped my horn at them, and the male (can I say that?) turned around and starting pushing his cart toward the front of my car. At that time my carry gun was an old stainless S&W model 60 5-shot revolver. As it looked like he was going to run his cart down the side of my car, I opened the window, leveled the gun at him, cocked the hammer and shook my head. His eyes got really big, and he backed away VERY QUICKLY. We drove around for a while until I saw them get in a car and drive away. Had I not been armed he would have done $1,000 worth of damage to my car and probably gotten away with it.
Shoplifters around us are a bit more refined. They go through the self-checkout, scan their items, and then just don’t pay. I’ve witnessed this a handful of times when I got to the self-checkout and the previous person’s items were still on the screen. But I’ve never seen anyone just load up their cart and head for the door. The solution to this, of course, is what stores in the hardest hit areas are starting to do. They require a shopper to scan their credit or debit card when entering the store.
My SiL was a manager of one of those dollar-type stores and her standing instructions from corporate was to never interfere with shoplifters. This was, of course, some years ago: the issue was that if the employee or the shoplifter got hurt, the store would almost certainly be held liable for it in civil court. It was probably a stance dictated by insurance. This is now out of date but the stores haven’t changed their policy likely because insurance hasn’t caught up.
But, in the end, what can they do? You just know that if a store employee slugs a shoplifter then a lawyer will take them to court and it’ll be Big Bad Corporation against Poor Little Guy…so the store would just settle out of court.
But it isn’t sustainable; we can’t have a functioning society if people start to take things on the regular…and as the stories spread of no consequences more and more people will do it. You and I won’t…but we’ll be the idiots grinning in an empty store as the last of the goods walks out.
There should be a way to interdict shoplifters without physical contact. An airlock would work. Most stores already have one, and it would be easy to rig one so when a thief is approaching the doors the outside doors are locked remotely and as soon as he or she is in the airlock the inside doors are locked. Then it’s just Rat In A Box till the cops get there.
As most of the big-scale thieves take a little time to load up their loot, just send a store employee outside to keep people from entering the airlock from the outside till the deed is done.
Bait Car locks thieves in the cars they are trying to steal. We’ve probably all seen videos of crooks trapped in banks or stores and unable to get out while waiting for the police. It’s not a new concept. It’s doable. And the thing is, once the word is out and crooks can’t tell which stores are set up to do this, or if the doors will lock on any one person, the uncertainty will have an effect, just as speed limits work best on roads where there is a higher likelihood of patrol cars on duty.
I wonder if these naive youngsters understand that Hamas militants would throw them off a roof given the chance. YCMTSU!
It wasn’t long ago that “queer” was the n-word for gays. Now it’s cool.
I would bet a bunch that not one of them could define “Palestine” or know a thing about the history. This is a wholly reactive bunch, looking for whatever will generate the most attention.
I’ve always admired the Mafia’s approach to conflict. They kill. And then the kill the families. And that’s what we need to do. Not only with Hamas but with the American left movement. There can be no life left. Unless and until we do that, mornings like this will continue. Take no prisoners.
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It’s hard to define how big of a piece of shit Mike Pence is … what a loser
Mike Pence blamed his Republican 2024 primary competitors Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy and Ron DeSantis for emboldening Hamas terrorists to attack Israel over the weekend.
I’m not standing up for Pence, he’s been a huge disappointment, but what was the context of his remark?
Here’s the context and he even went on CNN to spew this drivel. Bottom line … only Mike Pence has the clarity to solve the worlds problems. Americas problems? Those aren’t his concerns as he told Tucker
When I’m President of the United States,
When pigs fly.
I get the impression that Pence is trying to overcome his image as white-bread wuss and trying to act tough. The problem is, he’s just really really bad at it.
Claiming that Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are “signaling retreat from America’s role as leader of the free world” is not only an astoundingly stupid comment he has to know it is a lie. He was Vice President when Trump stopped aid to Palestine.
There was a time when I was a big Pence fan. I saw him speak at a CPAC conference and was really impressed, as I told Spook at the time. This was before he became governor of Indiana. He seemed to do a decent job there, and I liked the way he handled the VP slot. But he sure has hit a downhill slide since then.
Mike is just trying to stay relevant and he thinks his war hawk stance will endear him to the Military Industrial Complex, just as he thinks his anti Trump stance will endear him to Democrats. He’s a lost soul
There’s a lot of this on X (twitter). Hard to believe how utterly clueless these people are ….
Mike Sington
@MikeSington
You’ve got to ask, what classified national secrets did Trump blab about that gave Hamas the advantage of surprise in their attack?
Talk about tone deaf.
This regime is tone deaf on everything. Just look at how volatile and dangerous this country and this world is because of them … Democrats are simply too stupid to be in charge of anything.
Cheer up – remember “hard times bring strong men.”
Hmmm. From “Oh, yeah, we did it” to “Not us” is pretty funny. As the article concludes, this might not be working out the way Iran thought it would, and they are probably looking at a future without a cent of US money ever flowing into the country again—not even to help rebuild after Israel takes it down to bare sand.
In a shocking move, the Iranian government has denied any role in Hamas’s invasion of Israel. The Iranian mission to the United Nations pushed back on a report in the Wall Street Journal that Iran was in control of the planning and timing for the invasion (CONFIRMED: Iran Planned and ‘Green-Lit’ Murderous Hamas Attacks on Israel), saying, “The determined steps of the Palestinians constitute a completely legitimate defense against seven decades of occupation and terrible crimes by the illegitimate Zionist regime. We support Palestine without reservation. However, we are not involved in the Palestinian response, which was carried out only by Palestine itself.”
It went on to say the decision to attack “was taken solely by Palestine itself….They [Israel] are attempting to justify their failure and attribute it to Iran’s intelligence power and operational planning.”
This is a sign that the invasion of Israel is not unfolding in the way it was planned.
I’m not sure sane people are capable of believing Iran wasn’t behind this horrendous assault on Israel over the weekend. Hamas, like Hezbollah, is an Iranian puppet organization that gives Iran power and a degree of plausible deniability. Iran provides Hamas with weapons, training, and money — no matter what Joe Biden and his enablers and fluffers contend; Former State Department Advisor Decimates Biden Team Excuses About the $6 Billion for Iran.
Hamas is deeply penetrated by Israeli security services, and the only logical explanation for the strategic, operational, and tactical surprise achieved by Hamas is that the attack was planned in a secure environment in Iran, and the fighters were only alerted at the last minute. (You’ll be shocked to learn that there are people claiming that this was a “false flag” attack carried out by the Israeli government, much like 9.11 was an “inside job,” and that, shades of FDR and Pearl Harbor, that the Israeli government knew the attack was coming and did nothing so it could benefit from the outrage.)
(I get a kick out of the use of the word “fluffers” in some streiff articles. I only know what it means because I saw the movie “Boogie Nights”. The use of the term to describe the acts of Biden supporters cracks me up.)
Chris Lawrence
@lordsutch
Just when you thought “fluffer” was only an occupation within the adult film industry.
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