[ May 18, 2024 ]
Victor David Hanson on today’s savage war on Israel (X)
Why did Hamas stage a long-planned, carefully executed and multifaceted attack on Israeli towns, soldiers, and civilians—one designed to instill terror by executing noncombatants, taking hostages, and desecrating the bodies of the dead?
And how were the killers able to enter Israeli proper in enough numbers to kill what could be hundreds and perhaps eventually wound what could be thousands?
Story continues below advertisementa) Ostensibly, radical Palestinians wanted to stop any rumored rapprochement between the Gulf monarchies—the traditional source of much of their cash—and Israel, by forcing the issue of Arab solidarity in times of “war”, especially through waging a gruesome attack aimed at civilians and encompassing executions and hostage taking. Iran likely was the driving force to prompt the war—given its greatest fear is a Sunni Arab-Iran rapprochement.
b) Arab forces have had only success against Israel through surprise attacks during Israeli holidays, as in the Yom Kippur War (i.e., was it any accident that the present attack began 50-years almost to the day after the October 6, 1973 beginning of the Yom Kippur War?). And so they struck again this Saturday during Simchat Torah, coming at the end of a weeklong Jewish celebration of Sukkot—in hopes that others will join in as happened in 1973. (So much for the Arab warnings not for Westerners to conduct war during Ramadan).
c) Hamas may have reckoned that recent Israeli turmoil and mass leftist street protests overproposed reforms of the Israeli Supreme Court had led to permanent internal divisions and thus a climate of domestic distraction if not an erosion of deterrence.
But, more importantly, in a larger sense the Biden administration has contributed both to the notion that Hamas was a legitimate Middle East player, and to the perception that the U.S. was backing away from its traditional support for Israel—to the delight of Hamas—based on the following inexplicable policies: 1) In February Secretary of State Blinken had bragged that not only had the Biden administration resumed massive aid to the PLA cancelled by Trump, but cumulatively had transferred $1 billion—even as Palestinian authorities bragged that they would continue to pay bounties to the families of “martyrs” (i.e., those killed while conducting terrorists attacks against Israel).
And millions of American dollars also went into Gaza, run by Hamas—despite the Biden administration’s efforts to keep mostly quiet the resumption of such inexplicable support. In this regard, note the current shameful State-Department (“U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs”) website news release that was posted after today’s attack. It ended with this quite embarrassing, morally equivalent admonition:
“We urged all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.” “All sides?”
“Refrain from retaliatory attacks?”
So Israel is the moral equivalent of terrorists executing civilians and brutalizing their corpses? And the IDF then is not supposed to retaliate against these killers?
This Biden State Department insanity cannot stand. So expect some apparatchik to take down this Munich-like posting as soon as possible.
2) The Biden administration had recently released some $6 billion to Iran through a prison swap deal that saw South Korea hand over embargoed Iranian money to Qatar—despite Tehran’s increased anti-Israeli rhetoric and its loud brag about the escalation. We should assume money for rockets (Hamas claims they have launched 5,000, and have received 100,000 of them via the Damascus airport) and weapons in general for Hamas were supplied by Iran, which again is likely the chief catalyst for this surprise attack.
3) Almost immediately, after his inauguration Biden mobilized to resume the bankrupt Iran deal. And in unhinged fashion he appointed the anti-Israeli bigot, pro-Iranian journalist Robert Malley as America’s chief negotiator. Note that Malley is now under FBI investigation for security breaches, involving disclosing classified U.S. documents and also for allegedly helping pro-Iranian activists and propagandists land influential billets inside the U.S. government.
In short, there was a general Hamas and Iranian perception that the Biden administration had resumed the discredited Obama madness of empowering Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas. This discredited agenda was to “balance” the power of Israel and the moderate Arab Gulf governments to achieve “creative tension”, exacerbated by Biden’s loathing of the government of Benjamín Netanyahu (who has been snubbed by Biden and never invited for an official visit).
Note as well that the Biden administration has siphoned off key weapons and munitions from stockpiles inside Israel to transfer them to Ukraine. The so-called “War Reserve Ammunition—Israel” is all but depleted of just the sorts of weapons needed in the present crisis.
In this regard is there not a pattern here?
is there not a pattern here? Upon the ascension of Biden and his woke military agendas, we saw the following: the complete humiliation of the U.S. in Kabul in its most shameful flight in 50 years and greatest abandonment of equipment in its history; followed by Vladimir Putin’s opportunistic invasion of Ukraine; followed by China’s new belligerence and escalating threats to Taiwan; followed by Turkey’s new de facto alliance with Russia and recent drone encounter with the U.S. air force in Syria; followed by the Hamas/Iranian inspired attack on Israel—with more to come unfortunately.
And will Biden finally get the message from the attacks on the Ukraine and Israeli borders, that borders matter and we too are being invaded, with the encouragement of the Mexican government and to the advantage of the cartels whose fentanyl exports kills 100,000 Americans a year.
What to expect in Israel?
Expect the following: the usual Hamas/terrorist selling and/or execution of Israeli hostages, the use of Israeli hostages as “human shields” in Gaza, the bargaining/sale of the remains of Israeli dead, occasional killings of Jews inside Israel by Arabs who falsely believe there will be a winning Middle East-wide existential war against Israel. And finally, a devastating Israeli counter-response that will eventually earn a U.S. rebuke.
What should the U.S. instead do?
It should quit talking to Iran and restore full sanctions against it. It should cut off all aid immediately to all the Palestinians. It should undertake a 1973-like massive arms lift of key munitions to Israel and warn Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and others in the Middle East not to intervene or else, given that Israel will need several weeks to deal with Hamas and Gaza. And if it shows any hesitation or weakness, other terrorist groups will opportunistically jump in.
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34 Comments
7 months ago
French resistance, American War, Palestinians, oppressed people in occupied territories have always had the right to fight back for their liberties and self-government.
7 months ago
Reply to
Harry
The Palis are not a people, my Nazi friend, the Palis are an anti people. An advertising tactic to smear the Jews as aggressors.
7 months ago
Reply to
Harry
Backward people, backward society, backward “faith,” creates chaos, violence and hopelessness — and they perpetuate it to use as proof that they’re “oppressed.”
7 months ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
I have read that Israel does not occupy any of the enemies territory, yes they build walls, and rightly so. They even give notice of any attack they plan, to go in to “sort” hamas. It seems to me Israel only returns fire after they have been attacked.
7 months ago
Reply to
Harry
They want the total wipe out of Israel & its people. I stand with Israel.
7 months ago
Reply to
Check Burry
Obviously just like Palestinians the brave people of the Ukraine have the right to fight against the brutal Russian invasion. Not everyone backs Pamela Geller’s support for a war criminal like Putin.
7 months ago
Reply to
Harry
I suspect that you are one of the people who mistakenly think that (1) any people called “oppressed” is oppressed; and (2) anything a member of an “oppressed ” people says about their condition or history is true.
7 months ago
The angry-brown-girl Biden-“obama”-Satan administration enables the first pogrom of the 21st Century.
7 months ago
I will see if I can talk to my baby brother in Israel, later. Another brother said the Israeli Generals monitoring the South in Israel should be prosecuted for treason.
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7 months ago
Reply to
Underzog
100% prosecute the Leaders who sat on their hands and did nothing…deliberately How so suddenly is Israeli intelligence so blind?
That this was not seen is beyond belief.
7 months ago
The time to take down irans nuclear capability has arrived
7 months ago
If Trump was in the oval office, this attack would never have happened. The Israeli’s should have decimated the Gaza strip and exterminated all of the fakastinians, years ago. Most of the problem would have been solved.
7 months ago
hamas are financed by Iran, with dollars recently donated by sleepy joe 6 billlion I believe.
7 months ago
Did the Biden admin keep intelligence about the coming attack from Israel?
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7 months ago
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Nicola Timmerman
I would not doubt it. They have betrayed this nation in every other way, not the least of which is the presidents FIRST responsibility, to protect our borders!
7 months ago
As regards MD Anthony and the rest of this board, I finally managed to get in contact with my baby brother in Israel. He made some interesting and rather strange remarks. My baby brother says there is no way, with Israel’s warning system, that this would have happened. Nothing was done to stop this terrorist attack for sic hours. Something nefarious is going on by the Israeli side. Either the Left did this for treasonous purposes or Bibi did this to shore up support and rally around the flag. I tend to believe the former. My baby brother (okay, he is 62) also drifted off into a discussion of the GATT treaty with comments that were positively Trumpian in nature. Besides the horrific nature of this war, something very suspicious is going on on the Israeli side of this. There is no excuse for Israel waiting six hours to respond to this attack that rivals the 1948 war in incursion and damage.
When I called my baby brother, it was about 12:00 in the afternoon in Israel even though I called at 5:00 a.m. in America.
7 months ago
Putin has always wanted to control the HolyLand . Russian tanks are still in Syria , & the Plains of Armaggedon are ideal for tank combat .
7 months ago
This has been going on too long and Israel should not tolerate this masacre. I believe in retribution and it’s time to take down the snakes head; Iran. There’s got to be and end to this. Israel has been in and out of wars with Muslims for 75 years. Hit Iran with God’s might, now! Yes, I’m a militant.
Last edited 7 months ago by armr145
7 months ago
Pam!
You are being censored. Sunday morning in Chicago and I can not connect to you articles as usual.
Most blocked 🚫 are about incompetent Joe Biden.
Hey folks, spread the word.
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7 months ago
the IAF shud eviscerate the Iranian military/government— the fakestinians R just a proxy…
7 months ago
My nephew also lives in Israel and he just chimed . He thinks there is collaboration afoot in this. There is no way the army does not respond for 7 hours and the intelligence services did not know this was happening on their border.
7 months ago
Can’t go on Twitter or Musks X, they’ve blocked me for showing a photo of an abortion…
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7 months ago
Save the world, bury Islam!
