Entirely on Hamas

If Hamas had not attacked Israel, there would have been no IDF response in Gaza. If Hamas had allowed Palestinians to follow Israel's instructions to leave, there would be no Palestinian noncombatant casualties. Every civilian death in this conflict must be laid at the feet of Hamas.    

Another Russian Pogrom

Jews were being hunted in Dagestan last night. A commercial jet had departed from Tel Aviv and touched down in that heavily Muslim area of the former Soviet Union. The local populace attacked the airport and a hotel looking for Jews to attack. At least two people were reported to have been critically injured. This particular pogrom did not happen in 1895 or the Holocaust but is ongoing as Jews who have nothing to do with Israel or Gaza are sought out for murder. As a Jew, I must warn that we should at the moment stay within our own enclaves and arm ourselves to protect our lives wherever it is legal to do so, and consider leaving in any of the places where we are not permitted the means of self-protection for localities where we may bear arms. We can't rely on those who may not have our best interests at heart for our security. 

So Very "Offensive"

Israel has gone on the offensive. The IDF is trying to rescue hostages and bring terrorists to justice (or justice to  terrorists). Around the world many millions rally not for the Israeli forces of civilization and decency but in support of the bloody handed butchers of Hamas. That is what is really offensive. 

Israel Solely Responsible!

I agree with many that Israel is "responsible".  Israel is responsible for safeguarding the Jewish State. Israel is responsible for restoring and guarding Israel's borders. Israel is responsible for eliminating the butchers who slaughtered innocent Jews and even beheaded babies. Israel is responsible for stopping the barrage of rockets and missiles from not just Gaza but also Lebanon. Israel is responsible for defending civilization from the attacks of atavistic savages. 

A Glaring Insult

Why do world leaders outside of Israel feel compelled to demand Israeli "restraint"? Did they make similar demands of Hamas? Israel has not deliberately targeted Palestinian civilians? Can the same be said of the Palestinian resistance (whose primary target has always been Jewish civilians)? Israel is warned, even by the US, not to commit "war crimes" The IDF is the entity that is stopping an enemy that commits nothing but war crimes and crimes against humanity. Instead of calling out Israel for trying to preserve innocent life, how about calling out the monsters who have the world's most extensive concentration of fortified tunnels but will not permit their civilians in them as the underground fortress is solely to protect the terrorists and their munitions, while their women and children are kept above ground to serve as cannon fodder, so the savages can show carnage they caused but say "look at what these evil Jews did". 

Holding Israel Back

Israel, to ensure the survival of the Jewish State, must eradicate Hamas. Tragically, the elimination of Hamas must be the sole focus of the IDF, who can't concern themselves with the survival of the hostages. Those abducted face a horrible fate because of the butchers of Hamas, not because of the actions Israel must take. To permit the survival of Hamas means Jews wear a target in the Jewish homeland until the Jews are annihilated, which is intolerable. Netanyahu must do what is necessary to restore deterrence, or Jews everywhere will face the horrid fate of those that lived on the periphery of Gaza. 

Our Dementia Disaster

Does anyone actually believe Joe Biden is at the top of his game? Do you think Biden is hands-on, really running anything? If he is not (and only an idiot would contend Biden is still making vital decisions and in charge of relations with other countries and our security), who is? Crooked and fading old Joe has unleashed unprecedented peril across the globe with his bobbling and glaring weakness. 

Chaos in House

The US House of Representatives are not able to advance legislation. In fact, they are so screwed up that they cannot name a Speaker. In our current time of crisis, this is no joke but a great danger. 

Last Chance World

The time has come to see if "Never Again" really had any meaning. It certainly does not appear that it did as Muslims wave the flag of jihad in the same European capitals that sent their Jews to death camps eighty years ago, while those that stand to oppose genocide against the Jews are threatened with arrest for breach of peace. The shouts of "Jews to the gas" resound while police sit idly by, and even in New York City with the largest Jewish population, vast crowds take to the streets not to condemn the October 7 massacre but to praise Hamas and summon a worldwide caliphate. You can stand with Jews now and civilization and order or be cast into a barbaric dark age.  

Apple from Tree

Talk about a tragic irony- the son of Nashville's chief of police is wanted for shooting two police officers in a community near Nashville. Nobody doubts that Chief John Drake has been absolutely dedicated to protecting our community, and what sorrow he must be experiencing seeing his adult son on the wrong side of the law. Let us all pray that the bad seed surrenders without further incident and both wounded officers fully recover. 

No Moral Compass

Israel has a blade at its proverbial throat. So long as Hamas remains extant in Gaza, everyone in Israel is at risk. The Hollywood "stars" demanding "cease fire now" are either imbeciles or evil, or perhaps both. The jihadists tortured infants in front of their parents and then killed them all, often severing their heads. These terrorists fatally raped women with such inhuman ferocity that these girls and women's corpses were found with their pelvises broken. Some of the celebrities insisting Israel stop their self-defense are Jewish. I should say "nominally Jewish", because only a Jew who loathes his or her own people could not see that the murderers who struck the Jewish State would gladly kill them too. Hamas slaughtered men, women, and children, Jews, Christians, and fellow Muslims. Hamas is a deadly scourge that must be eradicated. 

Hopped Up Hamas

It was reported that before the butchery, the Hamas terrorists were administered a cheap form of amphetamines. They were not simply fanatics but drugged up as well. 

Why the Hatred?

If a Jewish person has offended you, that is on that individual, not on the faith of fifteen million people. Anytime I hear "the blacks" or "the Mexicans", I know it is coming from a hater. Take folks as individuals, not as representative of a whole group they belong to; otherwise you just fall into "the bigots". 

New Blood Libel

Jews NEVER used the blood of Gentiles, children nor adults, to bake unleavened bread. Jews did not sacrifice Christian children in rituals. Jews are not bloodthirsty ghouls. It is completely predictable that those who want to slaughter every Jew on earth would blame their own mistake on those they hate the most and use that as a further rationale to murder innocent people. The IDF did NOT deliberately target a Gaza hospital. More than that though, the Jews did not accidentally hit it either. One of the terrorists own rockets fell short of its goal of killing innocent Jewish civilians and took out their own hospital instead. Those who hate Jews so much that they wish to slaughter Jewish babies really needed no excuse to wage their jihad, so they will still, always. and only blame Jews even when the carnage is entirely and solely the responsibility of the Islamo-fascists. 

On Israel's Restraint

Israel has held back on a ground invasion of Gaza. This is not a tactical or strategic decision by the IDF. Israel has not done what needs to be done to remove the threat of Hamas because the Biden regime is holding it back. While paying lip service to Israel's right to protect itself,  implicit pressure is being brought to bear on Netanyahu that the US will not block anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations that America has provided for the Jewish State except at the end of Obama's last term. This may be unstated but is no less real. It is only the US veto at the UN that keeps Israel within the community of nations and from being sanctioned out of existence or even attacked by the blue helmets themselves. In an evil world, a virtuous state finds itself isolated, even as it is under the guns of Hamas. Also, the Biden regime that was backing and even helping pay for and orchestrate the anti-judicial reform protests (that are really aimed at removing the Prime Minister) holds the card over Netanyahu that even with Israel under the gun, they may crank up the domestic opposition again even in the face of the existential threat that now confronts Israel. The Jewish State is not holding back but being restrained by what is Israel's supposed greatest friend. The cabal that installed Biden has tied Israel's hands. 

Your Holy Warriors?

The Palestinian mujahideen raped and tortured women and even babies. They are about as holy as pig feces. Eighty percent of the Israelis they murdered showed signs of torture. When the IDF finds them, and they will, these barbarians will answer for their heinous crimes. 

Not About Revenge

Hamas is still firing rockets and missiles into Israel. They are holding over one hundred (hopefully alive) Israelis hostage, including infants, after having deliberately butchered other Jewish babies, though at that age, the children certainly did not know they were Jewish. The IDF is not seeking retribution, but safety for the people of Israel. 

Bit of Hype

The novelty is starting to wear off the Deion Sanders coached Colorado football team. Yes, he brought some excitement to Boulder, but he is not a exceptional strategist or innovator who is reinventing the wheel. He has some celebrity connections that enhanced the limelight around an average football program, but there has to be substance to accompany flash. 

Who Is Accountable?

Nobody within Israel's intelligence services anticipated the scale of the attack on the Jewish State. Raw intelligence is by its nature opaque. Those tasked with analyzing what is coming in seldom see the whole picture because of specialization and volume of incoming material, such as signals intelligence that is now often heavily encrypted and very difficult to decode, even using supercomputers and AI (both of which Israel at this point has extremely limited access to, especially when contrasted with the United States). Then there is imagery intelligence which might have revealed clues to what was in the offing as well, which the Jewish State lags in when contrasted with nations with larger satellite programs as well. Israeli drones were monitoring, but we see Hamas employed drones as well. Finally, human intelligence failed in one aspect because Hamas had been so ruthless in executing anyone who might be working for Israel that those who might have credibly warned Israel in earlier times were terrified to inform despite Israel generously paying those who would sell out their own side to help protect the Jewish State. So should blame be laid at the top? Due to compartmentalization, no Israeli intelligence official was able to grasp the whole picture. The pieces they were seeing did not move them to pass information up to the Prime Minister, who has NEVER dismissed or underestimated the threat. Netanyahu is not an intelligence analyst who might have missed a clue in raw intelligence. He could only work with what he was given by professionals upon whom he is forced to rely. Tragically, even some of those were actively seeking to undermine their own leader, because they are in the thrall of the Left and/or because of personal ambitions. It is inconceivable that even they saw the invasion about to come and deliberately obscured that knowledge from Bibi, but with other agendas in their heads, they may have taken their eye off the ball of protecting Israel. I do not know what Netanyahu could have done that he did not, as even though he has had recent health challenges, he has always taken the security of the Jewish State and People as his top priority. 

About Intelligence Services

I claim no thorough-going or comprehensive knowledge of what spies do, nor am I one of them, but I do possess logic, which in the case of the attack unleashed on Israel should be enough. I am aware after years of reading open source intelligence, through the recently closed Debka.co.il, Janes online, and Stratfor that I am more well-versed than some on the subject. Two facts I know are that Egypt since Sadat made peace has warned Israel numerous times that they have wind that a terror attack is imminent, just as Israel has warned Egypt, but (thankfully) most of the warnings have turned out to be false alarms. which naturally created a sense of complacency. The information shared between the countries is investigated but in this case, the Israeli scrutiny of what was revealed was obviously insufficient, which happens when two sides with a cold peace do not trust each other,, and in some instances, it is very likely sent red herrings to annoy, distract, and consume the resources of a side they did not perceive as allies. If you cry wolf a thousand times but no wolf is there, it is natural to assume the wolf will never appear. Also, Israel is led by a center-right Prime Minister but her intelligence agencies have been largely subsumed by Leftists, who were thinking ridding Israel of Netanyahu's leadership was an essential element of protecting the Jewish State. Many agents were devoting energy to blocking judicial reform (which really meant they were opposing their own nation's leader), rather that having a monomania aimed at blocking the next terror outrage directed against Jews. They failed to grasp the potential magnitude of what was coming and did come. This is not to absolve Netanyahu of blame, as he always had the military resources to preempt violence started by Gazans, but lacked the will to use it. He was too concerned with international recriminations to protect the Jewish People, and that lies solely on him. Would Israel have been sanctioned and condemned by countries that despise it anyway, had Netanyahu launched preemptive action? Certainly, but it is likely that more than one thousand Jews who were murdered in the most heinous ways would still be alive today had Netanyahu not underestimated the enemy and been complacent that the mere presence of King Bibi would be enough to thwart those who seek genocide. 

Not Hiding Intentions

In Sydney, Australia, the supporters of Hamas shouted "Gas the Jews". In New York, a jihad backer was holding up her cell phone displaying a Swastika during a rally praising the massacre and calling for more. These Jew haters do not want a land of their own called "Palestine". They want to murder every Jewish man, woman, and child in the world, even babies. Believe what these monsters say. They mean it. 

The Good Guys?

I guarantee you the moral and righteous side is not committing mass rape and beheading children. That evil side has attacked a civilian populace and has run back into Gaza to hide behind Palestinian children, who are every bit as much hostages as the Jews dragged into Gaza. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are the Nazis of today, and must be dealt with accordingly. 

We, the Chosen

The Jewish People entered into a Covenant with G-d. We follow religious Laws that are difficult and set us apart from the rest of humanity. These differences we adhere to set us apart, and being the outsider, have made us targets for over two thousand years. The world witnesses inhuman crimes visited upon the Jewish People. We ask those of goodwill to stand with us against EVIL. 

Too Many Martyrs

The Jewish People did not need more believers dying for the faith, but hundreds more were murdered anyway. This conflict is not about an imagined occupation or settlers or colonizers. It is about genocide. The only offense the Jews have committed is breathing. 

Two State Delusion

Those with power within the so-called Palestinian community do not particularly want their own state. What they want fervently is the eradication of World Jewry. Their ideal would be a world without Israel and rid of Jews. Many would also like an Ummah stretching from India, through the Levant and what is now Israel, really the whole world over and encompassing your house, if you do not happen to be a Muslim who thinks exactly as they do. The Hamas leadership is the "Palestinian" face of DAESH. 

The Final Solution

There is not an iota's difference between the Nazis of World War II and Hamas, except that the Islamists have not constructed gas chambers yet. There is no guarantee that good will prevail. We are witnessing evil in our time. A bloodbath has already happened, and it is my fervent prayer that the Lord protects His People, though in light of the Shoah, this may well not happen. 

On Tonight's Pogrom

When never again meant not very much// When never again meant nothing at all

When Evil Strikes

Israel has always had the military strength to utterly obliterate the terrorists operating in Gaza. The IDF restrained itself, even after murderous outrages were visited upon the Jewish People. Jews use "measured and proportional responses" to demonstrate our moral superiority to those who want to slaughter us all. We held up the banner of "purity of arms" while Jewish boys had their heads bashed in while exploring a cave, by Neanderthals posing as contemporary humans. We watched candy being handed out by Arabs to celebrate attacks on innocent Jewish civilians. We witnessed the "civilians" of Gaza willingly serve as human shields to those firing rockets at Israeli kindergartens and cheering as hospitals, schools, and UN facilities were converted to launching pads for attacks against Israel. The people of Gaza did not rally en masse to protest terrorists turning their lands and homes into a fire bases used to indiscriminately target the Israeli People. In fact, they are a rooting section for war crimes aimed at finishing the job Hitler started. There is no way to sugar-coat this: The Middle East does not have Arafat's "Peace of the Braves" (sic), but a smoldering cauldron of genocidal Jew hatred that has actually been stoked by Israel's military holding back, when it had every reason and opportunity to destroy the terrorists but did not. This weakness was the cause of the massacres of Jewish women and children today. A firm resolve to crush terror in Gaza must be demonstrated by Israel, and the counteroffensive now must not be concluded until every terrorist there is liquidated. 

Hottest September Ever?

The climate hoaxers, who want to supplant the real economy with a carbon credit trading scheme, are the one's manipulating the law to force you to abandon clean burning natural gas appliances, and are forcing you into electric vehicles you may well not want, have just told you the so-called "scientists" they fund through grants have just concluded Earth endured the hottest September ever. The media amplified this alleged fact. People with no capacity for critical thought who do no know who Mark Steyn and Roy Spencer are, may even think man-caused climate change is about to destroy us all.

They Kicked Inflation

If Mar-a-Lago is only worth eighteen million dollars then Biden really has whipped inflation! If the former statement is true, then gasoline will soon be twenty cents per gallon. 

No Major Difference

Kevin McCarthy was about as much a rubber stamp for the Biden agenda as Nancy Pelosi. Had Trump been President with Republicans in control of the House, they likely would have done all they could to thwart him just as Paul Ryan did, but with the other party in the White House, they put up little resistance. If a Republican Congress throttles their own President but smooths the path for the President from the opposition, why bother to fight so hard to secure a majority in the US House? On the other hand, if there is a Republican President and a DemocRAT House, everything the GOP President wants is dead on arrival. 

The "Fair" Trial?

The fix is in against President Trump in New York. It is similar to the way elections of late have been rigged. 

The Turncoat Party

With DC DemocRAT politicians, you know precisely what you are going to get. It is with Republicans that you do not know what you are buying into, because outside of a few, the Washington GOP will not stand with Trump, or much more importantly, the American People. The party of Biden sticks together like glue to advance un-American socialism. Sadly, as we have just seen with the Continuing Resolution to fund the government for forty-five days, many Republicans will do nothing to slow the slide of America. They will gladly obstruct Trump if he somehow regains the Presidency (like Paul Ryan during the initial Trump term) but will never put the brakes on crooked old Joe. 

A Titan Game

I have attended the last two home games of the Tennessee pro football team, and they won both. Maybe I bring them luck!