Vicotr David Hanson: Israel vs. a Death Cult

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Israel vs. a Death Cult

By Victor Davis Hanson, Ocotber 24, 2023

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Here are three critical considerations that must be understood about the current Israel-Hamas conflict. It is a sort of half-war. It consists of a military trying to defeat an organized clique of passive-aggressive, media-obsessed tribal murderers.

It is not really a war. This ‘war’ did not begin with a military assault. It is nothing like the Six-Day and Yom Kippur Wars, or indeed most other conflicts. It broke out with a surprise assault by between 1,500 and 2,500 gunmen of the Hamas death squads.

During peace and on a holiday, they entered Israel in a long-planned hit operation to murder civilians and take captives, focusing specifically on butchering the most vulnerable—the elderly, women, children, and infants—and in the most grotesque fashion imaginable.

Their desire was to be as savagely pre-civilizational as possible—the more macabre the manner of murder, the more fertile their sophistry that they were reduced to such repulsive blood lust by their worse “oppressors”. It would be as though gruesome Mafia hitmen had claimed they were forced to become animal-like due to even worse systemic anti-Italian bias. Even the Mexican cartels do not claim they are led to behead because of the injustice of the Mexican government.

By preplanned design, women were raped, and children and infants were burned alive, bound and executed, and (yes) beheaded. The dead were often mutilated. Some 1,400 Israelis were butchered, the vast majority civilians. Some 3,500-4,500 were wounded.

Hamas never planned to stage a preemptive war against the Israeli military. Its only agenda was to send killers to unprotected villages to murder the unarmed as they slept—in the manner of Nazi Einsatzgruppen and other mobile death squads on the Eastern Front. Almost immediately they counted on using hostages, human shields, and the media to avoid any accounting from the IDF.

To distract from the murder mission, Hamas launched some 5,000 rockets—all intended as terror weapons to strike civilians, in the fashion of the V-1 and V-2 attacks on London. What followed is the most asymmetrical “war” in memory. The IDF is the only military in the world told to be “proportionate” in its use of retaliatory force—not the U.S. after 9/11, and not Ukraine after February 24, 2022. No Arab army or terrorist cadre has ever waged a war under the rules of “proportionality”.

Can anyone remember a conflict, other than ones involving the U.S. or Britain, in which the attacked in its response is expected to first phone or drop leaflets warning its target areas? Does Hamas do that when it launches its rockets at Israeli cities?

It is not an anti-colonial struggle. Gaza is not anyone’s“colony”. It has been autonomous since 2006-7. No free Israeli Arab Muslim citizen would willingly emigrate there to live under the dictatorship of Hamas. And for good reason. Gaza has been the recipient of aggregate billions in cash from the Gulf monarchies, Europe, the US, the UN. and expatriate remittances. The more money came in, the less Hamas had any intention of using it to serve its people.

Most of the gifted funds were used to build the world’s largest subterranean city of death, to buy drones and rockets, and to pay gunmen to kill Jews. Essentially Hamas is an enormous mafia-like, shakedown and hostage-taking operation that threatens the general peace, the moderate Arab nations, the Western democracies, and Israel with terrorist operations and kidnapping unless sufficiently bribed to behave. Usually, soldiers wear uniforms in battle and their far away civilian overseers do not; Hamas killers in action wear anything, but their distant leaders in safety often prefer uniforms.

So, Hamas is primarily neither a government nor even an armed force designed to fight other soldiers, but rather some eerie updated SS or Mexican-like cartel. Was that reality at the time unknown to Gazans who once voted them into power, or to its unhinged supporters on the streets and campuses of the US who celebrated its murder missions and damned Israel—even before Israel responded?

Only Hamas is deliberately targeting civilians. Hamas fires its rockets at Israeli civilians from hospitals, schools, UN facilities, and mosques. Again, note the logic: Hamas assumes that Israel fights wars more humanely than Hamas itself does, and so will both try to avoid Hamas’s Palestinian human shields, and of course never itself employ such a barbaric tactic—since, among other humane reasons, Israeli civilians would attract, rather than deflect a Hamas rocket.

The Israelis avoid collateral damage; there is not even such a concept for Hamas: all of its attacks are primarily aimed at civilians. Collateral damage for Hamas follows from accidently encountering the IDF.

How Orwellian that the world demands that Israel, in its efforts to prevent Hamas rocket launches aimed exclusively at its civilian population, must not hurt a single civilian who is impressed to shield the rocket launchers. Note well: Hamas’s air campaign is specifically designed to kill civilians—Israel’s to avoid them. In Israel rockets are used to shield civilians; in Gaza civilians are used to shield rockets.

Hamas seeks to force the Israeli military to violate the rules of war; Israel accepts that there are no rules that Hamas gunman would ever follow. The odd result is that a sick world is more accepting of deliberate mass murdering by Hamas than occasional accidental collateral damage by Israel.

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Zeus

6 months ago

Ruling families are a mortal enemy. They always have been. That was our first enemy.
Islam is also a mortal enemy.

The first is using the second. That explains the funding, and it explains the success of the blame game when it shouldn’t be successful.

The first will fund and defend the second until there is a massacre that ignites a global war. The global war is the goal.

Israel has no choice but to defend itself. Failure to do so guarantees a massacre. They will have to use great force to defend themselves because they have no choice. When they do, know it was justified and necessary.

Anyone defending Islam and blaming Israel for defending themselves is our enemy. They are enemies of freedom and free people. We are in the crosshairs too.

The WAR is against FREEDOM; Riders vs Horses – Rulers vs People.
I don’t think the symbolism could be more obvious.
The Riders are positioned above in the saddles, and they hold the reins of control.
The Horses are much more powerful, but they are trained to think the Riders are.

In the end, the Riders find themselves on the ground where the Horses have the advantage.

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Fraudauditor

6 months ago

To start with, the Jewish people being back in Israel, in the re-established modern state/nation of Israel, is the most unmistakable “sign” that we are living in the “last days” of the “church age”. Bible prophecy is largely “Israel centric”, in that it’s descriptions of future events are centered on Israel, Jerusalem and Israel’s Messiah, i.e. the true “return of the King”, …not the J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy version.

In Dr. Fruchtenbaum’s discussion of Jesus’ Olivet description of “nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom,” found in Matthew 24:7-8; Mark 13:8; and Luke 21:10-11, he teaches that that phrase was a 1st century Jewish idiom for “world war”.

Fruchtenbaum said this:

“World War I, 1914-1918, was the fulfillment of this particular prophecy, for that was the First World War. As virtually all historians agree, World War II was merely a continuation of World War I. Furthermore, both world wars had a decisive impact on Jewish history. World War I gave impetus to the growth of the Zionist movement, and World War II led to the re-establishment of the Jewish State. Since World War I, history has entered the last days of the Church Age. However, the last days are an extended period of time.

The sign that the end of the age has begun is the world-wide conflict fulfilled by World War I and World War II.”

There has always been a small remnant of the Jewish people living in Israel, but something different began in the late 19th century, prior to World War I. More Jewish people from all over the world began to return to Israel as “settlers”. At that time, the land was mostly empty, except for some nomadic Arab sheep herders, and the land was controlled by the Muslim Ottoman Empire.

Mark Twain, in his 1869 book Innocents Abroad, describes how disappointed he was with Jerusalem, how desolate it was. “Jerusalem is mournful, and dreary, and lifeless. I would not desire to live here.” BUT…by the start of the first world war, there was a brigade of volunteers, entirely Jewish, fighting on the side of the British/Allies for control of Egypt and “Palestine”. Ironically, this brigade was titled the “Palestinian Brigade”.

In 1948, shortly after World War II, and following the destruction of six million European Jews (as well as others) in Hitler’s death camps, the modern state of Israel was recognized as a “new” nation. This “sign”, more than any other, is indisputable evidence for Fructenbaum’s conclusion above, “…that the end of the age has begun…”.

No other people group in the history of the world has been 1) exiled off of their land, 2) scattered among other peoples, 3) remained uniquely their own ethnic group with their own religion, 4) then returned to their original geographic location to renew their nation. The Jewish people have done it twice!

It happened first in the 70 year-long Babylonian exile in the sixth century BC (prophesied in Jeremiah 25:11, confirmed in 2 Chronicles 36:21, Daniel 9:2), and again in 1948, 1,878 years after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and Herod’s Temple in AD 70. Anyone who does not see the hand of God miraculously at work for Israel and the Jewish people in the events of the first half of the 20th century is not reading their Bible very closely!

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garry pollack

6 months ago

Reply to  Fraudauditor

tov m’od! well written!

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garry pollack

6 months ago

100% spot on…but—Can we also have a moment of introspection… Israelis know now BiBi was complicit… We cannot try the criminals & ignore the facilitator… Militaries R incredible for documenting their actions…. especially for the purpose of assessing blame—after the fact!… every withdrawal or stand down is documented by a written order… Of course—until commanded to do so by a tribunal officers cannot speak about such matters… Yes. unquestionably— Israel is the Lion & Hamas R the hyenas. But unfortunately a lion must always act like a lion—w/integrity—less it descend to the level of hyenas!

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garry pollack

6 months ago

this is not!!! a genocide—it is a siege (see Leningrad 1944, Berlin 1945, Constantinople 1453 or Vienna 1683!) What is the difference between a siege & a genocide? In a siege the killing ends when U surrender! In a genocide it is just beginning!

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Roy

6 months ago

Luke 17 :1 Then He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come!” Be aware that what we are seeing is the symptoms of the disease, and the only one who can heal the disease is Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Stephen Honig

6 months ago

Are Jews the chosen people? Don’t make me laugh.

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Denise

6 months ago

You misspelled Victor in the headline of this piece.

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ed

6 months ago

Israel vs a death cult practiced by stone-aged, single-digit-IQ barbarian savages.

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