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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
This Time Israel Will Finish The Job
2023-11-07
[American Greatness] There are many reasons for any sane person to regret the existence of Hamas, the savage Sunni Muslim militia that controls the Gaza Strip in Southern Israel. Founded in 1987, the group has specialized in terror attacks against Israelis while maintaining vigorous side-concessions fomenting anti-Western sentiment and keeping their own populace in a state of wretched poverty.

Such are the convoluted workings of providence, however, that the world may eventually find itself grimly grateful for what one percipient observer called "the Sabbath Massacres": the barbaric slaughter perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which left some 1,400 dead, thousands wounded, and more than 200 kidnapped and held hostage in Gaza.

The main reason to be grateful for this horrific carnage follows from the revelation it afforded. In the first place, by acting with such savage and sanguinary abandon—deliberately targeting the young and helpless, the old and infirm, raping, mutilating, beheading—Hamas in effect signed its own death warrant.

We’ve seen all the usual suspects fulminating against Israel, "the Zionists," "the Jews." A prominent Hamas spokesman called Ghazi Hamad said in an interview that the Sabbath Massacre of October 7 was only the start, that there would be many more and similar attacks "until Israel is annihilated."

But that is idle, impotent imprecation, of a piece with King Lear’s aposiopetic rant against his daughters [I somehow wrote "sisters": thanks to an alert reader for that correction]:
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  n more gaza. thats the answer.
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-11-07 08:05  

#3  WOKE = nightmare for the rest of us.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-07 06:08  

#2  Western societies have a huge problem

Indeed we do, and the horse's name is WOKE.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-11-07 05:20  

#1  What Job?
(a) If you leave the Gazooks in place, you'll get new Hamas in a decade.
(b) The "Protests" show that Western societies have a huge problem - and every minute dealing with it delayed, makes it bigger.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-11-07 02:34  

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