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| Israel Stops Taking Counsel from the Angel of Death |
| 2024-09-30 |
[Clarice @ AT] The message in Lee Smith’s brilliant article in Tablet Magazine this week is that the U.S. must stop losing wars. We create and fund and staff our military to protect us and it’s time to do that:Only a fool could be blind to the fact that the Pentagon way of war, three decades into the 21st century and a world away from the United States’ last conclusive victory, means death for all who pursue it. Before I discuss any more about this, I’d like to briefly summarize this week’s astonishing news, news which puts paid to the idiotic Obama, Biden/Harris notion that appeasing and paying off the master of Middle East terrorism, Iran, and forcing Israel to ever more concessions with Iran’s proxies, is the pathway to peace. Indeed, the consequence of Israel’s continued audacious dismantling of Hamas and Hezb’allah -- the very opposite of what the angels of death -- the U.S. and Western European diplomatic establishment -- advance is the only way to bring peace and prosperity to that long-embattled part of the world. On Friday, Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations. Countless delegates walked out before he spoke and the U.S. Ambassador to the UN did not attend, signaling once again the administration turning its back on our ally. There is only one majority Moslem country in Europe, Albania. Its prime minister Edi Rama showed more solidarity with Israel than did the U.S. He pointedly wore a yellow ribbon in his lapel, the symbol of those wanting the hostages in Gaza returned. (Albania, by the way, was one of the very few places where Jews fleeing the Nazi death squads found safe shelter.) Little did the performative actors who walked out -- or in our case, never showed up -- know, but in a sense Netanyahu’s appearance was a feint to let Nasrallah feel safe enough to come out of hiding. Before Netanyahu left for New York, his cabinet authorized a strike against Nasrallah as soon as there was "operational feasibility." Shortly before his speech he was advised that opportunity had arisen and he approved the strike, which was carried out minutes after the speech ended. At least one observer (Elliot Steinmetz) likened this to the baptism scene in The Godfather. Certainly, it is the stuff of movies, if Hollywood ever gets off animations and Star Wars rip-offs. Rest at the link Related: Benjamin Netanyahu 09/29/2024 ‘Secure Location’ - I Don't Think This Means What You Think It Means Benjamin Netanyahu 09/29/2024 Despite IDF restrictions, activists hold scaled-down hostage rallies in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Caesarea Benjamin Netanyahu 09/29/2024 Congressman’s office vandalized as pro-Palestinian protests reignite across NYC |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #6 "beyond the question of which noses would be on the through. The left in the US seem to be the only true believers in communism left in the world. Even those at the top seem vaguely shocked when they try to implement extreme left measures and not having the success they’ve been assured should come. One must blame the universities. The rest of the world, by and large, those on top are aware that communism doesn’t work, it’s just a racket to keep the masses down." https://accordingtohoyt.com/2024/09/30/down-with-technocracy/ |
| Posted by: newc 2024-09-30 16:21 |
| #5 And the world applauds? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2024-09-30 14:42 |
| #4 Israel may have made Suez passage safe again. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-09-30 12:36 |
| #3 /\ Money is the answer to all dem problems, foreign and domestic. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-09-30 08:06 |
| #2 "the idiotic Obama, Biden/Harris notion that appeasing and paying off the master of Middle East terrorism" The George W. Bush administration should be mentioned as well. Appeasement of the Taliban started as early as October of 2001. After the Taliban had not complied with Bush's demands and were officially scheduled to share in the terrorists' fate, the US offered them political power in Afghanistan. Which is certainly one of the reasons liberated Afghanistan became a hostile and evil (albeit merely passively aggressive) entity. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-09-30 08:00 |
| #1 heeding Washington’s advice is like taking counsel from the angel of death Especially if you live in USA. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-09-30 02:31 |