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[REGNUM] Overnight, news feeds of users were stirred by the news of an assassination attempt on former US President and presidential candidate Donald Trump. The failed assassin, in accordance with an old American tradition, was eliminated by the Security Service before he could testify, and many versions of the shooter's motives have already appeared.
Former US President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania
However, assassination attempts on high-level US political figures have become rare, but not unique events.
ANDREW JACKSON
The first head of the United States to be shot in the head of state by an assassin while in office was the 7th President Andrew Jackson. On January 30, 1835, in the Capitol, house painter Richard Lawrence approached Jackson and tried to fire his pistol twice, but it misfired.
The captured criminal justified his actions by the loss of his job, but the president himself had a different opinion on this matter: Jackson was a supporter of weakening the role of the state in the country's economy, which greatly irritated the wealthiest circles, and it was them that the president accused of attempting to assassinate him.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Much less fortunate was the 16th President Abraham Lincoln. The politician who managed the greatest division in society to date and the Civil War of 1861–65 was assassinated five days after the surrender of the South on April 14, 1865, at a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington.
The assassin, actor John Wilkes Booth, fatally wounded the president with a shot to the head, after which he escaped, but was found on April 26 and killed during his arrest by a police officer.
The assassin was a supporter of the losing Confederacy, and is believed to have cried out "Sic semper tyrannis!" ("Such is the fate of tyrants") as he fired the fatal shot. The wounded Booth's last words were, "Tell my mother I died fighting for my country."
JAMES GARFIELD
The second assassinated US president was the 20th in this post, James Garfield. He was wounded 4 months after taking office, on July 2, 1881. The president was shot twice in the back by Charles Guido.
Guido was an active supporter of Garfield and hoped to get a high position after his victory. Hopes were not fulfilled, and he decided to take revenge.
Garfield's wound was not fatal, the president died as a result of a fatal medical error (it is unknown whether intentional or not), which introduced an infection.
The bullet was removed from Garfield's body only during a post-mortem examination; the wounded man's agony lasted more than two months and ended on September 19, 1881. Charles Guido was hanged on June 30, 1882.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY
Twenty years later, on September 6, 1901, the 25th President William McKinley was assassinated, this time by the 28-year-old Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist.
McKinley, who during his first term restored the country's economy after the crisis and won the Spanish-American War with little bloodshed, was popular in the country and was elected to a second term without any problems.
On September 5, 1901, he arrived at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and the next day he held a public reception, where he was fatally wounded by Czolgosz, who fired two shots from a pistol. The president, who remained conscious, shouted to the guards: "Take it easy on him, boys."
The captured assassin later confessed that he killed the president out of a belief that no man could have enormous privileges when others had nothing. The wounded president died after an unsuccessful operation to remove the bullets on September 14. Czolgosz was executed in the electric chair on October 29 of that year.
The assassinated McKinley was succeeded by his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, who held the post until 1909 (first as vice president and then as his own candidate in the 1904 election).
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
In 1911, Roosevelt expressed dissatisfaction with the policies of his successor, William Taft, and his readiness to run for president again as a Republican, but he did not receive sufficient support from his fellow party members. Then, an indignant Roosevelt left the Republicans and became a candidate for the 1912 elections as a candidate for the Progressive Party of the United States.
During the election campaign on October 14, 1912, before a speech in Milwaukee, the former president was shot by John Schrank. The bullet hit him in the chest, pierced his eyeglass case and a 50-page manuscript of the speech, and then lodged in Roosevelt's body.
He realized from the lack of a bloody cough that the bullet had not penetrated his lung, and so, refusing help, he gave a 90-minute speech, beginning with the words: “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know if you realize that I was just shot; but you can’t kill Moose that easily.”
After examination it turned out that it was dangerous to remove the bullet, so Roosevelt carried it in himself for the rest of his life. The attempted assassin, Schrank, was declared mentally ill.
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
On February 15, 1933, an assassination attempt was made on the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had not yet taken office, in Miami. The shooter, Giuseppe Zangara, was an Italian native who had moved to the United States as an adult in 1923.
On February 15, the president-elect spoke at a rally alongside Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.
When the motorcade of politicians arrived at the rally site and the car door opened, Dzangara fired and hit Cermak in the stomach. After that, a crowd of journalists prevented the killer from shooting further, and then the police detained him.
The wounded mayor told the president: "I'm glad it was me in your place," and he died in hospital three weeks later.
Zangara was executed in the electric chair on March 20, 1933. He was associated with Chicago mob boss Frank Nitti, who had feuded with Mayor Cermak, leading to speculation that the mayor was the original target.
HUEY LONG
On September 8, 1935, Senator and former Louisiana Governor Huey Long was fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol. Long had openly expressed his desire to run for president in 1936, challenging incumbent President Franklin Roosevelt.
The senator was a supporter of progressive economic policies and an isolationist foreign policy, which made him popular with the people but earned him the hatred of the big industrialists and bankers who stood behind Roosevelt and his inventionist policies.
Dr. Karl Weiss, who fired the fatal shot, was shot dead on the spot by the senator's security guards, and died two days later, on September 10, 1935.
On November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate Harry Truman at his Washington residence. During a three-minute shootout, a guard and one of the attackers were killed, the second was arrested, sentenced to death in the electric chair, but was pardoned by the president and in 1979 amnestied by Jimmy Carter.
JOHN KENNEDY
The most famous assassination attempt in the United States was that of the 35th President John Kennedy on November 22, 1963, in the capital of Texas, Dallas. According to the investigation of the commission headed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Earl Warren, President Kennedy was killed by the second shot fired by Lee Harvey Oswald, who fired from the attic of the school book depository building at the president's motorcade.
The number of shots fired is one of the many mysteries surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Other questions include the identity of the killer, the number of shooters, the motives for the murder, and so on.
According to the official version, Oswald was a loner, not connected to any structure, although other versions speak of the KGB (the alleged killer lived in the USSR for several years and was married to a Russian girl) or the CIA, which was at odds with the president.
The matter is greatly complicated by the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald himself, who was shot while being escorted two days after Kennedy's death.
ROBERT KENNEDY
Five years later, on June 5, 1968, John's younger brother Robert Kennedy, the 1968 Democratic presidential nominee and former U.S. Attorney General, was assassinated.
Like John, Robert advocated for civil rights for blacks and a progressive economic course. The situation before the election was extremely tense; on April 4, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, a Kennedy supporter, was assassinated.
Robert had every chance to beat Republican candidate Richard Nixon, but on June 5, at a Los Angeles hotel between two speeches to supporters, Robert took a shortcut through the hotel kitchen, where, according to the official version, he was shot by Palestinian-Jordanian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan.
However, there is a recording of the assassination attempt that was accidentally made, in which about 30 shots can be heard, although Sirhan was armed with an eight-shot revolver, which gave rise to the theory of a second, unknown shooter. Sirhan was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he is still serving.
RICHARD NIXON
On February 22, 1974, Samuel Joseph Byck, armed with a pistol, boarded a Delta Flight 177 at Baltimore Airport bound for Atlanta. Threatened with a bomb in his backpack, he demanded that the plane be flown to the White House to kill Richard Nixon, who was there. After a shootout with FBI agents, during which an airport security guard and the co-pilot were killed, Byck shot himself.
GERALD FORD
The next president, Gerald Ford, suffered two assassination attempts in September 1975. On the 5th, in Sacramento, California, he was shot by Lynette Fromme, a cult member and admirer of serial killer Charles Manson. On September 21, in Los Angeles, leftist activist Sarah Jane Moore attempted to assassinate him.
RONALD REAGAN
On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot by mentally ill John Hinckley, who was obsessed with stalking actress Jodie Foster. The bullet that entered the president's body was removed after a four-hour operation.
When Reagan jokingly told the doctor examining the president's body, "I hope you're a Republican," he responded, "Today, Mr. President, we're all Republicans."
Hinckley was found insane and sentenced to compulsory psychiatric treatment.
BILL CLINTON The record holder for the number of assassination attempts during a term among US presidents is Bill Clinton, who was the target of more than 30 assassination attempts. During the eight-month period from September 1993 to May 1994, there were four assassination attempts.
GEORGE BUSH JR.
On May 10, 2005, at a joint rally of George W. Bush and Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia, Vladimir Arutyunyan threw a combat grenade wrapped in a handkerchief towards the speakers, which ultimately stopped the explosion. The presidents learned about what had happened only after the meeting had ended.
Arutyunyan went into hiding and was arrested only on July 20, 2005, killing the head of the counterintelligence department of the Georgian Interior Ministry. The criminal explained his actions by his hatred of the country's new puppet government. On January 11, 2006, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Dems are in a real conundrum. If Trump is really an evil super villain dictator who wants to destroy our system of government or whatever then assassinating him would be morally justified. But they don’t want to justify this, which means they’re confessing that everything they said about him for ten years was nonsense. They either have to openly defend this assassination attempt or admit that they’re full of shit. There is no good option. They’re screwed.
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Having to do with the failure of the assassination?
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Big deal. They knew they lied. We knew they lied. They knew that we knew they lied.
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They either have to openly defend this assassination attempt or admit that they’re full of shit.
Lefties and psychopaths (same difference) can never, ever admit they're wrong, which precludes the second option. They'll just blame everybody else for it and move on.
Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. "By what authority are you doing these things?" they asked. "And who gave you this authority?"
Jesus replied, "I will also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.
John’s baptism, where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or of human origin?"
They discussed it among themselves and said, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Then why didn’t you believe him?' But if we say, 'Of human origin', we are afraid of the people, for they all hold that John was a prophet."
So they answered Jesus, "We don’t know." Then he said, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things."
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[RedStar] Recently, the information complex “World War II in Archival Documents”, presented on the portal of the Presidential Library, was supplemented by more than two hundred previously classified documents provided by the FSB of Russia: materials from the 4th Directorate of the NKVD/NKGB of the USSR and the Main Directorate of Counterintelligence “SMERSH” on the results of the actions of sabotage and reconnaissance groups behind enemy lines in the occupied territories of the Ukrainian and Byelorussian SSRs.
Among the documents from which the secrecy classification has been removed, one can see on the electronic portal of the library intelligence reports on the situation in the territory occupied by the enemy, reports of the agent "Colonist" (N.I. Kuznetsov), intelligence information on the training of intelligence officers and saboteurs by the enemy in special schools, reports of the head of the Main Directorate of Counterintelligence "SMERSH" V.S. Abakumov to the State Defense Committee of the USSR on the atrocities of the Gestapo, the use of gas chambers to destroy the civilian population.
Also in the public domain are now documents of the FSB Directorate of Russia for the Voronezh, Rostov and Novgorod regions, Krasnodar Krai - these are reports of the regional NKGB directorates with intelligence data on the situation in the territory temporarily occupied by the Nazis, on the results of operational-Chekist work in the liberated areas, on Soviet citizens driven to work in Germany, on captured documents of the German army and occupation authorities and other documentary evidence.
Of particular interest are the SMERSH documents on the arrest of German intelligence and counterintelligence agents, in particular on the detention of German agents Tavrin and Shilova, who were sent into the Soviet rear to assassinate I.V. Stalin.
Among the declassified documents of the NKVD/NKGB of the USSR and the Main Directorate of Counterintelligence "SMERSH" from 1943-1944, there are also materials dedicated to the activities of Ukrainian nationalist formations (OUN, UPA) and the fight against them, the liquidation of the Baltic nationalist organization "Aizsargi", the arrest of prominent figures of the Estonian nationalist movement.
The head of the 4th Directorate of the NKVD of the USSR P.A. Sudoplatov informed the 3rd Directorate of the NKVD of the USSR on December 9, 1942: "In the war of Germany against the USSR, the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) as a whole took an active part on the side of Germany. <…>
The OUN's assistance to Germany was expressed in armed uprisings in the rear of Soviet troops during the retreat of the Red Army, espionage and sabotage against the USSR; active participation in the creation of local government bodies and police in the occupied territory of the USSR" (Central Archives of the FSB of Russia. F. 3. Op. 10. D. 387. L. 2).
A number of documents illustrate the attitude of Ukrainian nationalists towards the Polish population. The report of the 4th Directorate of the NKVD of the USSR dated February 16, 1943 recorded: "A group of OUN members (a Bandera movement), hiding in the villages of the Sarny region, carried out a massacre of the Polish population in early February 1943.
In the village of Poroslya, the number of killed and maimed adults and children reaches 150 people" (Central Archives of the FSB of Russia. F. 4. Op. 1. D. 469. L. 126). The report of May 28, 1943 contains information about the complete destruction of the entire population of two Polish villages (Central Archives of the FSB of Russia. F. 4. Op. 1. D. 473. L. 327).
In August 1943, a special report spoke of the murder of about 2,000 Poles in the city of Vladimir-Volynsky by Bandera supporters: “The German garrison, police and Cossacks, numbering up to 600 people, did not take any measures against the reprisals against the Poles, and only after the reprisals did the German command post an announcement calling on Poles to join the gendarmerie to fight the Bandera supporters” (Central Archives of the FSB of Russia. F. 4. Op. 1. D. 477. L. 152).
When a direct clash with the Red Army became inevitable, Banderites began collaborating with the German occupiers
When a direct clash with the Red Army became inevitable, Banderovites went for direct cooperation with the German occupiers. Attached to the message of the Main Directorate of Counterintelligence "SMERSH" to the State Defense Committee of the USSR dated March 31, 1944 was a translation of a secret German order on "the attitude towards members of the national "Ukrainian Insurgent Army", which indicates the existence of an agreement between the UPA leadership and the German command (CA FSB of Russia. F. 14os. Op. 1. D. 8. L. 73-75).
In accordance with the List of instructions for the implementation of the Address of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation dated January 15, 2020, the organizers of the complex of digitized archival documents, film and photo materials "World War II in Archival Documents" are the Federal Archival Agency (Rosarkhiv), the Presidential Property Management Department of the Russian Federation and the Presidential Library.
The materials for posting on the Presidential Library portal are prepared by Rosarchive and the federal state archives with the participation of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, and the state archives of the Republic of Belarus. The volume of the information complex today is more than 12.7 thousand materials: maps, diagrams, periodicals, photographs, newsreels for the period from January 1933 to December 1944.
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[PJMEDIA] Yes, the Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... want to destroy the Constitution and impose dictatorial one-party rule. That’s not exaggeration or speculation. The Democrats have openly tried to trample Second Amendment and First Amendment rights; they have boasted about their censorship and their hatred for the opposition. During the Summer of Love and Mostly Peaceful Protesting in 2020, holy warriors who burned down cities and assaulted innocent citizens were encouraged and lauded by Democrats. The leftists labeled Jan. 6 protestors terrorists, even protestors who were completely peaceful, while ignoring or cheering on destructive Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... and transgender protestors. Trump and various of his supporters have been the target of egregiously rigged lawfare. Yes, the leftists hate you and everything you stand for!
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Today's front page of the Denver Post. Yes, this is real. No, this is not satire. pic.twitter.com/2vqaCvIVL4
CBS's Robert Costa complains "Trump supporters on social media tonight are extremely angry" at the assassination attempt, lamenting "this is still a politically charged moment".
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No more excuses from those peddling in lies - let’s put the BS to rest & just be honest that Trump & his supporters do not threaten democracy - they threaten the bureaucracy because they will no longer go along with a system that has enslaved us & wants to take away all our rights & freedoms and most importantly seeks to annihilate God & the idea of God.
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Trump doesn't even threaten the bureaucracy. Just the upper class of the bureaucracy. Even that is not threatened in many agencies, just the highly politicized ones.
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Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
The side that organized the assassination attempt on Trump clearly took the path of blood, i.e. they have nothing to lose.
The shooter from a distance of 130 m missed Trump, who was shaking his head, by only 1-2 cm.
This is a fairly accurate shot, especially considering that the area around is visible, including by the snipers covering. And the shooter had only a couple of seconds to prepare for the shot (the anti-snipers worked almost simultaneously with the first shot).
If this shooter had been hunting and had shot at the body of a small game, he would have 100% got it. But the bulletproof vest left no chance if you shot at the body; the only way to kill was to hit him in the head.
The bullet grazed his cheek and pierced his ear. A civilian bullet 2-3 cm to the right, hitting the base of the jaw or the mouth/base of the skull, would have certainly either killed or disabled him.
One of the bullets hit the head of the man standing in front of Trump. He died instantly.
Another bullet hit Trump in the ear, miraculously not causing much harm.
The killer was lying in a sniper position 130 m (425 ft) from the rally site. He was a local resident of 20 years old. His motives are still unknown. But there are Ukrainian flags on his social media page.
The killer was eliminated on the spot.
In other words, it doesn't smell like a setup. Even a thousand attempts in a row to play this are doomed to failure.
Trump will now be even more busy with opponents who brought him down and humiliated him during his last presidential term.
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Was 'you know who' behind the assassination attempt? I always take note of their attempts to radically change the “liberty and freedom” parts of the Declaration and the Constitution in the US regarding:
o Huge effort to corrupt politicians
o Huge effort to turn children into slovenly moral wrecks
o Huge effort to really screw up everything in the US while pushing socialism, and to allow for the triumph of communism to take place
You know who has spent a fortune since Nixon brought them onboard in the 70's, and they're likely to lose all of what they have created for world dominance in the US if Trump succeeds. Crooks was 20, was probably brought under the influence of radical school teachers, was in a high school commercial for BlackRock, had a clean record, and had access to a rifle.
Thomas Matthew Crooks belonged to a shooting club based in Clairton, Pa., nearly nine miles from his family home in Bethel Park. Attorney Robert S. Bootay III confirmed to The Times that Crooks, who was shot and killed by Secret Service agents Saturday, was a member of the Clairton Sportsmen’s Club.
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The Clairton Sportsmen’s Club, on 180 acres south of Pittsburgh, bills itself as offering “one of the premier shooting facilities in the tri-state area” and has more than 2,000 members. It offers youth events, archery facilities, safety courses and multiple rifle ranges, including a highpowered-rifle range with targets up to 187 yards away.
[NY Post] The assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump that played out live on national television should have resulted in the kind of objective, unbiased coverage the country deserved at such a terrifying moment.
Some outlets, however, failed the test miserably.
Take these headlines, for example, in the immediate aftermath:
CNN: "Secret Service Rushes Trump Off Stage After He Falls at Rally"
Associated Press: "Donald Trump Has Been Escorted Off The Stage During A Rally After Loud Noises Ring Out In The Crowd"
The New York Times: "Trump Hurt, But Safe, After A Shooting"
Forbes: "Will Surviving Gunfire Be Donald Trump’s Next Appeal To Black Voters?"
Politico: "In wake of the rally shooting, GOP officials have been quick to blame Democrats for demonizing Trump"
There’s more, but you get the idea.
Needless to say, it was abundantly clear that Trump had been shot once he was brought to his feet by Secret Service agents about one minute after being hit.
Shots could be heard before he crouched down to take cover.
His visibly injured ear had splashed bright red blood across his face that was clear to see, even at a distance.
Yet we had CNN initially reporting he had fallen?
How about the Times and Politico calling this "a shooting" instead of an assassination attempt?
How about Forbes wondering, just hours after the attack, if it would make Trump more appealing to black voters?
And Politico, scolding Republicans for seizing and pouncing on Democrats, angry that they and their allies in the media have referred to Trump as Hitler for eight years?
Margaret Brennan of CBS News, the former home of Walter Cronkite, even managed to victim-blame Trump for nearly getting killed, after reading a statement from the former president thanking the Secret Service and describing what had happened.
"I did notice there was no call for lowering the temperature, condemning all political violence, and really trying to signal to his supporters as well, not to retaliate or to have any kind of escalation here," was Brennan’s immediate reaction.
There are no words.
It somehow got worse over on ABC News Sunday morning during a conversation between George Stephanopoulos and Martha Raddatz, who fancy themselves as serious journalists.
"President Trump and his supporters have contributed to this violent rhetoric as well," Stephanopoulos, Bill Clinton’s former attack dog, argued.
"Absolutely, George," Raddatz concurred.
"And let’s remember Jan. 6," she added.
Many of us will recall forever the iconic moment when a bloodied Trump, surrounded by his Secret Service detail, pumped his fist at the crowd and urged them to "Fight. Fight. Fight."
Trump just proved that he’s a pure warrior after his heinous assassination attempt
It was emblematic of Trump’s toughness and determination and defiance, even after taking a bullet to the ear just one minute earlier.
But on CNN, this was seen as a big no-no, even as the horrific scene was unfolding.
"That’s not the message that we want to being sending right now," CNN’s Jamie Gangel chided the wounded candidate. "We want to tamp it down."
Yes: The network that has endlessly attacked Trump as a racist, fascist demagogue seeking to destroy democracy was lecturing him just seconds after he was a millimeter away from being murdered.
For these outlets, there’s no coming back from this.
Their rhetoric has been building for years without any accountability.
Media figures’ most hyperbolic and personal and dishonest attacks on Trump have not only cost them no consequences, but have probably brought them raises and promotions with each new contract.
As for President Biden and his speechwriters, they have helped foment this deadly environment.
Here’s what the president said on July 8: "We’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye."
Last year, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) expressed a similar sentiment when he spoke to Jen Paski on MSNBC.
"That man [Trump] cannot see public office again," Goldman said. "He has to be eliminated."
Psaki — Biden’s former press secretary — offered no pushback.
Any questions?
A former president, likely to be the next president, was shot on Saturday.
It’s a miracle he survived the attempt.
What won’t survive is any last shred of credibility many in our media ever had.
Joe Concha is a Fox News contributor and bestselling author.
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"We're against all forms of violence - too bad the assassin missed!"?
[IsraelNationalNews] The only rule of Calvinball, as played by the titular protagonists of the popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, is that you can never play it the same way twice. As long as some new nonsense rule is implemented, it remains a valid game. While it’s great fun for a boy and his tiger pal, in the real world, Calvinball gets played for much higher stakes: lives, nations, democracy as a global project.
The trouble is that Israel is stuck in a game of Calvinball with Hamas, with the likes of the ICJ and UN serving as referees. How many times during this war for the rescue of our hostages and the extermination of the mad butchers who have become the darlings of cities across the democratic world does it feel like somebody has stopped the ’game’, so to speak, and shouted, "new rule, new rule"?
New rule: just because you personally video yourself on GoPro cameras murdering and abducting Jews doesn’t mean you’re guilty of it.
New rule: if your country is attacked by hundreds of drones and missiles, you must not retaliate.
New rule: if you chase Jews off campus for refusing to grovel to terrorist supporters it’s not antisemitism, it’s just being "anti-Zionist".
This is pure idiocy run amuck. The laws of war were established to prevent barbarity and wanton slaughter. They are a tool of the free world, founded on the principles of justice and conducting battle with honor when there is no alternative. For the laws of war to be leveraged to shield Islamist criminals, gangsters, murderers and rapists is a mockery. No country that considers itself a member of the democratic, just world should give the time of day to Hamas soldiers pleading for protection under laws of war which, strictly observed, would have seen their whole terrorist cabal imprisoned for life years ago.
When a terrorist army goes on a spree of mass murder, it’s celebrated as "decolonization" in universities once held in esteem. The victims of this onslaught are blamed for getting in the way of a genocidal Islamist empire fixated on purging Jews from their own land. The media whitewashes the murderers with what-about and both-sides cliches, the streets and campuses fill up with young radicals cheering for more death and slaughter, and the game of Calvinball continues.
There is no questioning of this spew of new rules or skewed definitions. If one of the droves of Palestinian Arab refugees Canada has allowed in stubbed their toe in Toronto, it would be taken to somehow constitute genocide in Gaza.
What does it take to end this cycle? Fighting in the courts and on social media is a losing strategy, because those are exactly the places where Hamas sympathizers are most prone to cry out "new rule!" every time their green-headband-sporting heroes boast about how many Jews they have killed, want to kill, and would kill if they got the chance.
To finish this absurd game of Calvinball requires that Israel and the Jewish people at large muster and blunt this onslaught of idiocy thrown at us. It takes willpower to brave the endless tide of jeers and "new rule!" cries, but Bnei Yisrael have always been a brazen people. If there is one thing we have it is willpower.
Here are some rules that could be followed:
-When a terrorist organization uses civilian houses to imprison hostages in, there can be no teeth-gnashing and wailing on social media when those houses are raided by Israeli soldiers to free those hostages and the terrorists who held them there shot.
-When a city is laced with tunnels for an army of murderous Islamists to wage guerrilla war from, it is plain military strategy to demolish every building that might hide a tunnel entrance.
-If a nation suffers a bloody massacre launched from an easily-identifiable enclave with set borders, that nation is being nothing but sensible to stop sending hundreds of trucks of aid across those borders to help the perpetrators of that massacre.
The people who break rules- rules of, literally, life and death, rules of how a war can be fought between nations -cannot come wailing and weeping to hide behind those laws when they happen to be losing a war they began with a brutal and grotesque violation of any envisioning of those exact laws. Israel can and should employ every tactic the nation's government considers necessary for victory, and may we soon see Hamas and their cultists reap a bountiful harvest from their bloody sowing.
The real enemy are Globalists.
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If it's a fair fight, you're not doing it right.
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