The Israelis Are Amazing -- and So Is the Left

I always thought no one -- including Israel -- could pull off something as incredible as the July 4, 1976, raid on Entebbe, Uganda. To remind readers what happened that day: A week earlier, on June 27, two Palestinian and two German terrorists hijacked an Air France Tel Aviv to Paris flight with 248 passengers on board, which they diverted to Entebbe Airport in Uganda. At the airport, the hijackers and four additional terrorists, aided by Uganda's Idi Amin regime, held the Israeli and other Jews, and allowed the 148 non-Jewish passengers to fly on to Paris. The terrorists announced that unless 53 Palestinian prisoners -- 40 in Israel and 13 elsewhere -- were released, the kidnapped Jews (and the Air France crew, all of whom heroically remained with the Jewish passengers) would be killed.

On July 4, the Israelis flew a disguised transport plane filled with Israeli commandos 2,500 miles from Israel to Entebbe. After refueling in Kenya, they landed in Entebbe, killed the terrorists and saved nearly every hostage -- all in 53 minutes.

No one had seen anything quite like the raid on Entebbe, considered at the time to have achieved the impossible ... until last week.

On Friday, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian scientist considered to be "the driving force behind Iran's nuclear weapons program for two decades" (The New York Times) was assassinated in Iran. To appreciate how remarkable this operation was, consider this: Fakhrizadeh traveled a different route to work every day, traveled in a bulletproof car and was accompanied by three personnel carriers that transported heavily armed bodyguards.

The assassins had cut off electricity to the area surrounding the assassination and disabled all video cameras in the area. They exploded a car next to Fakhrizadeh's car and had a remote-control machine gun fire at Fakhrizadeh. The entire operation took three minutes. None of the assassins were killed or even wounded. All 12 (the number of assassins, according to Javad Mogouyi, a documentary filmmaker for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) got away.

Fakhrizadeh was the fifth Iranian nuclear scientist killed in the last 13 years. One must assume that most, if not all, of these assassinations, whether Israel was involved or not, were carried out by Iranians -- which only shows how many Iranians loathe their liberty-suppressing, life-suppressing, women-suppressing, Islamo-fascist regime. Too bad Western countries and the Western media also don't loathe the Iranian regime (what they loathe is labeling the Iranian regime "Islamo-fascist").

One would think that every decent human being would welcome the elimination of a man whose life was dedicated to the annihilation of another country. There is, after all, no parallel in the world to the Iranian regime's repeatedly stated goal of annihilating Israel. And Israel -- to the consternation of European leaders, the United Nations and major American media -- does whatever it takes to prevent itself from being annihilated.

John Brennan, the head of the CIA under President Barack Obama, strongly condemned the Fakhrizadeh assassination. Brennan, who has never abandoned the moral values he held when he was a communist, condemned the assassination as "a criminal act" and "highly reckless" and labeled it "murder" and "state-sponsored terrorism." He asked Iran to "resist the urge" to retaliate and "wait for the return of responsible American leadership on the global stage." In other words, wait until the Holocaust-denying, Islamo-fascist, America-hating, genocide-seeking Iranian regime is appeased by a Democrat in the White House -- something guaranteed by, among other developments, Joe Biden's appointment of Brennan's former deputy director at the CIA, Avril Haines, as his director of national intelligence.

A United Nations spokesman said, "We condemn any assassination or extrajudicial killing."

A spokesperson for the European Union called Fakhrizadeh's killing "a criminal act" that "runs counter to the principle of respect for human rights the EU stands for."

A New York Times opinion piece said the assassination "could strengthen hard-line factions in Iran arguing against a return to diplomacy." This statement embodies the naivete of the world's left, including liberals: that evil regimes are composed of "hard-line factions" and "moderate factions." The author of the Times opinion piece, Barbara Slavin of the Atlantic Council, added that the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany should "issue a statement condemning the assassination as illegal under international law and damaging to the cause of nonproliferation. ... It would be the ultimate tragedy if Israel's aggression now led Iran to change its calculus and go for weapons."

Upon returning to France, Michel Bacos, the heroic captain of the Air France plane hijacked to Entebbe, who refused the opportunity to return to France and insisted on remaining with the kidnapped Jews, "was reprimanded by his superiors at Air France and temporarily suspended from duty" (The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 3, 2006). Such are the values of our European allies.

My few travels in Israel in ‘85/86 made me fall in love with the people and the country. If I were 20 years younger I’d chuck everything except the Harley and move there.

Remember how the left hated nukes? Especially the ones we had when that "doddering old man with his finger on the button " Pres. Reagan was in office? Remember the anti nuke protests? The SANE freeze coalitions, we had a local chapter in Rockland County, NY, a bunch of well to do White Karens collaborating with other so called peace groups typically standing on street corners spewing leftist propaganda.
Also the No Nukes concerts. Done to raise awareness of the dangers of nuclear proliferation. They were the brainchild of Jackson Browne and John Hall, lead singer of Orleans and my fmr Congressman (NY11).The Talking Heads, U2, Pat Benetar, an up and coming Madonna and anyone who was someone performed at these venues. Now that the madmen in Iran have nukes of their own perhaps it's time to bring back these concerts and demonstrations to warn a new generation of the clear and present danger of a nuclear Holocaust? ((((((crickets))))))))

Europeans are American enemies

The goal of American leftists is to transform America into Europe

Leftists are American mortal enemies

Israel has, since its forming in 1948, fought off attempt after attempt to wipe it from the map. Thye have not failed yet to repel every attack.

The reason that is the case is NOT because of who they are, but because of Who stands behind them. As long as He is in charge, they will not fall until and unless He says so.

The world hates the G-d Who created them. So, the world hates Israel.

It must be beyond frustrating for Israel to have the U.S. as an ‘ally’ with a possible reset every 4 yrs.
And here we are, Joe Biden likely the next president. Could there be anyone more inept esp in foreign policy?
When his brain was functioning he was so poor in strategic thinking he had to be constantly reminded how each chess piece moved.
Now he surrounds himself with Israel haters. Does not bode well for Israel and the Middle East.

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