Posted on 10/13/2023 5:39:30 AM PDT by billorites
Hamas has always repelled most of the civilized world. But the world was either too scared or too woke to say just that.
But now Hamas’s premodern violations of all human norms have relieved most nations of any pretense of having to support it—at least for now. “Necklacing” and “baby burning” were its most recent contributions to its standard terrorist repertoire of hostage-taking, raping, beheading, and executions.
Most people will now hope Hamas gets what it deserves, while elites offer empty platitudes about “ending the cycle of violence” and “proportionality”.
As for the “world community” of the UN, the Davos crowd, the universities, the BLM fraudsters, and the DEI mafia endorsing what Hamas has done—they just indict themselves all the more, and slowly commit reputational suicide.
And whatever an NGO, a UN commissioner, an international court, or an American foundation preaches to Israel, it is worth nothing, and they themselves know that, and more importantly they privately know why.
So what is America’s position now?
Well, there are two Americas. The unstable, crazy, left-wing America now in power, and the traditionalist conservative one with a chance to take over in 2024.
The Left wishes to virtue-signal to the world its European sophisticated nihilism and to send its Ivy-League-stamped diplomats around the globe bloviating about the “rules-based order”, the “peace process”, and ending “the cycle of violence”—to yawns from its hosts who put up with the sermons for the checks to come.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
the primary difference between this war an d all previous instances of Israeli/Arab conflict is that this is the first time the US government is not on Israel’s side.
In the context he means, there’s no such place as “the world”.
If we broaden the term to mean everyone living on the planet, some will cheer, some will yawn and say “SSDD”, and some will be excited that they get to play the Great Game with dangerous toys.
My position on Hamas is that the United States Air force should send rocket armed drones to simultaneously destroy all the homes and families of the Mexican Cartel leaders and their top executives.
Where cartels are concerned, there are no innocents
Other thumbs up from Hanson.
Leftists call conservatives Nazis while supporting the murder of all Jews in Israel.
SSDD is what I hear from most non news junkies.
Depending on one’s perspective, this is 1300+ years old and counting.
We never should have allowed it in the first place, but the enemy has been, and still IS, playing the long game.
IN MY OPINION . . . . . . .
When they determined it unlawful to keep your child out of any "educational structure" (i.e. public school), they knew they had the vehicle to destroy us from the inside (Nakita Kruschev), and here we are in 2023, fighting every fiery dart the devil can hurl at us.
It is being reported all OVER the news that something called "evil" is at the root of Hamas' attack on Israel, YET . . .
IT IS NOT BEING REPORTED THAT MAYBE WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALL THIS TIME, AND SHOULD NOW GO . . . .
to church.
“””The unstable, crazy, left-wing America now in power wishes to virtue-signal to the world its European sophisticated nihilism and to send its Ivy-League-stamped diplomats around the globe bloviating about the “rules-based order”, the “peace process”, and ending “the cycle of violence”—to yawns from its hosts who put up with the sermons for the checks to come.””””
VDH succinctly summarizes the news reports coming from ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, FOX. And the above news media are doing nothing but reading the talking points given to them from Biden’s colleagues in government, NGO’s, universities
“Russia? Russia is broke and its arsenals depleted.
It is tied down in Ukraine, and needs Iranian drones, and is forging arms agreements with Turkey.”
What an asinine thing to say. In all probability Russian influence on Iran is why the whole shooting match went down at this particular time. This has been an unqualified success for Putin. Hamas is ending the Uke quagmire and yes, Putin is forging relationships with what appears to be soon ex allies of the US in the area.
VDH seems to be taking his eye of his main concern here, VDH’s ridiculous claim that the Ukraine incursion was the opening gambit of a revanchist Soviet Union.
After falling in with the Zelensky is Churchill crowd, VDH has little credibility left on international questions.
Now your TALKING.!! So let it be written, so let it be done....
“Proportionality” only perpetuates the “cycle of violence”. Hamas, Hezbollah and Islam in general must be soundly defeated once and for all.
Biden is responsible. He limited American oil and gas production and exploration. This enriched Iran and Russia.
“How Will the World React to Gaza?”
For Americans? I’m going to venture to guess that the VAST majority will shrug and then continue to play on their ‘smart’ phones. The nutcases among them will get on their ‘Pro-Hamas, Pro-Terrorism’ gear and take to the streets...unless something good is on TV.
Either way, ‘We The People’ are doomed. :(
*bump*
Yawn. If they have been pay attention they knew this was Obama 2.0.
While I do appreciate your use of the word "revenchist", I searched through VDH’s tweet and could not find anything resembling “the Ukraine incursion was the opening gambit of a revanchist Soviet Union”. Are you referring to a claim made by VDH at another time? Or are you claiming that something has been inferred in this tweet that has not been stated explicitly? Please clarify.
Yes, they’ll call it “evil”, but they have no definition of the word evil that doesn’t boil down to “unpopular” at the end of the day, because they have no true moral foundation.
Being one of the smartest historians currently alive, I think VDH probably has a lot better take on these matters than you do. You’re just blinded by your commitment to your own preconceptions.
“People” will react as their preconceived prejudice dictates. Regardless of the facts on the ground there will be a distribution of opinions and actions that cover the full range of possible reactions. Few minds will be changed by the actions on the ground.
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