Posted on 10/07/2023 6:06:39 PM PDT by 11th_VA
SDEROT, Israel, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Bloodied bodies in the streets, gunmen raiding door-to-door and news of captives taken to Gaza left Israelis terrified and in shock after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack that was unprecedented in audacity and scale.
A resident reported seeing multiple bodies and bullet-scarred vehicles in the southern Israeli town of Sderot where groups of Hamas gunmen were still fighting Israeli troops 12 hours after the attack was launched.
"I went out, I saw loads of bodies of terrorists, civilians, cars shot up. A sea of bodies, inside Sderot along the road, other places, loads of bodies," said Shlomi from Sderot.
As night fell, at least 100 were reported dead and more than 1,000 wounded, according to Israeli media, with fighting still raging in more than 20 locations around the Gaza strip.
The assault, on the Jewish Sabbath and coinciding with the religious holiday of Simchat Torah, is unfolding as a major national trauma in a country proud of its strong military.
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I’m wondering what Iran’s nuclear readiness is.
He will.
Haaretz is an anti-Israel paper
One of Biden/Blinken’s Middle East-Iran operative is Robert Malley, son of the late Egyptian communist Party leader (one faction) Simon Malley and probable KGB agent in both Egypt (late 1940s onward) and later France before the whole family was expelled as security threats.
Key operative for Comrade Obama, too.
The U.S. media has mainly ignored this important red diaper baby in the marxist/criminal administration o n.a. of both Obama and Biden.
WHO NOMINATED/Appointed Malley is the key to the pro -Iran administrations of the traitor Obama (Yes I did) and the criminal-fool Biden.
You may be right, I am extrapolating from that cohort's voting and political preferences here in the U.S., but I don't understand why the largest sample size (i.e. Jews living in America) would not be representative of those living in Israell.
My understanding of Israel's politics up until fairly recently is that it has been dominated by leftists such as Mapai, and Netanyahu's party is a fairly recent aberration, much like the Republicans and Democrats, here with Israel's left having a stranglehold over academia and popular culture.
So what am I getting wrong?
bet we can invite these murderous goblins in to our nations by the millions and live in peace with each other . The liberals say so. Diversity is our strength.....
My understanding of Israel's politics up until fairly recently is that it has been dominated by leftists such as Mapai, and Netanyahu's party is a fairly recent aberration, much like the Republicans and Democrats, here with Israel's left having a stranglehold over academia and popular culture.
Because they had collaborated with the British and helped choose which Jews could come to Israel, the Left did dominate Israel, but only from 1947-1977. The Likud party of Netanyahu has been in the governing coalition for 37 of the last 46 years. And 4 of the other 9 years, the Left was dependent on factions that split from the right to gain power, although sometimes the Likud needed parties on the left or center-left. Moreover since 1993, the Labour party in Israel largely dropped socialism. The communist party in Israel is mostly Arab.
Between different demographics and religiousity, and the reality of running a country often at war rather than white collar jobs, Israeli Jews are saner than Americans. The problem is that Israel is only about 75% Jewish and left tok over the administrative and security states and Judiciary in the fist 30 years.
The mentally ill attendees will continue to support thier agenda
Yes I know.
The US isn't the only country now controlled by its Deep State.
Filthy Mudslimes
I thought Istaelis were like the Swiss. All adult males had a gun and were forever vigilant.
Why should Israelis be shocked of the Muslim Arab’s murderous bloodlust for Jewish lives? Do they forget so quickly? The Arabs’ desire to exterminate Jews from The Land has never changed. No matter how much good Israel does for the Arabs, it is always returned with some kind of irrational hatred toward Jews.
Here’s just a small list the conflicts Israel has been involved in to defend themselves from the Arabs.
1834 looting of Tzfat (Safed)
1834 Hevron massacre (Hebron)
1929 Hevron massacre
1948-1949 War of Independence (Five Arab nations attack Israel)
1956 Suez Crisis
1967 Six-Day War
6OCT1973 Yom Kippur War
7OCT2023 Current Israel/Gaza conflict
This is only a very short list of the large conflicts between the Arabs and Jews. This does not include all of the individual terrorist attacks by committed by Arabs alone and in small groups or the thousands of attacks with free-flight rockets.
Will the Jews ever get the testicular fortitude to deal the Arabs in a way that will forever deter them from attacking Israel? Not that I can see at this time.
I know a couple guys who live over there and they’ve told me no. I don’t know for sure only what I’ve been told.
Thanks for taking time to explain the complicated history of Israel's politics to me, that was very helpful and thoughtful of you to do FRiend.
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