Decide they don’t like the US actions regarding support of Israel and cut off or restrict the oil….(and they might just do it….as the leadership of the Arab world is not that terribly enlightened when it comes to Palestine)
How’s that depletion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve by more than half gonna work out?
Thanks Joe.
(remember, most of the Hamas Leadership are guests of the Qatari government)
Who is making Hamas and their suppliers “Follow the rules of war”? Seems that they instead targeted civilians and used terror tactics….which means the gloves are off, as far as “Rules”.
Of course, they hide behind the civilians, then cry about civilian casualties. (And, of course, those civilians also shelter them, so there’s that).
I find it sorta amusing that the entire world wants to hobble the response by Israel, That they don’t want the sort of wrath that is deserved unleased upon the people that harbor, hide, supply and support the attackers.
If Hamas had done this to any European country, they’d not care about the Rules of War . There would be no rules enforced if they attacked New York, or Houston…..
As I learned a long time ago….”Don’t want none, Don’t Bring none”.
about the fact that a bunch of Americans were killed in the latest Palestinian violence against Israel?
These were people ,living amongst the Israelis, indistinguishable from the native population. They were treated the same as any other Israeli by the attackers….who likely didn’t care who they were.
Are we hearing about the english, the French, the Finns, etc that were killed (If there were any)…..why should their citizenship be a factor? (Likely the “Americans” were dual citizens anyway) They were living as, and acting as, Israelis.
Or am I missing something? It isn’t like Hamas specifically targeted “Americans”….or had targeted an embassy or something.
Best to put those atrocities in a good light, doncha know, dere….
in “Condition White“?
The civilians, I can sorta understand. They relaxed and failed to appreciate the danger. Sheep are like that. They relax and forget the danger.
But the intelligence agencies? The Army and IDF and the police? Were they all asleep at the switch? Or (as has been implied) is there something else going on?
While the attack is purely Palestinian, and the blame for the deaths lie with them, one has to ask, where were the watch-dogs? That border is one of, if not the most, heavily surveilled and sensored fences/walls in the world. Where were the folks tasked to monitor and defend it? Something ain’t right.
But the Palestinians are still on the hook for the deaths and destruction, no matter who fell down on the job.
Doing the Usual Things
Cue the whinings about “Food Deserts” and “no one will invest in our community”…..
Plus this one too.
So the world, including the US Government, is saying that Isrel needs to make sure that it’s response to the Hamas attacks is “Proportionate “.
Anyone who says that has never been in a fight….likely lived a very sheltered existence. We obviously have different definitions of “Proportionate”…This isn’t a football game or a boxing ring….
Proportionate? For invading a sovereign country that attacked during a time of peace, whose fighters mercilessly killed innocent civilians, Indiscriminately raped and tortured people?
You want a proportionate response? I’d nuke the whole fucking bunch of animals to glass. Every single person in the Gaza strip. Not because they participated in the fighting directly, but because they hid, sheltered and aided and abetted the fighters. Let them arm and assemble themselves. And are hiding them afterwards. If you do that, you too are the enemy.
And you should expect a response that is indeed “proportionate”…..
Were I Israel, I’d raze the Gaza strip to the ground. Push every single “Palestinian” into the sea.
Are many innocent? Perhaps. But at the end of it, thousands of “Militants” gathered, staged equipment, assembled and fired hundreds of rockets, and executed their attack from that strip of land, and the residents didn’t even bother to make a phone call to alert the intended victims.
When there is a rabid dog in the neighborhood, one hunts it down and shoots it.
It is possible that many “Palestinians” want to live in peace….but they aid those who don’t.
There is only one way to have peace when the other side desires war. The Left will whine, but that’s the only way.
That the rest of the Middle East wants them dead.
There’s the attack by Hamas in Israel itself, and then there’s things like this:
Egypt: police officer shoots dead two Israeli tourists and Egyptian guide
Make no mistake: If a police officer is willing to do this openly, then the rest of the population is as well. While the cop may have been a radical, the sentiment is festering just below the surface. The fact that Jews are doing tourist things in a hostile country is telling of their failure to appreciate the threat.
Apparently the People of Israel have forgotten that they have enemies all around them, and that these people hate them because they are jews. Why else would you hold a music festival a mile from a hostile border without a major armed presence?? The Military and police were apparently napping that day, and apparently the intelligence services have been for weeks or months. (how do conceal such a large operation?)
This is being referred to as the “Israeli 9-11.”..and it is, but only as an example of the intelligence failure compounded by the complacency which allowed it to happen….Just like in the US 9-11.