That’s how IDF chief of staff Halevi sees it, according to the Times of Israel.
Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samariah (the West Bank), Iraq, Yemen and Iran have all targeted Israel in recent days and the Israel Defense Forces has responded and acted on six of them so far.
Roger Kimball’s piece in American Greatness is headlined in the affirmative. But I’ve seen too many ceasefires on Israel’s side to be confident. Nevertheless, as Kimball puts it: “The main reason to be grateful for this horrific carnage [of October 7] follows from the revelation it afforded. In the first place, by acting with such savage and sanguinary abandon—deliberately targeting the young and helpless, the old and infirm, raping, mutilating, beheading—Hamas in effect signed its own death warrant.”
And don’t give it up this time. Or else this shit will continue. All the Pals know/want is destruction.
“Maybe Israel could ignore the attacks on its border communities, but it cannot ignore the attacks on [Tel Aviv] its ‘Hill of Spring’ — one of the most vibrant cities in the world. Israel will have to awaken from its slumber and embrace the reality of being a society under siege, like Kiryat Shmona, Sderot, and other border towns.
“Israel will have to ignore the U.N., the New York Times, and the deluge of anti-Semitic opinion that condemns it whenever it rises to defend itself. It should embrace the Talmudic imperative: when they come to kill you, rise up and slay them first.”
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Because all Jews are Zionists. Those with a brain anyway who love Israel and don’t believe the anti-Israel, anti-Zionist bullshit. And that’s the most of us.
Via Jewish News Syndicate
Former Tel Aviv University historian Martin Kramer: “Nothing gives a historian greater satisfaction than correcting a persistent error. And nothing is more frustrating than the resurrection of that error even after it’s been corrected. Especially if it suddenly surfaces on the front page of the New York Times.”
Especially when it’s fake Israeli history intended to back the Pally cry against “the occupation” with a spurious quote from David Ben-Gurion.
“In the print edition, this claim about Ben-Gurion wasn’t sourced, but the online version provided a link. Where did it lead? To an article by the late Arthur Hertzberg, once a prominent American rabbi, in the New York Review of Books back in 1987. There Hertzberg claimed to have heard Ben-Gurion, right after the 1967 victory, ‘insist that all of the territories that had been captured had to be given back, very quickly, for holding on to them would distort, and might ultimately destroy, the Jewish state.’”
Kramer: “I went to the trouble of asking the Ben-Gurion Archives in Sde Boker to help locate the transcript of the talk that Hertzberg attended. They did, and there’s no evidence whatsoever that Ben-Gurion said what Hertzberg claimed he heard.”
Via Medium
UPDATE: The NYSlimes refuses to correct its error. Why am I not surprised.
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A bit skinny for my tastes, but Israeli Gal Gadot makes a fine Wonder Woman in the soon-to-be-released sword and machine guns epic.
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