Thank-you for sharing this thought provoking article. It is not for us to decide who should be the prime minister of Israel, that is a decision for the people of Israel to make. Just the opinion of an old hermit.
Thanks for your thoughts. Democrats act like it's the Israelis who are presenting roadblocks to peace, but the Palestinians have repeatedly demonstrated the only "peace" they'll settle for is the complete destruction of Israel. People have short memories, but I remember the Palestinian's decades long airliner highjacking campaign, Black September murdering Israeli athletes (I was at the 72 Olympics), and Yasser Arafat turning down Clinton and Ehud Barak's peace deal that would have given him his Palestinian state - because he couldn't bring himself to recognize that Israel had a right to exist.
You can't make peace when the other side doesn't want it and repeatedly states they want you dead.
Why Democrats kowtow to the Hamas wing of their party is unfathomable to me. Although, given everything else they stand for I guess supporting an authoritarian tyranny over a democracy shouldn't be surprising.
It's much bigger than Michigan. Votes or ballots in swing states have been counted, and Jews are no longer needed. Some time later, the knife will be shown. When this happens, they will be unprepared, asking why their 'safe neighborhood' did not protect them.
--- to be clear, your post is written better than I can write and informed by more experience that I'll ever have. Am just adding my nickel's worth.
You wrote: "Our guide explained that she and her fellow kibbutzniks were leftists who always believed that the civilian Palestinians had to be distinguished from Hamas. But after hearing women and children ransacking their home and threatening, and knowing that many civilians participated in the kidnappings, they’ve lost all faith." (Lost all faith in what, exactly? Hmm?)
Idiots. Absolute morons! Heads in the sand, moral midgets. Still, I grieve for them and their losses which are incomprehensible. But let this be a lesson to other "leftists" around the globe. When your enemies tell you who they are and what they want to do to you, listen!!! Put your childish, naïve leftist ideology aside and prepare and protect yourself.
Unfortunately, this type of behavior will continue as long as man refuses to listen to what God teaches about human nature. As long as people believe, foolishly, that "humans are basically good" and other nonsense, these sorts of "losing all faith" (faith in what, exactly? hm?) evils will happen over and over all over the globe.
Thanks for the update. And please stand with Israel and the Jewish people. They are the canaries in the coal mine for the rest of civilization.
Bibi and his policies may not be popular with the majority of Israelis, but when it comes to genuine love of Country, and a willingness to protect it, they couldn't find a better leader. If you need proof, Bibi has stood up to Blinken, and told him, and the entire Biden Administration, that Israel will go it alone, if necessary, but they will not capitulate and accept any foolish two State solution. Bravo!
It reminds me of the time that Menachem Begin stood up to a U. S. Senator who was threatening to cut off aid to Israel. Begin said, “you are not looking at a Jew with trembling knees here“ and confirmed that Israel would go it alone, even if the US cut off aid. The senator? Joe Biden.
Maybe Israel should be run by Ghengis Khan for the duration of the war. Failing that, Curtis LeMay.
One might note that after LeMay's harsh works, the war ended, period. Japan prospered and the USA was respected. LeMay did what necessary, not what the clever chattering classes would praise.
If Bibi wins the war decisively, I can see public opinion doing a 180. Pearl Harbor happened on FDR's watch, but he turned it around with a resolute response and was resoundingly re-elected in 1944.
Why wouldn’t a true American patriot support Israel? Didn’t Americans provided a shining path to Israelites by cleansing the continent of its inhabitants, putting survivors into reservations and forever locking them into degrading dependence on their victors? All Israel doing is following its sponsor’s footsteps. The blah blah about bad HAMAS and innocent Jews is to make a semblance of justification for 30:1 score. Apache yesterday, Arabs today and tomorrow. Just stop putting out hot air and be honest.
By 1789, the land that would become the USA was largely depopulated of Indians. The Lewis & Clarke expedition found empty villages and abandoned camps, sometimes with a few weakened inhabitants. Diseases from Europe that reached only the coast and only briefly when Vikings landed in the far North were brought far into the continent in far greater quantity by the Spanish Conquest.
The locals had no natural immunity to common bugs like influenza, and when some % of the working population was incapacitated an entire population unit would die - they didn't have a 12 month reserve food supply. (The Mayflower folks almost died off too, they lost about 50% one winter).
There were also deadly rivalries between tribes; one (Comanchee?) boasted of exterminating the entirety of a less militant tribe. A tribe who fought on foot and was even modestly weakened by disease would be easy picking for those who fought from horseback.
Later conflicts with the European colonists worked out to their detriment and sometimes to the disgrace of the USA (Trail of Tears), but by then the local's population had already become a fraction of its pre-Columbian extent.
American Indians are not 'confined to reservations'. They have full US citizenship and can move off such reservations, and most have.
And the reason that the Apaches were predominantly in Arizona? Because the Comanches drove them out of what became Comancheria, which covered most of Texas to the east
It's rare to learn anything from an internet comment ... and now I just did. So was it that the Comanches weren't so violent as to enslave/whack all the Apache, or did the Apache escape faster than they could chase? I don't know much about the ground level reality of war. I suppose I should be happy about that.
Right. What’s with Comanches these days? Seminoles? Iroquois? It’s interesting that Americans immediately go into “it wasn’t that bad” mode, “they did it to themselves “, “deceases killed them before we did” - really, vae victis, good for you to prevail and become dominant. Just be honest about what you did and stop pretending that Israelis are doing anything different.
Hard to say who’s in room with you since you are obviously not alone. If you are referring to the my last sentence - it was a generalization of “you, Americans”, I assume both you and John are from the US.
Thank you. Good to be informed about the situation there. There is no substitute for victory. If only our leaders understood that. I support Israel. At 73, I've paid attention to events concerning Israel. The Palelstinians were tools of nations with other agendas. They brought this on again and again again. Karma's a bitch. We should know. We've been getting that ourselves. The American way of war is a proven loser.
The info about civilian Palestinians helping the Hamas on Oct 7 needs more extensive publication.
D’accord. I did what I could, now forward to your friends!
Thank-you for sharing this thought provoking article. It is not for us to decide who should be the prime minister of Israel, that is a decision for the people of Israel to make. Just the opinion of an old hermit.
Just so. Michael. Thank you for contributing to the conversation.
Accounts like this need to be enshrined in our memories, and the memories of our children, and our children's children.
It's essential to understand the enemies of humanity, and the need to resist the influence of the hapless world leaders who enable them.
Just so. In that vein, feel free to pass along to your friends.
Thanks for these accounts from inside Israel. Your Substack is always a must-read.
You are very kind. Thank you.
Thanks for your thoughts. Democrats act like it's the Israelis who are presenting roadblocks to peace, but the Palestinians have repeatedly demonstrated the only "peace" they'll settle for is the complete destruction of Israel. People have short memories, but I remember the Palestinian's decades long airliner highjacking campaign, Black September murdering Israeli athletes (I was at the 72 Olympics), and Yasser Arafat turning down Clinton and Ehud Barak's peace deal that would have given him his Palestinian state - because he couldn't bring himself to recognize that Israel had a right to exist.
You can't make peace when the other side doesn't want it and repeatedly states they want you dead.
Why Democrats kowtow to the Hamas wing of their party is unfathomable to me. Although, given everything else they stand for I guess supporting an authoritarian tyranny over a democracy shouldn't be surprising.
It is all about winning Michigan. Thanks for your input.
It's much bigger than Michigan. Votes or ballots in swing states have been counted, and Jews are no longer needed. Some time later, the knife will be shown. When this happens, they will be unprepared, asking why their 'safe neighborhood' did not protect them.
--- to be clear, your post is written better than I can write and informed by more experience that I'll ever have. Am just adding my nickel's worth.
You wrote: "Our guide explained that she and her fellow kibbutzniks were leftists who always believed that the civilian Palestinians had to be distinguished from Hamas. But after hearing women and children ransacking their home and threatening, and knowing that many civilians participated in the kidnappings, they’ve lost all faith." (Lost all faith in what, exactly? Hmm?)
Idiots. Absolute morons! Heads in the sand, moral midgets. Still, I grieve for them and their losses which are incomprehensible. But let this be a lesson to other "leftists" around the globe. When your enemies tell you who they are and what they want to do to you, listen!!! Put your childish, naïve leftist ideology aside and prepare and protect yourself.
Unfortunately, this type of behavior will continue as long as man refuses to listen to what God teaches about human nature. As long as people believe, foolishly, that "humans are basically good" and other nonsense, these sorts of "losing all faith" (faith in what, exactly? hm?) evils will happen over and over all over the globe.
Thanks for the update. And please stand with Israel and the Jewish people. They are the canaries in the coal mine for the rest of civilization.
Bibi and his policies may not be popular with the majority of Israelis, but when it comes to genuine love of Country, and a willingness to protect it, they couldn't find a better leader. If you need proof, Bibi has stood up to Blinken, and told him, and the entire Biden Administration, that Israel will go it alone, if necessary, but they will not capitulate and accept any foolish two State solution. Bravo!
It reminds me of the time that Menachem Begin stood up to a U. S. Senator who was threatening to cut off aid to Israel. Begin said, “you are not looking at a Jew with trembling knees here“ and confirmed that Israel would go it alone, even if the US cut off aid. The senator? Joe Biden.
Thanks for your input.
Begin was a man.
Maybe Israel should be run by Ghengis Khan for the duration of the war. Failing that, Curtis LeMay.
One might note that after LeMay's harsh works, the war ended, period. Japan prospered and the USA was respected. LeMay did what necessary, not what the clever chattering classes would praise.
If Bibi wins the war decisively, I can see public opinion doing a 180. Pearl Harbor happened on FDR's watch, but he turned it around with a resolute response and was resoundingly re-elected in 1944.
Why wouldn’t a true American patriot support Israel? Didn’t Americans provided a shining path to Israelites by cleansing the continent of its inhabitants, putting survivors into reservations and forever locking them into degrading dependence on their victors? All Israel doing is following its sponsor’s footsteps. The blah blah about bad HAMAS and innocent Jews is to make a semblance of justification for 30:1 score. Apache yesterday, Arabs today and tomorrow. Just stop putting out hot air and be honest.
Sure, if you get your history from Hollywood.
By 1789, the land that would become the USA was largely depopulated of Indians. The Lewis & Clarke expedition found empty villages and abandoned camps, sometimes with a few weakened inhabitants. Diseases from Europe that reached only the coast and only briefly when Vikings landed in the far North were brought far into the continent in far greater quantity by the Spanish Conquest.
The locals had no natural immunity to common bugs like influenza, and when some % of the working population was incapacitated an entire population unit would die - they didn't have a 12 month reserve food supply. (The Mayflower folks almost died off too, they lost about 50% one winter).
There were also deadly rivalries between tribes; one (Comanchee?) boasted of exterminating the entirety of a less militant tribe. A tribe who fought on foot and was even modestly weakened by disease would be easy picking for those who fought from horseback.
Later conflicts with the European colonists worked out to their detriment and sometimes to the disgrace of the USA (Trail of Tears), but by then the local's population had already become a fraction of its pre-Columbian extent.
American Indians are not 'confined to reservations'. They have full US citizenship and can move off such reservations, and most have.
And the reason that the Apaches were predominantly in Arizona? Because the Comanches drove them out of what became Comancheria, which covered most of Texas to the east
It's rare to learn anything from an internet comment ... and now I just did. So was it that the Comanches weren't so violent as to enslave/whack all the Apache, or did the Apache escape faster than they could chase? I don't know much about the ground level reality of war. I suppose I should be happy about that.
Right. What’s with Comanches these days? Seminoles? Iroquois? It’s interesting that Americans immediately go into “it wasn’t that bad” mode, “they did it to themselves “, “deceases killed them before we did” - really, vae victis, good for you to prevail and become dominant. Just be honest about what you did and stop pretending that Israelis are doing anything different.
"You"
Who is the amazing, conquering "you"? Are they in the room with us?
Hard to say who’s in room with you since you are obviously not alone. If you are referring to the my last sentence - it was a generalization of “you, Americans”, I assume both you and John are from the US.
Thank you. Good to be informed about the situation there. There is no substitute for victory. If only our leaders understood that. I support Israel. At 73, I've paid attention to events concerning Israel. The Palelstinians were tools of nations with other agendas. They brought this on again and again again. Karma's a bitch. We should know. We've been getting that ourselves. The American way of war is a proven loser.
I might add to your last sentence: since our victory in WWII.
It is because of lack of leadership, military, and political, with a long – term strategic vision combined with a certain
naivety.
Thanks for contributing.