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The day after a deadly attack by Hamas terrorists on Israeli
citizens, both within and outside the Golan Heights, the Associated Press (AP) reported: “There was still some
fighting underway more than 24 hours after an unprecedented surprise attack
from Gaza, in which Hamas militants, backed by a volley of thousands of
rockets, broke through Israel's security barrier and rampaged through nearby
communities.”
Everyone expects a retaliatory response from the Israeli
government. How long will the non-retaliatory mainstream media in the United
States and Europe “cover” the unfolding events?
It usually takes a few days for important Front Page stories
to migrate to the back pages. This one might take a bit longer, depending upon
Israel’s response.
Israelis, it seems, are determined, perversely some reckon,
to defend the Israeli state against thug terrorist organizations financed
chiefly by Iran. Hamas and Hezbollah would be far less murderous were they not
supported militarily with Iranian cash and poorly disguised anti-Semitic propaganda. Parts of Europe and President of the United States Joe Biden
already are beginning to weep crocodile tears over the terrorist assault on
Israeli citizens.
“At least 600 people have reportedly been killed in Israel —
a staggering toll on a scale the country has not experienced in decades,” the
AP reported, “and more than 300 have been killed in Gaza.” The figures likely
are much higher. All the corpses have yet to be counted. Doing the math on our
fingers, we may conclude that 300 Israeli citizens have been murdered by Iran
sponsored terrorists outside of Gaza.
One reliable Middle East analyst, Avi Issacharoff, told the Times of Israel that the well-coordinated, “unprecedented assault on Israel by
land, sea and air is an inadvertent benchmark for the Israel-Hamas relations,
as significant as the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US.”
A real peace effort underway between Israel and significant
Arab states such as Saudi Arabia threatened to collapse the Iranian supported
terrorist groups harassing Israel. “I think that they wanted to kidnap a few
people, to negotiate over them, and not to get into the threat of their
collapse — of their ending,” Issacharoff said.
Kidnapping and consequent ransoms finance Iran’s two
terrorism arms, Hamas and Hezbollah.
The United States has traveled this well-worn terrorist
appeasement trap before, with predictable results.
The Barack Obama administration shipped to Iran secret planeloads
of cash at midnight -- without consulting the U.S. Congress -- in the hope of
convincing Iran’s increasingly unpopular government to release hostages and
cease the production of nuclear grade uranium necessary for the production of
nuclear arms. The cash led to the release of a few captured Americans and only
encouraged Iran to hasten its production of weapon grade uranium.
The Biden administration recently withdrew impositions on
cash withheld from Iran. The politically inept administration attempted to answer
assertions that the released funds would be used by Iran to purchase terrorist
activity, principally against Israel, by Hamas and Hezbollah. The
administration pointed out the dollars showered upon Iran would be used for
charitable activities. Biden was instantly rebuked by the increasingly
unpopular Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who asserted that since the funds were
Iran’s, the government of Iran would decide how the cash would be used.
Part of the cash may be used to quell the populist
discontent that arose recently when an Iranian woman was abused for fashion
crimes. Or the Biden bequest may be used to defray the cost of imprisoning
Narges Mohammadi, whose “most recent arrest, CBS News tells us, “came in the
wake of nationwide protests over the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old
who died after she was detained by the country's morality police.”
One the most courageous woman in the Middle East, the
imprisoned Mohammadi was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize by Berit
Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, who noted, “This year's
peace prize also recognizes the hundreds of thousands of people [in Iran] who,
in the preceding year, have demonstrated against the theocratic regime's
policies of discrimination and oppression targeting women."
Issacharoff, asked whether Hezbollah might join Hamas in future
concerted attacks on Israel, said the most recent Iran supported attack is
“9/11 [for Israel], and if this doesn’t go into a major ground operation, it’s
the end of this government’s [i.e. Israel’s] political life… Starting another
front with Israel may bring more [Israeli] casualties… but at the end of the
day, we might end up with the end of Hamas and Hezbollah” – God and the Biden
administration willing.
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