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On October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorists swooped down upon a peaceful gathering of young Israelis enjoying themselves at a concert.
ABC in mid-October provided us with
a textual description of the ensuing slaughter: “Then the video [made by Hamas
terrorists] gets grisly. Other militants are busy mashing a dying man's face
with their boots. Another pair screams ‘Allahu akbar [God is great] as they use
a garden hoe to try to decapitate another man. In another house, a gunman
sticks the muzzle of his rifle into a room inhabited by a family. It's a mash
of colors. In one, a terrorist is standing on an Israeli man's chest and shoots
him point-blank in the face.”
The slaughter was filmed by what some news outlets in the
West are pleased to call “militants” rather than terrorists. These horrific clips,
used by Hamas terrorists to convince the brethren they seriously intend to
displace Israel with a forward marching conquering Islam, are a trifle too bloody
to appear in internet news reports or in the pristine news outlets scattered
about the internet. The Iran supported terrorists doubtless plan to use the
clips as recruitment devises.
The Iran supported Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200
Israelis and 144 foreigners. The assassinated included 859 civilians, 281
soldiers, 57 policemen and 10 Shin Bet members. The attack wounded 3,400, and
247 soldiers and civilians taken hostage, later to be bartered for an Israeli
ceasefire following a declaration of war by Israel against Hamas.
Videos taken by Hamas terrorists, too grisly to be shown in
the United States, show terrorists busily mashing a dying man's face with their
boots, while pair of terrorists scream in the background "Allahu akbar,
(God is great!)" as they use a garden hoe to try to decapitate another
man.
The clips, edited by some prominent Iranian film director,
would be certain to receive the equivalent of Iran’s Palme d'Or. And it will not be long before the clips find their way
into Iran’s lower grades where young students are regularly taught that the
killing of Jews is a religious obligation.
Israel’s unilateral disengagement from Gaza began in August
of 2005 and “by September,” according to one report, “around
9,000 Jews living in 25 settlements were evicted and the Israeli troops
completely withdrew from the Gaza Strip to the Green Line -- a 1949 Armistice Line drawing boundaries between
Israel and its Arab neighbors.”
So much for Israel’s colonialist ambitions.
Hamas is both a terrorist organization sponsored and financed
by Iran, which appears to be having some difficulty in establishing itself among
diplomats in the United States as an enemy of the “Great Satan,” and, it is not
often noted in news reports, highly oppressed Gazans. Iran’s Hamas government
in Gaza has been left to its own devises ever since Israel pulled out of Gaza 18
years ago.
In 1979, following the abdication of the Shah Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi, the U.S. embassy in Tehran was attacked and its staff held prisoners
for 444 days. Numberless politicians in the United States were incensed by all
this. They now pronounced themselves disturbed by the Hamas slaughter in the
dessert, but these irruptions and American rhetorical disfavor had not
prevented Hamas and other Iran supported terrorists from raining missiles down
on Israel since 1989, two years after Hamas was formed.
Democrat President Barack Obama sent planeloads of cash to
Iran, secretly, in the dead of night, to purchase Iran’s compliance with his
disarmament plan to rid Iran of nuclear material production. Iran’s Supreme
Leader, the stiff upper lipped Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, took the fungible cash
and, some suppose, routed much of it to Iran’s terrorist proxies in Gaza, Somalia,
Lebanon and Syria. Iran’s drive to produce a nuclear weapon was not materially
affected by Obama’s clumsy attempt at appeasement.
In reality -- rarely consulted by progressive Democrat
administrations or Hamas supporting students at Colombia University -- peace
between the “Great Satan, a derogatory term used in some Muslim majority
countries to refer to the United States, and Iran remains elusive – as witness
the latest attack upon Israel by Iranian backed terrorist proxies.
The Biden administration, faithfully following the lead of world
healer former President Barack Obama, has unfrozen Iranian assets, though Obama
was cautious enough to provide the sworn enemies of “The Great Satan” with
fungible cash on the sly by shipping to Iran planeloads of cash.
In a luminescent article in the Washington Examiner
provocatively titled “It’s Obama’s Middle East Mess”, Washington,
D.C.-based foreign affairs analyst Sean Durns remarks, “He [Obama] entered
office seeking rapprochement with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the world’s
leading state sponsor of terrorism. Ostensibly, the 44th president wanted to
contain its illegal nuclear weapons program. But as Middle East scholars Tony
Badran and Mike Doran have convincingly argued, the president was really after
something different: a realignment of the U.S. alliance system in the region —
away from Israel and the Gulf and toward the mullahs in Iran.”
The possibility of a diplomatic realignment between the
Unites States and Iran, manfully resisting any realignment of its own
uncompromising anti-Western posture, should have been shattered permanently by
Hamas’ murderous attack on innocent Israeli civilians just weeks ago.
How many times must the wooed reject the wooer’s advances
before he abandons a murderous realignment of reality?
The D.C. waffling following the attack suggests that the
back-protection offered by Biden is adjustable. And the Jews of history, so
often tormented by its temporary victors may, in the not too distant future,
begin to feel at their backs the point of a dagger wielded by its political
friends.
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