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Offline rangerrebew

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The Real Lessons of Oct. 7 Must Not be Ignored
« on: October 09, 2024, 01:06:14 pm »
The Real Lessons of Oct. 7 Must Not be Ignored
by Jonathan S. Tobin
October 8, 2024 at 4:00 am
 
Sadly, the complacency about Hamas was shared by most of Israel's leading politicians, including those opposed to Netanyahu like former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, and former prime ministers Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett, all of whom hope to replace Netanyahu at the next election. The truth is that no one except those considered on the "far right" rejected the notion that Hamas could be contained in Gaza and, if necessary, paid off in funds from terror- and Iran-supporting Qatar in order to keep the border quiet.

Belief in the idea of a two-state solution to the conflict evaporated in Israel in the wake of the collapse of the 1993-1995 Oslo Accords....

n the United States... public discussion of the war on Hamas continues to center on myths that should have been rejected long ago.

[T]he once-dominant Israeli parties on the left were destroyed when the Palestinians—then led by the arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat, head of the PLO—proved they regarded them as merely a stepping stone to the destruction of the Jewish state.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21003/lessons-of-october-7
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Re: The Real Lessons of Oct. 7 Must Not be Ignored
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2024, 01:24:09 pm »
The real lesson of October 7th is that, on October 8th, Israel should have carpet bombed and fire bombed Gaza to a pile of ash.

The Western media are suckers for "suffering civilians", many of whom are Hamas collaborators.

If this was WWII, all the News Reels would be about suffering German and Japanese civilians.

War needs to be brutal and complete to discourage future aggression.  Leaving Hamas to live to fight another day will lead to something worse than October 7th.

What helped keep the peace in the Cold War was mutually assured destruction, not mutually proportional repsonses to aggression.
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