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| Battle for al-Shifa Underway as Biden Administration Starts Blinkin' |
| 2023-11-12 |
| [HotAir] Serious times used to produce serious leaders. For the moment, however, we seem to be experiencing the opposite — leaders that current events not only outmatch but outright humiliate. Two years ago, Americans saw that happen in real time when Joe Biden abandoned thousands of Americans in Afghanistan to the Taliban by botching an already ill-advised withdrawal and betraying a government we built over the course of twenty years. That thoroughly disgraceful episode has already produced echoes in the current Middle East crisis. Despite a strong start in supporting Israel after Hamas kicked off a full-scale war on October 7, the Biden administration has increasingly sought a way to betray another ally in wartime. The sotto voce attempts to yank a leash on Israel in its effort to destroy Hamas have become more overt in the last few days, and Antony Blinken provided even more blinking late yesterday: The top U.S. diplomat shared his assessment amid signs of a potential rift with Israel over its continuation of the war. This is a ludicrous position to take, especially given the efforts of the IDF to keep evacuating civilians while under fire from Hamas. It plays directly into the hands of Hamas too, by validating and incentivizing their human-shield strategies in Gaza, both with Palestinians and the hostages. Israel waited three weeks to launch a ground invasion of Gaza and warned all throughout that time for civilians to evacuate. Whether they balked of their own accord or because Hamas holds them hostage, their deaths on the battlefield are the responsibility of Hamas, not Israel, especially as the clear aggressor in the war. It’s also based on absurd and completely ahistorical application of the doctrine of proportionality, which is also based on a deliberate obfuscation: "collective punishment." We hear a lot of complaints about "collective punishment" by Israel of the Gazans, but that is a lie. That would apply if Israel still occupied Gaza, but they haven’t occupied it since 2005. This is not "collective punishment," therefore — it is war, one started by the party recognized as the government of Gaza against Israel. Once started, the offended party has the right to see the war to a conclusion of victory either by feat of arms or the capitulation of its enemies in the field. ...In no other war other than those involving Israel did the world impose a standard of civilian-death "proportionality," because that standard would be absurd and does not exist. Did the US stop attacking the Taliban when the death toll in Afghanistan exceed the estimated 3,000 Americans who died on 9/11, for instance? Of course not, and no one called the war on Nazi Germany "collective punishment" on Germans either — and the Allies carpet-bombed Germany for years before ground troops utterly vanquished the Nazis. I repeat: 90% of Islamic belligerence is due to the fact that they expect "Transnational Left" to protect them from the consequences of their actions. In effect the alliance between Left & Islam is an alliance between two groups of clinically certifiable sociopaths against normal humans. |
| Posted by:Grom the Reflective |
| #1 Given today's environment... I don't understand why this was not already allowed, they are humans beings. Perhaps 'multinational' rather than transnational would be a more appropriate collective reference. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-11-12 09:41 |