[American Greatness] One unexpected blowback from the medieval Hamas’s barbaric murdering of hundreds of Israeli civilians is the revelation of current global amorality.
More than 20 Harvard university identity politics groups pledged their support to the Hamas murderers—to the utter silence for days of Harvard President Claudine Gay.
34 groups, originally. But some walked it back after it became clear there were consequences for their posturing.
Americans knew higher education practiced racist admission policies. It has long promoted racially segregated dorms and graduations. And de facto it has destroyed the First Amendment.
But the overt support for Hamas killers by the diversity, equity, and inclusion crowd on a lot of campuses exposes to Americans the real moral and intellectual rot in higher education.
Democratic Socialist members of the new woke Democrat Party openly expressed ecstatic support for Hamas’s bloodwork.
Their biggest fears were not dead fellow Americans or hostages, or some 1,000 butchered Jewish civilians. Instead they were fearful that righteous Israeli retaliation might destroy the Hamas death machine.
Palestinians for years fooled naïfs in Europe and the Obama and Biden administrations into sending billions of dollars into Gaza.
They weren’t naive. They were on the other side.
These monies were channeled to tunnel into Israel, to obtain a huge rocket arsenal, and to craft plans to wipe out Jews.
The Biden administration has blood on its hands.
Indeed. And considerably more than $6 billion worth.
....Biden and company quickly restarted the defunct Iran appeasement deal—a leftover from the anti-Israeli Obama administration. No surprise, they appointed radical pro-Iranian activist Robert Malley to head the negotiations.
Malley allegedly has leaked American classified documents to Iranian officials and is under investigation by the FBI. He did his best to place pro-Iranian, anti-American activists into the high echelons of the U.S. government.
Biden was intent on forcing South Korea to release to Iran $6 billion in sanctioned frozen money.
That expectation of cash ensured Iran would be reimbursed for its present terrorist arming spree.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken shamefully tweeted that Israel should settle for an immediate ceasefire. No wonder he soon withdrew his unhinged posting.
That idiocy would be the moral equivalent of an American ally in December 1941 urging the U.S. to seek negotiations with imperial Japan after its surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor—to avoid a "cycle of violence."
...Once the mass murdering started, the amoral clarity of our "allies" was stunning.
NATO partner Turkey openly sided with the killers.
Of course. All Muslim Brotherhooders together.
It —along with Blinken—called for a cease fire—at the moment the Hamas death squads had finished, and Israel was ready to hold Hamas to account.
Qatar, where the U.S. Central Command is based, proved little more than a Hamas front.
It offers sanctuary to the architects of Hamas killing. And Qatar ensures a safe financial pipeline to Hamas from Iran and the radical Arab world.
Some of the most vehement current supporters of the Hamas death squads were immigrants to America from the Middle East.
Oddly, they apparently had fled just such illiberal Middle East regimes to reach a tolerant, democratic, and secure United States.
Yet they now endorse the Hamas butchering of Jewish civilians. Its savagery is aimed at executing, raping, and beheading Jews, and then mutilating their bodies.
Hamas apparently hopes to shock the Israeli government into voluntarily committing suicide—in line with the ancient Hamas agenda to destroy the Jewish state.
In a strange way, this reign of death has become a touchstone, an acid test of sorts that has revealed the utter amorality of enemies abroad and quite dangerous people at home.
It is past time that Americans deal with the medieval world that was revealed this week rather than keep dreaming in the fantasy world of our government.
Americans need to stop illegal immigration and restore their southern border, while ceasing all immigration from unhinged, hostile nations.
The military must return to its deterrent role and fire its woke commissariat.
Our leaders must accept that in the last three years of the Biden administration, serial American appeasement abroad, disunity at home, and social chaos have encouraged an entire host of enemies —China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Middle East illiberal regimes, and former friends like Turkey and Qatar.
And our enemies dream of doing to us what we just saw in Israel.
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These October days mark the 80th anniversary of the Zaporozhye front-line offensive operation, carried out from October 10 to 14, 1943. Then, unable to contain the advance of our troops, the German command gave the order to blow up the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. After the war, Soviet state security agencies identified the participants in the destruction of this hydroelectric power station from among the Wehrmacht military personnel. Today’s material about those events is based on their testimony, which can be found in full on the official website of the FSB of Russia in the “Archival materials” section of the “History” section.
In the post-war period, Soviet state security agencies actively worked to search for participants in mass atrocities and destruction committed by Nazi troops on the temporarily occupied territory of the Soviet Union. One of these crimes was the blowing up of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station (unable to restrain the advance of the Red Army during the Zaporozhye operation, the German command gave the order to blow up the hydroelectric dam).
Among the German war criminals - and their search was carried out in camps for German prisoners of war, located not only on the territory of the USSR, but also in European countries liberated by units of the Red Army - direct participants in the blowing up of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Dam in October 1943, committed by military personnel 520, were identified. 1st engineer regiment of the Wehrmacht. This is what two of them said when testifying.
The interrogation of the former driver of the battalion of the 520th Engineer Regiment, Chief Corporal Kurt Hans Stofen, was carried out on October 11, 1947 in Stalino (now Donetsk).
From the testimony of the prisoner of war, it follows that all the troubles for him began with his arrival on the Soviet-German, or, as the Germans called it, the eastern front. Until October 1941, he served as a driver of a passenger car in Berlin and, as a courier for the High Command, sometimes saw another corporal - Hitler, and every day - Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch (who would die in a British prisoner of war hospital in 1948) and Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering (commits suicide in his cell a few hours before his execution by hanging according to the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946). That is, for the time being everything was going great for Corporal Stofen.
And in March 1942, he was first sent to the Soviet-German front as a rifleman near Kharkov. Eight days later, with severely frostbitten feet, he was taken to a hospital in Silesia.
When Steffen recovered, he was returned to the front, near Rostov. However, in the fall, near Tuapse, he fell ill again, this time with paratyphoid fever, and he was taken to Germany for treatment.
The third deployment to the eastern front after recovery was his last. In July 1944, near Minsk, he was captured.
The twists and turns in the fate of the German soldier who came to us with the war are very significant. This is an edification to all those who plan to conquer Russia by force of arms - sadness and captivity await them if the outcome is successful.
However, in this case, we are not interested in the entire generally ordinary biography of Corporal Stofen, but in its fragment associated with the bombing of the Dnieper Hydroelectric Power Station during the retreat of the Wehrmacht under the pressure of the Red Army in 1944.
The chief corporal’s testimony during interrogation in Stalino recorded the following:
“...at 4 o’clock on September 30, 1943, we arrived at the Dneprostroy airfield. At the airfield, the commander of the sapper battalion, Major Senftendberg, lined us up in a semicircle and announced to us the purpose and task of the special mission to Dneprostroy. We were told that by October 14, 1943, we would mine the Dnieper Hydroelectric Dam and prepare it for explosion.”
At the Dneprostroy station there were already five wagons with explosives, and Stofen, having received a truck at the request of the local military unit in the garage, began transporting explosives (boxes with 250 two-hundred-gram bombs in each) to the hydroelectric dam, making six to eight trips daily. In addition to his car, eight more trucks were involved. They also carried aerial bombs from a nearby airfield, which, together with explosives, were placed in the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station tunnel. “At the power station there were five sites of hidden mining with good camouflage and four sites of camouflaged mining on the dam itself,” testified prisoner of war Stofen.
By the evening of October 14, the Nazis completed work on mining the hydroelectric power station. The first explosions occurred at 20.02...
Answering a question about the purpose of mining and blowing up the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station, the corporal said that “the explosion was intended to destroy and destroy the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station. Leave the desert on the retreat route, that’s what we did.”
Another participant in the explosion of the Dnieper hydroelectric dam, captain of the German army Michael Leonhard Haller, during interrogation on September 26, 1949 in the Ministry of Internal Affairs camp No. 414 (Czechoslovakia), gave detailed testimony about the preparation of the hydroelectric power station for the explosion, including the mass of explosives and aerial bombs used - from 100-150 tons.
“On October 14 or 15, 1943, an order was received from the regimental headquarters commander Pohlman with the following content: “The prepared objects should be blown up immediately upon receipt of the appointed time of day,” he said. “At 20 o’clock in the evening, all the prepared objects were blown up, including mine...”
That is, the pedantic Germans divided the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station into sections, each of which was mined and then undermined by a separate team led by an officer. But in general, as mentioned above, they left behind a desert.
...Retreating, they strive to leave a desert behind them, destroying schools, hospitals, theaters, libraries, residential buildings, and the current followers of Nazism in Ukraine. However, this will not save them from defeat. And they will have to give evidence on this matter, and then answer for what they have done.
[Bee] A Harvard University student later identified as Luke Dillon left a lecture on microaggressions a little early so he could make it to the "Kill the Jews" rally on time.
The University happily hosted the rally for mass murder and rape after being assured that no one would be misgendered. "Hate speech has no place here at Harvard," assured President Claudine Gay. "We affirm everyone's right, regardless of gender, to feel safe to express their deep hatred and longing to kill Jewish people. That's why Harvard is more than a school - it's a family."
A group effort, the "Kill the Jews" rally was lovingly organized by the Palestine Solidarity Committee with help from the Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund. The rally's aim is to spread awareness of the plight of the Palestinian people who currently have to live in a world where Jewish people are alive and breathing.
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[REGNUM] What comes to the average person’s mind when he hears about the Israeli army? Even if he does not know what the acronym IDF stands for, the image emerges quite clearly - the army of a small, proud country that constantly has to hold back the onslaught of the surrounding Arab states.
Contain thanks to professionalism, modern weapons and the tenacity of the soldiers, of course, because the numerical advantage is clearly on the side of the enemy. On the one hand, well-armed and trained professionals with the best air defense system and the best tanks, on the other, a bunch of abreks
...according to the internet: “Abrek is a North Caucasian term used for a lone North Caucasian warrior living a partisan lifestyle outside power and law and fighting for a just cause. Abreks were irregular soldiers who abandoned all material life, including their family and friends, in order to fight for a just cause, to worship, and to meditate.” Precisely not how Hamas, et al operate...
in black scarves, armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and rockets assembled on their knees, launched on the principle of “wherever God sends.”
Oh, and young, well-groomed girls also serve in the Israeli army and post selfies, dance videos, etc. on the Internet. and so on.
The picture is stable and has taken root.
Here are fences equipped with state-of-the-art surveillance devices, behind it is an unsurpassed Merkava, which, if anything happens, will dismantle the next batch of Islamists for spare parts in a matter of seconds. Why? Because technology, resources, and most importantly - professionalism!
And then comes October 7, 2023, when the crystal castles about the indestructibility of Israel and its defenders collapsed and social networks were filled with videos filmed by local combatants and random witnesses of the battles.
Let's see through the eyes of a SVO participant how the parties acted, how they were trained, and how much this can be compared with the principles of warfare between the Russian army and Ukrainian separatists.
HAMAS
Let's start with the Palestinian groups, the largest and most memorable of which is Hamas.
They themselves posted videos of preparations for the assault on Israeli bases. However, nothing impressive was shown there - not particularly equipped militants were running, mining the fence, blowing things up. One was mined, the second, the third, they threw the homemade bridge they had taken with them across the hole, and ran. Not bad, but not amazing.
Then the videos are no longer training, but real combat.
The crowd shouting “Allahu Akbar” runs towards the “military base”. Apparently, they were not going to defend the “military base” - one machine gunner would have mowed down this entire crowd from the tower, and the base would not have been taken.
But either the machine gunner, or the machine gun, or the cartridges were not there.
You can't storm like that at all. No attempts to cover each other, no division into twos and fours, no “I’m holding it and going.” Just bearded men with machine guns running forward.
Following are the recordings from the assault on the interior (I don’t know if it’s the same object or some other one, and it doesn’t matter). What do we see here?
The crowd is still a crowd, nothing new or interesting. However, at least a little, they are “tacticulating” - they are trying to work from behind corners, throwing grenades at the premises. The level of barely trained infantry, which knows something beyond which end to hold the Kalashnikov assault rifle.
Someone has been working on them, but they still don’t know the basics - they cluster together in such a way that a grenade launched from the enemy’s side can kill five militants at once, no less.
But the most impressive footage, which has spread around the Internet several times, is, of course, the destruction of the vaunted Merkava.
There’s just a tank standing there, a drone just flies up to it and drops something not particularly large or powerful. Result: the tank is on fire, clouds of smoke block the camera, a combat vehicle, considered one of the most powerful on the planet, lost in a duel with a cheap quadcopter like the Mavic-3.
WHAT ELSE TO SAY?
The Palestinians are poorly equipped, armed too (judging by the video, there is an RPG-7 for joy, not to mention something heavier), they are very averagely prepared, but they have begun to master modern methods of destroying the enemy with the help of civilian drones, which already looks like progress in military affairs.
GULL
Now let's move on to the Israeli Army.
The Israeli army received non-illusory bream from everything described above. There was talk that only twenty-odd soldiers were lost during the day, which I allow myself to doubt.
Just look at the footage of IDF soldiers shot in the toilet, lying in pools of blood in metal cubicles. In shorts and T-shirts, unarmed, who did not even give any semblance of a fight, simply killed on the spot. They probably panicked and didn’t know what to do with themselves in the last tens of minutes before their death. And before that - as evidenced by another video filmed by them themselves - they filmed the shootout on their phones.
This all says a lot.
No, Hamas did not make any breakthrough in martial arts and did not do anything particularly outstanding. These are still Arabs in T-shirts, flip-flops and with Kalashnikov assault rifles, although they prepared for an attack for a long time and with concentration, but never reached heights in martial art.
The most impressive thing I have seen is paragliding, but during a normal war it is not applicable at all.
It’s just that the IDF was not able to repel the attack, which means that the level of training there is not much higher than that of the enemy.
Then we began to receive new confirmations of these first impressions.
Here come the brave Israeli soldiers - they are clearing the neighborhood. How do they do it? Trying to detect the enemy before he detects them? Do they rush to occupy the most convenient shelters, covering each other?
No, they just walk down the street with machine guns, looking somewhere from time to time. In a bunch.
One successfully positioned and prepared shooter - and this group would not have existed. They don’t believe that this could happen here? Perhaps, but nevertheless it does not smell like good preparation.
Then - mobilization. One of the newly joined Israeli patriots began to shout: “Here, look how you need to mobilize!” However, at the same time, the locals collect food, socks, and everything else for the soldiers.
No, this does not mean that “everything is fine here, since even in Israel (!!!) they collect socks!” The mobilized must be provided with everything necessary to participate in hostilities, and if this is not the case, then everything is not very good for you. As it turned out, both the Russian and Israeli armies had significant shortcomings.
Videos also appeared in which people introducing themselves as ex-IDF soldiers talk about betrayal.
They say, not even a mouse could slip past us, but then the whole Hamas came and started taking bases, this can’t happen!
Yes, it really can!
Judging by what was published by both Palestinians and Israelis on the Internet, huge problems with competence resulted in this. And here a general has already been captured, equipment captured, civilian casualties - this is not betrayal, this is a lack of understanding of the situation and preparation for it.
What conclusions can be drawn from all this?
There are no invincible armies, no troops of some super-professionals who have an unprecedented level of competence and are capable of destroying you with a glance at a cannon shot.
There is no invincible IDF, he has dispelled his magical halo. There are no magical fighters from NATO countries and the USA from whom we need to follow an example in everything.
There is only us.
Most of the specialists are now in the trenches of the Northern Military District on both sides, because these are people immersed in war, fighting for a year and a half with a very serious enemy.
The separatists are fighting against Russia, Russia is fighting against the entire collective West, which is using the hands of the Ukrainian separatists.
No one in this world knows how to fight better than us and the anti-Russians who rebelled against us, and Israel has clearly shown this.
[Asia Times] The main lesson for Israel from the hideous Hamas attacks suffered over the weekend is a simple one: Terrorists can’t be managed.
For decades, Israel worked with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) by combining incentives on the one hand with controlled military responses on the other. Major attacks, including rockets from Gaza last May, prompted retaliation, usually with air power, and a subsequent cease-fire, often brokered by Egypt.
When Iranian-sponsored militias set up weaponry in the West Bank, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted on-the-ground operations in Jenin and Nablus.
In the case of Hezbollah, Israel allowed the US to broker a maritime border semi-deal last year that allows Lebanon to pump natural gas and receive the financial benefit, which will accrue to Hezbollah and run the government in Beirut.
All in the name of tamping down fires that could ignite the big blaze.
The policy derived from several elements. The first is "world opinion," specifically American government opinion, that could turn against Israel unless it responded to terrorism in a manner congruent with pronounced Western standards. Israel believed that any military response had to happen quickly to avoid blowback from allies and friends as much as from enemies.
Israel has also always believed that someday, somehow there would be a political solution. Israeli leaders could be angry with Palestinian leadership — Hamas or the PA — but they also talked to them, subsidized them, looked the other way at language that veered into Nazi trope and even invited them to lunch.
The corollary was not to hammer too hard in response to terror and to go after individual terrorists, not the leadership, as much as possible — always leaving the door open to more talks.
Israel also thought it could use its long-range capabilities, especially airpower, to destroy enemy assets. While this sometimes worked as a form of retaliation, it never stopped the massive accumulation of Iranian-supplied and financed missiles, rockets and other weapons.
Hamas just demonstrated that fact by sending thousands of missiles into Israel and overwhelming Israeli air defenses not six months after the Spring rocket wars.
Israel understood, too, that billions of dollars flowed to the Palestinians not only from Iran and its partners like Qatar but also from the US and Europe. Much of it directly and indirectly fueled terrorism and hatred.
Israel itself provides gas and clean water as well as food aid and Israeli work permits. Before the weekend, 18,000 Gaza Palestinians entered Israel daily, sending $2 million per day into Gaza. To some extent, it was to help the people. To another, it aimed to moderate or placate Hamas.
It was no closer to true than the US financial support for Iran offered by the Obama and Biden administrations placated or moderated the mullah regime in Tehran.
One deeply-experienced Israeli expert writing about the intelligence failure that allowed preparations for the Hamas attack to go undetected noted, "Israelis have grown accustomed to missile attacks from Gaza." In short, Israel built up some defenses, retaliated and otherwise figured it was controlling the situation, when in fact it was losing the larger war.
Carrots and sticks failed; there is now no going back. The more media coverage shows the shocking depravity of Hamas terrorists when they found Israeli and even foreign civilians to rape and murder— people burned alive and babies decapitated — the more necessary it becomes for Israel to revise its battle plan. Not, IMO, the "battle plan" but the basic approach. To wit: Peace with "Palestinians" is impossible, time to reorient our policy to Peace without.
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