Moral reflections on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden – and Gaza.

October 11, 2023 by Jason D. Hill

The joint aerial bombing by the British and the United States of Dresden, Germany between February 12-15, 1945, killed up to 25,000 people. They were mostly civilians. The bombings had a devastating effect on Hitler’s Germany and played a key role in Germany’s surrender in the Second World War on May 8, 1945.

On August 6^th and 9^th of that same year, the United States of America detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The explosions killed between 129, 000 and 226,000 people. Less than a month later, the Japanese surrendered, thereby ending World War II and Japanese imperialism.

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Black Lives Matter Grassroots organization showed support for the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Tuesday as the terrorist group launched the deadliest attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust.

Black Lives Matter Grassroots, which represents 26 local BLM chapters across the country, issued a lengthy statement “in solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

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T. Belman.  This is a strange article coming from the NYT.  It seeks to explain how the Ukraine War has affected Russia- Israel relations.

Vladimir Putin has long projected friendly ties to Israel. But his silence since Saturday’s assault illustrates how the war in Ukraine has strained the relationship between the two countries.

By Anton Troianovski, NYT OCT 10/23

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has long cast himself as a friend of Israel and the Jewish people.

He helped establish visa-free travel between Russia and Israel in 2008, presided over the construction of a sprawling Moscow Jewish Museum in 2012 and, side by side with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in 2020, unveiled a memorial to the victims of Nazi Germany’s siege of Leningrad.

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T. Belman.  That’s what I have been wanting hear.

Minister Yoav Gallant meets soldiers who fought in the south, tells them they will not be restrained in the war against Hamas.

Israel National News   Oct 10, 2023 845 PM

Gallant tours devastated southAriel Hermoni/Defense Ministry

Defense Minister Yoav Galant toured the Gaza envelope today (Tuesday) and arrived at the headquarters in the Re’im area, where he held a situational assessment with Defense Ministry director-general Major General Eyal Zamir, the commander of the Southern Command Brigadier General Yaron Finkelman, and other commanders in the region.

Later, the Defense Minister visited Kibbuts Be’eri and met with the soldiers in the field, who he praised for their actions in defending Israel and its citizens.

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T. Belman. I hate this statement. Anyone know why?

It does nothing more than condemn the violence and ask for it to stop. True, it says Israel has the right to defend itself. But it always says that as it p-ushesw for a ceasefire. It also says “All of us recognize the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people, and support equal measures of justice and freedom for Israelis and Palestinians alike.” . There’s the rub. They are still backing the Palestinian cause.

Today, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States of America released the following joint statement following their call:

Today, we — President Macron of France, Chancellor Scholz of Germany, Prime Minister Meloni of Italy, Prime Minister Sunak of the United Kingdom, and President Biden of the United States — express our steadfast and united support to the State of Israel, and our unequivocal condemnation of Hamas and its appalling acts of terrorism.

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Hamas threatens to execute hostages in response to Israeli bombardment of civilians

By Dion Nissenbaum,  Stephen Kalin, , Dov Lieber, Nancy A. Youssef, WSJ
Updated Oct. 10, 2023 12:36 am ET

ALONG THE ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER—Israel prepared for what could be an extended ground assault in the Gaza Strip, and the Pentagon warned Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to “think twice” before joining the conflict and said it was prepared to come to Israel’s defense.

Dozens of tanks and hundreds of Israeli soldiers fanned out along the Gaza Strip border Monday, while Hamas threatened to execute Israeli hostages it seized some 48 hours earlier during a devastating invasion.

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By Dave Boyer and Mallory Wilson – The Washington Times – Monday, October 9, 2023

The savage attacks and atrocities by Hamas against Israelis have drastically weakened any support in the U.S. for the Palestinian cause, analysts and lawmakers said.

The parading of victims’ corpses and slaughter of unarmed Israeli families, much of the carnage shown on social media, make it virtually impossible for the U.S. to provide further support for Palestinians, who are governed by Hamas in Gaza. Even before the attacks, the State Department labeled Hamas as a terrorist group.

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T. Belman. My daughter sides with the West in the Ukraine War. She hates the fact that I side with Russia. I said I blame the West for this attack on Israel because of its support for disengagement, Oslo, PA and the TSS. She would hear none of it and blamed Russia’s complicity and gave me this article as evidence.

Everyone can share the blame but some more than others. No one compares to the harm done Israel by the Wests’s support for the TSS.   Bibi shares blame for mowing the lawn. Israeli intelligence shares blame. The IDF is blameworthy because it didn’t set up a major army base near Sderot and another near the Lebanon border. And let’s not forget the Israeli left of which she is a part, that supported Oslo, the disengagement and the TSS.

As for the WaPo article, what else would you exect?

By Francesca Ebel, WaPo Oct 9

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, shakes hands with Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit during a meeting in Moscow on Monday. (Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Russia has labeled opposition figures such as Alexei Navalny as “terrorists” and, since invading its neighbor, the Kremlin routinely denounces defensive Ukrainian strikes as “terrorist attacks.”<

But after Hamas militants carried out a brutal surprise attack in which hundreds of Israeli civilians were killed or kidnapped, Russia stopped short of condemning the Palestinian militant group, referring instead to what happened as “a spiral of violence” and pointing fingers at the West.

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ISRAEL SENT MASSIVE AMOUNT OF ARTILLERY SHELLS TO UKRAINE
MOSSAD IS BUSY IN uKRAINE HELPING THER INTELLIGENCE WORK

By Spencer Brown, TOWNHALL | October 09, 2023 12:00 PM

I can only add my voice of responsibility to confer legitimacy to as ruthless a military response as Israel can muster. Op-ed.

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN OCT 9/23

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This list already is too much, but my point is that I am not a tummler but speak with authority, responsibility, and am recognized as an expert in legal ethics, winner of the American Jurisprudence Award in Legal Ethics.

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Therefore I submit my voice, as the Holy Season of Judaism has come to a conclusion in Exile, to validate ethically as ruthless a military response as Israel can muster:

1. It is imperative, if Israel is capable of doing so, that it exterminate Hamas. Again: exterminate. Leave nothing behind of Hamas.
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#Jordan’s kinglet, Egypt’s Sisi and the fool sitting on a mountain of gold, these three have plotted, planned and then launched this ongoing war, to those three I say; Mark My Words, you will pay DEARLY for every drop of innocent blood https://t.co/mCVx16KBsA

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) October 9, 2023

By Ted Belman

NO CEASEFIRE

THE ATTACK ON GAZA SHOULD RESULT IN ALL GAZANS FLEEING TO EGYPT, NEVER TO RETURN.

ISRAEL WAS HACKED!
(Explanation from a close hacker friend of mine: as yet unreported, please distribute widely.)

I should have known something big was about to go down. I wasn’t paying close enough attention but the dates matter. Most of these groups are pro Palestime.

— Patrick Byrne (@PatrickByrne) October 9, 2023

3/26/23 – AnonGhost compromised the Israeli Gov and established the backdoor for remote access.

8/21/23 – Iron Dome was compromised by AnonGhost

8/28/23 – The announcement for the creation of the Five Families

— Patrick Byrne (@PatrickByrne) October 9, 2023

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Former prime minister Naftali Bennett calls the current conflict “the harshest event since the War of Independence.”

Speaking to Channel 12 news from southern Israel, Bennett elaborates: “This is not the Yom Kippur War — it is Yom Kippur multiplied by 100, because here we are talking about murder, the systematic slaughter of babies, girls, boys, things that are hard to bear.”

“We set up a Jewish state in this land in order to defend ourselves, and now the time has come to fight back,” he says.

“We have to lift up our heads… we are heroic people,” Bennett adds, citing acts of heroism by residents of Kfar Aza, Nahal Oz, Netiv Ha’Asara and other communities where “heroes confronted the terrorists,” killed some of them, and in some cases were killed. “We are a people of lions,” he says.

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“We’re waiting for any fragment of information about them,” the sister, Dafna, says in an interview in Ynet, where her missing brother, Roee Idan, works as a photographer.

Neighbors of Roee Idan and his late wife, Smadar, told the family that the child, Avigail, was seen after the incident with blood on her clothes. The blood came from a gunshot wound her father sustained, Dafna says.

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Twenty-two years after 9/11, the jihadis’ best friends are in the White House.

by Robert Spencer 38 Comments   October 9, 2023

When Hamas launched its latest jihad war against Israel, the Biden regime’s initial response was mind-numbingly predictable. At 2:58AM on Saturday, the U.S. Office of Palestinian Affairs tweeted in Arabic: “The US Embassy is closely monitoring the security situation as a result of rockets being fired from Gaza through southern and central Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and the infiltration of Hamas activists.” Yeah, “activists” with balaclavas and rifles, committing murder wherever they had the chance.

As if that weren’t bad enough, the same Office followed up at 3:24AM with an even more jaw-droppingly tone-deaf and wrongheaded statement: “We unequivocally condemn the attack of Hamas terrorists and the loss of life that has incurred.” Of course, the low-level Biden regime foreign service wonks who knocked together this boilerplate said nothing about bankrolling the attacks and making them possible. The wonks continued: “We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.”

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By Nation World News Desk

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke today (Monday) for the first time since the outbreak of war with the heads of authorities in the southern region and told them that the state will do everything possible to help everyone.

“We are in the middle of the campaign,” Netanyahu said. “I know they have been through terrible and difficult things. “What Hamas will go through will be difficult and terrible.”

He also said: “We are already in the campaign and we have just started it. Your leadership is very strong in these difficult days. “It will take time and will require a strong stance in the difficult days ahead.”

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