The scale and catastrophe of what happened is still becoming clear.

Yet the world seems to have moved on.

Already the international media are focused not on the atrocities Hamas committed against Israel but on the response of Israel to the terrorists of Hamas.

Every day the New York Times and other papers give their views on how Israel should bring the war to a draw.

And every day there are protests across the world made up of people who are either evil or ignorant. //

Here, like so many other parts of the community, there were occasional handprints in blood, where people had tried to stand or avoid being dragged in their dying moments.

These imprints should not be forgotten. These were all people who had done nothing wrong. //

Hamas didn’t allow them to live. The world must never forget this.

Israel cannot live with Hamas. The world must realize this.

Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון
@dannydanon
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Israel's internal security agency announced that they will eliminate all participants of the October 7 massacre.

The "photojournalists" who took part in recording the assault will be added to that list.
8:52 AM · Nov 9, 2023

But according to NBC News, DeSantis' claim was only "half true" - because he wasn't flying the planes himself:

“Biden’s neglect has been atrocious,” DeSantis said. “He left them stranded; they couldn’t get flights out. So I scrambled resources in Florida. I sent planes over to Israel, and I brought back over 700 people to safety.”

This is half-true. The Biden administration initially told Americans in Israel to take advantage of commercial flights on Oct. 9, but flights from Israel to the U.S. were scarce, and prices were reportedly as high as $25,000. Some Americans in Israel at the time posted on social media that they were stranded.

On Oct. 12, DeSantis signed an executive order that allowed the Florida Division of Emergency Management to pay for Americans in Israel to fly back to the U.S. The flights, however, were organized by the Tampa-based nonprofit group Project Dynamo, which specializes in rescuing Americans in distress, and DeSantis’ primary role was to fund the flights.

The Community Note added to it was spot on.

"The governor ordered the evacuation via an EO. The mechanics of how it was done doesn’t negate the fact that the Governor’s statement is true," it read.

Further, as one Twitter user, Faye Hausendorff, explained, DeSantis' involvement wasn't just to fund the flights:

Ok, I’m also going to call bullshit on the NBC note that Gov DeSantis “just” funded the flights. You and the rest of Gov DeSantis’s staff have been too modest to talk about this too much on Twitter, but I heard directly from friends and acquaintances who were on those flights how much you guys did to get them safely to the plane. If I understood correctly, there was quick coordination by the staff with IDF and Israeli government sources to get those passengers who were in dangerous areas to the flight in one piece and safely. In the case of one woman and her two young kids who had to hide in the car overnight, Gov DeSantis’s office kept talking to her and the IDF all throughout the night until they arrived safely at Ben-Gurion.

In the words of one acquaintance, a lifelong lefty, “Gov DeSantis’s people got me home, and my emergency email to the State Department went unanswered.” So no, the Governor and his staff did not just arrange for funding. You all may literally have saved lives. I am eternally grateful. And screw NBC.

Now we are getting some details that add to the level of inhumanity. It has come to light that several photojournalists might have either been given advance word of this plot or could have even been embedded with the Hamas attackers on that fateful Saturday morning. The staff at Honest Reporting combed through the attributed images of the day’s events as reported in Western news media outlets, and they looked into the names of photojournalists from two major news wires, who appear to have had unique access to Hamas activities that morning. //

On October 7, Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel. Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working for the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies whose early morning presence at the breached border area raises serious ethical questions. //

The idea of journalists working alongside a terror group as it commits war crime atrocities on the citizens of a country warrants introspection.

the face of ongoing war in the Gaza Strip, the Walmart Foundation has taken a strong stance in support of humanitarian efforts, pledging to donate $1 million to Magen David Adom in order to support the organization and its efforts to save lives. The company announced this move in a statement sent out on Friday to Walmart associates and partners.

Amalekites don’t just happen to harm women and children as “collateral damage.” Amalekites don’t carry out the ban, as Israel did, destroying men, women, children, and animals in select Canaanite cities, on Yahweh’s orders. Israel didn’t attack Jericho, Ai, or Hormah when all the men were gone. They attacked fortified and guarded cities, conquered them, and offered them in smoke and fire to Yahweh. Amalekites specifically target women and children and the weak. Amalek is the anti-Israel, a people whose way of life, values, and military tactics are set in direct opposition to Yahweh’s purposes for humanity. //

Hamas isn’t Amalek. Hamas isn’t literally under Yahweh’s ban and curse. And Hamas certainly isn’t the same as the Palestinian people. Thousands of Palestinians are Christians, and many Muslim Palestinians oppose Hamas and its violence. To compare Hamas to Amalek isn’t to justify or even suggest genocide.

Still, the tactics Hamas used on October 7 were Amalekite tactics. Hamas isn’t the only terrorist group to fight like Amalekites.

On Monday, Israel shot down a ballistic missile in flight outside of the Earth's atmosphere. This marks a historical first time that an anti-ballistic missile has successfully intercepted a target in space during combat. The missile was fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen and was targeting Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) used their Arrow anti-ballistic missile defense system, which is a joint American-Israeli project first deployed in Israel over 20 years ago.

This is what we are finding in Gaza.
A building where children play is a Hamas rocket launching site.
You have to see it to believe it: pic.twitter.com/KmMxfbYj93

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) November 6, 2023

the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has released even more footage from its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, the territory Hamas controls. The video shows Israeli soldiers walking through an abandoned building that appears to be a school. The soldiers point out the rocket launchers that were strategically placed in areas where they could be used to launch rockets into Israel.
https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1721358756187951580

In another video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, the IDF highlighted the existence of a network of tunnels and storage spaces being hidden under a hospital.

Also, as RedState reported Sunday, the official State of Israel X account posted footage of Hamas fighters opening fire at Israeli forces from the Sheikh Hamed hospital in Gaza.

Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson
Gaza and the Corruption of Language

“Apartheid”. Like most leftist smears, it reflects projection. Arab citizens inside Israel—over half of whom are Muslims—vote, run for office, and have organized political parties. As a fifth of the population, they enjoy more security, prosperity, and freedom than do their counterparts in the surrounding Arab nations.

In contrast, can one envision non-Arab Christian or Jewish residents of Gaza voting, running for office, forming political parties, or criticizing Hamas? This projected charge of apartheid, it applies to Hamas, which considers anyone other than Arab Muslims as inferiors to be kept out of Gaza.

“Ceasefire”. A ceasefire, truce, or armistice rarely ends the conflict for good unless both sides are worn out, and mutually agree that neither can win and the war is thus regrettable—a rare phenomenon in military history. More often, ceasefires are mere breathers for one or both sides to frantically resupply and rearm for rounds two, three, four…

Ultimately, wars—even those that last decades—end when one side loses and the other wins (often most clearly via‘unconditional’ surrender), or both suffer such calamitous losses that each believes victory is unachievable and will in the future continue to be so. Unless the antithetical political agendas that lead to war are resolved, then breathers and truces and time-outs eventually ensure lengthy or multiple wars. Victory leading to the loser’s abandonment of political agendas more often leads to lasting peace.

“Disproportionate”. Can anyone recall a war won by proportionate measures?

When war is proportionate it more often turns into a Stalingrad—or perhaps an Ukraine—until one side finds a disproportionate response that will change endless stasis to victory.

World War II was not won by a proportionate response to Pearl Harbor. And what would be a proportionate response to the murder of a thousand civilians?

Under the logic of “proportionality,” ought the Israeli state then invade Gaza and likewise murder a thousand of its civilians? The whole concept of a “proportionate" response to an unprovoked massacre of women and children asleep in their homes and during a peace is absurd.

“Civilian casualties”. In this war, almost all intentional civilian deaths are due to Hamas. The civilian dead consist of three unfortunate categories:

1) Over a thousand Jewish civilians, at a time of holiday, butchered by invading Hamas killer squads.

2) Gazan civilian shields whose homes and places of work are deliberately used to protect and enable Hamas rocketeers and shooters to wage war with impunity—in the expectation that Israel regards Gazan life as more valuable than does Hamas, and therefore won’t retaliate to missile launches by indiscriminately killing civilian shields. Hamas expects, even hopes, that they will be killed and thus bring them political advantage by their numerous deaths.

3) The general population of Gaza. The charter of Hamas ensures that its apparat will wage perpetual war at any cost against Israel. Hamas has no interest in a two-state solution, lasting armistices, or using billions of dollars in foreign aid to ensure modern power, water, and sewage plants for its people. Instead, it treats its own population as expendable and subordinate to its own tunnel-making and rocket-launching.

“Cycle of violence”. This phrase almost suggests that violence is organic, autonomous, without culpability, and thus not incited by one side. War, however, never works that way. Instead, there is usually definable 51% and more culpability on one side.

In the case of October 7, who invaded the country of another to enact a year-long preplanned plan of savagely murdering and mutilating women and children?

Was Israel intent on violence or was Hamas? Did Hamas call up their intended targets and urge them to flee before they arrived? Is that IDF trait even conceivable within Hamas?

While Hamas spent the year planning the precivilizational massacres of Jewish women and children, Israel—naively convinced that Hamas was concentrating on domestic affairs rather than its usual savage agenda of torching, stabbing, and shooting Jews—was at the time negotiating détente with Saudi Arabia and inviting nearly 20,000 Gazans a day to enter Israel to work and earn a living?

“Innocents”. All collateral damage is tragic, and, for example, children in Gaza are obviously innocent. But, while any noncombatant can be an innocent civilian, not all innocent civilians are created equal. Their collective innocence or guilt may not be absolute, but it can be fairly determined by their support for the agendas of its combatants and government. That is—whether they are empowering something like the SS or trying to stop it.

If bands of Israeli soldiers surprise-invaded Gaza with orders to grab hostages and focus on murdering women and children and then desecrating their corpses in hopes of psychologically devastating Gazans, they would likely be brought up on charges by the IDF or shunned and ostracized by their own people.

In contrast, when hostages were paraded in Gaza, civilians there seemed to enjoy spitting on and striking them. The return from Israel of the Gazan hostage-takers and murderers was met by ecstatic crowds.

The German population, similarly ruled by a “one man, one vote, once” dictatorship, was ebullient over Hitler’s success from 1939 to 1941, but lost their enthusiasm from 1942 to 1945, and feigned innocence (out of alleged ignorance or powerlessness) after the war was over.

So too, Gazans on Saturday, October 7 were enthralled on news of a thousand murdered Jews—only two weeks later to pose as innocent civilians not deserving retaliation for the inhuman violence against the innocent that they had so recently and so eagerly supported and cheered on.

Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 @Israel
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Disturbing images ⚠️

Four weeks ago today, 200+ young Israelis were butchered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival.

This is what the aftermath looked like through the eyes of an IDF soldier who came to rescue survivors.

Don’t look away.
The following media includes potentially sensitive content.
4:54 AM · Nov 4, 2023

Marauder Magazine @MarauderMag
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Replying to @Israel
I will never understand how college students in Ivy League institutions can justify something so horrendous. American academia is truly an assembly line for hatred.
5:00 AM · Nov 4, 2023 //

polyjunkie
31 minutes ago
After the war, General Eisenhower forced German civilians to walk through the death camps so they would see with their own eyes what their votes and their leaders had done. Most were just as appalled as we are today with what happened in Israel. Doesn’t take a lot of courage to slaughter unarmed kids and women. To equate the just war with Hamas with these massacres is not something civilized people do. Hamas hides behind civilians thinking that the West will call off Israel if the body count rises high enough. In this case, the only body count high enough is the death of every single Hamas “fighter”. Conveniently, the have dug their own tombs under Gaza city.

Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 @Israel
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Disturbing images ⚠️

Four weeks ago today, 200+ young Israelis were butchered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival.

This is what the aftermath looked like through the eyes of an IDF soldier who came to rescue survivors.

Don’t look away.
The following media includes potentially sensitive content.
4:54 AM · Nov 4, 2023

Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 @Israel
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Replying to @Israel

• the footage is from a police officer not an idf soldier
  5:32 AM · Nov 4, 2023

Members of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, broke down in tears, and one fainted as they watched a 45-minute video of the brutality Hamas unleashed on Israelis on October 7.

Things started off with a suggestion that Hamas is justified in slaughtering civilians in cold blood as it did on October 7th because Israel has killed civilians in its attempts to destroy Hamas. She further tries to paint an equivalency by claiming that Israel has "bulldozed" 55,000 Palestinian homes since 1948.

SHAPIRO: My answer is, that Israel would not be justified in killing Palestinian civilians because of the actions of terrorists, Israel would be justified in attempting to kill terrorists and civilian casualties are a cost of war. That is just a reality of war. During World War II, there were 70,000 Brits who died during the Blitz bombing, and there were two million Germans, civilians, who died during World War II, and I don't see a lot of monuments in Britain because of the two million civilians who died in Germany. //

In other words, even if everything she says is true (some of it is misleading), that still would not justify Israel going into Gaza and seeking out civilians to rape and behead, which is what Hamas did to Israel. //

QUESTIONER: Britain wasn't bombing civilian, civilians...(boos). There's a clear difference.

SHAPIRO: You should talk to the people in Dresden, but you can't because they're dead.

QUESTIONER: There's a clear difference. I agree that war is horrible, but this is not a just war. What Israel is doing is not a just war. There is a difference between fighting the Nazis...

SHAPIRO: So it's not a just war when you fight a war against people who murder 1,500 of your civilians and take 233 of them, last count, captive into tunnels. It is not a just war to obliterate them? Please name a just war.

The questioner ignored Shapiro's challenge, instead claiming that Israel has been killing civilians for the past 75 years. That's a pretty simplistic way of describing things given that the Palestinians (and Arab nations) have waged numerous wars against Israel during that time. Her intent seems to be the paint the Palestinians as strictly victims without acknowledging their continuous aggression and rejection of peace.

That leads us to Shapiro's biggest moment in this debate, which was getting the questioner to admit what she really wants.

SHAPIRO: Which part of Palestine is occupied?

QUESTIONER: The entirety of Palestine. //

Civilians dying is a tragedy, but Hamas chose to break the latest ceasefire, invade Israel, and massacre over a thousand people. With those actions come consequences. All the arguments in the world aren't going to stop the destruction of Hamas at this point.

Considering all the above, it is little wonder that progressives hate Israel and Jews with such passion. Progressives believe they must despise whatever, or whoever, the other side loves. Evangelicals, i.e., conservatives, love Israel and demonstrate no bias against Jews? We must do the opposite! And so, in its zeal to disdain everyone and everything held dear by those believed inferior, progressives have revealed the fatal flaw in their reasoning. They preach love and tolerance yet exhibit neither. Instead, they are miffed to the point of madness by the notion that the God in Whom they seldom believe has deemed someone other than themselves as His elect. As Jesus Himself said to His disciples just before His arrest and crucifixion, ironically speaking of the Jews in the psalmist’s words that today find themselves used against Jews, “They hated Me without reason.” //

anon-wyrw
41 minutes ago
Jerry,

While I agree with your basic review of the reasons that evangelicals support Israel, I believe that the progressive opposition to Israel vigorously defending itself runs much deeper than the typical knee-jerk reaction of the progs that whatever conservatives/evangelicals are for they are against. Time and again, the progs have sided with pure evil in all of its forms but have successfully masked their true intent. The attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7 has ripped off the mask. Now the world can clearly see that the progressives stand for evil in the same way that after Nazi Germany attacked Poland the world could see what they were actually about. Progressives hate the Truth because the Truth comes from God whom they also hate. They are against any authority that claims to be above and beyond their reach. If you begin with that premise, it explains much of why they behave the way they do and what groups and causes they support. //

FlorenceNightingale
9 minutes ago
Progressives, by the way, fear and despise evangelicals because they actually fear and despise God. Progressives avoid the Holy Scriptures and prefer psychology because they don’t want to feel “judged.” Well, here’s the news, folks! It’s unavoidable.

LexNaturae -> FlorenceNightingale
8 minutes ago
Well said. It's like ignoring gravity and hoping you won't fall ...

“There's been a lot of violence, a lot of terrorism in Israel, and I've seen a lot of it over the years. But honestly, nothing compares to what happened here. You're talking about now it's 1,400, way over a thousand, close to 1,100 are civilians, men, women, and children, babies, mothers…a mother who was pregnant, her belly cut up and terrible things done, other things that are beyond this. I've done interviews on TV and other places. You can't write this stuff. You can't say it, the details of what happened, of what a so-called human being could do.” //

Yeah, the irony, I mean, it's just beyond, beyond. Yeah, these communities were communities that, quote unquote, supported the Palestinian cause."

As for the nation of Israel, Mr. Hikind explained that the populace is united after having been through a period of deep division over various political matters. “But everything has changed,” he told me. “This country is as united as it has ever been, as determined to destroy Hamas.” //

“The respect that was shown to dead terrorists being collected and put into body bags was something that I couldn't believe…Two dead terrorists, being treated with dignity. Can you figure that one out?”

I also asked Mr. Hikind about the plight of civilians living in Gaza. He detailed how the refugees in Gaza and the West Bank have been wronged by their leadership, which has repeatedly refused to engage in good-faith peace talks with Israel.

Decolonization is a polite, academic-sounding phrase for genocide. These people don't want you to talk smack about our big-D, high-T ancestors settling this land and celebrating "Indigenous People's Day." They want to kill you. And they want you to go along with it just like the machinery of the Holocaust couldn't have functioned without the kapos and sonderkommandos who bought themselves a precious few days by killing others.

Decolonization is a strategy of losers directed at winners. It is a means by which members of failed cultures want to replace successful ones.

Israel's Air Force carried out a strike on the Jabalia refugee camp Tuesday that resulted in the destruction of a Hamas command bunker and the death of one of the senior planners of the October 7 terror attack. The attack also killed an unknown number of Gazans. Those deaths have become the focal point of international outrage and threaten the legitimacy of Israel's punitive expedition against Hamas. //

There are three craters that mark the bomb strikes. The strikes are very close together, indicating they were precision-guided munitions. Those craters are surrounded by massive failure of terrain. //

Note the building at the left, adjacent to a bomb crater, is not knocked down, while other buildings nowhere near a visible crater have disappeared. This corroborates the structural collapse of buildings reported by survivors rather than indicating bomb damage. All of this points to the existence of an underground complex like those Hamas has showcased to its allies. //

Various sources claim that the IAF dropped six tons of munitions. This would be the approximate weight of three GBU-28/GBU-72 "bunker buster" bombs designed to penetrate hardened, below-ground targets. //

Hamas locating a bunker complex in a residential area without removing the civilian population is a war crime. If Hamas refused to allow civilians to evacuate the area, that would be a war crime. Plus, we know it is Hamas's public policy to ensure as many Gazan civilians are killed as possible; Hamas Leader Says They 'Need the Blood of Women, Children, and the Elderly' to Inspire Terrorist Attacks. Any innocent blood shed in Tuesday's attack is on Hamas's hands. ///

All blood shed since Oct 6 is on the hands of Hamas

Bonchie @bonchieredstate
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Hamas: "We will continue to kill Jews until Israel no longer exists."

Global Left: "So what you're really telling me is that you want a secular two-state solution where everyone lives in peace."
8:14 AM · Nov 1, 2023 //

Disclose.tv @disclosetv
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NEW - Hamas official Ghazi Hamad says they will repeat October 7-like attacks until Israel is annihilated.

6:40 AM · Nov 1, 2023 //

Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 @MarinaMedvin
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Hamas leader says October 7, the torture and slaughter of Israeli families and children, is ”justified” and there will be more such attacks on Israel because their goal is to annihilate Israel. The Palestinian nation is one of “martyrs,” he says, proud to die for their cause.
7:37 AM · Nov 1, 2023 //

This is why, despite the tragedy of lives lost, Israel is not going to stop until Hamas is destroyed. All the arguments about a two-state solution have been scuttled by Hamas, who has made it clear they do not want one. It's long past time for pampered Westerners to believe them. //

LW
4 hours ago
"The Palestinian nation is one of “martyrs,” he says, proud to die for their cause."

Show the world you're a man of conviction and honor.

You go first.

Hamas has commanded a network of tunnels and terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip since it took control in 2007. The Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist organization uses civilian areas, including hospitals, to store and launch rockets and spread propaganda. In violation of international law, Hamas also uses hospitals to hide command centers and shield operatives.

Ever since Hamas took power in the Gaza Strip, the Iran-backed terrorists have been known for their barbarism, blood-thirsty attacks, and abysmal human rights record as the terrorist government prioritized the death of Israelis over the wellbeing of residents of Gaza. That includes, unsurprisingly, using hospitals as a key piece of their terrorist infrastructure along with a tunnel network and weapons production.

In Hamas' new bloody war against Israel, the use of hospitals has continued — if not increased — as they use the facilities that ought to be for care are instead used to kill. With an awful lot of Hamas disinformation being parroted by apparent terrorist sympathizers in the media, politics, and entertainment, it's worth setting the record straight.

The experts over at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) put together a quick list of "10 Things to Know About Hamas and Hospitals" that debunk anti-Semitic narratives about Israel's actions, lay bare the horror of Hamas terrorism, and make it clear that Hamas terrorists are war criminals, not some sort of liberating "freedom fighters" as some falsely and foolishly claim.

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/10/30/10-things-to-know-about-hamas-and-hospitals/