The attack on Israel -- mini-round-up

Most of my internet time since Saturday has been focused on news from the war (yes, this is a war) in southern Israel.  The parallels with Putin's invasion of Ukraine are astonishingly close.  In both cases a genocidal, totalitarian force (Russia, Islamism) has invaded a relatively small democracy whose very right to exist it explicitly denies.  Even the details of the vile atrocities committed by the invaders are startlingly similar.  In both cases most of the West has rallied to support the target of the aggression, while the most foul and depraved elements in our societies have slimed out from under their rocks to blame the victim and make excuses for the butchers and rapists.  And in both cases those butchers and rapists have bitten off a lot more than they can chew.

This is in no way a war of "liberation".  Israel withdrew its occupation and control of the Gaza Strip in 2005; the following year the people of Gaza elected Hamas to rule the area.  Nor is there any truth to the cliché of it being an "open-air prison".  The Gaza Strip is not part of Israel, nor claimed as such.  Israel restricting entry from there is no different than any country limiting migration from outside its borders (Egypt, which also shares a border with the Gaza Strip, also restricts entry from it).  Liberation movements do not massacre children or gang-rape women.  Barbarians do that.

Biden gets it.  His statement yesterday spoke of "pure, unadulterated evil", and the US has already begun delivering military help.  Zelensky understands the parallel between Israel's situation and that of Ukraine (here is his initial statement), as do many Ukrainians.

The Hamas barbarians' blood-lust was such that they even shot bodies that were already dead.  According to one report, they have beheaded infants.  This is an apparent hostage-taking or killing as it happened (audio only).  Here is a family being held hostage after one child was killed, though it's not clear to me whether the terrorists are actually in the room with them.  The repeated reports of women hostages being paraded around bleeding from the groin make it clear enough what else has been going on.  And don't forget those monsters chanting "Allahu akbar" over the desecrated corpse of Shani Louk, or the abduction of Noa Argamani at the music festival (where, so far, two hundred and sixty corpses have been found).  Some argue that such graphic imagery should not be spread around -- on the contrary, it needs to be spread as far and wide as possible.  Let no one escape the reality of what these savages have been doing (and rejoicing over), and of what the both-sidesers and excuse-makers are de facto defending.  The atrocities evoke the Holocaust itself.

This one mocks the tears of the bereaved.

Anti-Israel "progressives" in the West are revealing themselves for the anti-Semitic vermin that they are.  To me, those who can look at the horrors of the last few days and still both-sides this conflict or make excuses or moral equivalences or "yes but what about" or any of that shit are simply not fellow human beings any more.  I want nothing to do with them, ever again.  Such depths of moral depravity I cannot fathom.

Most Israel-haters know hardly anything about the country.  This blogger does know.  Note also that Arab citizens of Israel can vote and Arab parties hold seats in the Knesset, making nonsense of the drivel about "apartheid".

There are claims that the Iranian and Russian regimes helped or even partially orchestrated the invasion (the references to Iran originate here).  Personally I'm cautious -- some involvement does seem likely, especially from Iran which has a long-standing relationship with the anti-Israel terror groups, but it will take a while for its exact extent to be definitely known.

Reporting on this war demands honest language.

Here is a list of the filth in Congress who, in 2021, voted against aid for Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system (a purely defensive system).  One, at least, has now reacted to Hamas's new atrocities by blatantly displaying support for the savages.

Do not underestimate Israelis, who will do whatever it takes to make an end to Hamas once and for all.  We must stand with them.  The forces of democracy and civilization must resolve to defeat all these terrorist fanatics and gangster regimes which cause only war and destruction and misery.

Elder of Ziyon blog has a huge collection of further links, images, and excerpts on the invasion.

As for Hamas, its final legacy to the people of the Gaza Strip will be nothing but defeat, humiliation, and the stench of unburied death.