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Daniel J. Arbess's avatar

Be assured that Israel is fighting a just war on behalf of all of humanity, and it’s fighting with righteous precision and all efforts to sift and protect innocent human shields of Hamas from among hardened Islamist "martyrs", active and passive collaborators. Israel's civilian-to-combatant casualty ratio approaching 1:1 sets a new standard, better than any previous urban warfare, including the U.S. siege of Mosul. The Jewish nation takes no pleasure in the loss of any human life.

While this conflict may unfortunately still only be starting, when it ends, may the Ayatollahs be neutralized, the world more acutely attuned and ready to deal with the very real and insidiously infiltrating threat of political Islam.

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Rena's avatar

Yes, but.... when October 7th happened, I was completely horrified and it was obvious that Israel would this time have to overcome all previous hesitations and get into Gaza and get after Hamas and seek to disrupt and destroy its roots and its tunnels and its deadly power. But the first article I published about the situation stated flat out that if the international community actually gave a damn for the innocents of Gaza, who were about to be very much in harm's way, they would allow a temporary encampment outside the zone of conflict where people who were demonstrably and clearly NOT Hamas fighters could shelter and receive food and medical attention. There are actually FAR fewer civilian deaths in Gaza than the Hamas-controlled health ministry would lead you to believe. On the other hand, there are absolutely tragic deaths and injuries that have happened -- the blood is on Hamas' hands first, but on the "international community's" second. Everyone on the planet knows that Hamas' strategy is to use the civilian population as human shields and everyone is very busily playing into it. Which is why the shrieking at Israel is so very loud. No one wants people to start saying well if you are so concerned, why could not a little corner of Sinai be partitioned off temporarily to let these people live through this war and then come back to rebuild....... why couldn't the U.S. and other Arab states help Egypt to temporarily allow a humanitarian encampment? Because no one wants to deal with it -- so much better to keep up the line that it is all Israel's problem.

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