By Mike Huckabee
October 9, 2023
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https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/hamas-attack-israel-war
All we can do, aside from urging you to pray for Israel and the victims of this unconscionable terrorist assault (those who were killed, injured or taken hostage), is give you a brief recap of the major news thus far, point you to some of the most important commentary, and add some of my own.
To bring you up to speed: On Saturday, Hamas staged the biggest attack on Israel in years from the Gaza Strip, launching a barrage of thousands of rockets in an attempt to overwhelm Israels’ Iron Dome missile defense. The militants also infiltrated Israel and attacked unarmed men, women and children, even slaughtering at least 260 people who were gathered for a music festival. Depending on the source, the current death toll is reportedly between 800 and 1100, including nine Americans, with more than 2,000 wounded, and an unknown number taken hostage, which might include Americans, but that’s not yet verified at this writing. Many are calling this Israel’s 9/11, and I don’t think that’s an overstatement. Here is just one example of Hamas’ savagery, and I don’t even want to describe it here.
Israel has declared itself to be in a state of war for the first time in 50 years, and Prime Minister Netayahu has deployed tens of thousands of troops to the Gaza Strip. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said he has ordered a “complete siege” of Gaza, cutting off water, electricity and food, adding, "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly." Netanyahu predicted that this war will be long and difficult, but military officials vowed to “kill every terrorist in Israel.”
Of course, the big question looming over this atrocity was how such a massive attack could have been planned and executed without Israeli intelligence getting a whiff of it? That question might have been answered by Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, who revealed that the attack was planned with help from Iranian security officials and greenlit by Iran at a meeting last week in Beirut. Judging from the military equipment the terrorists are using, including sophisticated drones, it’s likely Iran also helped supply the weaponry. Iran’s “Supreme Leader” even praised the barbaric attack as it was happening.
This shouldn’t have been a surprise. Some of us have been warning of the dangers of Iran for years, even as the Obama and now Biden Administrations have done everything possible to lift sanctions, release frozen assets and claim that Iran’s leaders can somehow be bribed or schmoozed into giving up their rabid hatred of America, Israel, Jews and any non-radical Muslims who dare question them. Here’s your answer for how well that idiotic notion works out in reality. Now, imagine them with nuclear weapons.
Donald Trump saw this coming last month, when Biden unfroze $6 billion in Iranian cash to get some US hostages released (reportedly really $16 billion; the other $10 billion didn’t get as much press.)
https://www.westernjournal.com/flashback-trump-predicted-terrorist-attacks-money-provided-us/
Trump predicted it would be used to fund terrorism, but the Biden White House insisted that, oh no, it could only be used for “humanitarian” purposes. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is desperately trying to spin that, still insisting that none of that money was used for this attack, and it wasn’t US taxpayer money but “Iranian resources that Iran has accumulated from the sales of oil.”
What an impressive string of irrelevant points. Who cares if the money that funded this atrocity came out of that particular Iranian bank account or another one? It came from IRAN, which is why we shouldn’t be freeing up funds, lifting sanctions and letting them build nuclear reactors. And thanks for inadvertently admitting the truth that Iran has accumulated a lot of resources from selling oil. That’s billions of dollars they wouldn’t have accumulated if Joe Biden hadn’t declared war on the US fossil fuel industry and driven up the price of oil while making other nations more dependent on sources like Iran.
And just to be abundantly clear, here’s a former State Department advisor on Iran explaining precisely why the Biden crew’s frantic spin about that $6 billion is garbage, and it actually “freed up huge reserves” that Iran could use to continue funding terrorism through groups like Hamas.
There is also a claim by a high-ranking Israeli Defense Forces commander that some of the equipment left behind in Afghanistan during Biden’s botched pullout was used to attack Israel.
If you think this Administration has the slightest idea of what it’s talking about when it comes to Iran, here’s a reminder that just eight days before the attack, Biden’s “National Security Adviser” Jake Sullivan was boasting of all their accomplishments in the Middle East and declared, “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-national-security-advisor-get-wrong-one-week-massacre-israel/
Another very disturbing aspect of this attack has been watching the attempts by people in the US and Europe to put the blame for it on Israel, Republicans, Donald Trump or anywhere other than where it belongs: on the vicious, barbaric, hate-filled Hamas terrorists who committed it.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/migrants-throughout-europe-celebrate-hamas-attacks-against-israel
I am fed up to my eyeballs with the moronic moral equivalencies and immediate calls for a cease-fire dished out by far-left, anti-Semitic “Squad” members in Congress, MSNBC commentators and other useful idiots of radical Islamic terrorists.
https://www.westernjournal.com/squad-dems-weigh-terrorists-murder-hundreds-israel/
We even had an official government agency, the US Office of Palestinian Affairs, tweet out, “We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.” That was quickly deleted with the State Department saying it was not authorized and doesn’t reflect US policy, which is to unequivocally support Israel’s right to defend itself.
Good. I don’t want to hear any balloon juice from liberal bureaucrats urging Israel to show restraint and end the violence, which can be translated as “let their people be slaughtered and do nothing to stop it.” We had something like that in the 1930s and ‘40s, and Jews and all other decent people all over the world vowed, “Never again.” “Never” means “NEVER.”
The “Democratic Socialists of America” held a rally in Times Square on Sunday to cheer the Hamas attack on Israel and the slaughter of innocent civilians. So the next time some “Democratic Socialist” tries to convince you that they’re not REALLY your dad’s America-hating socialists, remember this and realize that you can call a scorpion a butterfly, but it’s still a scorpion.
Here’s something that I sincerely hope will make people rethink sending their kids to an Ivy League school: 57 student groups at Harvard signed a statement holding Israel “entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” Yes, they think it’s Israel’s fault that Hamas terrorists murdered hundreds of innocent people and injured thousands more. I wonder if they’d blame Israel or Trump if some of the millions of unvetted illegal entrants allowed into the US under Biden turned out to be terrorists and attacked a music festival they were attending?
On that subject, look at how many people inside both the US and European nations are celebrating this barbarism and ask yourself how they got there and if they might do it, too.
And here’s more blinkered stupidity from Human Rights Watch, who previously slammed Israel for having too much security on the barrier between Gaza and Israel.
https://instapundit.com/610037/
But the biggest morons on the planet had to be the pro-Palestinian protesters from a group called “Queers for Palestine.” One commentator asked if they were aware that the only place in the Middle East where they could be openly gay and not be executed is Israel?
Finally, I will urge you again to pray for Israel and for the victims of this horrific attack, and end with this thought-provoking commentary from Victor Davis Hanson:
https://twitter.com/VDHanson/status/1711174923220361268
Hanson also posted this on Twitter (X)…
https://twitter.com/VDHanson/status/1710800023028641940
“Here we are 78 years after the end of the Holocaust and once again, thuggish killers dressed in black are pulling Jewish elderly, women, and children out of their homes and executing them, and then throwing their bodies into the street. But in 1945, we were fighting the SS murderers, now we are sending millions in subsidies to their modern Hamas killer squad counterparts. We the American people should demand not one more American cent to these Gestapo and SS killers.”
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