Reflections on Israel’s New Existential War, by Victor Davis Hanson

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, October 9, 2023

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush.

The Hamas invasion was designed to shock Israelis through their pre-civilizational desecration of the bodies of the dead

There have been plenty of terrorist attacks on Israel. A dozen or so conventional wars of various magnitude have been waged against the Jewish state. And more often there have been mixtures of both.

Yet never have hundreds of gangs of black-clad murderers carefully planned to swarm Israel, with an agenda to pull random Jews out of their homes and off the street, murder them, and toss their bodies in the street.

In fact, the closest parallel to the sort of methods Hamas is now embracing is something close to the Rwanda 1994 mass killing, when swarms of Hutu militia killers launched a preplanned murder spree against thousands of Tutsi civilians.

Note one common theme of these horrific videos of the murdering of young women: the bloodthirst of the Gaza crowd. There appears a natural desire of everyday Gazans to video the mutilations, an embrace of the spitting on the doomed, a frenzied effort to mutilate the dead—and the absence of a single Gazan objecting to the group murder of a civilian. …

Reflections on Israel’s New Existential War, by Victor Davis Hanson

The Vatican Synod Abandons the Foot of the Cross to Serve as a Jester in Pilate’s Palace, by Jason Scott Jones

Vatican Backtracks on Synod Media Blackout, by Elise Ann Allen

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, October 9, 2023

The Hamas invasion was designed to shock Israelis through their pre-civilizational desecration of the bodies of the dead

There have been plenty of terrorist attacks on Israel. A dozen or so conventional wars of various magnitude have been waged against the Jewish state. And more often there have been mixtures of both.

Yet never have hundreds of gangs of black-clad murderers carefully planned to swarm Israel, with an agenda to pull random Jews out of their homes and off the street, murder them, and toss their bodies in the street.

In fact, the closest parallel to the sort of methods Hamas is now embracing is something close to the Rwanda 1994 mass killing, when swarms of Hutu militia killers launched a preplanned murder spree against thousands of Tutsi civilians.

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Reflections on Israel’s New Existential War, by Victor Davis Hanson

The Vatican Synod Abandons the Foot of the Cross to Serve as a Jester in Pilate’s Palace, by Jason Scott Jones

Vatican Backtracks on Synod Media Blackout, by Elise Ann Allen

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, October 9, 2023

The Hamas invasion was designed to shock Israelis through their pre-civilizational desecration of the bodies of the dead

There have been plenty of terrorist attacks on Israel. A dozen or so conventional wars of various magnitude have been waged against the Jewish state. And more often there have been mixtures of both.

Yet never have hundreds of gangs of black-clad murderers carefully planned to swarm Israel, with an agenda to pull random Jews out of their homes and off the street, murder them, and toss their bodies in the street.

In fact, the closest parallel to the sort of methods Hamas is now embracing is something close to the Rwanda 1994 mass killing, when swarms of Hutu militia killers launched a preplanned murder spree against thousands of Tutsi civilians.

Continue reading >>>>

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