Good intelligent comments, things don’t just happen.
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/my-political-lens-strategy-over-morality

I am not aware of the edict from either Biden or Powers, but it sounds about right. This is all an extension of the Obama apology tour presidency legacy. Treason IMO.

Who got an interest in dividing Americas attention away from The Ukraine? Might that same country have forces in Syria?

Back in 2010 or so the Israelis talked alot about how their electronic surveilance systems at the Gaza border would make any incursion from Gaza into Israel impossible. I have seen Israelis alluding to that the surveillance hub was very close to the Gaza border and overrun in the first half an hour. I have seen Americans saying that the surveillance was jammed, presumably from Syria, by relative veteran Russian Electronic Warfare crews: veterans because they have fought against western systems in the Ukrain for two years. Which is true? Hopefully the Israelis know.

My own guess would be they took a leaf from Operation Badr (1973), doing run ups to the border but never breaching it until the Israelis stopped noticing: “Ho hum they are rioting and tossing rocks at the wall again. Lets call high command after we have had breakfast!”, but 20 minutes later Hamasniks are tossing hand grenades into the canteen…

>I do not understand what Hamas was thinking, what did they think their end game would be after a mass murder of women, children >and innocents?

Before 2005 or so most of the actual Hamas members in Gaza actually were PLO/FATAH members, and PLO/FATAH were aways from their founding a fully owned subsidiary of the Soviet Union. The normal political education in such movements is about convincing them about the inevitability of their victory over “the capitalist imperialist powers”, so that they’ll march to their deaths obediently at the direction of the Soviet Union. “The History of the 20th Century as written by Yuri Andropov” includes things like “Algeria was a part of France as much as Normandy or Picardie, BUT WE WON, and here is how we did it!” and “South Vietnam was supported by the full fordce of the USA, BUT WE WON, and here is how we did it!”, and “Israel had taken Sinai and were supported by the full force of the USA, BUT WE WON, and here is how we did it!”

The Algerian war had an episode almost exactly like 7th October: the Phillippeville Massacre/Al-Halia. Still today it is celebrated as a great victory over France, since it (and FNL death-squads) and the French reprisals convinced moderat Algerians and Frenchmen that peaceful coexistence was impossible. Philippeville is renamed Skikda today, and there is a memorial to the planner of the massacre…
(Note that Wikipedia still perfunctory referes to the French reprisals as “blind” because thats what FNL said. Shades of the “Gaza Health Ministry” today)

The end game in Algeria was when the French signed an agreement with FNL: Algeria got independence in return for letting the Frenchmen there stay and keep their property and in the future choose their citizenship. The very day of independence FNL and civilian Algerians started killing French civilians (Oran massacre 1962). The remaining French military got orders from Paris not to intervene to avoid jeopardizing the peace treaty. Those French civilians that could, left. FNL claims it was not official policy but independent FNL units, and besides “The French civilians shot first at our soldiers!”

>Is Hamas counting on the very “Community organized” Leftist protests in America to save them from what is coming for them? Gotta >have a stronger end game than that.

Neither Ngô Đình Diệm, nor Nguyễn Văn Thiệu could be reached for comment.

They don’t have to convince a majority of Americans, they only have to convince enought that the media can manufacture an illusion of majority. Then the majority will think “Sad about Sou… sorry, Israel, but I can’t change everyones opinion on my own, and it looks like the majority wants to leave them to their fate.”

TLDR: Putin asked Iran to help draw US attention away from the Ukraine. Iran asked Hamas to attack because they hoped this would also stop any rapproachment between Israel and Saudi-Arabia. Hamas choose 1 from column A (Operation Badr) to get surprise, in order to perform 1 from column B (Philippeville massacre). They were hoping for the Israelis either being forced to abandon everything east of Be’er Sheeva or south of Ashdod and Israelis emigrating out of fear, or the Israelis doing some kind of massacre that would turn the world (more) against them. If they could use 1 from column C (Fall of South Vietnam) to keep the US from using its Veto in the UNSC to prevent the UN from institute an economic blockade against Israel.

>AND, the Israelis will hunt down the Hamas leadership ensconced in other countries like they hunted down and killed the Munich >Olympics murderers.

“Oh no, the evil Jews killed a peaceful father of five living in peace in Belgium! Just because he was a Dissident that wrote for Justice for Palestinians, and because he was a Poor Opppressed Palestinian! You must immediately Boycott Divest and Sanction these Zionist Usurpers!”

>The enemy is within:

You do know that Joe Biden/Samantha Powers etc has threatened Israel that if Israel uses US supplies (M16’s, ammunition) to arm civilian Israelis, they will stop deliveries of military supplies to Israel? Do you?

“It should be remembered that in our selection of any target, the 20th Airforce is operating primarily to laying waste all the main Japanese cities…The 20th Airforce is systematically bombing out the following cities with the prime purpose in mind of not leaving one stone, lying on another.”

Israel also has an issue with an identity rooted in victimhood, sometimes seeing the present conflict as reminiscent of the Holocaust. Israel also remembers each time the Palestinians Arabs broke previous agreement and feels grieved. As justified as these grievances are, they are not a good foundation for a healthy culture, because neither hate nor victimhood ever is. However, Israel does have many positive things to rest its values on, so its victim identity is not as extreme as that of the Palestinians.

When one’s identity is based on victimhood, hate and blame you never stop fighting. Ever. War is who you are, so peace is unbearable. War continues until your society either self destructs, or is kept on life support by a third party. That is what we see with the Palestinian Arabs, and (to.a far lesser degree) the Israelis as well. The only way I can see for this to end is for the whole world to agree to not give a penny of aid to either side for any reason. Then the victim culture self destructs. That is impracticable, so the fight will go on. Both sides will be funded by willing enablers in the rest of the world.

Maybe a Northwoods after all..

I do not understand what Hamas was thinking, what did they think their end game would be after a mass murder of women, children and innocents?

Israel, no matter what Joe or anyone else has to say about it will kill every and all Hamas members that are remaining in the Gaza strip.

Hamas is essentially no more as a political organization now, they have ensured their extinction IMO.

AND, the Israelis will hunt down the Hamas leadership ensconced in other countries like they hunted down and killed the Munich Olympics murderers.

And that is how it should be.

Is Hamas counting on the very “Community organized” Leftist protests in America to save them from what is coming for them? Gotta have a stronger end game than that.

Iran is going to save them?

They were assignment by Iran to getting America into a second war front to wear it down?

Does not make sense to me.

“To bolster public support for ratification, Wilson barnstormed the Western states, but he returned to the White House in late September due to health problems. On October 2, 1919, Wilson suffered a serious stroke, leaving him paralyzed on his left side, and with only partial vision in the right eye. He was confined to bed for weeks and sequestered from everyone except his wife and his physician, Cary Grayson. Bert E. Park, a neurosurgeon who examined Wilson’s medical records after his death, writes that Wilson’s illness affected his personality in various ways, making him prone to “disorders of emotion, impaired impulse control, and defective judgment.” Anxious to help the president recover, Tumulty, Grayson, and the First Lady determined what documents the president read and who was allowed to communicate with him. For her influence in the administration, some have described Edith Wilson as “the first female President of the United States.” Link states that by November 1919, Wilson’s “recovery was only partial at best. His mind remained relatively clear; but he was physically enfeebled, and the disease had wrecked his emotional constitution and aggravated all his more unfortunate personal traits.

Throughout late 1919, Wilson’s inner circle concealed the severity of his health issues. By February 1920, the president’s true condition was publicly known. Many expressed qualms about Wilson’s fitness for the presidency at a time when the League fight was reaching a climax, and domestic issues such as strikes, unemployment, inflation and the threat of Communism were ablaze. In mid-March 1920, Lodge and his Republicans formed a coalition with the pro-treaty Democrats to pass a treaty with reservations, but Wilson rejected this compromise and enough Democrats followed his lead to defeat ratification. No one close to Wilson was willing to certify, as required by the Constitution, his “inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office.” Though some members of Congress encouraged Vice President Marshall to assert his claim to the presidency, Marshall never attempted to replace Wilson.Wilson’s lengthy period of incapacity while serving as president was nearly unprecedented; of the previous presidents, only James Garfield had been in a similar situation, but Garfield retained greater control of his mental faculties and faced relatively few pressing issues.”

For the viewpoint of a retired senior sergeant, I encourage you to consider Ryan Mcbeth’s Substack. He is very good at showing what is real and what is propaganda, He even admits mistakes. Imagine THAT on the Internet !

https://ryanmcbeth.substack.com/