Further updates about the atrocities committed against innocent Israelis in the barbaric terrorist attack on Saturday makes it almost unbearable to try to keep up with the unfolding, heart-wrenching developments about the mounting death toll.
As ex-New York Times reporter Alex Berenson wrote on Substack, “The news out of the Israeli desert this weekend was so shocking and repulsive that you can be forgiven for avoiding its details.”
Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a multi-faceted military response against the Hamas terrorists who unleashed this massacre.
Although there will be plenty of time for a dismal inquiry, it does seem like this attack reflected a major failure on the part of the intelligence community.
According to Prof. William Jacobson, the founder of the the Legal Insurrection website, “Hamas regularly went far beyond killing people, and deliberately tried to humiliate and torture people with rape, execution of loved ones, killing and kidnapping children and the elderly, and parading victims through the streets of Gaza through depraved crowds who beat and defiled the bodies.”
Historian Victor Davis Hanson has authored a perceptive essay that contains a lot to unpack, and is well worth reading in its entirety, including that the Biden administration has a lot of explaining to do, particularly in sending $6 billion to Iran, a country that federal government designates a state sponsor of terrorism.
…In fungible fashion and in anticipation of the arrival of this cash windfall, Iran no doubt accelerated its shipments of arms to Gaza…Almost immediately, after his inauguration an eager Biden mobilized to resume the bankrupt Iran deal. In unhinged fashion, he appointed the anti-Israeli bigot, pro-Iranian zealot journalist Robert Malley as America’s chief Iranian negotiator…
Upon the ascension of Biden and his woke strategic agendas, we witnessed the following chain of events: 1) the 2021 complete humiliation of the U.S. military in Kabul in its greatest defeat in 50 years; 2) followed by Vladimir Putin’s 2022 opportunistic invasion of Ukraine; 3) followed by China’s new belligerence and escalating threats to Taiwan; 4) followed by Turkey’s new de facto alliance with Russia and recent drone encounter with the U.S. air force in Syria; 5) followed by the Hamas/Iranian inspired attack on Israel—6) with more to come unfortunately…
Further on this subject from New York Post columnist Miranda Devine:
The weekend’s depraved attack by Iran-sponsored Hamas terrorists on Israel reportedly blindsided US and Israeli intelligence. How could that be?
Any postmortem on what went wrong has to include:
The Biden administration’s preoccupation with its diabolical Iran nuclear deal, the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action launched by the Obama administration, scrapped by Trump’s, and reanimated by President Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The recent bust of an Iranian spy ring said to reach into the highest levels of the State Department and the Pentagon.
The crackdown on anti-Iranian dissident group MEK in Albania in June.
The same Biden-Blinken brain trust responsible for the debacle in Afghanistan has done nothing but appease the terrorist regime in Tehran since day one.
They just released an additional $6 billion to Iran, have eased off on sanctions enforcement, pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into Gaza and betrayed Iranian dissidents, all to curry favor with Tehran.
There are inadvertent favors, too, like the US weapons left behind in Afghanistan that found their way to Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, according to a Newsweek report in June…
Former Trump advisor and America First Legal founder Stephen Miller lambasted Biden and his handlers for what happened particularly since the ex-POTUS handed a peaceful world to them.
“His Administration’s toxic blend of idiocy, imbecility, incompetence and ideological extremism has turned calm into calamity. Peace into pandemonium. Harmony into hell.”
The terrorist apologists on MSNBC were even too much for former Obama operative Jonathan Greenblatt, who head the ADL, an organization that has devolved into just another arm of the Democrat Party.
El Salvador’s president also weighed in after this horrible mass murder:
Hanson concludes his essay as follows:
In a sane world, the Biden administration would immediately cancel all talks with Iran, renew sanctions, and stop any cash transferences. (Why were the Obama and Biden administrations so fond of sending so much money to theocratic Iran)? It would stop all aid to the West Bank and Gaza. It would put a travel ban on anyone from Iran or the West Bank and Gaza and pull visas of any currently from Palestine in the U.S. It would immediately ramp up defense spending, especially on missile defense, dismantle the woke commissariat in the Pentagon, and prepare for the unthinkable and existential abroad.
And there is likely zero chance that the handlers of Joe Biden will do any of that.
Just the News reports that “the failure of American and Israeli intelligence to detect the Hamas attack on Israel coupled with the rising number of suspected terrorists at the U.S. border are raising national security concerns inside the United States.”
