Netanyahu tells Israel ‘We are at war’ after Hamas launches an unprecedented attack, killing at leas

Disagree. Very different situations.

 

Apropos to nothing if I were named Fred garvin and say the SNL skit “Fred Garvin Male prostitute” I’d at least start going by the name Frederick.

 

I still cannot get my mind around the fact that they were able to pull this off with such mobilization, and with capabilities I would have not thought they had. Everyone's talking about the Israeli ground offensive without realizing that they have to mobilize. But beyond that, are you even sure you can protect your armor? Do you need to do retrofitting? I'm sure you know more about all these things than I do and are not at liberty to say. But I wonder about it and I try to figure out open source what the likely answers are

 

The operation "Iron Swords" has begun. This is how Israel is eliminating Hamas (msn.com)

 

The $6B is a mindless distraction, totally irrelevant to this issue, solely for US political posturing

 

This is fevered nonsense.

 

Hamas still operating in Israel according to latest reports. I think we can all get behind the hope that in bringing things to order this is the end of the Nutty Yahoo govt

 

More nonsense. But you do you..

 

In failing to read the whole thread before responding, you fail to capture the actual issue. The issue is not whether one cent of that tribute directly supported this attack. The issue is that we just agreed, despite all of the common sense to do otherwise, to give $6B to the people who funded this attack. Sure, you can argue that Sullivan et al did not know that Iran would do this via Hamas. But anyone with access to the information they have should understand that Iran negotiates in bad faith. You don’t give them more means to achieve their sordid ends. So either Sullivan et al knew Iran would do something like this, and gave Iran the money anyway, which makes them malevolent; or they didn’t know, despite the evidence and historical record, which makes them stupid. I will be satisfied if the Administration takes accountability and says it was slow to learn who the Iranian Regime really was. I will not be satisfied if for political reasons they hide behind a bunch of excuses, equivocations, distortions, and misdirections. That was a stupid deal. And we need to all be calling it a stupid deal today.

 

Is it nonsense if it turns out to be true? Eventually, Israel is going to capture some of those weapons. And they all have serial numbers.

 

One possible explanation for the Israeli intelligence failure was offered by a retired military officer on CNN. Hamas used primitive means to do all the planning, i.e. no use of cell phones, computers, etc. It was all done by couriers. Takes a lot longer to plan things that way, but it looks like it damn sure worked.

 

The Farhud by Edwin Black is a good one.

 

Meh we got get the hostages back

 

Sad to see those, but those were armed IDF and had a chance. I’m disgusted at the scores of women and kids shot point blank.

 

Meh It’s not hard to get all sorts of weapons in this world not worried about what ever the Taliban got its hands on. Out rapid exit fro Afghan was right and proper.

 

So it’s not absurd then. You agree that those might indeed be U.S. weapons in the hands of Hamas.

Meh.