Why Israel Is Entitled to Roar through Rafah
Israel would be criminally negligent if it refrained from doing everything in its power to decimate and dismember Hamas
By
David Gottfried
The audio most relevant to this essay can be found between approximately 19:50 to 21:20 of this video
Today, May 27, 2023, the major media outlets of this country are screaming in totalitarian unanimity: Israel, allegedly, has committed grievous and mortal sins because in an attack in Rafah, against high-ranking Hamas Leaders who masterminded the atrocities of October 2023, about 45 people, some of whom may have been civilians, were killed. (Of course, whether or not 45 people were killed is very difficult to adjudge as all information coming from Gaza is screened, controlled and wholly subverted by Hamas and their subservient stooges in United Nations “relief” organizations.) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a man who has much to apologize for, such as his failure to defend Southern Israel adequately, apologized for the air strike. However, Israel should not have apologized.
Yesterday, Hamas fired rockets toward the very center of Israel, Tel Aviv, and those rockets were fired from Rafah. The Israeli government owes it to its people to rid Hamas of rockets (You may say it is undoable because Hamas has so many rockets in its vast serpentine labyrinth of tunnels. They have so many rockets and so many tunnels because of UN saps who facilitated the importation of munitions and other contraband into Gaza). Since rockets are coming from Rafah, Israel’s military must include Rafah among its targets.
Hell, many countries bomb other nations back to the stone age even when they were never even attacked by those other nations. For example, General Curtis E LeMay of the U.S, Joint Chiefs of Staff advocated bombing Cuba, and later Vietnam, back to the stone age.
With all due respect to the United States, the United States, and most nations of the world, have no right to criticize Israel for the inadvertent loss of civilian life. Very simply, many nations slaughter innocent civilians when those nations are not in any degree threatened. By contrast, Israel is phenomenally threatened.
The Magnitude of the Arab and Islamic Threat
The Arabs outnumber her in population by about 100 to 1. The Arabs outnumber her in square milage by about 200 to 1. Scores of Arab leaders, from the beginning of the 20th century until the present day, have threatened to wipe out all the Jews of Israel (when they wax hysterical, they salivate and scream that they will extinguish all the Jews of the world). They have reneged on all of their pledges for peace as they continued to launch terrorist attacks even after Israel gave the Palestinians self government in the West Bank and Gaza, withdrew from Gaza in 2004 (forcibly removing 50,000 Jewish settlers from Gaza), withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, offered to cede 96 percent of the West bank to the Arabs in 2000, and gave Egypt the Sinai Peninsula, or about three quarters of the total landmass under Israeli control, in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
Also, the specific ways in which the Arabs attack or maim exemplifies their uncommon wickedness and sadism. According to the New York Times, in the October 2023 attack on Israel, Hamas drove nails into the vaginas of Jewish women and hacked breasts off women’s bodies and then proceeded to throw the breasts around as if they were balls used for sports. 1 Arabs also evinced their penchant for cruelty when they captured East Jerusalem in 1948 and proceeded to ransack an old Jewish cemetery and use the tombstones to create a latrine for Jordanian soldiers.
Although Israel has engaged in military action when her enemies have placed daggers at her throat, other nations have seen fit to mutilate and maim when their enemy has been 12 thousand miles away and had never done them any harm.
America, and almost every society on earth, have been as bloody as they damn well-pleased, and these states have no right to fault Israel
North Vietnam was about 10 to 12 thousand miles away from the California coast. Not a single terrorist, or violent or military attack was ever committed by a North Vietnamese soldier, or a member of the Vietcong, outside of South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Neither the North Vietnamese nor the Vietcong ever committed a single terrorist act United States soil.
However, as Robert Kennedy related on Face the Nation, on November 26, 1967 (Robert Kennedy’s appearance on Face the Nation can be seen at the commencement of this essay), United States’ aggression in Vietnam resulted in:
A) 150, 000 civilian casualties per year (We were there, in different capacities and in varying numbers, for two decades) in South Vietnam alone, In Laos and North Vietnam, we killed many more as the bomb tonnage we dropped there was twice the tonnage dropped by all combatants in all theatres of World War Two;
B) 35,000 people in South Vietnam were missing limbs;
C) Millions of people in South Vietnam were rendered homeless because we burned their villages to the ground or declared their village part of a free-fire zone;
D) Also, Robert Kennedy sarcastically said that we may be fighting in South Vietnam to keep the communists l2,000 miles from California and not let them come as close as 11,000 miles from California. By contrast, Gaza is adjacent to Israel. One can drive from Gaza to Tel Aviv, where about half of Israel’s population is situated, in 90 minutes.
However, CNN and other news organizations blare about a few dozen deaths in Rafah as if mankind has descended to a new abyss in moral turpitude. CNN and other 24-hour news organizations repeat the same uninformative headlines every 15 minutes and never provide a shred of historical context. The result: Much of the populace is a vulgar, ugly mass of screaming simpletons who know nothing but the headlines which the networks shout ad nauseum.
Of course, so many other nations the world over are busily killing innocent people, and some of them don haughty black robes and are on various human rights organizations convened by the pompous and petty United Nations. The French, desirous of mollifying their perpetually enraged Muslim populace, love to attack Israel for its alleged imperialism, but the French somehow thought that the security of France depended on its possession of colonies all over the world. Ditto the English. Ditto most of Europe.
Europe, a continent graced by Jewish talent for twenty centuries, saw fit to colonize every other continent on earth, kill, or abet the killing of 6 million Jews by being silent, and now disparages Israel as the bastion of bestial colonialism.
Iran and Iraq profess to laud and lionize human rights, but they waste human lives like a professional exterminator killing roaches. In the Iran-Iran war, which lasted the better part of the 1980’s, the Shiite Muslims and the Sunni Muslims got their jollies by having a holy war against one another which killed close to one million Iranians and Iraqis. Given the bloodiness of Muslims in dealing with their fellow Muslims, how would they deal with the Jews if they ever got the chance. We can see how they deal with Christians by surveying the continuing slaughter of Christians in Lebanon and Egypt and all over Africa. I don’t know how deep and vast Arab bloodlust is (When Sadaam was toppled, some Iraqis said that they wanted to drink his blood), but I do know this: Any Jew who would trust a Muslim pledge of peace would make Neville Chamberlain’s conduct at Munich appear to be prudent and vigilant in its defense of Britain’s security needs.
New York Times, December 28, 2023, ‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7