By reading the AI report, you would think the IDF was attacking a defenseless Disneyland at midsummer. But the truth, unmentioned by AI, was that Bint J’Bail was the chief site of Hezbollah rocket launching and artillery, and the site of one of the bitterest exchanges of the war

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As I pointed out in my previous post, both Gaza and South Lebanon have been converted into defacto military fortresses by paramilitary terrorist groups wedded to lunatic ideologies of violent jihad and martyrdom. When not oppressing and torturing their subjects, the bulk of their resources and activities are almost solely dedicated to the next round of martyr-making withIsrael. They are merchants of death, and nothing but. They worship it, preach it, practice it, and industriously instill it into their youth as if nothing else in the world mattered. All for Jihad. Jihad, Jihad, Jihad. For this, they will happily convert the whole of their dominions into rubble-strewn scrap-heaps of smoke and flame again and again.

The philosopher Plato could afford to admire Sparta because he did not have to live in it.  I sometimes wonder: How would these legions of left-leaning NGO’s and BDS and ISM activists feel if they themselves (and their loved ones) had to actually live under the brutal jackboot of the Hezbollah or Hamas regimes in these future killing grounds, and not just observe them from a safe and comfortable distance?