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I have returned from a glorious birthday vacation with "Atlanta family" from when we lived there 18 years ago. While away I did not respond to many e mails and several of my memo readers called Lynn to see if I was ok because I said, when I left, no more more memos.
I did keep up with what was going on in Israel and will have more to say about that in a forthcoming Memo.
This memo is to let you know I am back, had beautiful weather, great time playing tennis with my buddies and have much on my plate but have enough time for these videos. Me
My kind of guy!
Israel Vows
It Has Only Just Begun as Punishing Airstrikes Light Up Hamas Positions
The
Middle East has erupted in violence after Hamas launched rocket attacks against
Israel — but the Palestinian Islamist organization is about to get exactly the
hellfire it deserves.
Since
Tuesday, nearly 850 rockets were launched in the attack on Jerusalem and
other Israeli havens, sparking the most significant conflict between the
enemies since 2014, Fox News reported.
Many
of the incendiary devices were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome Aerial
Defense System, but at least six Israelis were
killed as of early Wednesday.
The hundreds of bombs launched in the nation’s counter-attacks left 43 Palestinians dead and over 200 reported wounded by the Gaza Health Ministry, according to Fox.
Early morning attacks Wednesday by the Israeli Defense Forces zeroed in and struck Palestinian security and police forces, and the IDF confirmed that one of its strikes took out Hamas intelligence brass.
“Our
fighter jets, with the ISA, neutralized key figures of Hamas’ intelligence:
Hassan Kaogi, head of the Hamas military intelligence security department &
his deputy Wail Issa, head of the military intelligence counterespionage
department,” the IDF tweeted.
“Looks like our intel was better.”
Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised
this is only the beginning in a statement Tuesday.
“We
are in the midst of a major campaign — Operation Guardian of the Walls,”
Netanyahu said, according to the Daily Wire.
“Yesterday and today, the IDF attacked hundreds of Hamas & Islamic Jihad terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip. We have eliminated dozens of terrorists, including senior commanders,” he touted.
“We
have bombed Hamas command centers and toppled buildings that serve the
terrorist organizations,” Netanyahu said. “We will continue to attack with full
force.”
“We have just finished a consultation and assessment of the situation with heads of the security establishment and we made decisions. Hamas and Islamic Jihad have paid — I tell you here — will pay a very heavy price for their aggression,” he vowed.
“I
say here this evening — their blood in on their heads. Citizens of Israel, we
stand united against a reprehensible enemy.”
Although Israel is only returning fire, the usual anti-Semitic suspects in the U.S. government chastised the nation for fighting back in a conflict it didn’t start.
“Israeli
air strikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism,” Minnesota
Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeted
Monday.
“Palestinians
deserve protection,” the Democratic lawmaker asserted. “Unlike Israel, missile
defense programs, such as Iron Dome, don’t exist to protect Palestinian
civilians,” she wrote, ignoring that, unlike Palestine, Israel did not launch
the first attack.
“It’s unconscionable to not condemn these attacks on the week of Eid,” Omar stated.
Fellow
“Squad” member Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of
Michigan also spoke out against the nation for defending itself.
“What
we’re really telling Palestinians fighting apartheid is the same thing being
told to my fellow black Americans across our country here that are fighting
against police brutality,” she told MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin on Monday.
“There
is no form of acceptable resistance to state violence except for the denial of
people’s human dignity. And we need to stop,” she claimed.
“We need to stop and look at the fact that our own country is enabling it with billions of dollars every year being issued to Israel, even though they are promoting racism and dehumanization,” she charged about America’s ally in the region.
Tlaib
further asserted that “U.S. taxpayer dollars should not be used to commit human
rights violations.”
These politicians always put Israel in an impossible situation: to retaliate and be labeled a terrorist nation, or simply allow its land, buildings and people to be pummeled by its enemies — and still be maligned by the left.
This
conflict between the two nations has no hope of peaceful resolution because the
Islamists want to destroy Israel
and won’t stop until that goal is reached.
Regardless
of what the left in this country or abroad thinks about it, Netanyahu has a
right — more importantly, a responsibility — to use the maximum force necessary to
beat back the nation’s enemies.
This
conflict and violence is not something Israel started, but it looks like it’s
going to do its best to finish it — and hopefully with as much firepower as the
nation can muster in the name of freedom.
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