Netanyahu says Israel is expanding its military operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/424770

After a situational assessment in northern Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced the expansion of ground operations in Lebanon.

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I don’t envy Israel in this work they must do. There’s no peaceful reconciliation with radical Islam and they are surrounded by it. It is creeping into our culture and if not repelled, we’ll be surrounded by it. But their threat is critically more present and the only way to peace is the destruction of radical Islam. It is truly a biblical conflict. Rooting radical Islam out will be messy, destructive and unpopular. Most will not see the value of it. Some will oppose and some will ally themselves with radical Islam in spite of its evil methods and practices.

This conflict is not just Israel’s. It is a conflict that comes for everyone who doesn’t bend the knee and convert no matter where one hides nor how he complies. The conflict with evil is a tar baby. It must be engaged and there’s no quick nor clean way out. Any attempt to do so will result in failure and more strength to the tar baby. If you noted I freely associate and substitute radical Islam and evil, that is intentional. Radical Islam is evil incarnate. The only question is how nuanced is the line between Islam and radical Islam. When and where does that occur? Until that is defined, there’s no way to protect the innocent since in human nature, the more present a threat is, the more generally it is defined.

How do we remain righteous while destroying evil when it has no rules? No. I don’t envy Israel.

I don't believe there is a radical Islam and Islam, or moderate Islam. As President Erdogan of Turkey/Turkiye is quoted as saying, "There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it." I agree with Mr. Erdogan...

My ignorance asks why he can't go in and destroy them all, as in 100% of them. They can't kill you if they're GONE. I'm no soldier or tough guy but I know if someone will kill you if they can, and there's nothing you can do to change their minds, one or the other will have to go. So I vote for the GOOD guys. Prob watched too many TV westerns when I was a kid.

What prompted the removal of the post previous to Q's?

Just curious.

The greatest threat to the US and what is left of Western Civilization is Islam. The enemy is already within the wire.

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Originally posted by wrightd:
My ignorance asks why he can't go in and destroy them all, as in 100% of them. They can't kill you if they're GONE. I'm no soldier or tough guy but I know if someone will kill you if they can, and there's nothing you can do to change their minds, one or the other will have to go. So I vote for the GOOD guys. Prob watched too many TV westerns when I was a kid.

Because they are ALL Hamas. ALL of them.

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Originally posted by abnmacv:
The greatest threat to the US and what is left of Western Civilization is Islam. The enemy is already within the wire.

The more I learn of history, the more obvious it becomes what is happening today is mild. What follows is anything but mild.

There is no place I am aware of where Islam has peacefully existed as the non-dominant governing structure over the long term. Once they gain some political power they force compliance or death.

"Macklemore, you don't know shit."

It saddens me that for the left, that's not a problem for their spokespeople.

A timeless message about any war until it’s fought only by our AI masters, and something for anyone who thinks that just dropping enough bombs is going to end a major conflict against a determined, fanatical enemy who believe that dying is the immediate path to paradise. This was something that had to be pointed out even to people who should have known enough history for it to have been obvious.

In reference to the war against Hamas following the 7 October 2023 invasion of Israel:

“[Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi] Halevi was asked by Israel’s top decision-makers, ‘Why can’t we just attack Gaza from the air?’ He replied that it wouldn’t be enough: ‘There are goals you cannot achieve without troops on the ground standing on the neck of the enemy.’”

Quoted in the book In the War Room by Yonah Jeremy Bob and Elliot Kaufman.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
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‘There are goals [in war] you cannot achieve without troops on the ground standing on the neck of the enemy.’
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That bears repeating.

Happy anniversary, you stupid psychopaths.

https://x.com/army1325air/status/2100549747203338328

https://x.com/KingDavid9y/status/2102969530947379249




For those who don't X (Twitter)

The woman with “steel balls”

Journalist Caroline Glick accused Britain, France and Canada of hypocrisy.
Israeli-American journalist and commentator Caroline Glick published an address to the governments of the United Kingdom, France and Canada.
Here is her statement in full:

“You sanctimonious, hypocritical cowards.
How dare you threaten the one Jewish state on earth — after everything your nations did to us!
You dare speak of ‘humanitarian values’ while standing on piles of Jewish bones your ancestors buried beneath cobblestones, cathedrals and the charters of ‘civilized’ nations?!

Britain.
Oh, Britain.
The empire that carved up the Middle East with a pencil and a gin-and-tonic.
You issued the Balfour Declaration and then slammed the door on Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis.
You handed chunks of Jewish land to Arab monarchs and let Jews die in the Holocaust rather than let them enter your precious Mandate.
You interned Holocaust survivors in Cyprus as if they were criminals.
And now you’re wagging your colonial finger at Jews for building homes on our ancestral hills?
Shove your royal hypocrisy back into Buckingham Palace and deal with your own collapsing society — where knife crime, antisemitism and Islamic extremism are more common than fish and chips.

France.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité — unless you’re a Jew.
You deported more than 75,000 Jews to their deaths during the Holocaust with the full cooperation of the Vichy regime. You let them be shoved into cattle cars from the Vél d’Hiv while Parisians watched.
And after the war?
No justice.
No reckoning.
Just decades of indifference and empty words.
Today Jews are stabbed in the streets of France, synagogues are under military guard, and you still have the gall to lecture us about morality?
You couldn’t protect your own republic from a van full of jihadists, but now you want to dictate to Israel how it should defend itself against genocidal terrorists?
You are morally bankrupt and culturally collapsing.

Canada.
Oh Canada — America’s cold, smug, spineless cousin.
Your ‘moral high ground’ is a snow-covered hill of lies.
You locked Jewish refugees out during the Holocaust.
The ship St. Louis begged for your mercy.
You sent them back — to die.
‘None is too many,’ your officials said.
That is your legacy.
Today your politicians pose for photo-ops in mosques that glorify martyrs while condemning Israel for fighting murderers.
You have turned your universities into Hamas fan clubs and your parliament into a virtue circus.
You abandoned the Jews when we were stateless, and now you want to punish us for defending our state?!

Here is our answer.
We are not the stateless Jews of 1942.
We are the sovereign people of Israel — armed, aware and unapologetic.
Your sanctions are a joke.
Your threats are meaningless.
Your moral lectures are garbage.
We do not need your permission to live.
We do not need your approval to fight.
We are not going anywhere.”

Ms. Glick's article should be required reading in every school.

Nice job, Ms. Glick!

Hear, hear!

You cannot co-exist with people who want you dead

I would like to shake her hand and thank her for her bold declaration of truth.