Unrest and violence against Israel
Is anyone surprised by this increase in violence against Israel? I think that Israel’s enemies were both overjoyed and emboldened by Biden’s election. Why wouldn’t they be?
ADDENDUM:
Caroline Glick gives the details, including the Biden administration’s role.
And it did NOT happen while Trump was President; I blame slow Joe, and his supporters/handlers for being too weak.
Trump would most likely have said for Israel to do whatever needs to be done for their own safety. Biden, the terrorists know, will be all wishy-washy while they murder the innocent and then hide behind their own women and children.
I’m not, practically predicted Israel would get the stick if the Leftists wonthe White house.
The current violence is a response to Israeli fascists attempting to seize the homes of Arabs in East Jerusalem and the attacks over three days of Israeli police on Muslim worshippers actually in the al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan.
The roots of the cycles of violence go back to the assignment of the Mandate of Palestine to the British in 1920, and the beginning of large-scale Zionist immigration to Palestine, which resulted in the displacement of the native Arab population.
The Democrats have defaulted on the pre-Trump policies that accomplished so much in the Mideast, with unsurprising results. American dollars are funding Hamas munition factories.
bob sykes writes for BabylonBee? Who knew, such talent.
Yeah the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the most mostly holiest site is Islam, site of mostly peaceful protests. Fixed it for you bobby.
The roots of the cycles of violence go back to the assignment of the Mandate of Palestine to the British in 1920, and the beginning of large-scale Zionist immigration to Palestine, which resulted in the displacement of the native Arab population.
98% of the Jewish settlement prior to 1948 was to be found on the northern coastal plain and in the Valley of Jezreel. The Arab population in these parts of the Mandate actually increased during the period running from 1918 to 1948. If displacement was the name of the game, they were going about it in a most inept fashion.
bobby:
That Grand Mufti of Jerusalem actually worked for another fascist in Europe in the 1940s; what was his name? He also had a thing about Jews too, IIRC. Who could that have been?
What is happening in Israel is of a piece of what is and has happened here. Worldwide the Axis of Tyranny is on the march. The CCP and Iran are the main partners with supporting roles for our own Democrats, Putin, and other more minor players like Maduro.
Talking points are being delivered in a clumsy, obvious, manner because the Axis believes they have won and are now engaged in mop-up operations.
bob sykes, please read the addendum to the column.
junco, he either won’t read it or will claim it’s all lies because it’s written by a Jew.
Israeli’s need to show Hamas … How Far is Heaven!
https://youtu.be/wvkzoqQ5Oak
Israel’s enemies were both overjoyed and emboldened by Biden’s “election”.
-Fixed it for ya.
Israel is the 800lb Gorilla in its neighbourhood — capabilities-wise if not population-wise. It’s perfectly able to take care of business: delivering an appropriately severe but still reasonably humane and metered response to provocations whilst not having to worry too much about the bleatings of foreign journalists and governments.
That’s about as much cogitation needs to be devoted to the issue. I really couldn’t care less about the historical rights and wrongs and short of an immediate existential threat to Israel’s continued survival cannot imagine why anyone not Jewish should be much excited by present events.
As for the current Administration and complaints about its ‘signalling’, given how much AIPAC and other less well-known organisations spend on attempting to ensure US Gov support for Israel, perhaps they need to fire some management and rethink their methodologies.
FWIW (not much, obviously) I support the continued existence and thriving of the state of Israel as a Jewish Ethnostate with Lovely Big Walls because (1) we all deserve one, (2) Per the original Zionists, the project is good for security *AND* moral improvement of the Jews — skin in their own game, (3) It’s good for the rest of us — see (2), (4) I don’t like Arabs. Distinct lack of high-flown moral sentiments in this list, I know 😀
Bob Sykes – those words “fascists” and “worshippers” do not mean what you think they mean.
For example, “fascists” do not warn civilians being used as shields by terrorists that they should vacate their homes as the terrorists are about to be bombed. The Israeli military does this on a regular basis and, as a result, will often not get their intended target. And normally “worshippers” do not throw stones at innocent civilians. Young male Muslim “worshippers” at the al Aqsa mosque regularly do this; which is why many times they are barred from there. Come worship in peace and they are welcomed, come with evil intentions and they are barred.
As for the displacement of native populations one has to ask, where are the native Jews of Egypt? Of Iraq? Of Iran? and all along the North African coast? The answer is they are in Israel, welcomed with open arms. Where are the native Arabs of Israel? Still in Israel, if they chose to live in peace, as citizens of that country, as members of its parliament, some even as doctors and lawyers – for they are not barred from any profession. The only thing that makes them different from Jewish citizens is that they do NOT have to report for military service in Israel; yet, if they choose to they can serve in Israel’s military.
If a Muslim were to walk down the street in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem or any other Israeli town, what would happen? Most likely nothing. Yet if a Jew were to walk into any Muslim town in Palestine, or other Muslim majority country what would happen? I don’t think he would live to tell us his experience.
Lastly, the “cycle of violence” is this – when civilians in Palestine are killed it is because they are innocent collateral damage. When civilians are killed in Israel it is because they are the intended target. If Hamas and Hezbollah, and other terrorists unilaterally stopped fighting peace would be the result. If Israel unilaterally stopped fighting Israel would cease to exist and ALL the Jews would be murdered.
Sorry, Bob, if these facts do not jive with your opinions.
I also wonder, how many of these weapons being used against Israel are paid for with money that Biden release to Iran?
The current “war” is the result of Israel’s pusillanimousness.
Weakness invites aggression.
And gazan pisslims see Israelis as weak. Why? Because Israelis act weak.
In any pisslim country gazans would be dead and rotting.
But Israel has been tolerating their antics since the beginning.
Why does gaza even exist? So Israel can be accused of having a concentration camp for pisslims? Bad idea.
And the situation of most Israelis under the rabid “gun control” of prohibiting citizens from being armed is probing as deadly as common sense informed us all along the history of the notion.
german Jews were disarmed by the nazis. And then slaughtered.
Israeli Jews are disarmed by the Israeli government. And then murdered.
Doesn’t this put the Israeli government in a similar light than the nazis? As disarming Jews to make it easier to slaughter them, it does.
Conclusion: Jews seem to be stupid. And incapable of learning.
It adds to the perception of weakness. All bad ideas. Very bad ideas.
Why is Israel been acting weak for so long? Because of he left.
Israel acts tough against the right of Israelis to self-defense. But does nothing against the 5th column traitorous left that does its worst to destroy Israel and give the win to the pisslims and bring about a 2nd Holocaust.
Israel is asking for its troubles for lack of strength and assertiveness.
There should be no gaza.
Judea and Samaria should be part of Israel and barren of pisslims.
And any pisslim within Israel borders that acted against a Jew should be put to death within 30 days of capture.
And every Israeli adult should be able to have any weapon of war, including selective fire, for self-defense.
Israelis are the most threatened humans on the planet and the
most defenseless.
The roots of the cycles of violence go back to the assignment of the Mandate of Palestine to the British in 1920, and the beginning of large-scale Zionist immigration to Palestine, which resulted in the displacement of the native Arab population.
No surprise that this troll has not returned to debate. The Palestinians had 98% of what they said they wanted in 2000. Bill Clinton had browbeaten a weak Israeli PM into a one sided deal but Arafat walked away.
Ask the Detente Germans and the East Prussians what happens when you start a war and lose it. Get lost, creep.
This is Iran telling Biden how much they respect him.
As it became clear that Biden would probably get into the White House, I stated on Facebook, before I deleted my account, “Poor Taiwan”, as I figured there was and is a better chance that China would go for conquest under Biden. As for Israel, I do not know how much to blame Biden. Seems there is a repeating cycle where trouble ramps up against Israel , Israel fights back, the media gets upset and lobbies against Israel, eventually things settle down relatively speaking for a while till the next cycle starts.
I will say, that as a Christian, though not a very good one, I do expect that somebody evil is going to make a 7 year treaty with Israel at some point and that treaty may very well involve allowing the Jews to build at least a portion of the Temple back. And based on combining certain Old and New Testament prophecies, things are going to get really, really bad about half way through that 7 year treaty….
@jon baker:
No disrespect to your religious beliefs, but I don’t think erecting a new Temple is going to play well with the interests of Rabbinical Judaism or Jews in general — they’d be so busy doing obligatory stuff that’s been abeyance since the last one got knocked down that they’d have no time left over to shoot up USS Libertys or Build Walls :D. Just about everyone apart from a few Zealots (heh) are satisfied with the current situation re the Temple Mount — bit of rock-throwing is a small tax to pay for not having the apple cart upset. Status Quo really does suit almost everyone. Shofar Sho Good.
@George_Banner: Othering much? 😀
I just noticed that autocorrect changed my comment about Sudetan Germans, who supported Hitler and were driven out of communist Czechoslovakia after the war and were an example of a people who declared war and then lost it as an example foe the “Palestinians.”
@Mike+K:
Sudeten Germans are a good example of why you don’t want a highly-motivated group of aliens with foreign allegiance inside your borders. Hmm…
The retaliatory Benes Decrees affected a lot of innocent folks though — ask the House of Liechtenstein for example. Still, First World Problems in their case.
native Arab population
“Natives” with surnames like El Masri “the Egyptian” and Bagdadi “from Baghdad.”
How come the “Palestinians” can’t even pronounce the name Palestine? Their dialect of Arabic has no P sound.
Related FWIW…
The Magnum Opus of “Biden” Middle East policy (from the very start of “the administration”, i.e., from 2009):
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/realignment-iran-biden-obama-michael-doran-tony-badran
Plus this concise and (unfortunately) accurate analysis from Brendan O’Neill
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/12/why-wont-israelis-let-themselves-be-killed/
Plus this (not uncommon, alas) wrongheaded analysis on “Biden” ‘s “failure”—wrongheaded simply because for “Biden”, so-called “failure” is forsooth SUCCESS writ large. If there were any doubt about the matter the same holds true for “Biden” ‘s so-called “failures” in US internal policy (the southern border, BLM/antifa/urban violence, rampant inflation, COVID issues, CRT/education, California, Democratic-run cities, cancel culture, the politicization of everything, the debasement of anyone who doesn’t agree with them, the adoration and proliferation of the morality of the LIE, the utter absence of WH communication—though “Biden” ‘s actions speak far louder than any words “he” might deign to utter; besides no one ought to believe “him”—or his VPOTUS or his various and sundry spokespeople—in any event, etc., etc., etc). IOW, these—in all seriousness—are the huge SUCCESSES so far (there will be many more), the tremendous achievements of the “Biden” administration; to believe otherwise is, alas, hopeless—if perhaps well-intentioned—naivete….
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/bidens-middle-east-failure/
Having said that, of course, the ONLY thing “Biden” must do is succeed in perverting American law so that the Democratic Party will continue to rule for ever and ever…and “he” ‘s well on the way to achieving that masterful piece of treachery….
Meanwhile, back to the Ukrainian Theater….
AKA “Biden” strikes again!…
(Caveat emptor!—but the “Ukraine Crisis” / “US-Russia” certainly has died done more than a bit over the past while (but WHY?)—or maybe it’s just my imagination…. )
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-pictures-ukrainian-dream
Meanwhile, back to the Ukraine Theater….
AKA “Biden” strikes AGAIN!…
(Caveat emptor!—but the “Ukraine Crisis” / “US-Russia” certainly has died down more than a bit over the past while (but WHY?)—or maybe it’s just my imagination…. )
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-pictures-ukrainian-dream
And AGAIN (in the world of Economics):
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/doug-casey-why-modern-monetary-theory-will-destroy-money
..All for the best reasons, certainly: To maintain the Democratic Party in power. (N.B.: There may be certain deleterious repercussions…but if you want that Democratic-Party-Forever omelet…).
Related –
Caution! Persons at work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNU0vm17vVs
Why does the left seek the destruction of Israel? Perhaps another reason is that also within its borders, lie the origins of Christianity.
Israel is the vanguard of Western Civilization.
Today Israel is a racist apartheid state that continues to expel Arabs from their homes in both Jerusalem and the West Bank, and that imposes a fascist police state on the indigenous Arabs. There can be no peace until Israel stops the oppression of the Arabs, returns their lands, removing the so-called settlers, and returns to the borders of 1967.
The insane superstition that Jews are The Chosen People and that all of Palestine was granted them by Yahweh cannot be used as an excuse for what amounts to war crimes. One should have thought that after the horrors of the Holocaust the Jews of all people would support justice and respect for everyone. Instead we see a crude lust for vengeance.
The utter, willful ignorance of the people supporting the current violence, which includes most of the commenters on this site, is reprehensible.
bobsykes, “Willful ignorance.” Look in the mirror.
@LeClerc:
They’re not so bad, but I think that’s a bit over-egging the pudding, Old Chap.
Today Israel is a racist apartheid state that continues to expel Arabs from their homes in both Jerusalem and the West Bank, and that imposes a fascist police state on the indigenous Arabs. There can be no peace until Israel stops the oppression of the Arabs, returns their lands, removing the so-called settlers, and returns to the borders of 1967.
There are four distinct lies and one silly prediction in this set of sentences. Good show.
Pretty impressive, bob.
I think you’ve touched on just about all the talking points.
With marvelous eloquence.
And I do like your passion, but “…returns to the borders of 1967…” is just plain silly….
https://tinyurl.com/u3kp7t2r
Wouldn’t “…returns to the UN Partition Plan of 1947…” cause a whole lot less grief all around (utilitarian-wise, that is)?
https://tinyurl.com/3wkvdnww
And be much, much quicker….
bobsykes: If the Arab Palestinians really wanted to A) hurt the Israelis where it really counts (in the pocket book), B) improve the welfare of their brethren and sisteren, and C) have a riotous good time all in the same instance, they’d have opened a casino in Gaza 30 years ago. But when it comes to casinos it’s never too late.
O, and when the Arab Palestinians do open their first casino, they should name it after Trump and invite him and his drop dead gorgeous wife to the opening.
Bari Weiss has a very good article about this.
The bad optics of fighting for your life.
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-bad-optics-of-fighting-for-your
Re: Israel and Western Civilization:
The Israelis have a profound respect for their heritage. They are fully willing to sustain it. They are willing to fight and, if necessary, die for it.
The same cannot be said for the USA, for the UK, for France, for The Netherlands. You have to look to Eastern Europe for the will to preserve tradition.
Oh noes, I’ve been called reprehensible by bobbysykes. Does bobbysykes wear bobby socks? What a bobbysight.
He’s still suffering from being called out for his white fragility and allyship with the patriarchal oppressors in the west.
What did the Romans ever do for the Arabs? What did the Persians or Ottomans, for that matter, ever do for anyone? 🙂
We’re not the ones supporting the violence bobby you are the one supporting Hamas rocket attacks on Jewish civilians launched from residential areas so Israel cannot defend its own people without endangering Palestinian civilians. The blood is on the hands of Hamas and its reprehensible enablers. Including YOU bobby.
Oh and by the way bobby the homes in question were owned by Jews long before Israel even came into existence. The only apartheid was that practiced by Arabs who expelled Jews from their own homes in Jerusalem in 1948.
As predictable as the Sun rising in the east in the morning.
Why on Earth would any US president *ever* want to embolden Iran? There’s zero good reasons and plenty of bad ones.
Back and forth, “wax on, wax off” with everything (_especially_ foreign policy post-Trump). It’s easy to see how people in foreign lands hate us sometimes.
What’s truly weird about people like “bobsykes” is that I’m pretty sure they don’t even understand WHY they’re so anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian. I mean, there are a score of other situations around the world that don’t attract 1/10th the attention or venom from the Left. China and the Uighurs being perhaps the most recent example.
Mike
What’s truly weird about people like “bobsykes” is that I’m pretty sure they don’t even understand WHY they’re so anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian.
Jake Goldblatt stole his lunch money in ’62.
It’s the air they all breathe. Look at Bari Weiss as an example. Rather than live in this present moment when Christian Americans are among Israel’s greatest friends, she prefers to go over events that happened 80 years ago and have zero relevance today. She chooses to ignore President Trump’s accomplishments and excuses the left’s slide into anti-Semitism today by saying “the world has gone Corbyn.” The world hasn’t gone Corbyn only the left has. But admitting that it’s the lefties who are supporting the destruction of Israel would force her to rethink her positions. And it’s so much more comforting to travel down the same well worn paths in her mind than reexamine her positions. It’s been my experience that the more chaotic and precarious your life, the harder it is to think differently and the easier it is to cling to the same old same old, even if that means that you never get out of the mess you’re in.
“Why on Earth would any US president *ever* want to embolden Iran?”
Excellent question.
The answer is twofold:
1) Because Iran hates the United States.
2) Because Iran is the country that will “solve” the Zionist problem (um, er, issue)…as we have witnessed in the past and are currently witnessing…
GO MULLAHS, GO!!
(Well, you did ask….though you’re right, I’m not really being fair here).
What you—probably—meant to ask is, “Why on Earth would any NORMAL US president *ever* want to embolden Iran?”
And the answer to that is rather simple:
He or she wouldn’t.
Alas, “Biden” is not a NORMAL president, unless of course the NEW NORMAL means—take yer pick!—destroying, eviscerating, emasculating, irreparably damaging the country one purportedly leads (along with other countries that are—oh, well, let’s call them—“inconvenient”).
This might help untangle things:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/realignment-iran-biden-obama-michael-doran-tony-badran
“reprehensible”?
I’ll add that to my “basket of deplorables”
Thank you!
Barry – you’re exactly right and I was trying to make the same point with my next sentence “zero good reasons” etc. We are on the same page.
It is becoming increasingly clear that Israel hating Islamists will refuse to have peace with Israel, as long as they live.
Israel should declare war on Hamas and go hunting them, and imprisoning them, throughout Gaza.
This should be the time to declare a new solution – the 3 state solution:
Israel, Gaza, West Bank. With borders as Israel thinks is fair.
But this won’t happen with Biden/ Dems as president. So Israel better kill as many Hamas commanders and fighters as it can in the short “window of low-complaint proportionate response”.
The EU agrees that Israel can respond, but claims the response needs to be proportionate – naturally without defining what proportionate is.
“Proportionate” implies a rational value, that is certainly “racist,” therefore “proportionate” must mean no response is permitted unless it is ineffective as possible.
Proportionate … means no winner. Proportionate … means keep fighting. Wars are never won with … proportionate response!
Here’s a “proportionate”—but quite effective—rant:
https://twitter.com/Fight_Back_NYC/status/1392676301706776581
(And here’s the short version:
https://twitter.com/LeeSmithDC/status/1392312823464833025 )
Bari Weiss is not a conservative by any Looonng stretch of the Imagination, but she is a supporter of Israel.
In her post, she links this article on Tablet.
Some of his observations may not fit into the American Conservative Zionist narrative, but I think he gets the important things right.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/jerusalem-glue-matti-friedman
“X is not a conservative by any Looonng stretch of the Imagination, but s/he is a supporter of Israel.”
This would describe a great many so-called ‘Conservatives’.
Zaphod – it’s perhaps analogous to the incidence of non-conservatives who are nonetheless strong 2A supporters.
@AesopFan:
“Zaphod – it’s perhaps analogous to the incidence of non-conservatives who are nonetheless strong 2A supporters.”
All three of them? 😀 Libertarians don’t count… fundamentally unserious clown people are irrelevant in a political war to the knife.
IMHO not a good analogy. Plenty of self-proclaimed ‘Conservatives’ having nothing to say on morality or immigration or preservation of full domestic employment (to pick three topics you might think would be of interest to actual, you know, Conservatives) but plenty to say about their support for America’s Greatest Ally ™ plus Russians Bad, Iranians Bad, Syrian Alawites Bad (= Sunni Fanatics Good.. the mind boggles).. etc… etc.
Note that I am a fervent supporter of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish Homeland, so let’s not get distracted here. I was pointing out that Bari Weiss has plenty of company. To be fair, at least Bari Weiss has a vested interest in Israeli security.
Good post on the Israeli situation.
Some of the IDF Tweets were ones I had not seen elsewhere, including the map showing where the Gazan missiles had landed (or would have if not shot down) and the graphic explaining why they targeted a large multi-story building – because (big surprise) it was full of Hamas military organs.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/05/trump_tells_the_truth_about_biden_the_democrats_and_israel.html
I’m rather surprised Twitter hasn’t permanently suspended the IDF for promoting violence, hate speech, and misinformation — since they clearly are NOT parroting the Leftists’s narrative.
This actually nails the problem very precisely.
https://babylonbee.com/news/tensions-rise-in-middle-east-as-one-side-wants-to-kill-jews-and-the-other-side-are-jews-who-dont-want-to-die-and-neither-will-compromise
And this isn’t far behind.
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-continues-rollback-of-trump-policies-like-peace-in-the-middle-east
“Psaki said the administration’s new Middle East policy calls for as much violence as it takes to completely eradicate the peace brought about by Donald Trump. “The people of this region lost many good years of violence and bloodshed,” Psaki noted. “We’re going to make that up to them, even if it takes decades of war to do so.”
A reporter asked if peace in the Middle East was actually a good thing no matter which president brought it about, but Psaki rejected that notion outright. “Let’s not lose sight of the most important factor here, which is orange man bad,” she said.”
Everyone should read the article in Tablet that Barry linked to. It is long but worthwhile. And very chilling.
Yes, fine Tablet article. With good “both sides are right that the other side has some injustice” kind of feels:
“There’s the eviction case pursued by a settler organization against several Palestinian families living on property taken from Jewish families in 1948 in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, near the tomb of Simon the Righteous, and later reclaimed through Israel’s legal system—which offers no parallel means for Palestinians to reclaim their own property in West Jerusalem from before 1948. ”
I knew about this case but not that Palestinians have no way to reclaim property. Seems unjust – and injustice is the most common excuse for violence.
The reality of war is massive violence, and not-really cancelling out injustices, and then some kind of peace. Accepting injustice always feels bad. Winning wars always includes injustices. Losing wars often means losing your life; survivors feel bad UNTIL they accept their loss.
I fantasize about, but fully expect to NOT see, Israelis hunting those Hamas leaders and fighters unwilling to accept peace with Israel; unwilling to accept that Muslims lost.
Part of the fantasy is that most Gaza fighters should be taken prisoner and do solar panel installations along the roads thru the Negev desert (S & inland of Gaza). I fear that killing them is the only way to stop them from hating Israel, but is too immoral and itself an injustice. Imprisoning them and forcing their labor due to their support for rocket launches against civilians might be the least bad situation after this session of killing stops.
When Iran gets a nuke, I suspect it actually will be used. On Tel-Aviv, not Jerusalem. Or on the Israeli nuclear power station. Hell on earth. Possibly coming in my lifetime.
““There’s the eviction case pursued by a settler organization against several Palestinian families living on property taken from Jewish families in 1948 in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, near the tomb of Simon the Righteous, and later reclaimed through Israel’s legal system—which offers no parallel means for Palestinians to reclaim their own property in West Jerusalem from before 1948. ”
I knew about this case but not that Palestinians have no way to reclaim property. Seems unjust – and injustice is the most common excuse for violence.” – Tom Grey
First, we don’t know there is no parallel means for individuals with some kind of evidence of their claim (the Palestinian call for a blanket “right to return” is not equivalent). I would need to see a reputable citation for that assertion.
Second, “excuse” is the operative word. Violence to “redress injustice” is what we have seen in the BLM/Antifa riots and the Chauvin kangaroo court.
A lot of innocent people will never get “justice” for their losses, injuries, or deaths, from those.
Third, tactically, the Israeli Jews made a mistake in going for a big eviction after winning their case. Hindsight being 20/20 (and foresight presumably warning that the Arabs will take any excuse for violence), a piecemeal implementation of their ownership rights might have served better (this recommendation from someone knowing nothing of any underlying situational feasibility or constraints, of course).
That is: first, shift title from the illegitimate holders to the original owners, who leave the tenants in place and assume the position of landlord now collecting rent. As occasion permits, allow occupancy to dwindle or encourage renters to move out without fanfare. When everyone is gone, take over completely, publicly or not.
I have to update my comment because of new information.
” first, shift title from the illegitimate holders to the original owners, who leave the tenants in place and assume the position of landlord now collecting rent. As occasion permits, allow occupancy to dwindle or encourage renters to move out without fanfare. When everyone is gone, take over completely, publicly or not.” – Aesop
This plan to avoid conflict seemed so obvious to me, and yet there was not mention of it in the news, until I read Dov Fischer’s post. (RTWT)
https://spectator.org/hamas-terror-israel/