That’s one potential problem. Another is this: do you let the Jewish Arab population have guns? If you let Jews have them and not the Arabs, what a propaganda point for the Arabs that would be!

“In the aftermath of the attack, Israel has somewhat relaxed its strict gun possession rules, but only somewhat. “

It finally occurred to me after long reflection on the relations between “ultra-nationalist” Israelis and Palestinians living in Israel, that the history there might be part of the reason the government of Israel has been so reluctant to allow militia weapons to be held at ready by the general citizenry.

All it takes is one lunatic like Baruch Goldstein acting out his grievances and indifferent to the consequences, to drag a mixed population into social war. Wars, which some of these mass murderers across numerous nations, including ours, have hoped to precipitate.

As if that kind of thing needed additional stimulus.

Baruch, you may not be responsible for the massacre of your fellow citizens who you left behind after your orgiastic embrace of homicide, but you certainly did not contribute to their ability to become less vulnerable.

Didn’t Michael Moore say the same thing about New Yorkers after 9/11?

Israel has joined the suicidal western Intellectuals. Ask Sudetan Germans what happens when you start a war and lose it. The Arabs tried to eradicate the Jews in 1948 and lost. They tried again in 1967 and in 1973. The Israeli youth is as stupid as American youth. America has a chance to survive the idiotic policies that are putting us at risk. Israel has no room for such folly.

Why is Pakistan considered a “real” country when its foundation was purely as a refuge for Muslims ?

I was a naval intelligence officer for 20 years. I did all my operational tours in the Pacific/Indian Ocean. Two countries took up 90% of my time. North Korea and Iran.

Naturally I studied Chuche (or Juche, since the only proper spelling is in Hangul), North Korea’s national ideology as well as their military doctrine which is tailored for the Korean peninsula. Both of which are widely available in unclassified sources, particularly Chuche as the North Koreans think its principles are universal and has been widely exported. It incorporates Marxism-Leninism but also quite a bit more. It’s practically a religion (Kim Il Sung is reputed to have been born on a sacred mountain, and when he was born auspicious portents were seen in the sky).

Just as naturally I studied the national ideology of Iran; the Quran and the hadith collections. I also read the Sirah or biographical literature since both agree on the same set of facts while Muhammad was alive. The split came after he died and had to do with succession. The Shia regard the first three “rightly guided” (from the Sunni perspective) caliphs as usurpers and the fourth, Muhammad’s son-in-law Ali, as the only legitimate heir to the throne. They have different sets of villains; according to the Sunni ahadith Muhammad was killed by a “Jewess” who poisoned a roasted sheep she served to Muhammad and his companions after the Battle of Khaybar. In which the Muslims killed her father, uncle, and husband.

Pro tip: don’t let a woman cook you dinner after you murdered her family.

But according to the Shia collections it was Aisha who poisoned Muhammad at the urging of her father and Muhammad’s father-in-law, Abu Bakr, who wanted to eliminate him and take over as leader of the Muslims. Naturally you won’t find any ahadith in the four canonical hadith collections of the Shia, the Khutub al Arba, attributed to Aisha as you will in the Sunni Khutub al Sittah (the six books).

I actually had taken enough Islamic studies courses in college that I could have double majored in political science and religious studies, but I figured life would be tough enough with a poli sci degree; I didn’t want people to think I was a God botherer too. Also English transliterations of the Shia hadith collections weren’t available yet, but English transliterations of the Sunni texts were just starting to become available beginning with Sahih al Bukhari. Fortunately as I said the split between Sunni and Shia was political, not theological, you’re working with the same basic material, so while the cast of characters falls into the mix differently you still wind up at the same place. And it’s a vile, evil place as we’ve seen playing out in southern Israel.

Absolutely nothing I was doing was the least bit controversial as I continued to study Islam as more material became available until I retired in 2008. Fortunately before Obama was elected. Because in 2011 in what was obviously a move coordinated with various Islamic groups all associated with the original Islamic terrorist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, he through his national security advisor John Brennan agreed to eliminate all references in training materials for federal law enforcement, intelligence, and national security personnel to Islam as a source of terrorism. And essentially fired all training contractors who taught that Islam was a source of terrorism and retrained (re-educated really) government trainers. All the trainers had to essentially be approved by CAIR; anything less would be “Islamophobic.” This would be like trying to win WWII with a Japanese national security adviser approved by General Tojo lest we be called racists.

Of course the rot had set in before the coordinated move between the various MB front groups and the Obama administration (reminiscent of the more recent coordinated move between AG Garland and the National Association of School Boards to designate outraged parents as domestic terrorists). Recall the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. I read the official report. What was deliberately eliminated from the report was any mention of Islam or the perpetrator Nidal Hassan. Nidal Hassan had given his colleagues a power point presentation about why he was going to do exactly what he ended up doing. They understood it clearly and took it to the commanding officer. Who promptly threatened their careers since Nidal Hassan was the only Palestinian “American” in the Armed Forces and therefore checked all the diversity blocks that he, the commanding officer, needed to advance his career.

Recall the Tsarnaev brothers, and the fact that Russian security service personnel warned their counterparts in the FBI that the elder brother had gone to Chechnya to wage Jihad. The FBI still dropped the ball, no doubt because their CAIR/Ikhwan-approved trainers had taught them that Jihad consists only and entirely of soul-cleansing spiritual struggle.

As somebody pointed out on one of these Hamas atrocity-related threads, you will find no chapter remotely like chapter 8 in the Quran, “The Spoils of War,” in any other religious texts. Those spoils include sex slaves.

Surah 4:24 (quran.com) “Also ?forbidden are? married women—except ?female? captives in your possession.1 This is Allah’s commandment to you. Lawful to you are all beyond these—as long as you seek them with your wealth in a legal marriage, not in fornication. Give those you have consummated marriage with their due dowries. It is permissible to be mutually gracious regarding the set dowry. Surely Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise.”

Naturally the sex slaves are sought purely for fornication, not marriage. And the Halali Khan version makes it clear these sex slaves aren’t just your captives, since sex slaves can be bought and sold as the captors please. Naturally it’s the Saudi approved version of the Quran. It’s printed at the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran (“Holy;” yeah, right) and tens of thousands of copies are distributed for free to pilgrims arriving in Mecca for the Hajj every year. I say naturally because there isn’t a distinction either in the Arabic language or in Islam between a domestic servant and a slave. So domestics from the Philippines, India, etc., routinely have their passports confiscated by the families they work for, and are raped by husband. And the wife/wives don’t mind one bit. In fact, if this video out of Kuwait a few years ago is any indication they find the domestic’s plight wildly amusing.

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/maid-begged-for-help-while-hanging-from-kuwait-apartment-window-her-employer-held-up-a-camera

“Maid begged for help while hanging from Kuwait apartment window.
Her employer held up a camera

‘Oh crazy, come here,’ a woman says casually in Arabic, holding a camera up to the maid. Advocates say its just one example of widespread abuse of domestic workers”

The maid survived the fall when she finally lost her grip since there was a sheet metal awning over the ground floor entrance several stories down. It was a hard landing but not nearly as hard as it would have been if she hit concrete; sheet metal flexes a bit.

I think I’ll have as much sympathy for the residents of Gaza as that chortling Kuwaiti witch had for her Ethiopian maid. Difference being that the maid didn’t do anything to deserve what happened to her. But Hamas, which per their own charter is simply the Gazan wing of the Ikhwan and their ululating, Allahu Akbar* shouting, corpse desecrating supporters certainly have earned everything the Israelis are going to do to them and no doubt more.

*Let’s dispense with the BS. Allahu Akbar does not mean “God is great.” That would be Allahu Kabir. Allahu Akbar means Allah is greater. Greater than your God. Whatever it is you’re fighting for, Allah is greater. It is a supremacist war cry.