Munich in ’72 was a turning point as far as I was concerned. And it made Arafat a hero and sympathetic in the eyes of much of the world. That paradoxical and horrible effect was part of the awfulness.

I actually don’t know if it was then or the NORKs and the Pueblo who taught me to hate

Islam and Democrats. Somehow, you can always trust them to be pushing the Overton Window off a cliff.

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The reason I chose Pearl is that, to the best of my knowledge, he was the first to be beheaded, the first whose killers made a snuff film of his murder for propaganda purposes and disseminated it, and the first to be explicitly targeted because he was a Jew. That is the connection.

Who is counting coup? Pearl wasn’t the first by my count. So what? I largely don’t care if you’re the first o re ten thousandth. I want you dead

Your INN link doesn’t work for me, have tried all day.
Here is an alternate post with the same story.
https://www.newsrael.com/posts/wz3lvw5t4qi

“The first miracle is that they didn’t implement the Iranian plan well enough.
They jumped in without the northern front that would have divided us. When we raced to the south on Saturday, I looked at the clock and thought that if they don’t attack from the north, we win. Once we organize – they have no ability to activate their full plan. It’s a miracle that they didn’t come from the north.”

“The second miracle was that they did not act or perform well.
The Palestinians who came were not well disciplined. They know how to carry out the original plan, but as soon as our forces appeared, it disrupted everything for them and they had no ability to improvise. They engaged in shocking and horrible looting and murder games – but they didn’t fulfill the military tasks.
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“The third miracle,” says Ansbacher, “is that in 75 years the state turned us all into a nation of warriors.
They did not encounter sheep waiting for the slaughter, but a collection of lions and lionesses, people who fought them in every possible way.
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“At home, people don’t get it. They see difficult images and the media, unfortunately, promote them and serve as a great propaganda tool for Iran and intensify the feelings through which terrorism works. You have to understand that from a military-strategic point of view, our situation is the strongest we’ve ever been. I think that when we end the war this time we won’t even need a guard in the mall.

The army is strong and working, the officers are thinking well, and this is a message to our enemies: ‘Your Nazi plan was good once against an old army, children, and women. We are now awake and coming for you,’ concludes Ansbacher.

He is correct about dispensing with the mall guards only if Israel ends their very restrictive laws on gun possession.