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  1. Leaving Hamas active and reinstating UNRWA. No deal. I don’t think Israel will go for this.

    By the way, Neo, the evil United Nations entity is “UNRWA,” not “UNWRA.”

  2. It would be an improvement in our daily ‘news’ if its authors and purveyors would post on the front page, opposite their daily ‘Evil Israel’ article, an ‘Evil Hamas’ article paying exquisite attention to the brutal treatment of, and suffering by, the hostages being held by Hamas. Just keeping those mistreated innocents in the public eye on a daily basis would temper the drift of public opinion towards sympathy for Hamas and oblivion for their gruesome crimes.

  3. Sheryl Sandberg:
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    “Sheryl Sandberg Is on a Mission to Make Sure Oct. 7 Horrors Aren’t Forgotten:

    Filming a documentary in Israel, the former Meta [Facebook, previously] COO says this is ‘the most important work of my life’

    https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/sheryl-sandberg-is-on-a-mission-to-make-sure-oct-7-horrors-arent-forgotten-ea56df47
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    Sandberg is well-known as a feminist, also a protege of Larry Summers. She wrote the book, “Lean In” about female empowerment in corporations.

    She is yet another example of an American Jew and Democrat who refuses to toe the Woke line against Israel and Jews.

    It’s not going to be so easy for Democrats to ram through a cease-fire or the two-state solution malarkey in Israel or in the D party.

    Some things, such as October 7, can’t be unseen.

  4. I expect anti-Israel anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas nonsense from the left. But there seems to be a small but significant minority of “conservatives” who have been spouting the same BS: Israel is acting like the Nazis, Hamas didn’t rape and murder women and children, the “Zionists” manipulate US politicians, and so on. These are people who before October 7th seemed to be reliably sensible on a range of issues: the border, wokeism, Trump, etc. Then after 10/7 the masks came off. One example is Ian Smith, whom I admired when he refused to close his gym in NJ during the Covid lockdowns, and got fined and maybe even imprisoned. Many examples on his X stream, such as this:

    https://x.com/iansmithfitness/status/1745514048999801123

    Also several previously sensible commenters over at Althouse.

  5. Jimmy:

    Thing is, anti-Semitism is an equal-opportunity hatred. It takes slightly different forms on left and right, but there’s no dearth of it on either side, and I’ve noticed it building on the right in blog comments for many years. I have a draft for a post about it somewhere.

  6. I would still say that it’s 10 to 1 from the left. But the left is wrong on everything, so it’s less troubling in a way than when I hear it from people who are generally right on everything else.

  7. It is past time for the Hamas tunnels to be flooded, drowning all the rats. Yes, hostages will be sacrificed in the process, but a sacrifice is a sacrifice (to G-d if you will, like Abraham and his son, though G-d pulled back his demand). Over 1200 were murdered by Hamas on 10/7, so these few hostage souls must not be an impediment to Hamas’ obliteration. Hamas must not be allowed to survive, not one. None. I can imagine the Hamas rats scrambling up their tunnels to escape the water, as if their lives meant anything, but the slaughtered Israelis meant nothing.

  8. Cicero, I saw an update on the tunnel flooding project. It’s moderately effective in tunnels near the Mediterranean, but less effective inland because the tunnels are not tightly sealed and more water goes out into the surrounding soil than fills the tunnels.

  9. Kate-
    Water is just one tunnel-cleansing, anti-Hamas way. There are others, e.g. cyanide gas, as well as stationing Israeli troopers to gun down any Hamas rats emerging.
    The point is to show NO mercy to these evil-doers. Pouring gasoline into tunnels and igniting it comes to mind–sudden O2 deprivation, plus a detonation. There are Israeli chemists who are much better versed than I!

    Bottom line for me is the hostages held by Hamas are a sacrifice, much as the Israel soldiers, some thirty or so, who have been killed fighting Hamas since 10/7.

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