As Timmy points out, it’s the fault of the Jews. It always is.
Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel, on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, will be remembered as an intelligence failure for the ages.
Possibly. After all, the Twin Towers attacks showed a failure in the intelligence services. However, that isn’t what this should be remembered as, it should be a reminder that Hamas is an evil organisation dedicated to the eradication of the Jews in the middle east – well, possibly across the globe, but for now, the middle east. They want to wipe Israel off the map. If anyone is to blame for his attack, it is Hamas, no one else. If Mossad were caught with their pants down, that’s another matter.
One thing is clear, however: this attack takes place in the midst of a period of profound social dislocation for Israel. Netanyahu’s far-right government, peopled with individuals in cabinet roles who should not hold public office, such as Itamar Ben Gvir, the minister for national security, have spent their time pouring petrol on what was an already highly combustible situation in the occupied territories.
And here we get to the nub of it. Typical Guardian bullshit. the old ‘far right’ trope gets wheeled out. Anyone who doesn’t love Hamas must be far right. Israel is the only functioning democracy in the region, surrounded by neighbours that want to wipe if off the map. So, yeah, ‘far right’ and by default, their fault. At least, that is the silent implication being made here. And of course, they have vigilant surveillance in the Gaza strip. But as with any intelligence operation, the bad guys only have to succeed once, the intelligence services have to succeed every time.
Even when Netanyahu did finally speak, it was to reflect an Israeli political and security establishment profoundly shaken. This was not an “operation” or a “round” of fighting he stated, but a state of war.
It is a state of war, what the fuck else is it?
The major question is the scope of Israel’s response. Already framed as a war, Hamas’s attack will put pressure on Netanyahu from a far right that has long pushed for a definitive attack on Gaza, perhaps ending in full reoccupation. Messages from friends in Gaza and Israel show the fear over what comes next is overwhelming.
Basically, suck it up, because going in and killing the bastards is bad, hmmm.
It seems that the Left find hating minorities is a far-right problem-except when it’s Jews.
Um, I think Timmy is being sardonic. He clearly doesn’t think “it’s all the fault of the Jews”., but is lampooning the media presentation of that.
The fact that you think I missed that is somewhat amusing. I am doing precisely the same.
Ah, sorry.
The perils of the written word. It’s all in the pronounciation!
It happens.
I have to admit that during this year I’ve been following Israeli domestic politics in horror because of the unwillingness to accept the election result and the wokery and the left having infiltrated even the army. The Ashkenazi do not understand what the Mizrahi understand so well: arabs only respect strength.
It is very difficult for some to accept politics has moved to the right. When Israel was very left wing in the 70’s it was the darling of the left. Two trends then happened. Soviet and Mizrahi immigration, so the country started to turn to the right.
I think ‘killing the bastards is bad’ doesn’t hold water, when the bastards in question are committing atrocities with the corpses of civilians.
Kill them all, Allah will know his own.
I was mocking the Guardian here. I agree, Israel needs to go in hard and no mercy. Kill them all. Wipe the place clean.
Agreed, wipe them out with extreme prejudice.
The flip side to the “it was an intelligence failure” narrative being that if the Israelis had seen it coming, and acted with sufficient force to stop the assault, the Guardian would have been falling over itself to condemn that in as extreme language as it could muster. Must be nice to live in that heads-I-win-tails-you-lose environment…
Come back next week and see if you can tell the difference.