October 7

In the news today, a year after the October 7 attack - thousands at anti-Israel protests around the word, both Hezbollah and Hamas shooting rockets at Israel, and anti-Jewish threats spiking actoss the US.

I don't understand it, I guess. The facts are that ...

1) Hamas began a war, with hundreds of terrorists and civilian Gazans swarming into Israel on October 7, 2023, murdering, raping, torturing, and kidnapping, while they rained down rockets on Israel.

2) The next day, Hezbollah declared war on Israel too and began firing rockets, which has continued for a year, displacing tens of thousands of Israelis.

3) Israel has fought back. While doing this they have made more efforts than any other nation before to preserve civilian life in Gaza and Lebanon.

4) And Israel is winning the wars started by Hamas and Hezbollah.

Is that the problem? We're they not supposed to fight back, to be so effective at it? Were they just supposed to bury their dead and move on? Were they just supposed to leave the hostages to rot? Were they just supposed to give up the northern part of their country as a Hezbollah firing range? What exactly does the world demand of them? To just lay back and die?

And speaking of dying, yes, a lot of people are dying. Too many. If the world didn't want to see that, they should have made Iran and Turkey and Qatar call off the terrorists, they should have helped Israel save the hostages and defeat the terrorists as quickly and efficiently as possible. Why didn't they?

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