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Kibbutz Kfar Aza: Hamas Murdered 40 Babies, Many Decapitated

Kibbutz Kfar Aza: Hamas Murdered 40 Babies, Many Decapitated

i24 Reporter: Horrific scenes of “babies with their heads cut off,” homes and bodies booby trapped.

As Israel has recaptured towns taken by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, even more evidence of Hamas Nazi- and ISIS-like depravity is being revealed.

Yesterday I covered the carnage at At Kibbutz Be’eri, Hamas Slaughtered Over 100, Kidnapped Dozens, and Executed At Least Four Captives.

Today we learn of what happened at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, located very close to the Gaza border.

The stories are almost unthinkable, with a large number of babies with the heads cut off.

“It’s not a war, it’s not a battlefield,” exclaimed IDF Major General Itai Veruv. “You see the babies, the mother, the father, in their bedrooms, in their protection rooms, and how the terrorists killed them. It’s a massacre.”

Israel i24 reports on what was found:

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Haaretz reporter Anshel Pfeffer (who is extreme in his anti-Netanyahu views – FWIW) further reports:

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Savages don’t have a reason to negotiate. They are an ideology.

This is Muslim barbarism on a different scale, unprecedented in modern history. The proper analogy is the Holocaust; not 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. This is a genocide in intent and deed; the casualty statistics involved are irrelevant in making this assessment.

The vile Leftist dhimmis and American Dhimmi-crats who cheer these terrorist-thugs on and who rationalize their savagery are the equivalent of people cheering on the German National Socialists’ genocide and atrocities committed against European and Slavic Jews in the 1930’s and 1940’s.

    The only proper response is to destroy Hamas. Target all its leaders and fighters and kill them.

    MattMusson in reply to guyjones. | October 10, 2023 at 6:06 pm

    At the entrance to the Green zone in Kabul, Muslims would put their own toddlers still in carseats as a road block. When convoys stopped vehicle IEDs would drive in from the alley and blow up themselves, the Americans and the Muslim babies.

    Pieces of toddler would be found hundreds of yards away.

    AlinStLouis in reply to guyjones. | October 11, 2023 at 2:26 pm

    I’m rather confident that barbarism on this scale occurred during Islam’s first century. Islam teaches that its founder was the perfect man, and all Muslim men must do their best to emulate him.

Progressive Jews should be forced to comment.

America, just make sure the “dead baby” propaganda isn’t fake news, like it was in Kuwait. I’m so tired of being lied to.

    guyjones in reply to henrybowman. | October 10, 2023 at 11:21 am

    I don’t think the Israelis would lie about something like this. There’s no need to. The barbarism on display from other atrocities has been well-documented. You have families with babies and young kids living at kibbutzes. Logic dictates that if genocidal Muslim terrorist thugs invade those places, there’s going to be a massacre of the inhabitants.

    DaveGinOly in reply to henrybowman. | October 10, 2023 at 11:30 am

    Those stories didn’t make sense. Iraq claimed Kuwait as a province, and its people as its own. Why would Iraqi forces behave that way?

    Hamas, OTOH, is dedicated to killing Jews (with a side gig of killing Americans). What other mission might they have been on in their incursion into Israel? It’s what they do, and it’s why it’s called “terrorism.”

      Crawford in reply to DaveGinOly. | October 10, 2023 at 4:41 pm

      You don’t understand tribal warfare. The Kuwaitis aren’t the same tribe as Saddam, so exterminating them meant as much as taking the territory.

    WestRock in reply to henrybowman. | October 10, 2023 at 1:12 pm

    They launched thousands of mailed into Israel when this started. Why are these atrocities a stretch? This is a culture that has had no problem blowing up random busses full of civilians. Not everything is a black flag operation.

    It helps that Hamas video tapped themselves acting like this. But if it makes you feel better, just the rapes and murders are enought to justify destroying Hamas.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/tragic-story-israeli-couple-killed-170311162.html

    Tragic story of an Israeli couple who killed 7 Hamas militants to save their children

    An Israeli couple has killed seven Hamas militants to save their children after the Hamas fighters came to their home. The woman and her husband were killed too.

    Oleh Vyshniakov, Israel’s consul in Ukraine’s Western Region, shared the couple’s story. On his Facebook page.

    Adar and Itay Berdychivsky from the Kfar Aza kibbutz both served in the Israeli army as officers and kept weapons at home.

    When the militants approached their house, the couple hid their 10-months-old twins in mammad, a reinforced security room required in all new buildings by Israeli law, and returned to wait for the militants in the main house to distract their attention from their children.

    Adar and Itay killed seven militants, but were then killed themselves.

    Their children remained in the hiding place by themselves for 13 hours, before their uncle and grandfather found them there.

    “They’re safe now, they’re surrounded by love and care. Itay’s brother and Adar’s father, who fought the militants for hours and saved dozens of people – though couldn’t reach their own relatives in time [to save them], found them,” Vyshniakov says.

Truly, the slaughter of the innocents.

Israel’s citizens should have been packing firearms!

I cannot comprehend why Israel does not allow its citizens to carry!

    DaveGinOly in reply to ParkRidgeIL. | October 10, 2023 at 11:31 am

    Because they believe that it’s possible to make people safer by making them more vulnerable, just like the idiots in this country.

      Nathan Shiba in reply to DaveGinOly. | October 10, 2023 at 9:09 pm

      Well, that’s not 100% true. Even here in Chicago, where we both live, there’s a small but meaningful contingent who live within the law, hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Everyone should have a plan. Some plans are better than others.

      I hope to never have to meet up with you under critical circumstances, but if we do, there will be food, water and other necessities to share.

      Like the Israelis, the good people of Chicago with their eyes wide open will come together.

    I think they believed that they could keep the border secure, and Israel had provided bomb/missile shelters and structure reinforcement, so I guess they thought they didn’t have to worry about a ground (pseudo air with the gliders) assault. Hopefully, they are rethinking this no gun for civilians policy and fixing this.

    I can’t imagine this happening here because I live in a red state, but it so easily could in these gun-free Democrat cities. The only defense would be gangs, some of them would gladly join in on the massacre (while others, of course, would protect their neighborhoods with their illegal firearms, as we saw with BLM), but most blue cities are full of defenseless sitting ducks.

    It’s all just too much to comprehend. I keep focusing on this or or that because I can’t . . . I just can’t fathom what happened, what must still be happening to those poor hostages who weren’t lucky enough to be killed right away. It’s all just soul-wrenching.

      AF_Chief_Master_Sgt in reply to Fuzzy Slippers. | October 10, 2023 at 1:22 pm

      FS, red states are not secure. The difference between a red state and a blue state is the lack of larger cities where the population of democrats does not overwhelm the population of republicans.

      Who knows how many terrorists have crossed the borders since Biden welded the doors open, closed his eyes to who came through, with the help of our border security. Yes, even the border patrol are willing accomplices.

      Who knows when those sleeper cells will act, easily moving into the suburbs after easily hiding in major cities.

      Just look at any voter map, and you will see blue areas where terrorists, cartel members, and Maduro sponsored actors can hide. MS-13, Venezuelan Communists, etc., are already here.

        True. I just know that more red areas are chock full of gun owners, the vast majority of which are former military, law enforcement, etc. or are avid hunters, preppers, et al. Of course we can’t know what would happen or how people would react if a group of these terrorists started kicking down doors, but I’m pretty confident that they’d be dead pretty fast unless they had sufficient numbers (and tactics) to quell the people inside the homes . . . and up and down the block. I don’t know too many people who will cower in their homes waiting their turn to be tortured, raped, and beheaded or trundled off into trucks or on the back of scooters. That’s not who most of us in red areas are. It’s not you, I’m 100% positive. 🙂

        I did take note that they were dressed as military and pretended to be Israeli, that’s why some of the people ran out toward them (only to get mowed down). So that’s something to think about.

          henrybowman in reply to Fuzzy Slippers. | October 10, 2023 at 2:06 pm

          It happens here already. See the “Fauxnly-Ones” Files.

          alaskabob in reply to Fuzzy Slippers. | October 10, 2023 at 2:54 pm

          I have to believe that the Obama Left has supporters including former military that are trained or in training… bolstered by BLM and Antifa. Add to that thousands of military aged males (probably some with training) that have come across the border. I believe Quds forces are here. Whether to seal the deal on The Coup or to be a 5th column… they are here. I believe that the FBI would align with these groups as they see WASPs and MAGA as the real threat. If maintaining “domestic tranquility” meant relinquishing areas of the country to complete Islamic influence… they would.

          As for American Jews on the Left…. if they think they can’t be targeted here… Islam is here to win. All that Hamas is doing is following the commands of Allah and The Prophet (PBUH..or else).

          Oh, I believe they are here, too. In pretty large numbers. Thousands at least, maybe tens or even hundreds of thousands. They won’t be able to coordinate an effective nationwide attack without our law enforcement knowing about it (NSA, FBI, etc.), so I guess we’ll see what’s what in due time.

          jagibbons in reply to Fuzzy Slippers. | October 11, 2023 at 9:52 am

          Alaskabob, I think about American leftist Jews a lot these days and wonder how they can still support the Democrats that, until a few days ago, were very pro-Palestinian and pro-Muslim.

      I do not see why any music festival in our country would not be vulnerable to such an attack. The number of Arabs in the 9/11 attack would be plenty if armed with semi-automatic weapons and a large venue. Biden has let in more than a million “gotaways” that we know nothing about. Then there is the “point” that the Mexican cartels could make if the US government were to really get serious about the fentanyl issue, instead of just posturing.

        Depends where the music festival is held, really, and what the rules are for carry. But yes, I take your point. Of course the Nova music festival wasn’t the only target, as we’ve been covering here at LI, so there is the issue of Israelis being barred from keeping firearms in their own homes, particularly at the border (all of them, not just Gaza, since Israel is surrounded by enemies who want it and all its people the world over destroyed). Of course, until Saturday, Israelis probably didn’t think they needed guns and may not have had them if they could have. Omg. The horror is so hard to take in, and I’m still really struggling with it.

      I think they believed that they could keep the border secure, and Israel had provided bomb/missile shelters and structure reinforcement, so I guess they thought they didn’t have to worry about a ground (pseudo air with the gliders) assault. Hopefully, they are rethinking this no gun for civilians policy and fixing this.

      Even so, guns are not just to defend from border infiltrators. They’re also to defend from ordinary criminals. Especially in the south where there are Bedouin gangs. The laws are what they are because Israel does not recognize that a right to be armed even exists. And because it doesn’t even respect the rights it does pretend to recognize, such as the freedom of speech.

    JohnSmith100 in reply to ParkRidgeIL. | October 10, 2023 at 6:44 pm

    That is a very good question, why, when did they start leaving their citizens helpless? Is that the fault of their unaccountable judiciary?

      Milhouse in reply to JohnSmith100. | October 11, 2023 at 3:19 am

      No, this one’s not the judiciary’s fault. They didn’t “start” doing it, they’ve always done it, ever since independence, when they inherited the draconian gun laws that the British had, repealing only the one that made possession of a firearm by a Jew (other than a policeman) a capital offense. They’ve never seen any reason to repeal these laws, since they have no tradition of an RKBA, and in any case no meaningful bill of rights. The freedom of speech is also restricted, as it is in most countries that call themselves “free”. Another reason to be thankful that we live in the USA.

Take the fight to Iran. Nuclear if necessary.

We can thank Jimmy Carter for the support of the “Palestinians” and the overthrow of the Shah of Iran by terrorist.

The hama’s are complete scum, butchers etc. They should be throughly condemned and executed.

There is no doubt that they have murdered innocent babies , children etc.
That being said, the claim of 40 babies being murdered is questionable, if for no other reason that the ability to find an coordinate the murder of babies is logistically difficult in the 3-4 hours required in the initial attack

    Crawford in reply to Joe-dallas. | October 10, 2023 at 4:44 pm

    You don’t understand what a kibbutz is, do you? Group farm, multiple families — the nursery was more like a community daycare center than a single home.

    Easy to imagine 40 kids at a daycare.

      Joe-dallas in reply to Crawford. | October 10, 2023 at 5:17 pm

      Kibbutz were a primary form of settlement in the 1910’s through the late 1940’s and Israel developed as a state – along being a very effective. My recollection is that Kibbutz are not nearly as common after the late 1990’s as Israel became more prosperous and developed.

      As such, I wasnt expecting many, if any, kibbutz’s in the area. If I was wrong, then my mistake and apologies.

      Joe-dallas in reply to Crawford. | October 10, 2023 at 6:47 pm

      Crawford –
      Sorry I posted my comment before I had confirmation. It was my mistake and my apologies for making assumptions.

      My position has completely changed now that I have seen confirmation.

      Every single Hamas should be executed.

    Joe-dallas in reply to Joe-dallas. | October 10, 2023 at 5:52 pm

    let me offer my apologies for my comment doubting the accuracy of the story. I have seen additional news reports confirming the murder of the 40 babies.

    Let me state – point blank. _ Each and every Hama’s scum should be killed.

As much as there is clamor for blood, for nukes and no quarter, Israel will do its thing within the laws of war, but that does not mean it will go lightly when it comes to use of force.

The inhumanity of Muslim fanatics will not be forgotten throughout the response, andthe inhumanity of the people cheering Hamas will not be forgotten either, and should be exposed in all caps.

    Will Israel deliberately choose to massacre people in Gaza? No. Will Israel stop worrying about PR from collateral damage when Hamas chooses not to segregate it’s military assets from ‘non combatants’? Yep.

    IMO, Gaza is quite likely to become part of Israel, with the former residents, those who aren’t killed into he fighting, given an opportunity to relocate to the West Bank or Jordan or anywhere else but Gaza. Call it whatever you wish but the festering sore that Gaza became under Hamas for the past decade and half or so can’t be tolerated. It would be incredibly stupid to allow another terrorist rump State to remain in Gaza. I don’t believe Israel is overly concerned at present about any hand wringing apologists in the EU, the UN or academia who pontificate about abstract ideals from the safety of the sidelines.

      At least you have moved on from no quarter.

      Of course, Israel will do what it must, and what it is entitled to do under Article 51 of the UN Charter and AP1, irrespective of those that howl and spew hate toward it and Jews. Screw them.

        Ha. Sorry to disappoint you but not even fucking close. The above post is my prediction as to what Israel likely WILL do. Though considering the righteous fury they may surprise us all. I hope so.

        I remain firm in my advice from other posts of refusing to grant quarter to any resident of Gaza who refused to heed the calls of Israel imploring non combatants to depart. By choosing to remain they have decided to become combatants. The Hamas ‘combatants’ don’t wear uniforms or safely segregate their military assets from non combatants. Both of those very poor choices by Hamas have consequences. It isn’t the responsibility of a co-belligerent to do the work that their adversary is supposed to do for themselves.

        If a belligerent is unable to determine or distinguish a combatant b/c of the failure of their adversary to adopt consistent markings aka a uniform that is the responsibility of those who failed to do so. Especially when routinely uses asymmetrical terror tactics of non uniformed combatants of all ages and sex making them indistinguishable from non combatants.

          Yeah, let’s kill all of them. We’ll pretend they are all belligerents.

          If a non-combatant does not heed an order to vacate a military objective, that person assumes the risk. Much different than calling for all to vacate and then destroying everything.

          So easy for us with no skin in the game to pretend what war is about for non-combatants.

        Destroy the power, water and sanitation infrastructure of Gaza.
        Assist any who wishes to leave Gaza and Israel to do so.
        Leave it alone for one year for every life lost.

          bhwms in reply to 1073. | October 11, 2023 at 8:24 am

          Power and water are (were) provided for free by Israel. They have both been cut off.

          Sewage has been a problem in Gaza for a long time. Billions in aid went in to try to fix it, but Hamas diverted the resources to arms. The pipes shipped in from other countries for sewers were turned into rockets. That’s Hamas – war with Israel over the health & safety of their own people..

      I have been hoping that this happens, that Israel just takes back Gaza (as they did the Golan Heights) and the rest of the world be damned. Anyway, from your lips (or fingertips) to God’s (or Netanyahu’s) ears. This is what needs to happen; I very much hope it does.

        Easy for people to tell Israel what to do, as if occupying Gaza again is a bowl of cherries. It may be preferable to let Egypt have Gaza, if it comes to that. Israel does not need another occupation. The Golan is totally different in character. In any event, it’s Iran deserves attention, not just from Israel either.

          OFGS, do you really think the Israelis are reading this blog and taking the advice of random, anonymous commenters? No one is “telling Israel what to do,” you big loon. We are sharing our thoughts, our outrage, our fear, our anger, and talking about this amongst ourselves. Israel is very capable of taking care of this as they see fit, and if you are so deluded that you think they are taking advice from some random nobody called “Fuzzy Slippers” or some crank called “Old School 26,” I really don’t know what to say. Do you even understand how the internet works? Hint: we are commenting on a blog, we are not senior advisors in Israel. Why are you saying this stuff? It makes no sense (but then, you rarely make sense, so why am I surprised?).

          As if that matters. Nothing like people with no skin in the game telling those that do what to do.

          Are you always so condescending? Can you respond without being insulting, often in a personal way?

          You make the site so very welcoming. Thank you!

          I’m very welcoming . . .to people who are welcome. Weird how that works, huh? A real head-scratcher.

          I saw a report that Egypt didn’t want Gaza either. I don’t recall whether it was before or after last weekend.

      Milhouse in reply to CommoChief. | October 11, 2023 at 3:28 am

      IMO, Gaza is quite likely to become part of Israel, with the former residents, those who aren’t killed into he fighting, given an opportunity to relocate to the West Bank or Jordan or anywhere else but Gaza.

      I wish; but no, that is extremely unlikely to happen.

      Especially if one or more of the soft-left parties takes up Netanyahu’s invitation to join the government. But even without that, there are enough people within the government, including Netanyahu himself, who would categorically reject such a solution. Ben-Gvir would do it, but he has very little influence in the government; Netanyahu ignores him as much as possible, and isolates him.

        CommoChief in reply to Milhouse. | October 11, 2023 at 9:41 am

        If they choose to revert to the status quo for Gaza it is an incredibly poor strategic decision. Under the circumstances with public fury running high and the obvious failure of Gaza to govern itself and the reluctance, if not unwillingness, of Israel to occupy Gaza and rule the ‘Palestinians’ …I don’t see a workable alternative.

        The only way to secure Gaza is to turn it into an Israeli district. IMO the realists there should forcefully tell the more liberal folks who reject this path that they, their children and their progeny will be tasked with providing the security forces in Gaza if Gaza isn’t to become a purely Israeli district. The problem with the liberals is their tendency to free ride, flip the script and tell them to personally be prepared to put up or shut up would be my advice. Not that I know beans about internal Israeli politics other than as a distant and infrequent observer.

        4rdm2 in reply to Milhouse. | October 14, 2023 at 4:21 am

        You obsessive dislike of Netanyahu is weird Milhouse, just saying.

    Iranian government must be destroyed

    Removing Hamas does not mean removing the people they have oppressed within Gaza.

    Israel likely knows who the culprits are, and it will act accordingly, without stooping to the level of its enemies.

      So let’s kill them, eh?

      No offense, but have forgotten more about this situation than many know about it, so do not need anyone to lecture on the subject.

      If you do not believe that Palestinians in Gaza are oppressed, fine. Part of that includes the hatred instilled in them.

      Too bad that Israel believes in humanitarian law, despite the fact that cheerleaders want it to act like its enemies.

      “Aw, the poor Palestinian terrorists.”

      If you must engage in disinformation. Sad!

      If you want to kill 2 million people in Gaza because of Hiroshima and Dresden, okay.

      Write a post advocating for that, please!

      We are past that

      That is a naive and condescending attitude. We are supposed to be ‘above it’? Western society is ‘better than that’? Our ‘morality prevents us from X action? Eff all that nonsense in these circumstances.

      If someone wants a fight by the rules then they should ensure that they strictly and scrupulously adhere to those rules themselves. When/if they fail to do so they have no legitimate grounds for objection to the tactics employed by the counter party. The preening about morality from those on the sideline who seek to apply different sets of standards in a conflict without first advocating direct action to impose immediate violent consequences for the first breach is laughable.

        No. We are just true to our principles. Hardly condescending, and hardly preening. The law of war provides plenty of cover to take direct action. These calls for carpet bombing, to give no quarter, and that every Gazan is a terrorist are no less “preening” and sound like the enemies calling for genocide. Way to go!

Well actually you may get your wish before long. The Lawrence Livermore NIF is finally achieving success with laser-driven ICF. It is advertised as an energy source but the actual intent is to create a fusion device that does not require a fission spark plug. No fission, no fallout.

Can’t wait for the “decolonize” protestors to attempt to explain this away.

    henrybowman in reply to LukeHandCool. | October 10, 2023 at 2:24 pm

    They snuck past you while you were waiting.

    “One speaker drew a comparison between Hamas’ attacks on Israel and the plight of Black American slaves, claiming, “To get to the point where things had to happen like they happened yesterday, when the colonizers woke up and they felt the same kind of pressure that black people in this country put down on their slave masters when they woke up.”

      alaskabob in reply to henrybowman. | October 10, 2023 at 3:09 pm

      Funny thing… there was no Spartacus slave revolt in the US… a whole bunch of white guys (and some blacks) freed the slaves. (Orwell was a naive optimist.)

      guyjones in reply to henrybowman. | October 10, 2023 at 3:12 pm

      That’s the kind of manifest historical and factual dishonesty and moral stupidity that Israeli Jews, American Jewish, American Christian and other non-Jewish supporters of Israel, are up against.

      This type of propaganda is so manifestly dishonest, slanderous and evil, yet, because Leftists and Dhimmi-crats are gullible consumers of narratives of alleged “oppression” and victimhood — no matter how transparently false and contrived — this propaganda has spread like a cancer throughout western media and institutions, and, been granted absurdly undeserved deference.

        alaskabob in reply to guyjones. | October 10, 2023 at 4:13 pm

        On cue… BLM has formally supported Hamas. If you ain’t black and marxist… you are on their hit list.

          guyjones in reply to alaskabob. | October 10, 2023 at 4:43 pm

          Yeah, the love-fest between black racists and Arab Muslim “Palestinian” terrorists goes back decades. This despite the fact that American Jews were huge supporters of the civil rights movement.

          Also recall that the Muslim terrorists have become very shrewd and adept (from a public relations/propaganda standpoint) in attempting to link — however fallaciously and dishonestly — their terrorism to American black’s historical racial struggles. After the Michael Brown shooting, I recall members of Hamas or Hezb’allah or Fatah (or, perhaps all three) issuing declarations of solidarity with American protestors.

          Which tells you everything you need to know about BLM (as if you didn’t know it already).

There are no
Words for this kind of evil

No words

I Literally haven’t thought of much element for days

I hope they destroy all the Muslims allowing

Wow crazy post, sorry, I’m in a hospital in Milwaukee advocating for my nephew in ICU. talked to his nurse before I went in the room and He tells me
He’s not as talkative as yesterday

It was crystal clear to me in 1 minute he had had a stroke and then proceeded to have a seizure in my presence.

This ICU nurse thought he was just tired. He was pale, couldn’t talk or follow directions, and
Semi comatose

What kind of medical training are these f/king people getting, are they that incompetent… oh yes they are

Baby parts don’t bother these people

Same as our abortion left wing bastards here

I hate these people with every fiber of my being

Conservative Beaner | October 10, 2023 at 1:51 pm

This all started with the left in this country. They support anyone who hates America. They elect a corrupt pedophile who is letting god knows who into the country.

Then the left finances all the terrorist with billions of dollars and maybe armed them with the weapons left behind in Afghanistan.

The blood of innocents is on Biden’s hands as well as those who elected him.

Will Biden, in his righteousness, utter the word, “IRAN?”

“A coalition of #Stanford students has called the brutal mass murder and kidnapping of Israeli civilians “legal” and “legitimate…resistance.” Never mind that children and grandparents were dragged from their homes and a literal peace festival. Never mind the defiled corpses.”

If that’s “legal,” I sure as hell would hate to see what’s “illegal.” Unbelievable.

https://twitter.com/tab_delete/status/1711782698136821895

Biden can’t find a direct connection to Iran just like Democrats can’t find a direct connection to Biden’s corruption.

Jake Sullivan speaks. Pretender. One of the culprits.

And now the predictable hand-wringing and crying about a possible “disproportionate response.”

You could hold your breath until you heard the first cries of “disproportionate response,” and you’d find you were breathing normally.

So they want “proportionate” as in babies beheaded?

    Milhouse in reply to LukeHandCool. | October 11, 2023 at 3:38 am

    There seems to be a very widespread misunderstanding that the laws of war require force to be proportionate to the provocation. That is just not true. “Proportionality” does not mean and has never meant proportional to the provocation; it means that harm to civilians must be proportionate to the military necessity of the force used. In other words if you want to bomb a building with civilian residents who are likely to be killed, the target should be important enough to justify their deaths. If the building houses an enemy missile command, go ahead and destroy it; if all it houses is the enemy’s break room, and all you’ll achieve by killing all those civilians is to disrupt the enemy’s coffee breaks, then it’s not legitimate. That’s all it means.

      CommoChief in reply to Milhouse. | October 11, 2023 at 9:46 am

      That and the fact that the rules are a reciprocal contract of behavior among signatories and not automatically applicable to non signatory entities. No Nation State must apply them to a terrorist entity such as Hamas. They can voluntarily choose to apply them or not. They could even choose to apply them today but not tomorrow.

Have the Democrats praised their murders of the babies yet?

Still holding out hope the reports of baby beheadings is fake news.