
Only the Israelis, it surely seems, are expected to conduct war in accord with the gentlemanly Marquis of Queensbury Rules.
So,
Rule Number One…as the Israelis confront The Belly of the Beast, they must do no harm to the “innocent civilians.”
Rule Number Two to Rule Number One…are you forgetting something?
Some 85 percent of those “innocents” voted for Hamas. How did that crowd become a protected species like the Hawksbill Turtle?
They’ve been known, through the years, to cheer domestic terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, and to celebrate 9/11 as a holiday.
The Israelis are fighting for their lives, their homes, their children, their history, their future, their country…and hardly anyone cries for them as an endangered species.
There are no innocent Gazans. Would Abraham find 50? Say, 40…or not even 10?
Only Israel is put to the test for collateral damage…Dresden, anyone? Hiroshima?
Rule Number Three. The Israelis must stop winning and agree to an immediate ceasefire for the good of those Gazans who have been displaced by the fighting.
(Systematic pauses are now in effect, also for the hostages…Is this smart? But please, no more Shalits.)
Rule Number Four to Rule Number Three…strange that you worry only about the Arabs. Not a word about the Gaza border Israelis, thousands uprooted and displaced, Oct 7.
Not a word about them from Antony Blinken or the media. For the Jews, nobody cares. For the Arabs, everybody cares.
In fact, the Israelis along the border with Gaza… since 2007, it’s been life on the run from missiles, dynamited balloons and kites.
Fifteen seconds to get to a bomb shelter.
The leadership mostly shrugged. This too shall pass. But it didn’t, did it?
Rule Number Five. Blinken, obviously speaking for himself, and for Biden, and for Obama, is hot for a two-state solution.
He says the Palestinian Arabs deserve a place where they can live peacefully and democratically.
What world was that? The Palestinian Arabs have never lived peacefully with anybody. Ever.
They were kicked out of Tunisia. They were booted from Jordan. They were expelled from Lebanon…all of that after they committed rivers of blood, brother against brother.
Nobody wants them. Wherever they go, there’s trouble. Trump made them dispensable. Biden bankrolled them new life.
Somebody needs to tell Blinken that Gaza WAS the two-state solution, and Oct 7 was Israel’s reward.
Rule Number Six: The Israelis must protect the journalists covering the war.
Rule Number Seven to Rule Number Six…how about journalists, from The New York Times, AP, CNN, Reuters, who were reportedly embedded with Hamas en route to the slaughter?
This means, if factual, that with such foreknowledge, they could have given Israel a heads-up. They could have made a difference between life and death.
No harm to them, either, apparently. Another protected species, the journalists, the media, that can’t tell the truth from a hole in the ground.
As for the Times, page per page, always handy when an army runs out of Charmin.
Rule Number Eight, Nine and Ten: The Israelis must stop fighting or else it will get worse from the crowds marching and chanting like Hitler Youth…right now in New York City.
They turned out that way after the universities were stuffed with billions from places like Qatar and Saudi Arabia in order to teach antisemitism 101.
Hence, these imbecilic goons.
God has their names.
Go IDF.
New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes regularly for Arutz Sheva.
He wrote the worldwide book-to-movie bestseller “Indecent Proposal,” the authoritative newsroom epic, “The Bathsheba Deadline,” followed by his coming-of-age classics, “The Girls of Cincinnati,” and, the Holocaust-to-Montreal memoir, “Escape from Mount Moriah.” For that and his 1960s epic “The Days of the Bitter End,” contemporaries have hailed him “The last Hemingway, a writer without peer, and the conscience of us all.” Contact here.

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