I take some time off from job, blog and radio show, and suddenly the biggest story in the world isn’t our senile president and Trump’s legal woes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fiftieth anniversary of the Yom Kippur invasion, no less. Couldn’t see that one coming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quietly hoping that this time Israel ignores the international yapping about cease fires and diplomacy, and builds a pyramid of the skulls of HAMAS fighters, and puts it at the approaches to Yad Vashem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They really need to push the notion that that “never again” thing wasn’t a polite request. It clearly hasn’t sunk in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One thing that is <\/em>sinking in: someone missed their cue<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAll of Israel is asking itself: where is the IDF, where are the police, where is the security?\u201d said Eli Maron, a former head of the Israeli navy, on Channel 12. \u201cIt\u2019s a colossal failure; the [defence] establishments have simply failed, with vast consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n HAMAS is directly supported by Iran, whose intelligence and special forces are among the craftiest in the world. While Berg’s 18th Law<\/a> is in full effect, I’m going to go out on a short, sturdy limb and guess that Iran spent years helping HAMAS play intel-fu to conceal the attack plans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This isn’t without precedent; even though the Yom Kippur War was a huge conventional operation with thousands of tanks and planes and hundreds of thousands of troops, it came as a complete surprise as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One thing that doesn’t need any post-attack study: Biden Administraiton policies have directly contributed to the situation. Reports say US weapons left in Afghanistan were used in the attacks; while I’m waiting for better confirmation there, it appears almost certain that US integrity and foreign-policy gravitas left in Afghanistan, or packed into boxes of money sent to Iran, was involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And the administration remains an embarassment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n