War is the absence of law. War is what happens when law proves inadequate, unable to fulfill the task it faces. War results when laws are ignored, useless, or even tampered with to become a system of outright immorality, illegality and inhumanity. War itself is an act of inhumanity. But mankind seems never to have been able to outgrow the need or the will for it.
War. It is an ugly word which conjures up awful pictures in one's mind. It portends a life rife with uncertainty and massive bloodshed. Mealy mouthed politicians speak in glowing terms of the goals and benefits of war, omitting the fields of unavoidable destruction left behind in the dystopian world of war.
Over the millennia one of the most active fields of human endeavor has been the 'improvement' and 'cvilizing' of warfare. (One of the most oxymoronic activities ever.) Rights of prisoners of war, the banning of certain weapons, treatment of civilians, even timeouts of a sort, but the fact remains that warfare and the violence it engenders is a major loss for the nations involved, generally one side the aggressor, the initiator of the conflict.
Yet with all that civilizing, war seems to remain the same. Same brutality, the same ugliness. The same awful pictures. What has changed since that first caveman picked up his club and beat somebody over the head to the times of today? Absolutely nothing other than the fact that the utilities of warfare, the methods by which we wage warfare, have been 'advanced' to the point where we no longer need kill individuals, but can aim at larger bottom lines, the infamous body counts by which success or failure of warfare is measured. An ugly concept and even uglier in actualization. No, there is no law of war.
Some will argue that there are laws. There are codes. These so-called codes are grossly inadequate to fulfill the tasks assigned to them and are more honored in the breach rather than in the keep. The rules governing treatment of POWs, or enemy civilians, weapons 'legal' for the killing, truce honoring - all inadequate. Not necessarily because they are bad rules, but because mankind in the heat and fever of warfare cannot find the time, the desire, even the ability to stop on that proverbial dime and avoid crossing 'red lines' of combat. However, all sides in a war are guilty of acts contrary to the rules of warfare, with or without intent. The question is how to know, how to evaluate and where, if possible, to define cause and intent. Unfortunately, politics and emotions often rear their ugly heads at this point, tainting the entire process.
War is generally instigated by one side of the conflict, generally the one with less justification, if any, on its side. It is with criminal intent, with murder in mind, a desire to rape and pillage, to wreak havoc with their arms, and urge their legs to provide speed as they race towards fulfillment and satiation of their bloodlust. Worse, it is not towards the soldiers that they run but the civilians - the men, women, children, young and old, healthy and ill, who are the targets. They are the slaughtered. They are the tortured. They are the kidnapped.
Such was the case on October 7th, 2023, when the Beasts of Hamas attacked. and slaughtered and destroyed lives. Hamas instigated a war as they broke a ceasefire in place. Now, as they are losing militarily, infrastructure hidden in, among, and beneath civilian structures, community structures used as military bases, the majority of their forces decimated, a growing loss of civilians used as human shields for Hamas, now they claim to be the victims. They indeed are victims - of their own bloodthirsty crazed actions.
Biden now indulges them, gives them, along with the rest of the world, what they do so desire, as the entire world goes mad with a revived vitriolic poisonous homicidal JewHatred. Anti Zionism, anti-Israel, anti-Jew, antisemitism, JewHatred - all one and the same. Now Hamas demands a ceasefire, as a victor, on their demented terms rather than as a defeated entity. Permanent withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza. The release of thousands of murderers. Israel to expend its own energies and funds and reconstruct Gaza. Even as Israel's communities have been shredded, decimated, destroyed. Even as they refuse to release the names of the hostages they hold, dead and alive. As they demand the right to send back only the remains of dead hostages rather than the live ones.
And the world concedes. The world lays blame at the feet of Israelis as the entire world is turned upside down. Well, Mr. Biden, you wanted the Michigan votes - fine, but now you will be lacking votes from elsewhere. Many more votes. Your insane demand that Israel disconnects and spends months MONTHS on rebuilding Gaza, creating huge tent cities, providing food, water, schools, hospitals, community centers -WHAT THE HELL!! No mention of the hostages. Are they to be totally finished, collateral damage. OK for them, for Israeli civilians, but not for others? No mention of the destroyed northern Israel communities. Nor the blood-stained southern communities. And then what happens after those months of indulgence of Hamas demands. What happens then? And where the hell are the Arab nations who refuse entry and citizenship to these brothers of theirs. Nowhere.
I will tell you what happens then. Same old, same old. Why not? They will have had months to re-equip to rearm, to reorganize. to keep their twisted ugliness in the eyes of the world as the world chants of support for murder and mayhem, for slaughtered babies and burned children. Once again, the world says the hell with the Jews.
Well, no more. Down to the last stone. We will fight down to the last Jew. We will fight. We will win. So it has been throughout history and so it will continue. You and all your enablers, you and all the haters of Israel, with your misplaced pressures, with your encouragement of the violence of Palestinian terrorists, you have created this situation. You have allowed it to grow into this monster which threatens the sanity of this world.
You and your impotent, lying, posturing statement of "ironclad ties' between America and Israel.
Feh! On! You!
On you as well along with your coterie of followers and enablers, is a disastrous mess we will have here in this country as a demented old man wins an election which was yours to win. Yours to keep. You threw it away with your misplaced sympathies and your misplaced pressures. Your misplaced statements. The enabling of more murder of Israelis. All on you.
Law? War? Not in the same breath.
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Yitzy, the situation is ugly down here. We so desperately hope it is better upstairs We also wish, hope, pray that the Angels are besieging G-d, reminding Him of the once again perilous situation His people are in. Time for Him to reengage. Time to remember us.
Even as we will always remember you. Keep you close in our hearts.
Always and forever. Always and forever.
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