Three days in, Israel believes it has finally restored its internal security. It has not yet begun its punitive counterattack, apart from softening its enemies up with an air assault. Meanwhile the death counter kept climbing yesterday, surmounting 900 dead Israelis (including over 120 soldiers and police), and it will probably keep on climbing as bloodied Israel figures out what exactly happened to it this weekend. Hamas is reported to be holding over 100 civilians, including a handful of Americans, Germans, and Russians. That we know of so far.Around the rest of the world, including here in the U.S., cunning politicians jockeyed for position yesterday in a frantic race to express the most support for Israel, not letting a good crisis go to waste. Biden ā or whoever runs things while heās being interviewed about his classified documents problem ā has ordered U.S. warships in the area to deliver whatever they have on hand that might be helpful.
Here at home, Congress began debating a multi-billion dollar aid package for Israel, although it is not yet exactly clear what sort of aid Israel needs beyond more shells for its Iron Dome defense system.
An NBC News headline yesterday reflected the kind of diligent opportunism that ā only 72 hours into the war ā has already reared its Medusa-like heads ā and you can expect to see a lot more of it:
Of course! Israel can have its aid, as long as Ukraine gets some green, too. You canāt blame them. They have their priorities. Both conflicts are very similar, after all. Both aid packages are ā facially ā intended to help both countries secure both of their borders.
Itās a good thing there arenāt any other countries with insecure borders around here, or we could be in a real pickle.
It wasnāt just democrats trying to advantage the tragedy in Israel. Establishment Republicans were up to their bloody necks in it too. From Fox News:
Sure, that makes sense. We canāt vote on Israel aid until we have a new Speaker, and we wonāt vote for a new Speaker unless you give us our old Speaker back. Itās not blackmail, itās politics. We all want the same thing at the end of the day!
Now, haha, donāt get me wrong. Iām not saying that all these politicians falling all over themselves to express support for Israel are actually grasping with their grubby, chocolate-stained fingers at the treasuryās lockbox for their own political ends or anything. The facts can speak for themselves.
I donāt plan to cover the warās play-by-play, you can get that news all over the Internet if you want it. But Iāll make sure you know about the major military and political developments and will highlight whatever inconvenient facts the media tries to bury.
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