Dispatch Live: The Massacre in Israel

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Over the weekend, Hamas-led terrorists raided Israeli towns, butchering and abducting hundreds of civilians. Israel responded by launching aerial attacks on Gaza with the explicit mission of removing Hamas. Kevin will be hosting a special Dispatch Live tonight joined by Steve, Declan, and David Drucker (and possibly Adaam) to attempt to digest the scenes and their implications. What’s happening in Israeli politics? What will be the long-term implications to the region? How does this affect America’s geopolitical calculus?

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  1. Frank Lee

    Hey my lefty and left conservative Dispatch friends... WT_ should Israel do?

    One can be on neither side or both sides preferring a two-state solution where both countries maintain their cultural sovereignty and live in peace. It is the murderous Islamic culture that is incompatible with that vision. Israel continue to inflame Arab and Persian insecurities and they respond to that feeling of being disrespected simply by Israel's success, as a call to murder Israeli Jews and wipe them off the map... the same resentment that drove Hitler and the Nazis. It is just antisemitism. The claim that opposition to Zionism and Judaism are somehow separate is the modern lie of the antisemite.

    So Israel is left without options except two: to expect a walled-off peace that is backed by aggressive response for Islamic terrorist attacks or allow itself to be wiped out.

    If not these two options, what else is there?

    And do not say just open up the border for an Arab-Jewish coexistence. That is the point... the effing Arabs want to kill Jews and wipe out the Jewish state just like the Nazis.

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    Jerrymasters7vwp

    It might be effective marketing to permit non-subscribers to participate in Dispatch Live discussions of extraordinary events.

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    1. Adaam James

      Good suggestion

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  4. Scott Janetsky

    Not gonna lie, I wish they took more questions. Is that something I can count on expecting in the future?

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    1. Adaam James

      Definitely. We usually try to bring in more questions. I think it was the heat of this topic that kept us locked in discussion. You can certainly expect us to be spotlighting more questions in future streams.

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    Denise Cote

    It's very helpful to hear Adaam's perspective on our political dysfunction.

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    1. Adaam James

      I'm glad it was useful

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  6. Blow Putin's Azov

    May I ask with no agenda whatsoever, what platform(s) are hosting these awful videos that so many have seen? I do not want to search for them, much less watch them, and I am not seeing them dangled on the mainstream sites that I visit (NYT, BBC, etc). Who is showing this stuff and what is their rationale?

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  7. Francislyo

    Can we hope that in this time of great challenge we can finally get out from under the MAGA boot that McCarthy held to our throats for his entire Speakership? He used his power to further MAGA at every turn: supporting the insurrection after it happened, rewriting its history, empowering the most craven MAGA voices in the House and enforcing their wishes. After the Democrats twice bailed him out for the good of the nation, the next day on CBS he proved his MAGA creds, including holding Ukraine hostage to their wishes. NOT a good sign for My Kevin 2.0

    Our nation needs leaders who put nation and constitution before self and party. Can’t a handful of brave Republicans work with Democrats to put in a moderate Republican Speaker?

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  8. Brsilverman

    Well I thought that President Biden's speech today was pretty good, and struck the right tone, do you guys think he should have taken much more of a Bush'y approach. Eg. aggressively message to the Qataris that they should turn over the Hamas leadership within 24 hours, or be considered a belligerent, or message much more directly to Hezbollah that southern Lebanon will be turned to glass if they intervene. In my view, restoring deterrence in this area requires that the US (and Israel) are very clear about what our response will be...

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    1. Frank Lee

      He handed Iran $6 billion that was used to fund the Hamas attack, so he had to sound aggressive in condemnation.

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      1. Francislyo

        The $6 billion in Iranian assets (owed to Iran by S. Korea, but we prevented payment) has not yet been delivered to them, so it wasn't used to fund the Hamas invasion. It's confusing, because we already have the 5 American hostages back, even though they don't yet have the $6B.

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        1. Frank Lee

          You have $6 billion coming when your GDP is $350 billion you feel fine spending a few hundred million to give you your proxy terrorist Armies.

          It is not confusing at all. Trump immediately warned this would be the result.

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          1. Francislyo

            Trump warns of a lot of things. And gives conflicting stories and gets a lot wrong as well.

            Also, this coordinated attack seems to have been long in the making. I wouldn't pin this on Biden any more than I would pin 9/11 on George W Bush ignoring the repeated warnings to him by the Clinton administration.

            As it wasn't then, this really is Not a time to blame Americans for tragedy, as extremes tend to do. It's a time for the nation to come together with our allies and gird up for the challenges ahead. They are monumental.

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  9. Bob Cherichella

    Let me tell you all something. Nikki Haley is going to be our next president, get used to it.
    She has spoken this weekend with utmost clarity on what we have to do to get sanity back in the world and in our own Country.
    Stop with the weak raising of the hand on whether she’d support Trump if he’s the nominee. He ain’t gonna be the nominee.

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    1. Francislyo

      It would be a huge relief if she were the nominee for President. And I think she'd stand the best chance in the general.

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    2. Frank Lee

      Naw... nobody wants a war monger in bed with the American war industry.

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      1. Bob Cherichella

        She’s not a warmonger. Like Reagan said, “he had lived through four American wars and none had started because the US was too strong”. We need a strong military and a clear eyed understanding of the world around us. We’re not perfect but we’re a helluva lot better for the betterment of mankind then Russia, China and Iran.
        The best way to prevent war is for the other side to know that the cost of entering into it is too steep. History has proved that time & time again.

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      I sure hope you're right.

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  10. Corilowe

    Keep in mind that the Israelis have treated the Palestinians poorly for many decades. Poorly is an understatement. I married an Israeli and have family there. The two state solution was a good idea particularly since the Arabs were there for generations before WW2. The recent anti Arab , pro settlement government of Bibi was protested by hundreds of thousands for months for many reasons. This gave Hamas the idea of weakness as we know see. You cannot hold people down without some pushback.

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    1. Bob Cherichella

      I’m sorry. They raped, butchered children and dragged corpses through the street. If you’re dealing with animals and these pieces of shit are animals please don’t talk to me about a “two state” solution. The second state should be a zoo.

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      1. Corilowe

        They have been treated like animals, driven from their ancestral lands, treated as less than human. Reminds us of the American Indian raids.

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        1. Bob Cherichella

          Not ancestral home, different argument for a different day. Not sure I agree that they have been “treated like animals”; they certainly have acted like animals, perhaps they are.

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    2. Francislyo

      You make some good points. However, just after their brutal attack on civilians, including killing babies and elderly, raping women, taking hostages and brutally attacked those attending a "Festival for Peace", Hamas soldiers reveled in their brutality, parading a brutalized nearly naked German woman, and bragging on social media (reminiscent of Russian soldiers during their brutal invasion of Ukraine).

      I think a focus like that of Biden's speech is what is needed now. This is a time for unity in our nation. Biden reflected this by first expressing our grief and firm support of Israel, but also balanced this by stating categorically that there is no place for hatred of Jewish or Muslim people, and that it’s important to keep within the Law of War. See today’s Advisory Opinions for excellent coverage by David French of Law of War.

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      1. Corilowe

        Thank you for your sound reply. I heard you.

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