On Oct. 7, the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, the terrorist group Hamas made an unprovoked attacked on Israel by land, sea and air.
Thousands of rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israeli civilians and military bases, Hamas members flew paragliders into Israel, and a great many of its ground troops forcibly entered Israel.
Rape and torture are common Hamas tactics. As the Israeli Defense Forces reported, Hamas published a video of its members beheading captured Israeli soldiers. In Kfar Aza, Hamas killed at least 40 children, some of them babies. Israel was surprised by the attack, which means there was a massive failure of its vaunted intelligence services. It was, in the words of several Israeli officials, their 9/11. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was at war, which Mr. Netanyahu’s Cabinet confirmed by declaring war on Hamas. Warning Palestinians to leave Gaza immediately, Mr. Netanyahu vowed that “the enemy will pay a price it has never known before.
As I wrote on this page on Sept. 12, 2001, as there should not have been any thought of “proportionality” in our response to the 9/11 attacks, neither should there be now in Israel’s response. The only proper response is proportionate to the attacked nation’s might, not the enemy’s purported weakness.
Many Western nations have fallen for that ploy, including the United States under many presidents. It was then-President Donald Trump’s Abraham Accords that exploded the Palestinians’ mythology, and President Biden has done nothing other than impeding their spread by pressuring the Israelis to grant concessions to the Palestinians.
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