Views on Israel

Oct 28, 2023

I have been busy watching various people write and speak on the Israel war, and it has been a very interesting mix of voices. People on the ‘right’ and on the ‘left’; people on Israel’s side, Hamas’s side, and those trying for some middle position. So I thought I would compile a list, for my reference and possibly for others as well. This list is meant to focus on Substackers, but is open to everyone.

This list is meant to be always being updated. If you are on the list and wish to protest your or others’ placement, or add other links, put them in the comments below.

Right Wing: Social or economic conservatives

Right Wing: Pro-Israel

https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/israeli-arab-bedouins-seek-revenge-on-hamas/

Mission Brief from LTC Richard Hecht (Official IDF Substack)

Mission Brief: Dispatch #1

Hi. Incredibly excited to kick this Substack off. Public relations can feel glossy. Even the word feels too polished. But the second I started as the IDF Spokesperson for Foreign Media I knew that glossy was not my way. My friends know that I'm not about polish or soundbytes. So as much as this job lets me, I like to keep it real…

a year ago · 92 likes · Lt. Col. Richard Hecht

Mission Brief from LTC Richard Hecht (Official IDF Substack)

"Wait, there are children in the area" Exclusive Footage of an Air Strike Being Called Off

I’m sharing exclusive, never before seen footage from inside an IDF command center. To stay up to date and get exclusive footage like this before anyone else, subscribe here: In last week’s IDF podcast, Lt Col ‘A’, an air force navigator, described how airstrikes can be called off from the cockpit…

a year ago · 8 likes · Lt. Col. Richard Hecht

A Locked Room

The Season of Moral Insanity

Years ago, a man brutally murdered both of his parents. When it came to the sentencing phase of his trial, he asked for merciful consideration. After all, he pleaded, he was an orphan. This is the situation in which we find ourselves. Hamas’ actions in Israel are unconscionable and inconsistent with even the normal tactics of terrorists. The Western Leftists trying to excuse (or glorify) rape and infanticide are relying on a bivalent (simplified, therefore inaccurate) view of the world, a misunderstanding of Israeli politics and history, and an unquestioning acceptance of the writings of Frantz Fanon and the ‘decolonization’ model…

a year ago · James Mills

https://www.commentary.org/jonathan-schanzer/the-real-gaza-hospital-crisis/

https://www.commentary.org/evelyn-gordon/jews-anti-semitism-europe-east-west/

https://www.commentary.org/articles/jonathan-schanzer/hamas-israel-war-after-war-between-wars/

The Prism

In Defence of Israel

I didn’t want to comment on Israel and Palestine, because it’s a topic I don’t feel I understand well enough. But after seeing what others were saying — on social media, in opinion columns, and in the news — I realized that the overwhelming majority of people opining on this topic know even less than me…

a year ago · 538 likes · 266 comments · Gurwinder

Wrong Side of History

Where are Jews safest in Europe?

Many years ago, I interviewed an elderly Hungarian man who had spent months as a child being sheltered and hidden by Catholic priests, an act of humanity that saved his life. As the country’s Jews were rounded up over the last year of the Second World War to be murdered at Auschwitz, the boy had been moved from safe house to safe house by well-wishers a…

a year ago · 123 likes · 25 comments · Ed West

The Rogue Scholar

Hamas' Attack on Israel and the Questions We Need To Ask Ourselves

By now, you know what's happening in Israel. There are lessons for us all in this, personally, theologically, philosophically, and in the realm of preparedness. The Free Press is on top of it with the coverage. I'm not going to belabor that. A quick history lesson, though…

a year ago · 1 like · Vance Gatlin

AND Magazine

LGBTQ Groups Nationwide Come Out In Support Of Hamas – What’s Next? Jews For Hitler?

One of the notable characteristics of Marxists is their penchant for denying reality and demanding you do so as well. Even as American cities burned in the runup to the 2020 election, you were told repeatedly by “experts” that Antifa did not exist, there was no nationwide effort to stage a leftist revolution, and that everything you were witnessing was…

a year ago · 38 likes · 6 comments · Sam Faddis

Holly’s Substack

On Palestine: Empathy Changes Zero Facts

a year ago · 154 likes · 33 comments · Holly MathNerd

Melanie Phillips

Is the west to blame for the war against civilisation?

I took part in a podcast discussion this week with the editor-in chief of jns.org, Jonathan Tobin. We discussed the Hamas pogrom in southern Israel, the war that’s followed and the dilemmas that war is throwing up; the growth and grip of Muslim extremism in western societies; the indifference towards this by progressives, their corresponding support of…

a year ago · Melanie Phillips

Erick Erickson's Show Notes

I have to take a pass

The Israeli government has invited me to watch the raw footage of the October 7 attacks. The footage was obtained from body cameras worn by the Hamas terrorists, their cell phone videos, and the footage of the Israeli soldiers who went into the areas after the massacre…

a year ago · 90 likes · 38 comments · Erick-Woods Erickson

Melanie Phillips

The west's mass psychopathy moment

The massive demonstrations of support for Hamas on the streets of European and American cities, with baying mobs calling for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews everywhere while the liberal, educated classes are either silent or are actually supporting barbarism…

a year ago · Melanie Phillips

From the New World

Ethnic Hatred Comes From The Heart

“I was shocked by these ‘students for justice’ organizations, who immediately were, they didn’t even offer a single word of condolence for these attacks, who immediately were like ‘It’s all Israel’ … I genuinely was flabbergasted as to where it came from…

a year ago · 50 likes · 12 comments · Brian Chau

The Hard Bigotry of Hyerbolic Expectations

Von

October 16, 2023

The Hard Bigotry of Hyerbolic Expectations

-Note to Christians: I realise that the modern governments of the State of Israel have adopted blasphemous laws concerning such issues as Sodomy. I realise that their culture, like so many ‘western’ cultures is decadent and Godless. I realise that the governments of the State of Israel as a nation and the Jewish people as a whole have rejected their Mes…

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Defining Terrorism

Von

October 18, 2023

My definition for Terrorism is: The deliberate use of tactics against a civilian population which are intended to cause fear (terror) amongst that population and thus cause the leadership of that population to change its policies in a direction desired by those who use the tactics.

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