After inflicting the most vicious attack on Jews since the Holocaust, Hamas has earned the same fate as the Nazis: total eradication. Pictured: An Israeli army howitzer fires rounds Wednesday near the Jewish state’s border with Gaza in southern Israel. (Photo: Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images)

No sane, rational, civilized human being wants or seeks war. Yet when massive violent and deadly aggression occurs and a nation, a government, an ideology rises up and strikes inflicting heinous and brutal deaths — murders, rapes, torture, and attempts to remove a people, a nation, a place from the face of the earth there is no recourse other than for the victims of such an attack leading to outright war to defend themselves and organize to not only subdue the aggression but to inflict such damage upon it the aggressors have no recourse other than unconditional surrender.

I am not alone in this belief. It is a consensus among rational, logical, and civilized human beings. That may seem an oxymoron but if Great Britain, America, and the Allied Forces that came together during World War II had the soft, utterly ridiculous approach of proportional response, and not use disproportionate force the Nazis and the Japanese would never have been defeated, and had to agree to an unconditional surrender.

To demand proportional force is to aid and abet evil. To aid and abet terrorism. To aid and abet continual no-end-in-sight escalating terrorism and murder.

I used to belong to the peace. love, happiness & music movement of the 1960s and early 1970s. Peace and love, man. Make love, not war, man.

No one of sound mind, and sound spirit, especially a person who has been renewed of mind and spirit, transformed by the Spirit of God desires war and the death and injury of human beings. But neither can that individual be naive, blind, ignorant, and exist in some ethereal lalaland, some fantasy omitting the reality of the history of man on earth and what truly lies within human nature.

Let us stop thinking if we appease evil, if we attempt to negotiate with evil, if we turn a blind eye to evil, if we somehow can just pay evil off enough, if we talk evil to death we can bring an end to wars, to the killing.

It’s only going to escalate folks. Not only this present conflict in Israel and Gaza. Worldwide. What is coming is going to make other conflicts, and other wars pale in comparison.

Don’t believe this? Don’t want to acknowledge this? Think waving two fingers in a peace sign, saying peace and love, marching in the streets, attempting to talk people into changing human nature, changing history is possible?

Pick up a Holy Bible and learn a valuable lesson, or two. Discover past, present, and even future history as is not found in any other book or source on earth. Because it’s the inerrant infallible living Word of God.

Denial, delusion, living lives of illusion in banality is nothing but insanity and will do nothing, nothing at all to end wars, bring peace, or achieve the impossible to bring about ideals of men and women vainly, foolishly imagining they have the ability to alter reality, alter human nature, remove evil from the face of the world.

Only God, only the Lord Jesus Christ, and only the Holy Spirit can do such wondrous and amazing things.

Man just knows violence, carrying out evil, war, pain, murder, and destruction. Vainly, foolishly imagining they can somehow remove that which they hate and bring about their desired Utopia.

That was the delusion of the Nazis. The delusion of Imperialistic Japan, of the Romans, of Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and of Islam. To name but a few. What is the proportional response to end such evil, folks?  Only to be stronger, never yielding until the war is won. Otherwise?

Would you be happy to have a portrait of Adolf Hitler hanging on your living room wall, or one the the Emperor of imperialistic Japan? Placed there mandatory? Or else. Submitting to evil. The freedoms enjoyed now not existing? Because you think it’s all fair in war? By being subservient to evil and not inflicting pain upon it for initiating the death and misery it does? Why should those who are the people of justice, law, order, and a degree of rightness not known to the aggressors relent, submit, and appease evil?

Do not be deceived or among the deluded.

When a violent and murderous oppressor rises up and inflicts death, pain, injury, and destruction among a people, in a nation that aggressor ought to be prepared for whatever comes their way after initiating such murder, pain, violence, and destruction upon another.

Evil must be subdued as best it can be when it rises up and attempts to reign upon the face of the earth. Perpetuating its lies, death, and misery.

And no amount of self-defense, retaliation by a people, a nation that was attacked is enough — until the enemy, until the evil is defeated to such a degree as to no longer be a threat to the people, the nation that was attacked.

To think otherwise is not a sign of weakness but of true insanity and to be working as an agent of evil, aiding and abetting evil to continue to carry out its murdering ways indefinitely. To not allow peace to exist.

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Ken Pullen, Saturday, October 14th, 2023

The Misconception That Force Used In Self-Defense Must Be “Proportional”

America Should Let Israel Wipe Out Hamas Once and for All

October 12, 2023

By Mario Loyola 

Reprinted from The Daily Signal

“We stand with Israel,” President Joe Biden said Tuesday. “And we will make sure that Israel has what it needs to take care of its citizens, defend itself, and respond to this attack.”

It was a strong statement of support. But Israelis have heard such statements from American presidents before, only to be disappointed just weeks later by U.S. pressure to wrap up operations and agree to a premature cease-fire.

What Biden should have said, and what Congress should say now, is that the U.S. will ensure Israel has all the time, resources, and diplomatic cover it needs to achieve complete victory over Hamas.

In other words, the U.S. will veto any U.N. Security Council cease-fire resolution and will ignore any third-party cease-fire mediation, except on Israel’s terms. And the U.S. should encourage Israel to keep its terms very simple: unconditional surrender.

It’s time to get Israel out of the suicidal habit of leaving Hamas standing at the end of wars started by Hamas. After Hamas’ 2007 takeover of the Gaza Strip, it should have been obvious that Israel no longer could afford to tolerate the continued existence of Hamas. That is abundantly obvious now.

What the U.S. and Israel should remember is how World War II began—and how it ended. At the start, the U.S. and its new allies committed to “complete victory” against the Axis nations. They pledged to keep fighting until the Axis powers had “laid down their arms on the basis of unconditional surrender.”

Any Germans who didn’t understand what that meant found out the following year when Allied forces crossed into Germany. In Proclamation No. 1 of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower pledged to “obliterate” Nazism and “eradicate” German militarism.

“All persons in the occupied territory will obey immediately and without question all the enactments and orders of the military government,” Eisenhower proclaimed. “Resistance to the Allied forces will be ruthlessly stamped out.”

Most Germans didn’t need to be told. In the newly occupied areas, they wandered shell-shocked in the rubble of their bombed-out cities, totally broken and totally defeated, hoping the world could one day forgive them for their unspeakable crimes.

That is the fate that Hamas and its many Palestinian supporters should be facing now. That is the language that Israel should be using in the weeks ahead, and the civilized world should lend its full support.

For Hamas did not target Israelis only. Citizens of many countries, including America, have been tortured, brutally killed, and taken hostage in recent days.

The time when Israel could afford to tolerate the existence of Hamas has come to an end. After inflicting the most vicious attack on Jews since the Holocaust, Hamas has earned the same fate as the Nazis: total eradication.

And when Hamas or anyone else proposes a truce, Israel and the U.S. should echo the steely words of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Fort Donelson in 1862: “No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.”

As scenes of devastation emerge from Gaza, calls for a cease-fire will come with accusations that Israel is using “disproportionate force.” There is a common misconception that force used in self-defense must be “proportional” to the level of force that the aggressor used. But that would be a preposterous rule, as it essentially would make it illegal to achieve decisive victory in a war started by somebody else, such as World War II.

Under international law, proportionality turns entirely on one’s military objective. According to Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions, combatants must generally avoid civilian casualties that are excessive in relation to the “concrete and direct military advantage” to be gained. If the military objective is legitimate, so is any force that is “necessary and proportional” to achieve that objective.

After the horrific attacks of the past week, Israel is entirely justified in concluding that anything short of the complete destruction of Hamas could lead many Israelis to wonder whether Israel can really survive surrounded by such bloodthirsty and determined killers.

Israel cannot let those doubts fester. Just as the Allies did at the start of World War II, it has every right to seek the unconditional surrender or complete destruction of Hamas—and it must.

Israel has an obligation to avoid civilian casualties that are avoidable. But it is Hamas, not Israel, that fights with wanton disregard for Palestinian life. From inside schools and next to hospitals, Hamas has spent years launching indiscriminate missile attacks against Israel, a war crime against both Israel’s civilians and its own.

Hamas treats Palestinian women and children as propaganda assets that are most valuable when they’re dead, hoping to turn Israelis’ concern for human rights into a weakness. The despicable strategy has worked until now, but it is merely a propaganda trick, and the world should tolerate it no longer.

Civilian casualties that become unavoidable because of Hamas’ use of human shields are war crimes attributable entirely to Hamas. Like the total destruction of Nazi Germany in 1945, the total destruction of Hamas may bring great suffering to innocent civilians in the short term, but it is their only hope in the long term.

Certainly, the destruction of Hamas will entail things that Israel might not want to deal with, such as having to reoccupy Gaza, something which may now be unavoidable. But that is up to Israel.

In the meantime, to reiterate, the U.S. should say unambiguously what it should have said years ago: In a war started by Israel’s enemies, the U.S. will give Israel all the time, resources, and diplomatic cover that it needs to achieve complete victory.

This commentary was published originally by National Review