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Let's put it another way and this might get convoluted it's early in the morning and Ive been up all night.

If 10/7 is Israel's 9/11 the US set the precedent for allowable and semi-understandable hostile action after a horrific terrorist attack, misguided as we now know. Still, it would be like the US going full bore, remembering shock and awe, on Iraq and Afghanistan, and giving Bin Laden construction the contracts to rebuild the Twin Towers and both countries.

Lastly don't forget the hostages... the Israelis are agonizing over this. Just like they have done every time hostages are taken I can remember 3 distinct times Israel has had this occur and I probably became a late-night news junkie watching Ted Koeppel talk about the Iranian hostage crisis.

This is why I can look at the news now and know they are full of shit. Of course, different people ran ABC and the news division had more power and autonomy back then, but there was still a hint of a liberal left slant. But the had integrity too, and any falsehood or misrepresentation would get called out by the other networks, newspapers and magazines. Now they all seem to be in cahoots. 

I recall the 1st Gulf War, LOL we Compuserve, Prodigy, and AOL boards there was quite a bit of discussion and even opposition to going to war, especially when we started to have soldiers captured and beaten 

The point being thats my life experience 40 years of every few years or so horrible news from the Middle East, my Dad always believed the big war would start in the holy land. Dad wasn't ultra-religious but he was a believer, but the reason was both sides relied on their religion as their identification as who they were. Since America was born partially from religious persecution, we have mellowed a bit since the Salem Witch trials. We have so much more tolerance specifically religious tolerance than we are given credit for, as such when we see religious intolerance it's disturbing





Trey Yingst

@TreyYingst
Israeli Defense Minister
@YoavGallant
signed the State Department guest book with a message about the hostages and fallen soldiers. “I sign this book for 120 hostages whom we must bring home. For our troops on the frontline and for our heroes who fell. Together we will prevail.”