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* Guy Millière: Israel, Iran and the Biden Administration: If America Does Not Win, Its Enemies Do
* Amir Taheri: Anatomy of a Paris Demo


** Israel, Iran and the Biden Administration: If America Does Not Win, Its Enemies Do ([link removed])
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by Guy Millière • November 12, 2023 at 5:00 am
* Above all, to have the hostages released faster, there must be as few "pauses" as possible and no let-up by Israel in military pressure.
* While the Israelis were urging the residents of northern Gaza to move south ([link removed]) to avoid airstrikes, Hamas's leaders were ordering the Gazans, to stay in their homes ([link removed].) , or were shooting at them as they tried to flee ([link removed]) -- presumably so that Hamas could have more dead bodies to show the television crews ([link removed]) how evil the Israelis supposedly are.
* To Blinken's credit and that of the Biden administration... on November 5, he rebuffed ([link removed]) the request of Egypt and Jordan for humanitarian aid, saying that "such a halt right now would only allow Palestinian militant group Hamas to regroup and attack Israel again."
* Unfortunately, Biden also announced ([link removed]) that the US will send $100 million ([link removed]) in "humanitarian aid" to Hamas and the West Bank, thereby freeing up other funds to be used for further attacks
* Israel, regrettably, evidently under US pressure, has just agreed to four-hour "humanitarian pauses." The concession sounds virtuous, but actually breaks a law ([link removed]) that prohibits resupplying terrorists. To Hamas, any pause is a gift. It can restock and plan attacks, and keep re-hiding the hostages. What chance is there that a terrorist group that shoots its own citizens to keep them from fleeing to safety will hand out food water and medicine to anyone but its cohorts?
* In fairness, Biden immediately sent US ships ([link removed]) , welcome materiel, and a nuclear submarine to the area...
* The US president, nevertheless, has not failed to repeat his support for a "two-state solution ([link removed]) ", even though it is now clear more than ever that the creation of a genocidal Palestinian state ([link removed]) on what is left of Israel's small border must be unthinkable.... In such a volatile region what if Iran or Islamic State were to take over the new Palestinian State?
* If the US were to incapacitate the port Iran uses to ship oil China, or take out base of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) -- or at the very least, as Gen. Jack Keane has been advocating ([link removed]) , the base Iran uses to train troops -- the war would likely be over in a minute.
* The Ukraine is indeed a worthy US involvement ([link removed]) : if Russia can keep the Donbass and Crimea, China's Communist leader Xi Jinping will be encouraged to take Taiwan, perhaps the Philippines, all the sea lanes in the Indo-pacific, as well as further threaten Australia ([link removed]) and Japan ([link removed]) .

Gazans protected by the Israeli military, walk along a safe corridor in the northern Gaza Strip towards the southern Gaza Strip, on November 10, 2023. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

In January 2021, Iran was on the verge of economic asphyxiation, barely able to continue financing Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas. The Abraham Accords outlined the prospect of regional peace, and Saudi Arabia was considering joining the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kosovo, Morocco and Sudan. Israel was a respected regional power.

Russia had not yet invaded Ukraine. Chinese President Xi Jinping was not threatening Taiwan.

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by Amir Taheri • November 12, 2023 at 4:00 am
* A poll for the daily Le Figaro shows that 37 percent of the French still have sympathy for Israel, while Palestine gets 20 percent and Hamas 5 percent.
* Those I talked to in the demo seemed as if they had forgotten October 7, reminding me of Isaac Bashevis Singer's phrase "What a miser is a human memory!"
* In the Saturday demo, there was no mention of the nearly 250 Israeli hostages held by Hamas. The so-called elites have adopted a one-way indignation posture against Israel.

Pictured: Anti-Israel protesters at Place de la République in Paris, on November 11, 2023. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

"Paris could become a battlefield!" This was how commentators speculated about a "solidarity with Palestine" demonstration that the police had authorized for last Saturday. The concern was not groundless.

A few days before, a Harris opinion poll had shown that 82 percent of the French feared a wave of terrorism in France and 72 percent believed that something like the 7 October attack by Hamas would happen in Paris.

"People are right to have concerns," says Brice Hortefeux, a former Minister of the Interior.

In the past decade, France has been hit by over 400 terrorist attacks or attempts, almost all related to the Middle East or what is shorthanded as "Islamic World." The same concern was expressed in numerous editorials, reminding people that as home to Europe's largest Jewish community, some 500,000, and highest number of Muslims, around 7 million, France was already "part of the Middle East."

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