Jews have been around for forty centuries; Hezbollah and Hamas, the latest among their countless enemies over the centuries, for only four decades. While Jewish contributions to civilization are beyond counting, Hezbollah‘s and Hamas’s raisons d’être are solely to wipe Jews off the face of the earth, via committing hideous acts against them. They will not succeed.

That is not to say Jews in Israel do not commit violent acts themselves against their enemies, they do, but they are carefully planned to keep civilian casualties to a minimum, while taking out as many of the foe as possible. A story in today’s New York Sun illustrates the strategy nicely.

Pager Attack Against Hezbollah Fighters Seen as Possible Start of Major Mideast Escalation, Dousing White House Hopes

Israel is on high alert after thousands of Hezbollah fighters across Lebanon were injured by their pagers on Tuesday — in what might be the opening salvo of a major escalation, dousing White House hopes for Mideast calm before the November election. (italics added).

This is a good example of the  resourcefulness of Jews, who have been fighting for the survival of the State of Israel since its founding in 1948 (and their civilization aeons before), after the Nazis had exterminated millions of them in Germany and elsewhere. While it may be unfortunate if this latest act by the Israelis leads to all-out warfare with Hamas/Hezbollah, they are forced to fend for themselves these days, as they have no allies in the Biden Administration, which insists the two sides be regarded as equals, though they are not, and whose sole concern is getting a cease fire signed by Election Day for bragging rights. It’s obvious Kamala and the Democrats don’t give a damn about our one true friend in the Middle East.

With or without US arms, Israel will eventually prevail over Hezbollah and its equally thuggish partner Hamas, through such brilliant and unconventional tactics like the  sabotaging of pagers. We may be confident leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah wouldn’t have a clue how to pull off such a clever ploy, nor others similar. To put it bluntly, Jews are far smarter and more creative in Israel’s fight for survival than their enemies are for their annihilation.

Israel will win this war and  Jews will survive, as they have for nearly 4000 years.

Addendum: how they did it, from the New York Post.

The stunning, simultaneous attack on thousands of Hezbollah terrorists by detonating their pagers had all the hallmarks of a highly complex covert operation — the kind that only Israel’s Mossad would have the means and motive to pull off, experts told The Post (italics added . . .

An unnamed insider told Sky News Arabia that Mossad intercepted Hezbollah’s communication devices before they were handed over to the terrorist group, slipping in the highly powerful Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate (PETN) plastic explosive commonly used for military and demolition purposes.

“Mossad placed PETN explosives on the batteries, which were detonated by increasing the temperature,” the source told the outlet.

Amszing, read the whole thing.

From NRCNewsBusters.

VILE: NBC, ABC Tie Second Trump Assassination Attempt to ‘Rhetoric’, and ‘Dogs and Cats’

As we exposed earlier, the Regime Media have wasted no time in blaming former President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric” for the second assassination attempt against him. The evening newscasts have now picked up MSNBC’s lead, tying the attempted shooting to the “dogs and cats rhetoric coming out of Springfield, Ohio.

Mainstream media is becoming more and more blatant in its hatred of Donald Trump. From making increasingly absurd and tenuous correlations between his putatively offensive remarks and the assassination attempts on him, it shouldn’t be long before they come right out and say it: Trump deserves to die.

Utterly shameless, MSM has lost all credibility and it’s no wonder fewer and fewer people get their news from it. Eventually, please, please, the networks will drop their news divisions owing to increased expenses caused by dwindling readership and viewers. With any luck loathsome news readers like Lester Holt and Linsey Davis will be retured. Certainly they will have deserved it.

Thanks to Instapundit.

Another assassination attempt on Donald Trump. From the NY Post:

[Former President Trump narrowly survived yet another assassination attempt after a sniper with a scoped AK-47 rifle got within a few hundred yards of him as he played golf at his West Palm Beach, Florida club on Friday.

It is the second time a madman armed with an assault rifle has tried to kill the 45th president in two months.

Here your Tatler, knowing precious little about this incident, will engage in audacious speculation about it.

A culprit has been arrested and we may be confident the crack propagandists at MSM are already digging deep to find right-wing causes to which he’s connected (wouldn’t it be fun if he is, like your Tatler, a regular attendee of the Traditional Latin Mass, whom the FBI have deemed a “national security threat?”). They will then gin up a convoluted yarn how the perp may be a hard right extremist, but still is in the same boat as Trump, the implication being no one on the left would engage in such a violent act.

Should however those make-believe reporters discover the perp is indeed a left-winger, that will make their job easier; they’ll shove him into the background and launch yet another demand for the banning of so-called “assault weapons” (the culprit was carrying an AK-47).

Two things we may be sure of, even if your Tatler’s predictions turn out to be cut from whole cloth: there will be zero mention of the left’s pathological hatred of Donald Trump, and the former president’s Secret Service detail will not be increased.

But they must be a precious few.

From the Daily Mirror.

The lead singer of iconic rock band Jane’s Addiction got into a fight with guitar player Dave Navarro in the middle of a show in Boston on Friday night.

Front man Perry Farrell was barking into the mic before marching over to guitarist Dave Navarro and slugging him – sparking a brawl and stopping the show mid-song.

A drunken front man of a has-been rock ‘n’ roll band slugs one of his band members; this is news?

THIS JUST IN: The sun rose this morning.

From Not the Bee.

Pope Francis to children: “All religions are paths to reach God … some are Sikh, Muslim, Hindu, Christians; they are different ways to God.”

Saint Cyprian of Carthage (200-258), an early Church Father, instructs us: ex Ecclesiam nulla salus; outside the Church there is no salvation, which is Church dogma, an immutable divine truth. Apparently Francis feels differently. Interestingly, he omitted the Jews from his list, presumably because he knows many would be bemused at best, deeply offended at worst, by such a remark. Bickerstaff also wonders how an imam might react to it. Not positively, he suspects.

Look for some furious backpeddling soon from the Vatican–again.

Addendum:

A reader’s comment on the For What it’s Worth blog.

News item:

CNN
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The 14-year-old shooter who confessed to killing four people last week at Apalachee High School in Georgia was allowed to leave his classroom with his belongings before returning with [an AR-15] in his backpack, the state Bureau of Investigation said Thursday.

Thanks to Charles Glasser of Instapundit for breaking this fascinating account. He kindly provides an explanatory illustration used by know-nothing CNN reporters, and their similarly handicapped peers in government, when drafting stories on the subject of guns.

. . . and they only need to win once.

The pollsters are reporting Kamala Harris’ lead in the presidential race is slowly but steadily declining, after an initial jump following the Democratic National Convention. This has many Donald Trump supporters hopeful he may pull off a victory. Meanwhile, Kamala supporters, especially major media, are beginning to show signs of concern, as witness their finally acknowledging her most obvious weaknesses. Perhaps, they admit, their adored Kamala wasn’t the best choice the DNC could have made, which the voters of course had no say in.

The candidate and her running mate, “Tampon Tim” Walz on the other hand, are showing little concern over their declining poll numbers and neither is the cadre of advisors who will assume the powers of the presidency when their two puppets “win.” Thereafter they will finish the job, so ably begun in hopeless Joe Biden’s administration, of transforming the United States of America into a socialist republic.

Your Tatler deliberately uses the conjunction “when,” instead of the modal verb “should,” for he is increasingly pessimistic the Democrats, when saying they will win the upcoming  election, are not merely expressing a desire, but in a rare moment of truth are informing us of a fact; the election is already sewn up. Via ballot box stuffing, fabricating the count by election officials and a host of other corrupt procedures, particularly imported voters, they likely have or will have enough votes to widely outnumber those of Donald Trump, however large the number. They learned their lesson in 2020 when insufficient numbers of votes for the inept Joe Biden were created, thus permitting the possibility of doubt, and the spawning of protests. They will not allow that to happen again.

Donald Trump seems aware of the Democrat manipulations when he tells supporters the number of votes he receives must be “too big to rig.” Unfortunately, the Dems are onto his admonition and are acting accordingly, not merely by relying on receiving more genuine votes than Trump, which is increasingly unlikely, but by manufacturing and stockpiling as many votes necessary to ensure their margin of “victory” is such a number, any protests may be safely dismissed by a government they own as only the complaints of cranks and malcontents. They also have enough Trump-hating friends in the judiciary who will ignore civil procedure and thwart possible legal actions.

It looks more and more as if the Democrats are emulating tactics of the former Soviet Union. No doubt more is to come.

Image from imaflip.com.

From Times News World, India (the only major news organization to report on this so far):

Social media claims suggest that members of the Hells Angels are heading to Aurora, Colorado, to confront Venezuelan gangs amid concerns about gang activity. This follows the release of a surveillance video showing armed men allegedly “taking over” an apartment building, identified as the Edge at the Lowry, linked to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

If the story is true, and the Angels’ intention is to dispatch the illegal alien gang members from the apartment building they took over (it seems the Aurora police are too timid to do it themselves), then the Tren de Aragua doesn’t stand a chance against the bikers. Bickerstaff’s only concern is Aurora’s police will suddenly find its misplaced courage and arrest the Angels’, no doubt at the behest of the local district attorney, for violating the Venezuelan gang members’ “civil rights” or other dangerous crimes, whatever is expedient.

From the BBC comes the most heartbreaking and sickening story this blogger has beheld.

A British woman has pleaded guilty to being part of a global monkey torture network.

Holly LeGresley, 37, from Kidderminster, was a participant in a private onCould that be a look of remorse on these horrible peoples’ faces? Perhaps, but only because they were caught.line group that was paying people in Indonesia to kill and torture baby monkeys on video.

The convictions follow a year-long investigation by the BBC Eye team.

They went undercover in the groups to expose the existence of the sadistic global network.

The BBC goes into some detail but cautions: “Warning – this story contains distressing content.” That isn’t the half of it and if you manage to get through it you will be thoroughly shaken and wonder, as your Tatler did, how human beings can be so heartless and sadistic to inflict such indescribable cruelty on innocent creatures like monkeys.

Not surprisingly, drugs played a big part. The monsters would load up on every illicit drug imaginable, then “enjoy” videos of the torture. The BBC doesn’t say, but it seems obvious they would pleasure themselves while taking in the horrors.

It should come as no surprise though, in an age where there are no behavioral taboos remaining, the sickos simply took perversion a step or two lower. In time the lowlifes of our world will find even lower ways to stimulate their addled and twisted minds.

When those depraved killers take their place in hell, may our God let them suffer for eternity the same cruelties they subjected those poor creatures to on earth.