Baby saved from Gaza rubble after mother killed in Israeli strike

[The Magistrate]

31. None Of Which Relates To The Present Events In Gaza

And I repeat the items you utterly failed to engage.

Not one bomb would be dropped on Gaza, not one person there killed or maimed, save for the sadistic murder spree Hamas indulged itself in on October 7.

Nor can it be truthfully denied that, had the nationalist leadership of Arab Palestine and the larger Arab nation accepted the UN Partition in '47, the condition today of the people of Arab Palestine would be far, far better than the state three quarters of a century's pursuit of restorative vengeance have left them to live in.


Now if you want to wrangle history of the place with me, I will try and squeeze you in.

Shall we, say, speak of 1929 and Hebron?

How about pogroms earlier in the twenties, there really is quite a selection to be gone over.

How about title reform pressed on the Ottoman rulers by European banks as a condition of loans to stave off bankruptcy? If you don't recognize the pertinence, well....

Perhaps the eager embrace of Nazi propaganda and assistance in the mid-thirties by the Mufti, among other Arab Nationalist leaders?

I can think of lots more off the top of my head, but haven't time at present.

I don't think the history of the place, or its troubles, began on October 7. For me, October 7 drew a line across it, dividing what went before from what went after. You reference a good deal of petty shite in the West Bank. A good deal of it is stuff I would have cared about on October 6. I don't now. And won't again.

Ask yourself why.