Muscle was surrounded. The US came in with airstrikes.

Iraqi and Kurdish forces came in on the ground,

and for nine months that city was pummeled

until ISIS was extracted by force from a population of a million people.

It was a kind of warfare very similar to Gaza and muscle was flattened.

I mean that has to be said and there at least 11,000 civilians killed by a

conservative estimate and there wasn't any of this pressure when it wasn't Jews doing it.

Okay? Assad killed 5,000 Palestinians. No Muslim community anywhere on Earth

marched in any real numbers on Assad.

There was a lot more international, you know, attention paid to the fact that they

killed a single journalist in Turkey than to the fact that they were well over 100,000 dead in

Yemen. It sounds like an excuse, right? It isn't an excuse. It doesn't mean

Israel didn't do something wrong if you think it did something wrong, but it does mean that the world

as it sits in judgment isn't a judge it is something else some other dynamic is happening

here other than moral concern for civilian lives because that moral concern for

civilian lives is just too selective and too selective in very

specific ways for it to really be pure about that. It is 4.m. in New York City on Sunday, November 5th. It is 11 PM in Israel. Today is day 30 of the

October 7th War. Before we get into events in Israel, one housekeeping note. In just one week,

My Insol singer's book, The Genius of Israel, The Surprising Resilience of a

divided nation in a turbulent world will be published.

As the subtitle suggests, it is a book primarily about Israeli resilience, the same resilience

we're seeing today play out in Israel following an

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