Today the Israeli freedom fighters are every man, woman, and child living inside Israel who wishes to live free of the fear of being killed or worse. While their forces are winning the kinetic war inside Gaza, Israel is losing the propaganda war worldwide.
As of this writing, Hamas continues to hold 132 captives. France, Germany, and the UK are now urging a cease-fire, to which Netanyahu responds, “We are in a war for our existence.” Moreover, many of my fellow historians have asserted Israel is a member of the West, fighting at the front against the totalitarians, in the war between good and evil.
Tragically, IDF fighters killed three Israeli hostages who they mistakenly thought were disguised Hamas fighters. According to an Israeli official, the families of the three hostages killed as well as those of the soldiers who killed them lie in ruins.
The Hamas-sympathizing Washington Post reports that 1800 Palestinians have been killed, with no corroboration from the Hamas-controlled health officials and with no delineation of fighters versus civilians killed. It goes on to report that Israel drops leaflets on city sections scheduled for bombing, alerting the civilians to vacate, or be considered enemy combatants. This the paper incongruously asserts, “Is the reason there has been such high levels of civilian deaths.”
One might ask the Post or any Hamas-sympathizing news outlet, “Did the Palestinians drop leaflets on Southern Israel before showering it with thousands of rockets, swooping in and killing 1,100 Israeli citizens, including 36 children, 373 security guards, 71 foreigners, and inflicting mass sexual violence?"
Should the US have dropped leaflets on Tokyo warning the civilians of the daring Doolittle’s bombing raid, staged four months after Pearl Harbor? Obviously, to leaflet before an attack is to forfeit surprise and one’s own soldiers’ lives. Israel is the only country in the world or in the history of the world, for that matter, that, having suffered an attack, is held to such an absurd standard.
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Freedom Chronicles 5
“We’re Gonna Free Iran” – Joe Biden
In my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I wrote—"History is not an exact roadmap for the future but it is the only navigation aid we have.” Freedom lovers must face the current threat to our civilization, the new Axis of Evil, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
Many Axis watchers believe we are now living in a 1939-like moment. Bolstered by its partners, China is rapidly advancing toward its long-and-openly-advocated goal of total hegemony over the West. This newsletter will now be dedicated to understanding our enemies, knowing their strengths, but more importantly, exploiting their weaknesses andfollowing the Reagan model, that is, bringing them down “without firing a shot.”
China is stealing our proprietary technologies, flooding our country with fentanyl, and blackmailing our first family. We should respond in kind. Going forward, my Freedom Chronicles will report on the cracks in this unholy alliance and expose its glaring and appalling weaknesses.
Recent Events: Iran
Recent drone attacks on U.S. military bases in northeast Syria have resulted in the death of a U.S. contractor and wounded six other American soldiers. We know the drones were Iranian, launched the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), the theocracy’s paramilitary arm responsible for smuggling explosive devices into Iraq and killing thousands of our soldiers there. Reports from local monitoring groups reported our responding attack ordered by Biden claimed between four and eight fatalities of IRGC-aligned militants.
In what is becoming an all-too-common event, our primary air defense at our Syrian base, an Avenger missile system, was “not fully operational” at the time of the attack, experiencing an unexpected maintenance problem. Thankfully, U.S. officials also said Iran-backed militias launched 10 rockets at another U.S. base in the area but yielded no casualties. Testifying before Congress, U.S. Army General Michael Kurilla, commander of American forces in the region, reported that Iran has launched 78 attacks on U.S. positions in Syria since January 2021.
Weaknesses the West Must Now Exploit
Support for the theocratic regime in Tehran is disintegrating. Iranians by the thousands took to the streets late last year, after the regime brutally murdered a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, of Sunni/Kurdish descent, with unveiled brave young women and girls on the frontlines. Demonstrations continue more often and with greater intensity. Riots in Iran have been going on for over a decade.
In 2009, what came to be the “Green Revolution” saw hundreds of thousands of Iranians take to the streets in the capital to protest the fraudulent re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Nationwide protests shook the Islamic Republic in late 2017 and have occurred regularly in the years since. In November 2019, protests spurred the regime to kill as many as 1,500 demonstrators, according to Reuters. The rioters began challenging the regime’s mismanaged economy, corruption, human rights abuses, and regional aggression against minorities
Last year, protests went even further. Thousands of Iranians abandoned calls for merely reforming the system. They called for dismantling the regime. Protests have evolved from “Where is my vote?” to “What happened to the oil money?” to “Death to the Dictator!”7 This change has increased the vulnerability of the Islamic Republic, making it more susceptible to collapse.
Biden must give up on treating with the Mullahs who run their failing terrorist regime. He should seize his place in history by following the example of Reagan who, in 1987, standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, uttered the historic phrase, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
In November of 2022, during the height of the riots in Iran, at a campaign rally in California, Biden was confronted by a number of attendees who held up signs and cellphone reading, “Free Iran.” In response he made the aside, “Don’t worry we’re gonna free Iran.”
He must now double down on that promise and make a formal address, perhaps standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, and pledge his unbridled support for the freedom fighters in Iran and outline some specifics on how his administration will begin the forceful strangulation of the “world’s leading sponsor of terrorism.”
He could begin by announcing that his administration would henceforth designate the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) as a terrorist organization He should then announce that US government departments, State, Treasury, Energy, and Intelligence have been ordered to isolate and sanction the regime’s terrorist partners, Hezbollah, the Palestinian terror partners, Al-Nasser Salah Brigades, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and others.
Freedom Chronicles III
Here is an except from my soon-to-be-released novel, An American Slave in Africa. Captured aboard a commercial vessel in 1801 by Muslim pirates, it is the story of a Harvard College kid who spends 15 years in Algeria, converts to Islam under torture, marries a woman born in the palace harem, becomes a loving father to two daughters, and rises to become a close advisor to the Dey of Algiers.
The Protagonist, Tyler Jones works to gain the release of American and European prisoners, enslaved to the Algierian Royal Guard. The young historian regularly meets with the Dey and explains to him how great conflicts of the past and present, have contributed to making America an emerging formidable world power.
An American Slave in Barbary –
The Confessions of Tyler Prescott Jones
…On June 1, 1812, President James Madison, sent a letter to Congress outlining Britain’s offenses against America, from the impressment of our merchant seamen into their navy, to the inflaming of native tribes along our frontier which were inflicting terrifying losses upon civilian communities. On June 4, the House voted a declaration of war. On July 18, 1812, Madison signed the measure putting the nation, once again, at war with Britain. Although the declaration of war passed both houses, our government was evenly split. Nearly all the Federalists voted against the war and the Republicans, equally for it. At the outset, American losses on land in the Northwest territories were severe.
On the night of November 26, 1812, when the votes from the electoral college had all but assured Madison of his reelection to the presidency, news reached Washington that Stephen Decatur had won a stunning naval victory off the Azores. Decatur’s ship, the USS United States had pounded the British frigate, the Macedonian, into submission and had delivered it home as a prize.
The captured ship’s flag was immediately transported to Washington and brought into the Tomlinson’s hotel where the first lady, Dolly Madison, and many of the capital’s most influential were attending a ball. Its attendees erupted into cheers at its entrance. The band played Yankee Doodle as the flag was laid at the first lady’s feet. A Republican Congressman, Sam Mitchell, of New York was quoted as proclaiming to his wife, “I felt myself to be in the condition of Themistocles after viewing the Persian trophies won by the Athenians at the battle of Marathon.”
…Two years later, on the night of August 23, 1814, the Madisons, Dolly and James, would spend their last in the White House. The President left the following day on horseback to visit several patriot militias in the surrounding areas of Washington, Maryland, and the Chesapeake port cities. No one knew where the British would attack. The Americans’ intelligence only let them know that the British had landed between five to seven thousand troops somewhere up the Patuxent River and were marching at night, only a few miles away, toward the port of Baltimore or the American Capital itself…