I've heard time and again that the Israeli response to October 7th was "disproportionate." Well, what exactly is the proper proportion? Here we have a little country that basically wants to be left alone to (depending on your demographic) study Torah or make technological advances or agricultural advances or whatever. That country is surrounded by people who want that country gone. Islam is an inextricable part of this, because jihad is central to Islam, and the presence of a country of people who should be dhimmis in the middle of dar al Islam is an inherent affront. Many of these people are located in a little strip of land (really, part of traditional Israel, namely the Western Negev). A group among them who openly espouse the destruction of that country and the murder of its inhabitants, make it their raison d'être, and work tirelessly towards that goal control the populace, most of whom are ideologically aligned with that group. Also happens to be that that group is thoroughly embedded in hospitals and other civilian-dense areas. After a particularly brutal attack by these people, who have been at it for decades, the country goes to war to destroy them. The soldiers of that country make efforts to not kill civilians but it's a VERY densely populated area and their enemy purposefully embeds itself among civilians because it knows the PR game in the West. War is rough. War leads to people dying. So, what's proportionate? One for one? Is five for one too much? Are civilians who are ideologically aligned with the enemy not counted like those who are not? Let's make the ideologically aligned civilians count as half. Maybe a third. What's our calculus here? Israel isn't hunting down civilians, but war is war, and this war, because of Gaza and what it is, could not have turned out different in this respect. Honestly, I would be happier if Israel had far fewer algorithms in place to protect its enemies' civilians which put their own soldiers in harms way. Many Jewish soldiers have died unnecessarily in this way. More civilians in Gaza dying? War sucks. And almost everyone who condemns Israel for being disproportionate wouldn't be satisfied no matter how many such algorithms are in place and how few civilians get killed. They tend to judge Israel not like they would any other country.

- Asadabad, Hamadan Province - https://x.com/etelaf10/status/2006402378887540917? - Dehloran, Ilam Province - https://x.com/ManotoNews/status/2006379061866905841? - Dorud, Lorestan Province - https://x.com/ka3rimi/status/2006386921078181959? - Fasa, Fars Province. - https://x.com/esmaeils1169/status/2006307452162318559? - Fouladshahr, Isfahan Province - https://x.com/i/status/2006065775656788316 - Junaqan, Bakhtiari province - https://x.com/IranIntl/status/2006397826029277295? - Khorramabad, Lorestan Province - https://x.com/i/status/2006409303926726687 - Kouhdasht , Lorestan Province - https://x.com/IranIntl/status/2006367753200882152? - Nahavand, Hamadan Province - https://x.com/Vahid/status/2006396304088244460? - Najafabad, Isfahan Province - https://x.com/ManotoNews/status/2006393576914031036? - Rasht, Gilan Province - https://x.com/i/status/2006404761986257302 - Yasuj, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province - https://x.com/AminBehroozi2/status/2006399873944256967? - Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan Province - https://x.com/etelaf10/status/2006369301738193012

While Western activists play moral dress-up, freedom-loving Iranians are getting shot in real streets, at real risk, for real principles. And our media yawns. Our campuses chant elsewhere. Our “bravest voices” suddenly find nuance. That’s not confusion. That’s cowardice. History doesn’t remember who had the largest signs . It remembers who stood with clarity when it mattered—and who looked away because clarity demanded commitment instead of commentary. Right now, courage is happening quietly, under gunfire. And the people pretending to be revolutionaries can’t even be bothered to look. Zan, Zendegi, Azadi , my Iranian friends.Javid Shah. I see you. https://gharqadshield.com/larping-the-revolution-while-real-courage-bleeds-off-camera/

we hade a news that The Revolutionary Guard headquarters building in the city of Hamadan, Iran, was set on fire.