It’s American Shutdown Time

Last week the Old Testament “eye for an eye” happened, William Shakespeare’s query “If you wrong us shall we not revenge” was answered, and last week late great crooner Frank Sinatra’s definition of what the best revenge is, “massive success” was on full display. So in other words, last week, American shutdown time occurred.

After Hamas terrorists committed the Oct. 7, 2023, most violent attack in Israel on the Jewish people since the Holocaust, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed “We will take mighty vengeance for this wicked day, we are at war”, and “the enemy will pay an unprecedented price”, Israel will “return fire of a magnitude that the enemy has not known”. Accordingly, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced it was launching “Operation Swords of Iron” War to strike back in Gaza and seek revenge on its Hamas terrorists.

Ten months after the IDF launched Operation Swords of Iron, last August, American national security officials said Israel had achieved all that it could militarily in Gaza. The two main reasons American officials made this assessment was because the IDF had destroyed all of the supply lines into Gaza from Egypt, and killed or captured 14,000 Hamas combatants. Among…