Tea at Trianon: ‘Prevented Dozens Of Casualties’

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Thursday, October 12, 2023

‘Prevented Dozens Of Casualties’

From The Daily Wire:

A 25-year-old woman led a group of fellow residents in defending her kibbutz from advancing Hamas terrorists, taking down more than two dozen even as the Israeli defenders were outnumbered. Inbar Lieberman, the security coordinator of Kibbutz Nir Am, jumped into action Saturday after hearing explosions when Hamas launched its attack on Israel, The Daily Mail reported. Lieberman quickly armed the community’s 12-member security team and set them up in strategic positions to ambush the invading terrorists.

Lieberman gunned down five terrorists herself as the rest of the security team finished off 20 more during a four-hour fight. Nir Am was successfully defended as other kibbutzim in the area were infiltrated by terrorists who brutally murdered hundreds of Israelis.

“It was amazing, my husband was part of the standby unit that worked to prevent more casualties,” Ilit Paz told news outlet Israel Hayom, according to the Mail. “They heard the shots and made contact on their own with other members of the standby unit and with Inbal — and they understood that they were told to be on standby. But Inbal made a decision not to wait and be jumped operationally. In fact, the fact that they did it early prevented dozens of casualties.”

Nir Am, which is less than a mile away from the Gaza Strip, was one of the few communities in the area to repel the Hamas terrorists who have killed more than 1,200 Israelis since launching their attack. Among the dead are the elderly, who were gunned down, and infants killed by decapitation. The terrorists reportedly set homes on fire to force people out of their safe rooms, then gunned them down. (Read more.)