Monday, October 9, 2023

Hostages in Gaza

When a Barbary pirate named Raisuli took an American citizen named Perdicaris hostage in 1904, U.S. Secretary of State John Hay sent a telegram to Moroccan officials with a fairly short notice.  It began with this warning:  “Perdicaris alive or Raisuli Dead.”  


I don’t doubt, given what they have already done, that the Hamas operatives who took Israeli hostages will have no compunction murdering them.  I also have no doubt that those operatives are dead men walking, and that’s ok with me.

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