In Which Will and Vlad Part Ways

Good morning, Stroock's Books supporters of Jews and the Jewish State; the Righteous Among the Nations. The second Passover Seder is in the books, and Pharoah got ten plagues all over again. May each plague fall upon Gaza. This seems like a good time to remind everyone of the eventual fate of all enemies of the Jews from Pharoah to Hitler. They're gone, we're still here, and will always be. 

Staying with the religious-holy war theme, today the IDF is attacking targets in northern and central Gaza, based on 'new intelligence' The Times of Israel reports. These appear to be brigade level actions. The IDF says it's prepared for an assault on Rafah and is waiting for the government to give the order. Hamas is claiming they have many dozens of hostages and is prepared to release 40 of them. Pressure working? Meanwhile the Israelis carried out 40 air and artillery airstrikes in southern Lebanon. The battlespace preparation up north continues. 

On the home front, the weird anti-Jewish pogrom at Columbia and NYU is spreading to other campuses in America. Good, we're glad. Let the hood come off. In other academic news, the historically Jewish Brandeis University ($62,000 per) has extended its transfer deadline because of the rabid Juden-hass on American campuses. Oldest Daughter looked at Brandeis. 

So we looked over the Ukrainian aid package. There are some HIMARS and ATACMs goodies in there. But fancy missiles won't alter the battlefield situation. It mostly looks like the US is sending the Ukes some ammo and old vehicles, including M113s if you can believe it. Count us underwhelmed. Meanwhile, every day we look at the map, the arrows point west, further into Ukraine. 

Related...this blog has long pointed out that Vladimir Putin is the closest thing to a friend the Jew has ever had in Moscow.  That's changed, 'Russia decided on the move after it had avoided responding to a two-year-old Iranian request. The media reports said that 12 Su-35 jets were to be delivered to Tehran, with the initial batch arriving this week,' says Ynet. Putin has been supporting Iran way too much for way too long. We're suspending Putin's Friend of the Jew status.

Dune Part 2 Notes Part II: As noted yesterday, Denis Villeneuve made some interesting directorial choices in Dune Part 2. In his version of Dune, Paul's sister Alia is never born, but attains sentience in the womb and actually talks to her mother and advises Paul. This is an interesting idea. Still, we miss the Alia in the Sy Fy Channel's version of Dune who proclaims as the Fremin attack begins, 'My brother comes!' and of course, 'Goodbye grandfather. You've finally met the Atreides gom jabar!' so cool. 

Our grognard mocked us this morning for finally coming around to the idea that War Night, and Other Stories of the Great Nuclear War of 1975 should be about, you know, the fighting. So we've got two solid ideas on that front. An arty battery going nuclear, and Al Haig in his bunker directing the battle.