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Israel Disarmed by Mark W. Smith | Book Review
AmmoLand ^ | October 25, 2024 | Dean Weingarten
Posted on 10/30/2024 4:20:47 AM PDT by marktwain
Mark Smith has written a thoughtful examination of how disarmament by the State of Israel enabled the most horrific massacre of Jews since World War II. At the 2024 Gun Rights Policy Conference in San Diego, Mark Smith was giving away copies of his latest book, Israel Disarmed: What the October 7 attack teaches Americans about the right to bear arms.
The book exceeded my expectations. Mark is a Constitutional Scholar and a member of the United States Supreme Court bar. I expected a scholarly work and was not disappointed. I was pleasantly surprised to find a page-turning and exciting prologue that kept me on the edge of my chair.
In the prologue, Mark documents the contrast between two Israeli kibbutzim. One kibbutz had no defensive firearms and about 750 residents. The other kibbutz had about 1500 residents and about a dozen men with firearms. Both kibbutzim came under attack by the Hamas Jihadis. In the first kibbutz, 60 residents were killed, 17 were taken as hostages, about 10 percent of the population. In the second kibbutz, the roughly dozen armed defenders held off the Jihadis, killing several and wounding several. Not one resident of the second kibbutz was killed. The detailed examples of armed defenders are graphic, detailed, and riveting.
In the chapters which follow, Mark builds a detailed case of how important the right to bear arms is, how the Israelis became disarmed, and how October 7th changed Israeli philosophy about armed citizens. He explains the importance of the Second Amendment in the United States Bill of Rights, and how it is important today as a protector of liberty as well as for personal safety.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Hamas; Israel
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; hamas; israel
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The book does an excellent job comparing armed and unarmed citizens.
The Music Festival which was attacked by Hamas was declared a "gun free zone". 13 Israeli police officers were killed there. It is not clear if they were armed or not. At the Bataclan massacre in France, there were eight police officers. All of them had chosen not to be armed.
1 posted on 10/30/2024 4:20:47 AM PDT by marktwain
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