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[Make sure to read Joseph Klein’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Israel is under increasing pressure from the so-called “international community’ to agree to an immediate ceasefire or pauses in fighting with Hamas. The ostensible purpose is to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered to Gaza without any impediment and to bring about the safe release of the hostages held by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups.
At a White House press briefing on November 2nd, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said, “What we’re trying to do is explore the idea of as many pauses that might be necessary to continue to get aid out and to continue to work to get people out safely, including hostages.” He added that “we advocate pauses by both sides here…That doesn’t mean that we’re calling for a general ceasefire.”
When dealing with a terrorist organization like Hamas, the net result of multiple successive pauses or a single ceasefire will be the same. Israel would come out on the losing end if the Israeli military’s forward momentum in destroying Hamas’ infrastructure, killing its key leaders, and encircling the terrorists in Gaza City is suddenly interrupted, even temporarily.
Every time that Israel has previously agreed to halt its military engagement with Hamas, the terrorist group has broken its word and exploited the suspension of hostilities to regroup, rearm, and plan for its next assault. Hamas followed this same script in planning and preparing for the terrorists’ genocidal massacre of more than 1400 Israelis, mostly civilians including babies, on October 7th. Meanwhile, up until that horrific day, Israel was still observing in good faith the latest ceasefire that it had agreed to under pressure from the same “international community” that is demanding another ceasefire – or pauses – today.
Israel must not fall into this deadly trap again. Israel is already helping to facilitate the daily delivery to humanitarian aid agencies, by trucks crossing from Egypt into Gaza, of food, water, and medical supplies meant for the Gazan people, while continuing its counterattacks against Hamas. But Israel’s operations against Hamas will be crippled if Israel agrees to a “humanitarian” suspension of fighting on a timetable dictated by the United Nations, relief organizations, or the Biden administration for that matter. Moreover, Hamas has a track record of stealing humanitarian aid meant for civilians to support its fighters and war machine instead.
Any brief pause that Israel might consider agreeing to will have to be solely on Israel’s terms. It must be linked specifically to the release of the 240 or so hostages that Hamas and its terrorist comrades in arms are holding. That was the message Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he delivered to Secretary of State Antony Blinken when they met in Israel on November 3rd.
The Jewish State of Israel must relentlessly continue its military operations in defense of its people until Hamas and its terrorist allies in Gaza are wiped out. Otherwise, fortified by Iran’s continued support in the form of money, training, and the supply of sophisticated weapons, Hamas will remain an existential threat to Israel. Hamas’ leadership has made it clear that the savage terrorists are doubling down on trying to fulfill Hamas’ founding mission to annihilate Israel and kill as many Jews as possible.
A senior Hamas official, Ghazi Hamad said, for example, on October 24th during an interview that was translated and published by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI): “Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove it because it constitutes a security, military and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation.”
Hamad replied, “Yes, of course,” when asked if he meant the complete annihilation of Israel.
“We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again,” Hamad added. “The Al-Aqsa Flood [the name Hamas uses for its October 7th genocidal attacks in Israel] is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth.”
Hamas brazenly flouts international law and basic civilized norms in multiple ways. By using civilian residential buildings, infrastructure, hospitals, mosques, and schools for its own military purposes and using civilians as human shields, Hamas has knowingly put thousands of innocent Gazan civilians in harm’s way with deadly consequences. However, the Israelis are the ones who are falsely accused of violating international law even though Israel has done everything it reasonably can to abide by the rules of war.
A building housing or otherwise used by civilians that is also being used by the enemy for military purposes is considered a legitimate target under international law if the civilians are first warned and given the opportunity to evacuate. This is what Israel has done, including by repeatedly urging civilians in northern Gaza to evacuate to the south where the fighting is much less intense via safe corridors that Israel’s military has established. But Hamas has willfully prevented civilians from leaving the main theater of war to safer ground.
Loss of Gazan civilians’ lives in Hamas’ war with Israel does not bother Hamas’ bloodthirsty terrorist leaders one bit. “We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs,” Ghazi Hamad exclaimed.
Indeed, Hamas exploits civilian deaths in Gaza for propaganda purposes. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry releases exaggerated casualty figures that are unverified and do not distinguish between civilians and terrorist fighters in its compilations. Yet the United Nations, so-called “human rights” organizations, government leaders around the world, and left leaning media outlets take the manipulated fatality figures released by this Hamas mouthpiece at face value, which it claims exceeds 9200 dead Gazans.
“Hamas has now been in charge in Gaza for 16 years,” Luke Baker, Reuters’ former bureau chief in Jerusalem posted on X. “It has squeezed the life out of honesty and probity. Any health official stepping out of line and not giving the death tolls that Hamas wants reported to journalists risks serious consequences.”
President Biden started out after Hamas’ October 7th atrocities strongly supporting Israel’s right to defend itself and referring to Hamas’ brutality as sheer evil. However, the president has since blurred whatever moral clarity he originally displayed for crass political reasons. President Biden’s calls for Israel’s military to slow down and even pause its operations are intended to reverse his slipping political support among Israel-bashing Muslim, Arab- American, and young voters in battleground states such as Michigan.
Moreover, the Biden administration announced its plans to provide $100 million in humanitarian assistance for the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank despite the risk that much of the money will land in Hamas’ war coffers. The USAID Office of Inspector General (USAID OIG) issued a Gaza Response Fraud Awareness alert on November 3rd identifying “this area as high-risk for potential diversion and misuse of U.S.-funded assistance.”
The USAID OIG emphasized that its “investigative priority” is “to ensure that assistance does not fall into the hands of foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) including, but not limited to, Hamas.”
Even U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller admitted that Hamas “may try to divert this assistance and keep it from getting to the civilians who — who it is intended for.” But the Biden administration is providing the additional assistance anyway and wants a supplemental appropriation from Congress to provide more humanitarian aid to Gaza. This is on top of the more than $1 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars that the administration has already lavished on the corrupt United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). UNRWA operates in Gaza, employs Hamas members, and uses materials in its schools that glorify terrorist “martyrs” and teach its students to hate Jews.
This anti-Semitic virus, which is always lurking, has turned into a worldwide pandemic of vitriol, threats, and violence against Jews of historic proportions in sympathy with the Islamist terrorists who want to annihilate Israel and slaughter Jews. This is certainly not the right time for the Biden administration to kick off the new national initiative to combat Islamophobia that it just announced.
The Entire World is choosing sides. Biden and Democrats are sitting on the fence with one foot on each side. They’re adding up the votes and they’ll soon realize that no matter if they do side against Israel, make demands, even commit American Collusion against Netanyahu to oust him in a coup, and who they hate, that they’ll still get the votes, even from Jews. A cease fire demand is coming especially with the one-sided news showing bombings in Gaza.
I see thousands of men and yet none of them are willing to sacrifice their lives to fight against Hamas and the reason they are in this war? They show their children, still blaming Israel? Did the MSM show Israeli deaths with those killings done by non-humans who are some of the worst the world has ever seen. Cutting a baby out of the womb, decapitating it, and then shooting the head? HAMAS using Human Shields not caring about their own only for political points and sympathy but the willing MSM?
The heathens use Captigon a poor man’s cocaine to make them bold and brutal. Its an amphetamine supplied to them so they have no feelings.
In effect, making them psychotic, that is, no empathy or conscience.
Lefties light.
The drug doesn’t do that to them.
It’s their natural state.
Taking this stuff just means they can indulge their evil for longer.
NO cease firing!!! Palestinians will use the down time to get more supplies and FOOD FOR THEMSELVES .. the prisoners will suffer the most. B/C Hamas WILL NOT GIVE THEM FOOD!!
Joe Biden was as usual speaks nothing but balderdash
Since Hamas had viciously and murderously stated this war, the government authorities and officials of the State of Israel have a duty and responsibility to strike Hamas hard and many very strong ways of military force.
As the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, rightly and wisely, in a speech had declared, “The right to self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
There is a great difference between the fool and terrible “advice” of Joe Biden, of “Not hitting Hamas too hard” As if such, a thing is possible and in contrast, the wisdom spoken by a genuine US President, Thomas Jefferson, who had rightly said “With every barbarous people….force is law.”
It should also be added that the jihadists who make up Hamas cannot and will not take heed of reason or logic. The only language that they are capable of understanding is that of the language of the might of a strong brutal military might. Therefore, they should be dealt with that way.
Joe Biden had actually given a warning type message to Benjamin Netanyahu of “No to hit Hamas too hard.” It’s very obvious that treacherous old Joe must really admire and like the aggression of the hostile violent and murderous jihad of Islam.
It’s actually impossible to “hit Hamas too hard.” The reason why this is so is because as hard as the Israeli military can strike Hamas it never hard enough..
Nevertheless, Israel does need to strike Hamas as hard as she can keep on hitting that deadly savage jihad entity and not stop hitting it.
If not, Hamas will a resurgence, and in time, launch another malicious jihad attack against the State of Israel and murder more of her citizens.
That awful message that jihadist loving Joe is complete nonsense and total 100 % balderdash.
In contrast to the words of folly given by Biden, there is the wisdom that was spoken by a real US President, James Monroe, who declared in a speech “The right of self -defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and individuals.”
The way to defeat that murderous jihad terror entity ,,Hamas , is by a use of a very strong force of the power of military might. For the sad and tragic reality is that this is the only language that the jihadist will understand, because they will not and cannot respond to reason and logic.
Therefore it’s necessary to hit Hamas hard, hit it long and keep on hitting it until it can’t raise up again.
For the government officials of the State of Israel would be very foolish to do what pseudo “president” Joe Biden and the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom wants them to do ,which is have “restraint” in fighting back against Hamas.
For it’s been wisely said the “Half measures in war is folly and madness.”
Frankly, God does not expect Israel to allow themselves to be destroyed by an enemy they can never appease or please by giving land and allowing work permits.
interesting that islamaphobia is bidens main focus on the supposed support for israel not antisemitism . considering that bumbling biden is off with the fairies most of the time anything he says should be totally ignored . if his muslim friends who continually tell us they love death why is it that the west are so hesitant to give it to them , young or old . oblige their wishes and let israel get on with it . i don’t hear russia informing ukraine when they are about to shell civilians , schools and hospitals ? if the gazans are so in love with death why should the west be so concerned . when they get what they want , they wont want what they get .
NO ceasefires, NO pauses, NO aid!!!
These so-called ‘innocent civilians’ are not innocent.
They cheer hamas and the other terrorists on, they celebrate the death of Jews.
And now they’re finally paying for it, they go running to the ‘international community’ crying about it.
There is only one way to deal with this, destroy gaza and everyone in it.