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On June 8th, Israeli forces conducted a daring rescue of four hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. The terrorists hid their captives inside two homes smack in the middle of a civilian neighborhood inhabited by Palestinian families.
Firefights ensued as Hamas fighters shot at the rescuers and the rescued hostages. A leader of the rescue mission lost his life trying to save the innocent Israeli civilians. Scores of Gazans caught in the crossfire were killed but it is unknown how many were civilian bystanders as opposed to the terrorists trying to stop the rescue. The Hamas-run Gazan Health Ministry’s claim that at least 274 Palestinians died during the rescue operation exaggerates, as usual, the Palestinian death toll to score propaganda points meant to sway the international community and liberal media further against Israel.
From the United Nations to anti-Israel media outlets, Israel is blamed for the loss of Palestinian civilian lives during the rescue operation. Israel’s critics claim that the deaths could have been avoided if the Jewish state had only stuck to negotiating with Hamas and made more concessions to secure the release of the hostages.
However, it was Hamas’ decision to seize the hostages in the first place and then imprison them in residential buildings and in tunnels constructed under civilian neighborhoods. Some of the hostages were reported to have died in captivity. The four hostages who were rescued lived every day in captivity in fear for their lives. Instead of allowing these four hostages (out of the more than one hundred hostages still in captivity) to go free unharmed, Hamas used heavy fire including rocket-propelled grenades to stop their escape. Fortunately, the terrorists failed and the rescued hostages are reunited with their families and friends.
The terrorists acted with callous indifference to the lives of the Palestinian people residing in the civilian neighborhood from which the four hostages had to be rescued. Moreover, many Palestinian civilians themselves are not so innocent. As Robert Spencer noted in his June 11th Frontpage article, “it is clear that a good many of those ‘civilians’ played an active role in the holding of the hostages.” Indeed, one such “civilian” killed during the rescue operation was a so-called “journalist” for the Palestine Chronicle and Al Jazeera who supported Hamas and housed three of the rescued hostages.
It is preposterous to expect Israel to just rely on negotiating with the same terrorist group that has vowed to annihilate the Jewish state and kill as many Jews as possible. The use of pinpointed military force to free some hostages while they are still alive is a reasonable option that is fully consistent with international law.
Hamas and their fellow terrorists are the genocidaires to whom protesters who are sincerely concerned about the mounting number of civilian deaths in Gaza should direct their anger. All Hamas needs to do to end the war is to release all the remaining hostages and agree to the verifiable dismantling of its military capabilities that threaten the security of the Israeli people. But Hamas’ military leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, wants to fight Israel to the finish instead if he does not get his way.
“We have the Israelis right where we want them,” Sinwar said in one of his messages to other Hamas leaders, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal. In another message, Sinwar characterized Palestinian civilian deaths as “necessary sacrifices.” Sinwar views the war with Israel in apocalyptic terms, comparing it to a seventh-century battle in Karbala, Iraq in which the grandson of Muhammad was killed.
“We have to move forward on the same path we started,” Sinwar reportedly wrote. “Or let it be a new Karbala.”
Sinwar demands that Israel completely and unconditionally withdraw all its forces from Gaza. He is counting on the rising number of civilian deaths in Gaza to increase the pressure on Israel from the Biden administration and the international community at large to end the war on Hamas’ terms.
Recall that Israel had unilaterally withdrawn all Israelis from Gaza back in 2005, only to face relentless attacks by Hamas terrorists against Israel’s citizens that culminated in the horrific massacres, rapes, and kidnappings on October 7th. Israel would be committing national suicide if it agreed to leave Sinwar’s terrorist organization intact to conduct more genocidal attacks against Israeli civilians that will be worse than the horrors of October 7th.
The death of the Jewish state is precisely what the pro-Hamas agitators chanting “from the river to the sea” are demanding.
On June 8th, thousands of depraved pro-Hamas agitators encircled the White House, maliciously accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians civilians in Gaza with arms provided by the United States. Banners were displayed calling for jihad and martyrdom. Some agitators threw objects at a National Park Service ranger and defaced statues on federal grounds. Mob participants suffered no consequences for their unlawful behavior.
Two days later, a mob of Hamas supporters chanting “intifada revolution” took to the streets in lower Manhattan waving a banner that proclaimed, “Long Live October 7.” These cheerleaders for the ruthless terrorists, some carrying Hamas and Hezbollah flags, were targeting an exhibit honoring the defenseless young people attending a music festival for peace who were viciously attacked on October 7th. Some in the mob clashed with the police.
One of the virulently anti-Semitic agitators told Jews attending the exhibit that he wished “Hitler was still here – he woulda wiped you all out.”
The pro-Hamas mobs’ lust for Jewish blood is pure evil. They celebrate their terrorist ‘heroes’ for slaughtering innocent civilians in Israel, ranging from babies to the elderly. Hamas’ shills insist that the terrorists can do no wrong. They view Israel and the United States as the oppressors, the Palestinians as the oppressed victims, and the terrorist murderers as brave “resistance” fighters. Their blood libel includes the charge that the blood of the Palestinian civilians killed or injured during the war in Gaza that Hamas started is entirely on the hands of Israel and its supporters.
It makes no difference to these useful idiots that Hamas uses Palestinian civilians in Gaza as human shields and as pawns for the terrorists’ propaganda purposes. The blood of the Palestinian civilians killed or wounded during the Gaza war and of the civilians the terrorists murdered in Israel on October 7th is on the hands of Yahya Sinwar and the terrorist killers he commands. The pro-Hamas mobs who cheer on all this mayhem and make excuses for the terrorists are guilty as well for aiding and abetting the terrorists’ monstrous acts.
SPURWING PLOVER says
From the Useless Nations(UN)to the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders we see whom the real Terrorists don’t Always Take Hostages and set off Bombs the UN is the Worlds #1 Terrorists groups and the M.S. Media are their Propagandists
LC says
civilian
journalist
2 alternate spellings for arab terrorist
dartson says
Sounds like a good plan to drive genocidal Muslims back to Aravia 😀
sumsrent says
You’re on top of things like no other… good job…
However… the Luciferian Globalist government of America supports Sunni Islam… which means… they are against Shiite Iran…
Also… The Shia do look for a leader… it’s called the 12th Iman… the Mahdi…
Except… the Mahdi must be a blood descendant of mushammad…
The Sunni expect a Caliph… the leader of the Caliphate… the Ummah… the body of muslims…
Shiite = Mahdi
Sunni = Caliphate
Saddam and Ghadaffi were eliminated because of their Pan Arab and Pan African ideologies… they were setting themselves up as Caliphs… and needed to be killed…
Assad in Syria was Shiite… and America was funneling weapons to ISIS in Syria…through Benghazi… <<< Evidence of how America supports the Sunni…
Keep up the good work!
sumsrent says
And it’s only gonna get worse as the years pass… the day will come when Christians and Jews will be killed across this world. When mushammad’s green flag is raised above his tomb as the signal to muslims to go out and kill…
Why does the world hate the Jewish so much?
“All the Zionists raise their hands!” <<< Exclaimed the subway rider who supports Hamas…
Are you a Christian Zionist? Who believes you worship the fake god allah too?
If you are… you're stupid !
Jeff Bargholz says
“Yahya Sinwar, wants to fight Israel to the finish instead if he does not get his way.”
Is he going to do that personally? Of course not. He’s a coward. Fuck, I’d like to beat his ass.
Eva says
Lol, get in line!!!
We could sell tickets for the privilege.
Jeff Bargholz says
You’re describing that Israeli mini series, “Dig,” not reality.
And the Al Aksa mosque should definitely be razed. It’s an abomination, just as all of Islam is.
Mike says
The Palestinian Playbook:
1. Kill, rape, kidnap and burn alive as many Jewish men, women and children in Israel as possible whenever possible.
2. Celebrate in the streets.
3. Promise that attacks will not stop until all 7 million Jews in Israel are dead.
4. Hide in tunnels beneath Palestinian women and children.
5. Show dead and suffering Palestinian women and children to the Washington Post, the New York Times and CNN.
6. Whine to the Washington Post, the New York Times and CNN about Collective Punishment, Disproportionate Responses and Israeli War Crimes and the dead and suffering Palestinian women and children.
7. Demand an Immediate Ceasefire.
8. Get Europe and the USA to demand an immediate Ceasefire.
9. Get Politically Correct Jews, university students, the World Press and politicians to join in the demand for an immediate Ceasefire.
10. Force Israel to accept an immediate Ceasefire.
11. Repeat 1-10.
Works every time.
Roark says
After October 7th, we must all stop using the words, Palestinian and Palestine. There are no such people or place. These words were concocted by the KGB as psychological operations weapons of war.
When these words are used by the enemy, they use them as a replacement for Jews and Israel. They have no intention of creating a state alongside Israel, but instead of Israel. They couldn’t make their intentions more clear.
Every time that you use these words, you are unintentionally falling into the enemy’s psychological ploy and doing the same. From the river to the sea is what they mean when they say: “Palestine will be free.”
There is no such country or place. It is a psychological construct that is being used to destroy Israel. Even Israeli government officials fall into this trap and negate themselves by doing so.
Let us agree to call them what they really are from now on: ARABS.
Don’t use the enemy’s lexicon to further their ends. Watch how powerful it is when you stop using those words anymore. Call them Arabs of Gazan or Arabs of Judea and Samaria.
The enemy wins if you fall into their traps. Remember, there were no Israelis until the creation of Israel. Where is Palestine? Why does a non-existent country have a flag?
Ponder this.
Eva says
Or fakestinians.
sumsrent says
And you’re falling into your own “psychological ploy”… and traps…
They are NOT Arabs !!! They are satanic worshiping muslims…
An Arab could be a Christian…
Eva says
Good on them.
I hope they do it!
Eva says
Israel should never have negotiated with this terrorist filth in the first place.
They should have gone in full-bore after the very first attack, decades ago.
And they should have listened to Rabbi Kahane.
sumsrent says
Yeah… many don’t realize that when the National Homeland for the Jews was established in Israel in 1922… right after World War One…
Israel then negotiated with this terrorist filth by giving away all of the Jordan for peace… which never happened…
They call these wars… the Arab/Israeli wars… but they aren’t anything of the sort… it’s all deceiving… they are Islamist/Israeli Wars…
The real issue everyone needs to ask is…
Why does the masses hate the Jews?
And why are the masses of Americans supporting these Fake Palestinians in Gaza?
See… America has been always backstabbing Israel…
Judith2 says
If anyone was aiding in preventing the rescue of Israelis hostages…they are not innocent civilians…anyone who aids terrorists Muslim, Catholic, ir say other terrorists is guilty of terrorism…Northern Ireland had the same problem.
Judith says
If anyone was aiding in preventing the rescue of Israelis hostages…they are not innocent civilians…anyone who aids terrorists Muslim, Catholic, ir say other terrorists is guilty of terrorism…Northern Ireland had the same problem.
Dr. Larry says
Sounds good to me. What’s your problem?
Daniel hargreavesd387@gmail.com says
Askan you are either a member of Hamas or you forgot to take your meds today!
Logan Matthew Teague says
Meh. I just remember a line from a (fictional) book I read, in which the narrator said ‘The only way to achieve peace in the Middle East would be to kill every man, woman, and child in it. Just end all the feuds and disputes right there, and repopulate the land with new people. Now I’m not ADVOCATING for this, mind you-I’m just saying that everyone who claims to want peace in the Middle East is wasting their time. Because everyone over there-Jew, Muslim, Christian, other-ALL of them are crazy ragheads. The place just does that to people.’