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“Occupied Gaza.” Prior to October 7, there were roughly two million Arab citizens of Israel but no Jewish citizens in Gaza. Gazans in 2006 voted in Hamas to rule them. It summarily executed its Palestinian Authority rivals. Hamas cancelled all future scheduled elections. It established a dictatorship and diverted hundreds of billions of dollars in international aid to build a vast underground labyrinth of military installations.
So Gaza has been occupied by Hamas, not Israel, for two decades.
“Collateral Damage.” Hamas began the war by deliberately targeting civilians. It massacred them on October 7 when it invaded Israel during a time of peace and holidays. It sent more than 7,000 rockets into Israeli cities for the sole purpose of killing noncombatants. It has no vocabulary for the collateral damage of Israeli civilians, since it believes any Jewish death under any circumstances is cause for celebration.
Hamas places its terrorist centers beneath and inside hospitals, schools, and mosques. Why? Israel is assumed to have more reservations about collaterally hitting Gaza civilians than Hamas does exposing them as human shields.
“Disproportionate.” We are told Israel wrongly uses disproportionate force to retaliate in Gaza. But it does so because no nation can win a war without disproportionate violence that hurts the enemy more than it is hurt by the enemy.
The U.S. incinerated German and Japanese cities with disproportionate force to end a war both Axis powers started. The American military in Iraq nearly leveled Fallujah and Mosul by disproportional force to root out Islamic gunmen hiding among innocents. Hamas has objections to disproportionate violence—but only when it is achieved by Israel and not Hamas.
“Two-state solution.” Prior to October 7, there was a de facto three-state solution, given that Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza were all separate states ruled by their own governments, two of which were illegitimate without scheduled elections.
It was not Israel, but the people of Gaza and the West Bank who institutionalized the “from river to the sea” agenda of destroying its neighbor.
Israel would have been content to live next to an autonomous Arab Gaza and West Bank that did not seek to destroy Israel in their multigenerational efforts to form their own “one-state solution.”
“Ceasefire.” The so-called international community is demanding Israel agree to a “ceasefire.” But there was already a ceasefire prior to October 7. Hamas broke it by massacring 1,200 Jews and taking over 250 hostages.
Hamas violated that peace because it thought it could gain leverage over Israel by murdering Jews.
Hamas now demands another ceasefire because it thinks it is no longer able to murder more unarmed Jews. Instead, it now fears that Israel will destroy Hamas in the way Hamas sought but failed to destroy Israel.
Did Hamas call for a cease-fire after the first 500 Jews it massacred on October 7?
“Ramadan.” Joe Biden believes that the Muslim religious holiday of Ramadan requires Israel to agree to a ceasefire.
But did either Hamas or any other Arab military ever respect Jewish—or even its own—religious holidays?
The October 7 massacre was timed to catch Israelis unaware while celebrating the Jewish religious holidays of Simchat Torah, Shemini Torah, and Shemini Atzeret on Shabbat.
Moreover, Hamas’s surprise attack was deliberately timed to commemorate the earlier sneak Arab attack on Israel some 50 years earlier.
On October 6, 1973, the Israelis were the target of a surprise attack when celebrating the religious holiday of Yom Kippur. Arab armies also assumed they would achieve greater surprise when attacking during their own religious holiday of Ramadan.
So, Arab militaries fight opportunistically both during Jewish and their own Islamic holidays. Egyptians and Syrians still boast of their 1973 surprise attack on Israel as the “Ramadan War.”
Only Westerners, not Arabs, believe there should be no war during Ramadan.
“Civilian Casualties.” Israel risks the lives of its soldiers to prevent civilian deaths. Hamas risks the lives of its civilians to prevent terrorists’ deaths. Israel considers it a failure, and Hamas considers it globally advantageous when more civilians die than its soldiers.
“Foreign Aid.” The Biden administration threatens to cut off or slow-walk aid to Israel if it continues to retaliate against Hamas even though they started the war. So the administration promises to give more aid to Gaza after the October 7 Hamas massacres than it gave to Gaza before them.
“Prisoners.” The international community that favors Hamas, nevertheless, knows it would be safer to be a prisoner of Israel than of Hamas. It knows women are not going to be raped in custody by Israelis but are by Hamas. And the unarmed are more likely to be mutilated and decapitated by Hamas than Israelis.
Is the international community more likely to charge Israel than Hamas for war crimes because the Jewish state seeks to avoid civilian deaths that Hamas finds useful?
Mo de Profit says
Is there an islamic democracy anywhere?
Even Turkey has turned into a dictatorship following the military coup.
Scott Norris says
The U.N. seems to consider all Islamic states democracies and countries like the U.K., U.S., Israel, etc. are considered hostile oppressor states.
Jeff Bargholz says
Not to be overly critical but is there a democracy anywhere? There’s no islamic Republic that’s for sure, even though it’s in the name of places like “The Islamic Republic of Iran.” I figure only “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” beats Iran in the contradictory bullshit department for regime names.
Gordon says
“Democrat” Party in America.
CharlieSeattle says
More contradictory bullshit.
BLSinSC says
Minnesota/Michigan are about as close to a “muslim democracy” as you’ll get! Once past the point of REALLY being constrained there then the “democracy” part goes away!
CharlieSeattle says
A Theocracy is the goal!
A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
Laura says
Taqqia. Permission in islam to lie to infidels to the benefit of moslems. Believe nothing they say. Their actions are the truth.
Jeff Bargholz says
You’re referring to kitman. Taqqia is the moslem practice of lying about their faith when they live amongst kaffir, although that’s no longer necessary in Western countries.
Kynarion Hellenis says
I had never heard of “kitman.” When I attempted to educate myself, I discovered the multiplicity of ways in which no muslim can be trusted, EVER. Not under oath in a court of law, not in contracts, not in any civilizational context. Look:
https://www.islam-watch.org/authors/139-louis-palme/1095-knowing-four-arabic-words-may-save-our-civilization-from-islamic-takeover.html
Jeff Bargholz says
Good article. No, we can never trust moslems. Any culture with so many words for different types of lies is debased.
Steven Brizel says
VDH as always hits the nail on the head Israel should level Rafah
internalexile says
The videos on the TBN YouTube channel done by Yair Pinto really show how much dough was blown on the tunnels. Hamas really needs to be totally rooted out and shut down.
Rip N Read says
TBN is excellent.
RobTheGray1 says
That the majority of those billions were supplied by US Taxpayers, of whom I am one, FUNDED this travesty – is the embodiment of frustration.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, this article is a very concise description of the Hamas war against Israel.
Jeff Bargholz says
And all the lies about it, of course.
Chief Mac says
Proportional force to genocide should be the utter destruction of Gaza and the death of every Islamofascist there. Since Israel has already been convicted, they might as well make the “crime” fit the punishment
Jeff Bargholz says
I say drive them into Egypt. Al Sisi has previously offered to take them in although he may have been lying. I don’t know much about him but he doesn’t seem particularly fanatical. He overthrew the muslim Brotherhood for the good of Egypt.
Kill every Hamas and islamic jihad member, though.
aristotle cam says
Lets see: millions of unknown and known Illegal Imigrants have crossed our borderS for years. Maybe I’m wrong,but,
just recently we’ve seen an explosion of protests from Palestinians and Gazans-everywhere. Theses protests are
getting a bit more rambunctious. What can we further expect? Have you noticed-crickets from Wray, Mayorkas,
Garland etc. I’m guessing, but it occurs to me that there might be some Illegal Aliens at these pro Palestinian pro-
tests. Why aren’t our law enforcement infiltrating these groups? Checking IDS! THEY’RE HERE!!!
Rip N Read says
This is the article that I’m going to read three times so I have my arguments properly thought out.
Ed Snider says
Everyone knows the facts. The truth has been obvious from October 7, and well before.What we are witnessing is a war between good and evil. It’s nothing more than that.
AM Marion says
As the famous movie line says: “You can’t handle the truth!” (the “you” here being supporters of Hamas, Palestinians, etc.).
Jeff Bargholz says
And a war between deodorant and stench.
Poetcomic1 says
When we are called upon for a ceasefire to ‘honor Ramadan’ one tends to forget that Muhammad declared this a month for ‘Jihad’ and terror against non-Muslims.
Charley Graybell says
Criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza is a de facto taking the side of Hamas. Of course many people all over the world are openly advocating for the genocide of Jews now. They have no knowledge of history or respect for morality.
Jeff Bargholz says
“Is the international community more likely to charge Israel than Hamas for war crimes because the Jewish state seeks to avoid civilian deaths that Hamas finds useful?”
Isn’t the UN doing that right now? If not, it soon will. But I assume the question was tongue in cheek.
Domenic Pepe says
Depraved psychopathic murderous berserk evil Islam has been a scourge on humanity for 1400 years.
Enough already.
CharlieSeattle says
Self deport please!
CharlieSeattle says
Israel must take out its true enemies arming and funding Hamas and the Houthis, Iran and the Biden administration!
Nikki says
More PALLYWEID (fake apartheid/genocide pallywoody buzzwords)
Hamas document reveals it hides casualties, blames failed rocket launches on Israel – IDF.
By Ohad Merlin. Published: March 31, 2024 .
An official Hamas document recovered by IDF soldiers proves that many Gazan casualties are the direct result of failed rocket launches by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The IDF spokesperson in Arabic exposed close cooperation between terror groups in concealing information and choosing launch areas far from houses of Hamas leadership, not Gazan citizen…
https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-794610
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So, if some 20% to 25% are failed rockets, how many Arab-Palestinians are massacred by their own?
To use this previous example:
(((noa tishby))) @noatishby:
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists misfired 20% of their rockets. That’s 56 rockets that failed to reach Israel, threatening innocent Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. PIJ is a threat to both Israeli and Palestinian civilians. They must be stopped. #IsraelUnderAttack #StopPIJ #StopTheRockets #StopTerrorism
May 10, 2023
https://twitter.com/noatishby/status/1656343290806140930
Chuck Stamford says
Intellect destroying Jew hatred is all that really explains why people fully support Ukraine’s self-defense against Russia’s invasion of it, but then loudly condemn Israel’s self-defense against Hamas’s invasion of it.
Miranda Rose Smith says
A de facto three state solution? Israel, thevWest Bank, and Gaza? How could you forget JORDAN, Mr. Hanson?
fsy says
I enjoyed this article, but I will post one small correction, which you do not need to print:
The holiday which took place on Oct. 7 is called both Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. The names are interchangeable in Israel, although the subject is more complex in other places.
“Shemini Torah” is a phrase which I have never heard, and it sounds like some kind of a copying error.
Of course, the day was also the Jewish Sabbath, like every Saturday.
fsy says
A lot of comments have been removed since yesterday, including a whole thread which began with someone sounding like a Moslem criticizing “both sides”.
Also, I don’t know why my technical correction which I said didn’t need to be displayed is here.