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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.
Chief Mac says
You are full of shit and have no clue as to what the Geneva Convention states. It happens that every single death and misery is the fault of the Islamofascists. That is exactly what it states.
Peddle your moronic lies to people as uninformed as you are.
Jeff Bargholz says
Bullshit. Anybody against Israel is against humanity. 1200 innocent people were murdered by yor Hamas heroes and only 245 hostages were taken, all of whom have since been murdered. There are no Hamas soldiers, only jihadis, and you’re an idiot to suggest any of them disobeyed orders. Nobody here is stupid enough to believe that. Only idiots tell lies that nobody will believe.
NOBODY is starving in Gaza. Food is plentiful there and most Gazans are overweight, especially the ones in Hamas.
Hamas members live in homes, not their rat tunnels. If Israel wanted revenge it would level all of Gaza instead of select building that were terrorist bases.
You’re a piece of shit for trying – and failing – to defend Hamas, especially if you aren’t even an islamopithecine.
Intrepid says
Good for you Asslan. You condemn it and guess what, no one cares what you condemn. Sell it to the Muslims.
Vic says
8 million pounds of food delivered to gaza in the last weeks. That’s more than was ever shared prior to Oct 7th. Anything else you hear or read from islams minions is a lie! Learn the history, learn the facts before you speak.
CharlieSeattle says
20 years ago a little sweet Gazan baby boy, indoctrinated with islamic hate from birth, grew up to be a rapist and murderer. So will the little boys in Gaza today.
Egypt and Jordan refuse to take these animals for the threat they pose to their own rule.
Kill’em all Israel.
Moshe says
Nice try, rationalizing and minimizing the October 7th atrocities. There is ample food in Gaza; just look at the photos in Al Jazeera of the Gazans and their Ramadan food markets.
Jeff Bargholz says
Everything you wrote was a stupid lie. You must be a Paleosimian to be so stupid. An average IQ of 65 leads to stupid comments.
Members of gangs? Is that the latest Hamas lie? They just get dumber and dumber.
I saw the clip of Shapiro refusing to answer Morgan. And Owns didn’t say anything about the Gaza Sewer. She thought Paleosimians where forced to live in Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem for some reason. She probably believed a liar like you.
s, norby says
If Gazans are starving, It is because Hamas is taking their food, as it has taken most or all of the aid sent to Gaza for decades.
Kynarion Hellenis says
They took hundreds of billions in aid to build tunnels into Israel for covert ops.
Proverbs 4:16: For they do not sleep unless they have done evil; And their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.
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.
Jeff Bargholz says
Hamas murdered 1200 innocent Jews, mostly youths, women and babies. The didn’t kill 450 IDF soldiers. That’s a laughable lie.
Psuedostinians are overfed and everybody in Gaza is a civilian, both Hamas, the 80% who support it and the rest who support Fatah and islamic jihad.
I wish I got free utilities from Israel and largess from Israel and the Western world, then I could be a fatty, too.
Kynarion Hellenis says
Israel need to exercise a hugely disproportionate response, and to hell with what anyone thinks about it.
“From the River to the Sea” means this:
Deut. 11:24: Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.
and
Exodus 23:31: I will set your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River; for I will hand over the inhabitants of the land to you, and you will drive them out from you.
Jeff Bargholz says
It would be nice if Israel had all that land……minus the current inhabitants who do nothing but despoil it.
George Bush 43 says
Next time you traffic in moral equivalence, leave your mouthwash & kneepads at home.
The chickenshit islamists always initiate evil – whether it’s raping any woman not wearing a potato sack, or single acts of murder in every place they form large groups in.
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
Besides your other false statements which others here have called out, I want to mention that the modern state of Israel is not and never has been ruled by a Jewish theocracy of any sort. Practice of the Jewish religion is common, and somewhat encouraged by the govt. Ministry of Religions (plural), but so are Christianity and Islam. Jewish religious law and belief have no bearing on Israel’s official policies, for better or for worse.
The fact which is well-known among Israeli Jews, but somehow ignored by others, is that most of the founders of modern Israel were non-religious and often strongly anti-religious Jews, and that class of society continues to hold its grip on power to this day. Netanyahu, although something of a ‘conservative’, is completely non-observant of Judaism, and of course, his left-wing rivals are also.
Jewish “religious fanaticism” is simply not part of anything which is going on in Israel today.
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.