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Social media is saturated with pro-Hamas propaganda accusing Israel of every possible atrocity including killing Arab Muslims just for fun. In reality, much like us, Israel bends over backward to do just the opposite.
While the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, is still examining the proposal for a hostage deal formulated at the Paris summit, Israel’s News 13 reported that members of his family are receiving life-saving medical treatment at Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheba.
Several of Haniyeh’s sisters are Israeli citizens through marriage to Bedouins and live in Tel Sheva in the Negev. In recent days, one of Haniyeh’s nieces gave birth to a baby in Soroka hospital. The baby was born prematurely and has since been hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit. The medical staff at the hospital have been working to save his life.
As the story goes on to document, multiple Haniyeh family members have been treated in Israeli hospitals.
While some Haniyeh family members were transferred out of Gaza for treatment in the past, this specific niece is apparently from the side of the family that married into a Bedouin clan and has members, including one of Haniyeh’s nephews, who served in the Israeli Army.
Like most things in the Arab world, this comes down to tribalism. Historically certain Arab clans chose to make their peace with Israel while others waged war against it. Hamas is at least partly made up of tribal enterprises as well as its overall characteristic as a Muslim Brotherhood organization. What that means is that the difference between being in Hamas or a Muslim Bedouin serving in the IDF is which family you belong to or, if you’re a woman, marry into.
In a society where tribalism or ideology are everything, compassion or humanity buys you nothing. That’s why Israel’s efforts to provide medical care to Arab Muslims have won it zero points from either Arab Muslims or from the pro-terrorist Left.
There’s no common humanity or set of values, just a line. The Islamist or leftist side of the line is purely ideological. Either you’re in their movement, an ally or an enemy. There’s no middle ground there.
And the tribal metric isn’t just about being an Arab Muslim, but the right kind. Bedouins were massacred and kidnapped on Oct 7. Some have declared blood feuds while others have family ties to those in Gaza.
It’s not that the situation isn’t black and white, it’s that the black and white tones aren’t those portrayed in the media.
In a tribal society, you can’t win by playing by Western rules. That’s the painful lesson we learned in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a lesson that Israel urgently needs to learn.
Good analysis Daniel, thanks!
“Like most things in the Arab world, this comes down to tribalism.”
Yeah, great analysis! Full of nuance and depth as always.
Your’s full of dickwddery, as always.
As if the Ay-rab dick holes are anything but tribal. Paleosimian? Is that a real ethnicity?
You munch turds for a living, You fake journalist.
Hey big guy, on a tangent, “Passion” is on her way over here. I’m like a kid on Christmas Eve. I’m about to burst in lust. She’s going to live here. Oh, Heaven.
But yes, the Psuedostinians are hypocrites. Even their fake name is hypocritical. Tell me you don’t want to punch all of them right in the face.
The evils of altruism and tribalism.
“A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should – so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“In its great era of capitalism, the United States was the freest country on earth—and the best refutation of racist theories. Men of all races came here, some from obscure, culturally undistinguished countries, and accomplished feats of productive ability which would have remained stillborn in their control-ridden native lands. Men of racial groups that had been slaughtering one another for centuries, learned to live together in harmony and peaceful cooperation. America had been called “the melting pot,” with good reason. But few people realized that America did not melt men into the gray conformity of a collective: she united them by means of protecting their right to individuality.
The major victims of such race prejudice as did exist in America were the Negroes. It was a problem originated and perpetuated by the non-capitalist South, though not confined to its boundaries. The persecution of Negroes in the South was and is truly disgraceful. But in the rest of the country, so long as men were free, even that problem was slowly giving way under the pressure of enlightenment and of the white men’s own economic interests.
Today, that problem is growing worse—and so is every other form of racism. America has become race-conscious in a manner reminiscent of the worst days in the most backward countries of nineteenth-century Europe. The cause is the same: the growth of collectivism and statism.” – Ayn Rand
Israel needs to decapitate the entire depraved psychopathic murderous Hamas and Iranian leadership.
What are they waiting for ?
Arab rulers always depend on family and clan as a matter of trust and nepotism. The US had did not give that consideration when planning the Gulf Wars against Iraq. Threatening Saddam and his relatives before the wars could have reduced Saddam’s support, If not, eliminating them during the wars would have worked. If the early war news reported, “Tikrit (Saddam and his clan’s city) is no more,” the objective would have been achieved even sooner and made the point to other groups.