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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, America Betrayed, HERE.]
The reaction to the rescue of four Israeli hostages from Gaza is a microcosm of the past 70 years of this conflict. Every time Palestinians pay the price for acting out in some horrific, irrational, self-destructive, violent way, their defenders want to rewind history to a more convenient moment — this time to Oct. 6, 2023.
Sorry, that’s not how life works. Hamas, the chosen political entity of Gaza — the overwhelming choice of Palestinian civilians, in fact — launched this round of the conflict by massacring, sexually torturing and kidnapping Israelis whose only sin was attending a music festival. Palestinians took hundreds of these hostages back to the Gaza Strip — a place Arabs have political autonomy over for nearly 20 years — and held them in the middle of densely populated areas hoping to dissuade Israel from liberating them, or, if it did, to create as many martyrs as possible.
Critics of Israel now ask the usual dishonest question: Are four lives worth the alleged 200-plus Arabs who were lost rescuing them?
Israel is the only nation on earth that is tasked with protecting its own people and its enemies. Every innocent lost life is, of course, a tragedy. But if you don’t want to be placed in harm’s way, don’t hold hostages in your homes and neighborhoods, and don’t cheer and support a government that puts your life in constant danger for a lost cause. This is the reality of the world.
Now, if reports are correct, Hamas — and perhaps “civilians” (it’s difficult to tell because terrorists are often dressed as noncombatants) — opened fire on the rescuers. The Israelis, who do not indiscriminately target civilians, fired back, as they should. Whatever the specifics, every lost life is Hamas’ fault.
But, as always, it also needs to be stressed that the casualty numbers that are endlessly repeated by the establishment media are fiction — as everyone in those newsrooms is surely aware. So, we must assume outlets like The Washington Post and CNN — which also detestably contends that the hostages had been “released” — are fellow travelers. One BBC interviewer even asked an Israel Defense Forces spokesman if Israel had warned Palestinians of their sting operation.
Then again, even if there were over 200 dead, it is also surely the case that many of the dead were members of Hamas or holding hostages of their own volition or helping those holding hostages. Avoid doing so if you value your life.
The “Health Ministry” makes no distinction between terrorists and civilians, and in this case there might be little difference. Among those holding the Israelis hostage in their homes in Nuseirat, for instance, were a “journalist” (who apparently worked for Al Jazeera and the U.S.-based Palestine Chronicle, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) and a “doctor.” The entire neighborhood was ostensibly under U.N. control. We already know that U.N. workers had likely participated in the Oct. 7 kidnappings and UNRWA schools are used by Hamas bases of operation.
Even now, there’s a (terrible) cease-fire deal on the table being pushed by President Joe Biden (still chumming for antisemitic votes) that Hamas continues to reject. Would we not expect the United States to act the same way as Israel if some homicidal cult had our people?
In the end, of course, this could all end today if the hostages were returned and Hamas would unconditionally surrender. Israel haters, who fashion themselves peaceniks, will blame everyone — Netanyahu, Biden, colonialism, racism, etc. — but the Islamists who are the cause of this war.
Then again, the entire conflict could end if the Palestinians would stop turning to nihilistic theocrats to lead them and accept Israel’s existence.
That ratio is the same used for “prisoner” exchange of the past (i.e. Palestinian criminals in Israeli prisons versus the occasional captured soldier). If the Palestinians want equity between their lives and Israeli’s lives, then they would no longer insist on the historical very low exchange rate they insisted on.
Unfortunately, Israel has never offered any such EQUALITY (NOT equity!).
Whatever the indigenous people of that land can achieve through submission under a “superior heel” has been shown as that: Apartheid – or worse: Reich after 1933.
Look at West Bank: Meir Kahane youngsters throwing fire bombs into children’s bedrooms, kill them, sing and dance – and Israeli police laughs with them.
SEE THE REAL ISRAEL OF “NO MAN, WOMAN, CHILD DID WE LET LIVE”!
Hamas and the American Left don’t want it to end. Or haven’t the wokists figured that out yet.
There was something RFK Jr said in an interview which no one else has brought to light.
Since 2006, Hamas has been firing around 2000 missiles per year into Israeli civilian centers of population. Tel Aviv is one such place and it has a higher population density than Gaza. These were unprovoked attacks initiated by Hamas intending to kill Israeli civilians. That is Israeli men, women, children and babies.
it’s true that those Hamas missiles didn’t do much damage, but that was because Israeli took defensive measures to protect their citizens.
Hamas, on the other hand, has taken measures that places Palestinians at extreme risk by using homes, schools, Mosques, hospitals and even UN offices as fighting positions.
See the difference?
Yahya Sinwar has declared that lost Palestinians are a necessary outcome of this war. While we strive to reduce harm to those considered non combatants, the other side uses them as shields for themselves and prison guards for the hostages. I am reminded of the words uttered by a young woman who was released earlier in the war. She opined that there are no innocents in Gaza. I’m sure she knows.
Have all Ham-A** declared a hazard to the Public and neutralize them
“Are four lives worth the alleged 200-plus Arabs who were lost rescuing them?” You bet!
First, Arabs were not ‘rescuing’ the civilians they held as hostages, i.e. their own victims, they just tried to re-capture – or to kill them. Second, if these Arabs didn’t want to be killed, they should not have kidnapped and enslaved innocent people. Whatever the number of their dead, it doesn’t matter. They made their choice and they paid the price. If they were smart, they should refrain from abducting Israeli civilians again, but let’s not dream for the impossible.
Israel puts that figure at about 100, most of whom were terrorists. At the location of the three male hostages, the rescue force was met be fierce gunfire. Should they have politely asked the terrorists to stop ,shooting so that they could rescue the three men? When is the world going to wake up to the fact that we are dealing with people who want us gone from the planet? Are we supposed to sit and wait for that to happen? If any has difficulty answering these questions, then they are
part of the problem.
“Not as bad as in Gaza, where they eat only once a day. Often not even that.”
There are plenty of images (not Pallywood-kind of images) every day showing that food is available over there, maybe not affordable to every Gazaoui – but who chose Hamas as their leader? Who chose to kill, rape, torture and kidnap innocent civilians? Who chose to hide hostages for a price? Who chose to make war on their neighbors because of a ridiculous concept according to which a conquered land by muslim, even a quasi abandoned one, remains conquered for ever?
They made their bed, let them sleep on it now.
This is a question that should automatically shut down any excuse coming from these pro-Hamas activists on college campuses:
“Why were Israeli hostages held in a Palestinian refugee camp?”
The question is so simple and yet effectively discredits all of these activists’ arguments in one fell swoop.
Palestinians do not have Israeli citizenship.. Israeli Arabs do. The times of Israel is not a reliable source of information because of the political leanings of the outlet. Their lies have been proved to be lies and those of us who know where to look for accuracy do so. You are not one of those people. But it would be nice if you refrained from boring the rest of us .
I believe the muslim saying “First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People” still holds true.
The ignorant, ill-educated children who champion the Arab muslims in Gaza would do well to realise this and start to think about how to protect themselves from the almost inevitable onslaught by islam.
Let us talk sense:
Israel is based on claims to a land taken into possession through Genocide, about 3,300 years ago – and dissolved by the “World Power’ of the time, about 2,000 years ago.
The main population was never really involved in these changes – except when Genocide occurred, i.e. ~1,400-1,500BC (Shehem, Genesis 34), ~1,300BC,(post Exodus), 1948AD (excess of UN distribution of land, and excessive “cleansing”).
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The ‘Diaspora’ lived abroad and, thanks to its high racial ‘Self-Esteem’ (even in suppression and persecution) grew in numbers (over a period of 2,000 years.
Leading Momentum for Identity (and Superiority as “God’s People”) was retained through religion and “ancient” tradition, claimed to be from ‘Moses’ time’, but written down during ‘Exile in Babylon’ (only of Upper Class – about 650BC) – clearly based on the wishes of an upper, educated class in a suppressed status.
The loss of a state – esp. a Religious State – was, undoubtedly a long-term basis of anger and wishes for restitution – FULL RESTITUTION!
Several of these were made, as by Cyrus – and then, Truman and UN
The opportunity came with a competing Ideology of Superiority in the rising of Nationalism into Ultranationalisms and Fascism. The crimes of esp. German-Austrian Fascism, with its spread into Ukrainian, Croatian, Baltic Fascisms et al. and the Genodical loss of ca. 6 million Jews gave their Diaspora, esp. in a country that was based on a Genocide of twice that size, and in need of a spread military presence around the world, strong support – plus a strong ‘moral’ support in the new International Organisation that followed the earlier one in Geneva.
Unfortunately, what could have been a good attempt at creating a kind of “homecoming” for parts of a racial group that claimed the same originator, Father Abraham, and their uniting with those of the same background who still lived in the lands in question.
This however, fell on more than rocky ground -DUE TO RELIGIOUS CLAIMS! which, as post Exodus, turned violent and murderous. 1/2 million locals dead, 700,000 made homeless – again: God’s Will declared – and again: BLATANT BLASPHEMY!
On the grounds of this fake “Divine Superiority”, this ‘Land of Milk and Honey’ remained a LAND OF BLOOD AND HATE. And so, the best chances can become a CURSE!