Earlier this week, Egyptians in Port Said showed how much they support Palestinians - but not too much.
They support them enough to put up a 7 meter flag on the side of a building.
The head of the Port Said Bar Association, Safwat Abdel Hamid, described in stirring terms both how much Egyptians care about Palestinians and how much they do not want a single one to enter their country.
See if you can follow the logic:
We will not forget Palestine, and we will not forget Al-Aqsa. This battle is an eternal battle to establish the State of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. We declare frankly and clearly that we are one people under the umbrella of the Egyptian Armed Forces, which is capable of protecting the borders from all machinations and plots - capable of protecting Sinai, preventing mass displacement meant to eliminate the Palestinian people, or displacing the land of Sinai, and Egypt will remain independent while preserving its rights, as long as the Egyptian army is able to protect the borders, preventing forced displacement to the Sinai Peninsula.
We are able to support the Palestinian cause within its territories until it establishes its state. Palestine is a national cause par excellence that we defend, and we refuse to be a hosting place for anyone. From here, from Egypt, the strong country with the most powerful armed forces, we are able, by God’s command, to support the Palestinian cause within its territories until It establishes its independent state.
This usurping enemy, which claims to be God’s chosen people, is being defeated and suffering losses. They say that Allah's hand is tied. This statement has fallen and will fall forever at the hands of the Egyptian army and the Palestinian resistance. We do not defend Egypt alone, but rather we defend Palestine, our land, which once made it difficult for the Zionist enemy. We are ready for October in all the coming wars. Our land is sacred land, sovereign land, protected by the Egyptian people and army, and we will not allow the Zionist entity to force anyone into Egyptian territory.
The occupying entity state does not want to take Gaza alone, but rather wants to establish its Zionist state from the Nile to the Euphrates. We are alert and interested in this issue, and we will not allow the Zionist entity in any form to force anyone into Egyptian lands.
We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and with the Palestinian resistance with all its factions.
Decades of antisemitic brainwashing has convinced Egyptians that Israel wants to expel all Palestinians from Gaza and take it over, on the way to grabbing all the land of "Greater Israel" from the Nile to the Euphrates.
This has become mainstream Arab thinking. Here's an antisemitic cartoon that illustrates this: the missile/Torah has the words "Displacement Scheme."
And Egypt will resist those plots - by keeping Palestinians in the open-air prison that Egypt established for them in Gaza in the late 1940s, when they forced all Palestinians in Egypt to move to Gaza.
There is some deja vu here. For 75 years, Arabs have been telling Palestinians to stay in miserable conditions - for their own good. They claimed that Palestinians didn't want to become citizens of other Arab countries to keep their own cause alive, yet when loopholes opened in Egyptian and Lebanese laws allowing some to become citizens, they eagerly lined up to become citizens (and then the Egyptians took away that citizenship a few years later.)
Never do any of these Arab "brethren" ask Palestinians what they want. They tell them what they are allowed to want.
But I'm sure the Palestinians stuck in Gaza are very happy about that seven meter flag.
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Some of the most vehement current supporters of the Hamas death squads were immigrants to America from the Middle East.
Oddly, they apparently had fled just such illiberal Middle East regimes to reach a tolerant, democratic, and secure United States.
Yet they now endorse the Hamas butchering of Jewish civilians. Its savagery is aimed at executing, raping, and beheading Jews, and then mutilating their bodies.
Hamas apparently hopes to shock the Israeli government into voluntarily committing suicide—in line with the ancient Hamas agenda to destroy the Jewish state.
In a strange way, this reign of death has become a touchstone, an acid test of sorts that has revealed the utter amorality of enemies abroad and quite dangerous people at home.
It is past time that Americans deal with the medieval world that was revealed this week rather than keep dreaming in the fantasy world of our government.
Americans need to stop illegal immigration and restore their southern border, while ceasing all immigration from unhinged, hostile nations.
The military must return to its deterrent role and fire its woke commissariat.
Our leaders must accept that in the last three years of the Biden administration, serial American appeasement abroad, disunity at home, and social chaos have encouraged an entire host of enemies —China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Middle East illiberal regimes, and former friends like Turkey and Qatar.
And our enemies dream of doing to us what we just saw in Israel.
In the evening (Israel local time) of Tuesday, October 17, the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza claimed that an Israeli airstrike hit Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, killing hundreds of civilians. An initial response from the IDF stated that the incident was under review; later, the IDF shared videos, images, and intelligence materials demonstrating that an Islamic Jihad rocket had failed to launch properly (i.e. target Israeli civilians) and instead hit the hospital parking lot. President Biden acknowledged this conclusion.
Many NGOs immediately adopted the Hamas narrative of Israeli culpability, even though there was no evidence to support it. Certainly, the NGO statements came too quickly to have conducted even a rudimentary investigation and without any attempt to verify the circumstances surrounding the incident. No NGO called into question the veracity of a claim, from a genocidal terror-run institution, that it would be possible within minutes of the night-time incident to document that hundreds had been killed.
The irresponsible responses reflect three central dimensions of the NGO role in armed conflicts involving Israel. First, as part of their wider anti-Israel campaigns, NGOs constantly seek opportunities to demonize Israel and promote Palestinian victimization myths. Attaching a horrific mass casualty incident to Israel – regardless of proof – would be a major advance in their obsessive political war against the Jewish state.
Second, the UN and other international actors rely extensively on NGOs to reinforce narratives and provide ostensible evidence and testimonies regarding events. As with numerous previous incidents featuring misreporting by the same network of NGOs, the statements on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital demonstrate their lack of credibility. To be sure, this will not stop the UN from impugning its own reports by copying the NGOs.
Third, this incident reflects the abject failure of the humanitarian aid framework in Gaza and the need for a systematic independent investigation. For years, UN agencies and humanitarian NGOs turned a blind eye to terror actors’ diversion of humanitarian aid to produce rockets, build terror tunnels and other instruments, and to personally enrich themselves at the expense of ordinary Gazans. The UN and NGO community have ignored, and in many cases, openly covered up the embedding and co-locating of Hamas weaponry within civilian infrastructure like schools, mosques, and hospitals. Their complicity in crimes against humanity is immoral, has entrenched the conflict, and further endangered millions of Palestinians and Israelis.
Black Americans know the pains and the agony of being terrorized. Celebrating it is an outrage, and an insult—to us.
On the morning of Saturday, Oct. 7, I woke early. I had a flight to catch out of a small town in Washington where I had given a talk, and I was making my way through the airport when I saw a television screen tuned to CNN. It was showing the gruesome images from Hamas’ attack on Israel, making it very clear that the assault was still ongoing.
Immediately, it reminded me of a feeling I had hoped I would never feel again. It was the feeling I felt on Sept. 11, 2001, when I was getting ready for work, watching the morning news and seeing a plane fly into the Twin Towers.
It was the feeling I felt when I watched George Floyd, violently pinned to the ground and hollering out for his mother.
Immediately, I felt a sense of pain, a sense of anguish. Immediately, I felt a sense of fear for my brothers and my sisters in the Jewish community. And the reason why I felt it was because I knew how I felt about seeing George Floyd, and how that reminded me of a time that I thought was far gone, the days of Jim Crow, the days of ancient slavery. Watching George Floyd’s murder, I couldn’t believe I was witnessing the sort of brutality against Black Americans I thought had passed from the world. Watching innocent Jewish men, women, and children being slaughtered just for being Jews made me think of days I thought had passed from the world with the Holocaust.
And yet, here I was, watching evil unfold before my very eyes. And it hit my soul.
I wanted to call every single one of my Jewish friends, but it was Shabbat, and a holiday to boot, and I knew that none of them would pick up the phone. So I did the only other thing I could think of: I said a prayer and asked God to intervene, to provide the shelter he promised in Psalm 46—to be our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
So it pained me, greatly, to see, not long afterward, several chapters of Black Lives Matter come out in support not of the victims but of the terrorist group Hamas. Celebrating any form of terrorism is disgusting and should be condemned, especially as we Black Americans, of all people, know the pains and the agony of being terrorized. We know what it feels like. We know what it feels like to be gunned down, to be chased, to be mutilated, to be kidnapped.We know what it’s like for our women to be raped, for our children to be killed. And for anyone to align themselves with an agenda that celebrates any terrorist group or any act of terrorism is an insult to where we’ve come from and could unravel the works of support and healing that we are so feverishly working toward.
Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.
We hear a lot about the “innocent” civilian of Gaza, and how
the “vast majority” of them are peace-loving and do not support Hamas. But what
is the basis for this pronouncement of mass Gazan innocence by world leaders,
celebrities, and other talking heads? The facts and statistics say the
opposite: there is overwhelming support for Hamas and “armed resistance” in
Gaza. Which makes a lot of right-thinking Israelis wonder why our army takes
such pains not to kill them.
If there are statistics that prove this population is
innocent, why don’t they show them to us? Instead, they offer empty words,
devoid of reality. “The humanitarian crisis in Gaza — innocent
Palestinian families and the vast majority that have nothing to do with
Hamas — they’re being used as human shields. We have to reject hate in every
form,” said President Biden.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the same thing in
not so many words. Speaking in Egypt about his trip to the region to
discuss the war, Blinken said, “What I’ve heard from virtually every partner
was a determination, a shared view that we have to do everything possible to
make sure this doesn’t spread to other places; a shared view to safeguard innocent
lives; a shared view to get assistance to Palestinians in Gaza who need it,
and we’re working very much on that.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also rushed to defend the “innocent”
civilians of Gaza. This time after an errant Islamic Jihad rocket took out a
hospital in Gaza.
“I am horrified by the images of the explosion in a hospital
in Gaza. Innocent civilians were injured and killed. Our thoughts are with the
families of the victims.”
Ich bin entsetzt über die Bilder, die uns von der Explosion in einem Krankenhaus in Gaza erreichen. Unschuldige wurden verletzt und getötet. Unsere Gedanken sind bei den Angehörigen der Opfer.
Es ist wichtig, dass dieser Vorfall sehr genau aufgeklärt wird.
Scholz, like the rest of the Israel-hating world, rushed to
judgement: the judgment he preferred: Gazans=innocent, Israelis=guilty. Soon scads
of evidence would prove him wrong. Including a recorded conversation between
Hamas operatives clearly attributing the attack to Islamic Jihad.
The hospital explosion, of course, catalyzed the entire
world to damn Israel for “killing hundreds of innocent civilians.” Which of
course, was not true. But like Scholz, none of them were waiting for confirmation
of what they wanted to believe about Israel to somehow excuse the atrocities,
while Jewish bodies are still being processed.
In the Arab world, the state news agency for Kuwait not
surprisingly, “strongly condemned and denounced the Israeli occupation forces'
barbaric airstrike on the Baptist Al-Ahli Hospital in the Gaza Strip, where
hundreds of innocent civilians were killed.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also rushed to blame
Israel. “Hitting a hospital containing women, children and innocent civilians
is the latest example of Israel's attacks devoid of the most basic human
values. I invite all humanity to take action to stop this unprecedented
brutality in Gaza.”
İçerisinde kadınların, çocukların, masum sivillerin olduğu bir hastaneyi vurmak, İsrail’in en temel insani değerlerden yoksun saldırılarının son örneğidir.
Gazze’de yaşanan ve tarihte benzeri olmayan bu vahşeti durdurmak için tüm insanlığı harekete geçmeye davet ediyorum.
No less than a major in the IDF reserves, Nir Avishai Cohen,
repeatedly called the Gazan people “innocent” in his emotional little leftist
self-congratulatory op-ed in the New
York Times.
For 56 years Israel has been subjecting Palestinians to
oppressive military rule. In my book “Love Israel, Support Palestine,” I wrote:
“Israeli society has to ask itself very important questions about where and why
the blood of its sons and daughters was spilled. A Messianic religious minority
has dragged us into a muddy swamp, and we are following them as if it were the
piper from Hamelin.” When I wrote these words last year, I didn’t realize how
deep in the mud we were, and how much more blood could be shed in so little
time.
I am now going to defend my country against enemies who want
to kill my people. Our enemies are the deadly terrorist organizations that are
being controlled by Islamic extremists.
Palestinians aren’t the enemy. The millions of Palestinians
who live right here next to us, between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan, are
not our enemy. Just like the majority of Israelis want to live a calm, peaceful
and dignified life, so do Palestinians. Israelis and Palestinians alike have
been in the grip of a religious minority for decades. On both sides, the
intractable positions of a small group have dragged us into violence. It
doesn’t matter who is more cruel or more ruthless. The ideologies of both have
fueled this conflict, leading to the deaths of too many innocent civilians.
As a major in the reserves, it is important to me to make it
clear that in this already unstoppable new war, we cannot allow the massacre of
innocent Israelis to result in the massacre of innocent Palestinians.
Israel must remember that there are more than two million people living in the
Gaza Strip. The vast majority of them are innocent. Israel must
do everything in its power to avoid killing innocent people and to focus
on destroying the militant army of Hamas.
There is a pattern here, of making a distinction between members
of Hamas and the Gazan people. But it is also here critical to note something that people either don't know or don't like to talk about; the people of Gaza, in democratic elections, elected Hamas to rule them. From the Guardian:
Figures from Palestinian officials tonight confirmed Hamas's
shock win in the Palestinian parliamentary election over the once-dominant
Fatah party.
Polls had predicted a coalition between the two parties as
the most likely outcome of the vote, but a surprise surge in support for the
Islamists took a party that calls for the destruction of the state of Israel
into power.
The preliminary count put Hamas on 76 seats to Fatah's 43 in
the 132 seat chamber. The result could complicate hopes of a peace deal between
Israel and the Palestinians. George Bush said the United States would not deal
with a Hamas-led government unless the party recognised Israel's right to
exist.
As the scale of the Fatah defeat became apparent, its
officials conceded defeat and the Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, and
his cabinet submitted their resignations. "This is the choice of the
people. It should be respected," Mr Qureia told reporters . . .
. . . Mr Bush said a
party that advocated the destruction of Israel would never be partner for
peace, but also hailed the result as an example of democracy in action.
"If there are people unhappy with the status quo
they'll let you know. What was positive is that it is a wakeup call to the
leadership," he told a White House press conference.
"People are demanding honest government ... people want
services; they want to raise their children in a decent environment."
Everywhere you read about the 2006 Gaza election, you will see the word "democracy" in its various forms and usages. In 2008, Vanity Fairran
a piece about a US plot to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led
government from power with the help of Muhammad Dahlan, a Mahmoud
Abbas rival:
Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since
corroborated by sources in the U.S. and Palestine, which lay bare a covert
initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice and Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams, to provoke a
Palestinian civil war. The plan was for forces led by Dahlan, and armed with
new weapons supplied at America’s behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed to
remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. (The
State Department declined to comment.)
Palestinians may soon be heading to the polls for the first
time in 15 years. For some, this will be their first taste of electoral
politics and democratic participation. Yet it will not be Palestine’s first
democratic experiment. Long before the advent of the Arab uprisings,
Palestine held free and fair elections to choose a president and a
parliament. In hindsight, these elections, held in 2005 and 2006 respectively,
marked the high point of Palestinian democracy.
The European Union and the United States were initially
strong advocates of Palestinian democracy, and were a driving force
behind the last elections, urging the main political rivals – the Islamist
Hamas and the secular Fatah – to engage constructively in the process. The EU
and the US proved less comfortable when the democratic outcome went
against their interests following Hamas’s victory in the 2006 legislative
election and the group’s refusal to endorse international demands such as
recognising Israel. Subsequent efforts by the EU and the US to boycott and
undermine the democratically elected government led by Hamas
significantly damaged the Palestinian democratic and state-building project.
This stoked Palestinian political tensions and helped provoke a short civil war
in June 2007 that left Hamas in control of Gaza and President Mahmoud Abbas,
leader of Fatah, in control of the West Bank. These events reverberate to this
day.
Many will try to convince you that the Gazan people were coerced into voting for Hamas. But they were not. The elections were democratic. They were pleased with their choice and showed it, by celebrating when their party won. Al
Jazeerahad the story:
Hamas wins huge majority
Hamas supporters streamed into the streets to celebrate.
In the southern Gaza town of Rafah, supporters shot in the
air and handed out candy. Others honked horns and waved Hamas flags from car
windows.
The elections were, demonstrably, and by all accounts, free and fair and democratic.
So why would anyone call the “civilians” of Gaza “innocent?” All of them
supported Hamas.
A new poll released Tuesday finds a dramatic surge in
Palestinian support for Hamas following last month’s Gaza war, with around three
quarters viewing the Islamic militants as victors in a battle against Israel to
defend Jerusalem and its holy sites.
The scientific poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and
Survey Research also found plummeting support for President Mahmoud Abbas, who
was sidelined by the war but is seen internationally as a partner for reviving
the long-defunct peace process.
The poll found that 53% of Palestinians believe Hamas is
“most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people,”
The poll found that 77% of Palestinians believe Hamas
emerged as a winner, with nearly as many saying that it fought the war to
defend Jerusalem and its holy sites, rather than as part of an internal
struggle with Abbas’ Fatah party.
Note that while President Biden, in 2023,
asserts that the “innocent people of Gaza” are somehow distinct from the party they elected, he knows they are not. In fact, after Hamas won the 2006 election, Joe
Biden led a push to cut off US aid to Hamas for winning, and
to the Palestinian Authority for losing:
After Hamas won democratic elections in Gaza, Joe
Biden called for the U.S. to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority.
When Hamas, which the U.S. government had designated a
terrorist organization, won a resounding victory in Gaza, it sent shockwaves
through Washington. Biden called the results “sobering” and declared, “Israel
cannot be expected to negotiate with a party that calls for its destruction.”
Biden said President George W. Bush was “dead right” in his denunciation of the
election results. Within days, Biden began suggesting that the U.S. and Europe
should sanction Hamas and cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority. “The fact
of the matter is, you cannot pour millions and hundreds of millions of dollars
into a group that, in fact, calls for the destruction of an ally, or for any
country, for that matter,” Biden said. As the Bush administration called on
other nations to adopt this stance, Biden said, “Unless they change their
stripes, unless they recognize Israel, unless they change their charter, I
think we do exactly what the president says.”
In a Senate hearing a month after Hamas’s victory, Biden
offered a twisted logic on the importance of elections. “Elections a
democracy don’t make,” he said, pointing specifically to Hamas’s success at the
ballot. “Democracies cannot come to fruition without elections, but you need
the infrastructure for a democracy, and we’ve not done all that well in the
elections being held.” By March, Biden had signed onto a bill that called on
Bush to “direct the United States Executive Director at each international
financial institution to use the voice, vote, and influence of the United States
to prohibit assistance to the Palestinian Authority.”
Joe Biden understood, though he pretended he did not, with his
“twisted logic” that democratic elections are somehow not really democratic,
because um, other things. Biden knows that the people of Gaza are not innocent.
They voted for terror, death, and destruction. And they got it.
The innocence of the people of Gaza is in reality, a legend propagated
and perpetuated by Hamas. Hamas does not distinguish between terrorists and “innocents.”
Why should we? Why would the leaders of the world, including Joe Biden? From MEMRI:
The Hamas interior ministry website included the following
text along with its instructional video: "The Information Department of
the Ministry of the Interior and National Security has instructed activists on
social media websites, particularly Facebook, to correct some of the commonly
used terms as they cover the aggression taking place in the Gaza Strip. The
following Information Department video calls on all activists to use the proper
terminology, in order to play their part in strengthening the home front and in
properly conveying information worldwide."
Hamas Social Media Rules: Describe Terrorists as Innocent Civilians
The interior ministry’s “Be Aware – Social Media Activist
Awareness Campaign” centers around an instructional video and posters published
on the ministry’s Facebook and Twitter pages. Gazans are taught, first and
foremost, to refer to all terrorists as innocent civilians.
“Anyone killed or martyred is to be called a civilian from
Gaza or Palestine, before we talk about his status in jihad or his military
rank,” the guidelines state. “Don’t forget to always add ‘innocent civilian’ or
‘innocent citizen’ in your description of those killed in Israeli attacks on
Gaza.”
Screenshot of Hamas Facebook post, telling Gazans to use the word "innocent" in referring to terrorists.
Bearing final mention here is the Ben Shapiro video on the
number of radical Muslims in the world. To be a radical Muslim means, of
course, to support and/or engage in terror. The “innocent civilians of Gaza”
have proven that they number themselves among the “vast majority” who share
their sentiments.
In spite of knowing all of this, President Biden took a moment
to inform us that the “overwhelming majority of Palestinians had nothing to do with
Hamas’s [sic] appalling attacks.” Even when he knows damned well that no such
thing is true.
We must not lose sight of the fact that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians had nothing to do with Hamas’s appalling attacks, and are suffering as a result of them.
Joe Biden is well aware that the “innocent” people of Gaza are
the ones who put the terrorists in charge, and he knows that they like it like
that. Are their children innocent? Does it matter? The parents of the children of Gaza sacrificed them before they were born,
on the altar of their Jew-hatred. Had these children lived, they would have
been reared and educated in UNWRA schools to murder Jews and steal their land. They start them young.
There is no doubt that there is much suffering going on
right now in Gaza. The people who are suffering, are the same people who rejoiced when their leaders massacred Jews. Now they are suffering, but they are not innocent, and I for
one, will not weep. For it is a suffering of their own creation.
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These days, when people talk about what International Humanitarian Law requires in the aftermath of the Hamas massacre of Israeli citizens, the discussion falls first on what limitations need to be placed on Israel. Almost as an afterthought do a few people ask what international law requires of Hamas.
That in itself demonstrates an odd sense of priorities among the global community.
But a third topic in international law is being ignored, namely: what are the obligations of the international community in the face of this terrorist attack. By merely sitting back and focusing on Israel's obligations, the nations of the world run the risk of themselves violating international law.
First of all there is the Genocide Convention. It was approved for ratification by the UN General Assembly in 1948 and went into effect in 1951. According to Article I:
The Contracting Parties confirm that whether committed in time of peace or of war, genocide is a crime under international law which nations are obligated to prevent and to punish.
The convention addresses an act committed with the intent to destroy, even in part, a
o national o ethnical o racial or o religious group
Genocide includes -- among other things -- killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm and deliberately inflicting conditions with the intent to cause the group's physical destruction in whole or in part. In addition to being directly involved in the genocide, this law also applies to conspiracy, incitement, complicity and even the mere attempt to commit genocide. In addition, the convention not only rulers but also public officials and private individuals liable for punishment.
Then there is UN Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001), which was passed in response to the jihadist attack on 9/11, making this resolution especially relevant to the current situation, given the obvious similarities. It was passed under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, making it binding on all UN members, unlike other UN resolutions.
According to Article 2, All States shall:
(a) Refrain from providing any form of support, active or passive, to entities or persons involved in terrorist acts, including by suppressing recruitment of members of terrorist groups and eliminating the supply of weapons to terrorists;
(c) Deny safe haven to those who finance, plan, support, or commit terrorist acts, or provide safe havens;
(e) Ensure that any person who participates in the financing, planning, preparation or perpetration of terrorist acts or in supporting terrorist acts is brought to justice and ensure that, in addition to any other measures against them, such terrorist acts are established as serious criminal offences in domestic laws and regulations and that the punishment duly reflects the seriousness of such terrorist acts;
According to Article 3, All States shall:
(f) Take appropriate measures in conformity with the relevant provisions of national and international law, including international standards of human rights, before granting refugee status, for the purpose of ensuring that the asylum seeker has not planned, facilitated or participated in the commission of terrorist acts;
(g) Ensure, in conformity with international law, that refugee status is not abused by the perpetrators, organizers or facilitators of terrorist acts, and that claims of political motivation are not recognized as grounds for refusing requests for the extradition of alleged terrorists;
Furthermore the resolution
5. Declares that acts, methods, and practices of terrorism are contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations and that knowingly financing, planning and inciting terrorist acts are also contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations;
Bell makes reference to UN Security Council Resolution 1373, and illustrates how some of its requirements are being violated. For instance:
Resolution 1373 stipulates that all U.N. member nations must “Refrain from providing any form of support, active or passive, to entities or persons involved in terrorist acts.”
Any provision of any aid to Gaza, which is completely controlled by Hamas, is of course either “active or passive” assistance to Hamas, and hence illegal.
This puts the claims of the obligation to provide humanitarian aid to Gazans in a different light, considering how Hamas terrorists are sure to take - and have taken - the aid for themselves.
Professor Bell also points out how Qatar's involvement, supported by the Biden administration, is also in violation of Resolution 1373:
Resolution 1373 also requires all U.N. member states to “Deny safe haven to those who finance, plan, support or commit terrorist acts, or provide safe havens.”
Following Blinken’s visit to Israel last Thursday, he traveled to Qatar. Qatar houses Hamas’s top terror masters. They planned their atrocities from Qatar. Iran’s cash and arms are funneled to Hamas through Qatar. Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite channel is an integral component of Hamas’s terror machine. On Monday morning, the IDF announced that Al Jazeera reporters are transferring information about IDF troop placements and numbers to Hamas both directly and through their broadcasts...
By embracing Qatar as an ally rather than punishing it for its central role at all levels of Hamas’s terror infrastructure, the administration is breaching international law, yet again. It is also betraying Israel.
Like Resolution 1373, article VII of the Genocide Convention also addresses the issue of extradition:
Genocide and the other acts enumerated in article III shall not be considered as political
crimes for the purpose of extradition.
The Contracting Parties pledge themselves in such cases to grant extradition in
accordance with their laws and treaties in force.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Hamas has conducted the most devastating terror attack in Israel’s history, demonstrating humanity’s worst depravity. The attack led to the tragic loss of over 1,200 lives, including at least 22 Americans, with many more individuals held hostage. The US has a responsibility to its citizens to demand the extradition of Hamas leadership to face trial in the US. Drawing upon precedent and previous successful extraditions of international terrorists, the US can leverage diplomatic relationships and military assets to actively pursue their extradition from Qatar, Lebanon, or other locations where they may reside. [emphasis added]
Levy writes that the fact that the US does not have an extradition treaty with Qatar does not have to make it impossible to get that country to hand over the terrorist leaders:
The US does not have extradition agreements with Qatar or Lebanon, but it has leverage. In requesting extradition from Qatar, Washington has some influence over Doha. Initially, Doha will almost certainly not accept. However, the US can orchestrate the desired outcome with a well-constructed “carrot and stick” approach. The US has a significant military presence in Qatar, including the Al Udeid Air Base, a crucial regional strategic asset. The future of this base and broader military cooperation, such as access to military sales, could be used as a bargaining chip. Economic levers could offer incentives like future trade deals or impose targeted sanctions against individuals or entities. Also, the US can endeavor to work with other allies, like Saudi Arabia and Turkey, to influence Qatar.
The article details examples of the US "holding those responsible for the deaths of its citizens accountable" and Levy brags that this is part of a long-standing US tradition. The article would be more convincing if we had not seen the failure of multiple administrations to apply the necessary leverage to get Jordan to hand over the mastermind of the Sbarro massacre, responsible for 16 deaths, including 2 Americans.
If a country like the US will not apply international law for itself, what are the odds we will see any country apply international law for others?
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I cannot locate a single Palestinian figure who has given an outright condemnation of the wanton slaughter as an impermissible means to achieve the destruction of Israel. And this signals a lasting change in geopolitical considerations. There was once a time when Israel sought to achieve, as David Brooks recounts in the New York Times, a two-state solution that gave the Palestinians complete control over Gaza and extensive control over the West Bank. “Dec. 23, 2000,” he writes. “That was the day the Palestinians were offered a path to having their own nation on roughly 95 percent of the land in the West Bank and 100 percent of the land in the Gaza Strip”—only for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to refuse his final consent. Today that two-state solution is a nonstarter because it would allow any new Palestinian state to mass Iranian troops on two of Israel’s borders, which could easily lead to the strangulation of Israel.
So, the new normal is to abandon all hope of a two-state solution. The only protection for Palestinians will come from Israel, which is able to tamp down on the frequent brutality of Hamas towards its own people and help Palestinians avoid the corruption that has been the hallmark of Fatah (the Palestinian entity now in its nineteenth year of Mahmoud Abbas’s four-year presidency). There is no partner with whom Israel could negotiate in the long term. Regrettably, the only long-term solution for Israel’s safety is to destroy Hamas root and branch. Earlier cease-fires with Hamas were always matters of strategic convenience, which left Hamas with the option to rearm, regroup, and attack again. The stunning success of Hamas’s surprise attack makes clear that it is sheer folly to think that a cease-fire is feasible without unconditional surrender.
It should always be recalled that the Allies’ success pacifying both Germany and Japan after World War II required such a total housecleaning. It will be more difficult to obtain in the current conflict. The covenant of Hamas, conceived in 1988 and revised in 2017, enshrines the goal of “obliterating” Israel so that Palestine becomes an “exclusive” Muslim area. They mean every word of it.
None of the options is pretty for Israel. But either Israel makes Hamas pay the ultimate price, or Israel will remain in existential peril.
For nearly two decades, Hamas has allowed its people to live in squalor, using the humanitarian aid it is given from the international community to stockpile ammunition and deliberately turn severe poverty and deprivation in Gaza into hatred of Israel.
Now, Hamas uses my brothers and sisters in Gaza as human shields, hiding their weapons in hospitals, schools and mosques, and embedding their terror fighters among women, children, the elderly and families. This is all by design. They don't want peace; they want Gazans to die in a propaganda victory over Israel.
Hamas showed us that it truly knows no bounds when it murdered over 1,400 Israelis—rape and torture have been detected in 80 percent of the bodies, including children. It injured another 4,000, and took 200 captives to Gaza last week. These unprovoked attacks all took place in peaceful communities that are part of Israel proper, not areas in question for my people like settlements.
Hamas's attack set my people and those of us pushing for peace back decades. And now Hamas is putting its own people at grave risk.
Hamas can best be understood as the Taliban, al Qaeda, and ISIS combined. It is like the Taliban in that it runs a piece of territory as a brutal Islamic dictatorship, where LGBTQ+ people and those who do not live a strict Islamic lifestyle are executed. It is like al Qaeda in that it frequently engages in suicide bombings and just perpetrated Israel's 9/11. And it's like ISIS, which butchered the non-Muslim Yezidi ethnic group and took their women as sex slaves or "concubines."
The Palestinian people of Gaza deserve liberation from Hamas. If Israel ends the unjust rule of the terror gang, it will be doing my brothers and sisters in Gaza a life-changing favor.
The facts are simple: Hamas is responsible for all the blood that has been shed and will continue to be shed during this war, full stop. Palestinians like me and my neighbors want peace; Hamas does not.
President Biden's visit to Israel is an opportunity to rectify the past. To gain back lost ground, he must resist the temptation to treat the wars against Russia and Hamas as discrete. He must recognize that Ukrainians and Israelis alike man distant ramparts in a war for the civilized world. And he must act accordingly.
For starters, he must allow Israel to destroy Hamas as a political and military force. That means he cannot stand athwart a sustained ground campaign that denies the terrorist organization its most precious resource—territory and control of a population.
Nor can Biden pretend that Hamas's patrons in Qatar and in Iran are exempt from penalties. He must bring pressure on the emir of Qatar, where U.S. forces are stationed, to disavow Hamas and to extradite or expel its political leadership. He must abandon his government's efforts to "engage" with Iran. And he must swiftly impose crushing sanctions on the regime. If Biden is true to his word that Hamas must be disposed of like ISIS, then he will treat any friend of Hamas as an enemy of the United States.
Nothing less is acceptable. And much more is required. The administration is preparing to send to Congress a supplemental spending bill that will include funds for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, and elsewhere. Congress must pass it. Then Biden must tell Congress that this money is a down payment. The next step is a much larger appropriation. America must commit to a conventional and strategic arms buildup that will instill fear in Moscow, Tehran, Pyongyang, and Beijing.
Domestic critics will say that we can't afford it. They will have missed the point. Global security has deteriorated to such an extent that America has left the realm of "can" and "should." We have entered the zone of "need" and "must." Weapons must be produced in such quantity that Ukraine can reclaim territory, Israel can defeat Hamas, Taiwan can deter China, and America can lead the world to peace.
Deterrence is not only a matter of capability. It is also a function of will. Biden's greatest test will arrive when the Arab street, European capitals, and the American Left turn against him. The calls to abandon Israel will mount, and the world will wait to see if Biden can demonstrate strength in defense of right.
To survive the perilous hour, he will have to abandon his desire to revive Franklin D. Roosevelt's domestic policy. He will have to embrace Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy of global leadership and the arsenal of democracy instead. And he must do it for real. In this war—this one war for freedom, self-government, and the rule of law—there is no room for error.
This line from Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer" keeps popping up in my head:
"Still a man hears what he wants to hear/And disregards the rest"
The coverage by the media and statements by world leaders and pundits to the Gaza war is a Rorschach test. Most of them assume Israel's guilt, and trust Hamas' lies, ab initio - giving more weight to a terror group whose founding document instructs them to literally engage in genocide over the words of a mature democracy with multiple layers of checks and balances and a vigorous internal opposition that is free to object.
Yesterday's hospital incident was literally made up by Hamas. The hospital itself wasn't hit, they knew it was one of their own side's rockets immediately, and within minutes they made up the accusation against Israel and pulled out the "500 deaths" statistic out of thin air without pointing to a single shred of evidence. Scenes of horrors on the ground were all they needed, and they relied on the world's nascent antisemitism to fill in the rest of the picture, and reflexively blame Israel.
Now, Israel is partially at fault. It has not emphasized enough to the media the huge number of people - lawyers, senior military leaders, people who decide on the size of the munitions, the latitude given to pilots to abort a mission if they see unexpected civilians, and more - involved in every real airstrike.
But the information is out there, and the media shows little interest in mentioning it. At best, they play a game of "he says, she says" and give equal weight between the stories of the people who plan to massacre civilians and the ones who do everything humanly possible to avoid hurting them.
That is not objectivity. That is laziness and subconscious antisemitism.
Check out the New York Times current headline (after hours of only headlining Hamas claims) on the rocket incident:
This was written after the smoke has cleared. Israel provided large amounts of evidence as to what happened. Hamas has not provided a crumb, and in fact has proven it lies by claiming the hospital itself was struck when it wasn't and 500 casualties which it plucked out of thin air.
But the New York Times gives them exactly equal weight.
Being even-handed is not journalism. In this case, it is saying that Jews are just as reliable as proud rapists and mass murderers.
Even worse, MSNBC afternoon show host Ayman Mohyeldin tweeted uncritically the original claim by Hamas, and then cautioned his followers not to believe the IDF version of the story:
The IDF track record of telling the truth and of transparency is orders of magnitude better than that of the "Gaza Health Ministry" controlled by a group that eagerly films and brags about its atrocities. Pretending that the two sides are equally credible is not journalism - it is stupidity. Pretending that the Hamas side is credible and the Israeli side is suspect is nothing less than antisemitism.
Yet that stupidity and bigotry is the raw material cited as "proof" that is then spread by modern slander artists - politicians, NGOs, social media influencers - who have even less regard for the facts than the journalists.
That reflects their own bias. And that bias - the eagerness to blame Israel - is certainly based on Jew-hatred, which is obvious when you see them using words like "genocide" against the people were the first victims for whom the term was invented.
When finally confronted with incontrovertible facts, these same antisemites then zoom out and say "well, we need to look at the bigger picture" and find a way to blame Israel no matter what it, or what the real genocidal murderers, do or say.
The Al Ahli Hospital incident tells us a lot about how little the terrorists and their corrupt government care about the people of Gaza and about the truth. It is just one of many lies that the Hamas Health Ministry issue every day.
But the incident tells us far more about everyone who jumped on the bandwagon, enthusiastically using it to spread lies - and to ultimately incite hate against Jews. Lies like "Israel attacked the Al Ahli hospital" directly leads to antisemitic attacks worldwide.
And the media automatically assuming Israel's guilt based on statements from proven liars makes them complicit.
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The Islamic Jihad rocket that slammed into the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza City has unleashed a torrent of antisemitic reactions from Arab leaders.
Egyptian businessman Alaa Mubarak, the former president's son, wrote to his two million followers that the bombing of the hospital in Gaza is a "genocide" and a "Holocaust" - words that would never be used for anyone else but Israelis.
Algerian newspaper El Khabar both cast doubt on real Holocaust and then claimed that the Jews are performing a holocaust on Palestinians: "If the world was divided over the fact that the so-called 'Holocaust' or 'Jewish Holocaust' occurred, then today we are witnessing a real Palestinian Holocaust taking place in besieged Gaza, carried out by Zionist hands."
Egyptian site Beshara offered a prayer for Muslims to say, which included,
O God, your oppressed servants in Gaza, whom you force upon the cursed Jews and the hateful hypocrites, O God, grant them victory over their enemies, relieve their distress, and have mercy on them, O God, who will protect them but You and who will have mercy on them? In You, O God, we trust and in Your strength we believe. O God, expel the Jews and the hypocrites and strengthen Your power over them. O God, scatter them and make their plans destroy them. O God... O God, O Possessor of power and the kingdom, we have no god but You, O refuge of the oppressed, destroy the Zionists and their machines, and do not leave any of them and those who help them, O Powerful, O Mighty, Glory be to You. Accept our prayers from us, protect our honor, make our feet firm, and give us victory over the Palestinian Mujahideen against the unbelieving people... and the accursed Jews... O God, destroy the Jews completely.
Jordan's Johina News describes reasons why Jews have no rights to Palestine (the usual - Palestinians magically become Canaanites when it is convenient for them) and then the article repeats the popular Arab lie that there is no evidence of the Jewish Temples on the Temple Mount. Temple denial is an acceptable form of Arab antisemitism.
Moroccan site Rassd has an article, "The Jews And Their View Of Human Rights," with the photo shown here, where they extensively create fake Talmudic quotes:
Anyone who thinks that the Jews believe in human rights or even animal rights is a fool. We say to the normalized and the non-naturalized and to those of us who cry over the Zionists, know that the Jews do not consider you to be anything more than their donkeys, and you have an explanation of that in the Talmud - which is a book written by the Jewish rabbis -: “The gentiles are donkeys and God created them to be ridden by God’s chosen people."
It says: “There is no kinship between the nations outside the Jews because they are more like donkeys. The Jews consider the homes of other nations to be animal pens.”
Also in the Talmud: “...Whoever slaps a Jew is like someone who slaps God. It is permissible for Israel to usurp anyone's property. The property of a non-Jew is like abandoned money, and a Jew has the right to own it."
As for women, they are just animals to them, and it says: “A Jew does not sin if he rapes a foreign woman; Because every marriage contract with foreigners is invalid; Because a non-Jewish woman is considered an animal, and the contract does not exist between animals.”
The Talmud also says, “Whoever sheds the blood of an infidel (a Gentile), will offer an offering to God.”
It says: "Whoever kills a Christian, a foreigner, or a pagan will be rewarded with eternity in Paradise and sitting there in the Fourth Palace. "
And as always, there is no pushback in any Arabic media against articles like these that are explicitly and proudly antisemitic. Even though plenty of them insist that the Arab world has nothing against Jews.
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Here is the text of the briefing by IDF Spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari about the deadly explosion at the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital yesterday:
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The IDF has concluded an After Action Review and can confirm that the Islamic Jihad was responsible for the strike on the hospital in Gaza City.
We did an immediate review with all relevant branches of the IDF. This is what took place on Tuesday October 17th:
At 6:15PM, a barrage of rockets was fired by Hamas at Israel.
At 6:59PM a barrage of around 10 rockets was fired by Islamic Jihad from a nearby cemetery.
It was at the time, 6:59PM — when there were reports of an explosion at the hospital in Gaza City.
According to our intelligence, Hamas checked the reports, understood it was an Islamic Jihad rocket that had misfired — and decided to launch a global media campaign to hide what really happened. They went as far as inflating the number of casualties.
They understood, with absolute certainty, that it was a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad — that damaged the hospital.
Analysis of our aerial footage confirms that there was no direct hit of the hospital itself. The only location damaged is outside the hospital in the parking lot where we can see signs of burning,
no cratering and no structural damage to nearby buildings, as opposed to the damage caused by any aerial munition which would have been of a different nature: We would have seen craters and structural damage to buildings, both of which haven’t been identified in this incident.
The size of the damage we see here is due to the warhead of the Islamic Jihad rocket, but most of the rockets propellent is still evident due to the short flight of the rocket (because the launch failed).
The following visual evidence shows infra-red imagery of the parking lot. You can see central locations of fires and some debree on the rooftops. No craters can be identified. And all walls of the surrounding buildings are intact.
We also have examples of what air-to-ground munition craters look like. As you can see, they do not exist in this instance.
Many media outlets immediately reported the unverified claims by Hamas. Those were lies spread by Hamas.
I want to make something clear: It is impossible to know what happened as quickly as Hamas claimed they knew. That should have been an initial warning sign for many.
Unlike Hamas, the IDF launched an immediate examination, which was overseen at the very highest levels of command. This professional review was based on intelligence, operational systems, and aerial footage, all of which we cross-checked.
The evidence — which we are sharing with you all — confirms that the explosion at the hospital in Gaza was caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket that misfired.
Here are the four main parts of our examination process:
1) First, we confirmed that there was no IDF fire – by land, sea or air – that hit the hospital.
2) Second, our radar systems tracked rockets fired by terrorists from within Gaza at the time of the explosion. The trajectory analysis from the barrage of rockets, confirms that the rockets were fired in close proximity to the hospital.
In addition, there are two independent videos which show the failure of the rocket launch and the continuation of the rocket flight towards the ground, within the Gaza strip — falling in the hospital compound.
3) Third, we have intelligence — some that will be shared here — of ccommunication between terrorists talking about the rocket misfiring. The terrorists realized that a rocket had misfired and made specific reference to the hospital.
We have cross-checked this intercept with other intelligence sources to confirm its accuracy.
It is common for rockets that are fired at Israel, to land short and fall inside Gaza.These rockets fall short of Israel and have caused Palestinian casualties.During this war, we have counted approximately 450 rockets that misfired and fell inside Gaza. Palestinian civilians pay the price.
(I believe these are the locations of the launches, not the landings - EoZ)
We are also sharing this information with our partners, first and foremost the United States. We want maximum transparency, because we take any incident involving civilians very seriously. Unfortunately, many in the media immediately reported the statements coming out of Hamas- controlled Gaza, which blamed Israel.
Instead of waiting for the examination of credible information from the IDF, some media outlets ran with Hamas’ lies. Some of those headlines are still up and have not been corrected.
I understand the desire to break news, but I hope you will all agree that accuracy and credible information comes before speed.
The IDF acts in accordance with international law.
In conclusion, this incident shows how allegations — in this case, false and baseless allegations made by terrorists — against Israel can spread and inflame tensions in the region.
(h/t Daled Amos)
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There is something really grim in the marshalling of the rules of war to shame Israel. Many of these rules – the Geneva Conventions, human-rights law – were introduced in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Nazis’ attempted destruction of the Jews. And yet now it is the Jewish State more than any other – more than the warmongers of the Saudi regime, the bomb-happy Turks, the destructive imperial powers of America, Britain and France – that has these postwar rules barked in its face. ‘We will protect you from genocide’, the Western world said to Jews, yet now it wags its postwar officious finger in Jews’ faces because they dare to hunt down men who committed an act of genocidal terrorism against them. The cant and perfidy of the postwar order have rarely been so starkly exposed. There is a concerted effort to quasi-criminalise Israel’s desire to protect its people from racist torment and murder.
The West’s anti-Israel elites seem utterly bereft of the essentials of morality. Consider their insistence on moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. Israel kills children too, they say, so is it really any better than Hamas? The moral infantilism of such hollow platitudes is difficult to comprehend. If you cannot tell the difference between people killed as a consequence of war and people killed because they are Jews, then you are beyond help. Everyone – including Israel – regrets the collateral damage of the war in Gaza, especially if the victims are children. But such tragedy cannot be compared to Hamas’s murder of children in southern Israel for being Jewish. That is of an entirely different order to war. It is the conscious, willing destruction of innocent life from the standpoint of venomous racial hatred. To kill a child on account of its race is the most unconscionable act a society can commit. It is an act of unforgiving eugenicism that brings shame on our species. Nothing – including the accidental deaths of civilians in conflict – comes close to the mindset that would erase a child as an expression of its deeper desire to erase a people.
It is horrendous that children in Gaza have died. Which is why some of us believe the US, the UK and the UN should be putting enormous pressure on their tyrannical allies in Egypt right now to construct well-resourced, Red Cross-approved refugee camps in the Sinai to which Gazans might flee. However, it is a warning sign to civilisation itself that Jewish children have been killed for being Jewish children. That in this new millennium the genocidal execution of Jews has returned. The Western world fails to recognise at its peril what a vast moral challenge this poses to the enlightened values we claim to hold dear.
Israel’s Western haters cannot see what is at stake. This is about more than the Middle East. It is about whether we are willing to stand against the forces of unreason and anti-Semitism, and for the values of liberty and decency. Are you for civilisation or barbarism – that is what the horrific events of last Saturday demanded of us all. Far too many are giving the wrong answer.
The connection between the horrors of the Holocaust and of the massacre in Israel are clear. The Nazis hated Jews because they were Jews. They murdered Jews because they were Jews. And Hamas did too. They hate Jews and they hate the fact that Jewish people have a sovereign country of their own.
It was the dehumanizing effect of antisemitism that motivated Hamas terrorists to murder babies, to execute elderly couples, to abuse corpses, and to rape women.
Antisemitism is also the reason Hamas supporters across the world are celebrating this week. It is the cause for the rise in attacks on Jews across Europe, it is the cause for speakers at rallies extolling the virtues of those who carried out unspeakable acts of barbarism. Those people on the streets of London or New York cover themselves in progress labels but they are racists, nothing more, nothing less.
Israel will defeat Hamas. It will recover from the devastating events and use its military might to ensure that what happened last Saturday can never happen again. That is the right and responsibility of any country toward its citizens.
For the rest of us, there is another mission, a parallel one. That is to wage a no less committed and concerted campaign to defeat antisemitism. It won’t be with military force but it should be with all the tools we have at our disposal. Through education, through legislation, through the media, and by calling out antisemitism wherever we see it.
In 1945, the world promised “Never Again.” But it did happen again. This past week, not for the first time we were reminded exactly where antisemitism always leads. We were reminded that the fight against antisemitism is a fight to save Jewish lives. It is a fight we have no choice but to win.
The Third Reich constructed a vast edifice of empire predicated on the core idea of answering the “Jewish Question.” It expanded into all spheres, not just military, but arts, industry, faith, and more, instrumentalizing these sectors to pursue their objective of eradicating the world of the Jewish people. For years, their neighbors in Europe ignored the facts or underestimated their ambition or dismissed their stated goals. It took the combined forces of the Allied powers and the horrifying, singular discovery of the concentration camps, to awaken the conscience of the West, or at least force it to reckon with the price of its inertia and ignorance.
Few thought such an egregious moral failure could replicate itself. No one imagined it might be possible for the world to miss such a moment once again. I know what I would do, ordinary people have told themselves, trying to appease their consciences.
Think again.
And yet, even with the sight of brutalized, raped women being paraded across Gaza by gleeful militants and hooted at by cheering crowds, we see rallies across America and in European capitals extolling the resistance and denying the inhumanity so obvious that it boggles the mind and chills the soul. We see students at our most prestigious and famous university, Harvard, blaming Israel for the massacre of its own citizens. At ADL, we are tracking dozens of demonstrations and countless op-eds blaming Israel for this massacre of its own people at the hands of hooligans with automatic weapons, men funded and trained in the dark arts of death by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
If we are to move forward and address such moral corruption, it will not be achieved after a single military maneuver in Gaza. As we saw in the wake of the World War II, we need a philosophical and psychological reckoning, a wholesale cleansing of the ideology of antisemitism and hate that leads people to ridicule life and applaud death.
We need a modern day “de-Nazification” that seeks to find a political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian impasse. It must address the absolute moral rot at the core of the anti-Zionism that fueled the Hamas massacre, that fills the sermons of countless imams across the Muslim world, that informs the college students praising the massacre as “decolonization,” that tells activists that it’s reasonable to pull up swastikas on their cellphones when they see a Jewish person.
This is the real and long-term fight. In the short term, the difficult challenge for the Israeli military will be targeting the Hamas infrastructure—operation centers, where they store their materiel, where their Gaza leadership is hiding out—while making all efforts to limit civilian casualties. But it will take decades to rid the world of the disease of antizionism that has settled in like a permanent plague.
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Elder of Ziyon
