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| Screenshot of PBS reporter Leila Molana-Allen |
If it bleeds, it leads. As predicted early on here, the news media is focusing on the horror that Palestinians in Gaza are going through. Night after night ever since Hamas attacked Israel, we see images of devastation and bloodshed. All because of Israel’s air strikes. Is it any small wander that Palestinians and their sympathizers are so enraged and vehemently protesting Israel? What they think they see is an Apartheid colonizer bombing impoverished civilians into submitting to their brutal occupation.
Except that this is not what is happening. Yes. Those images are real. And Israeli airstrikes are the proximate cause of all that very real suffering. But Israel is NOT to blame. There is only one entity responsible for all this carnage. Hamas. They knowingly brought this upon their own people.
One might even say they did it deliberately so as to vilify Israel as much as possible. Maximizing their own casualties by placing their terrorist infrastructure amid civilian targets such as mosques, schools, and hospitals knowing that if Israel attacked - civilians would be the first causalities. By now, this should be obvious to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention. But all those protestors see are the horrible media images of civilian bloodshed caused by Israeli airstrikes.
I have been wondering whether there are any Gaza Palestinians who realize the truth about who really is responsible for their misery. Surely they have all been brainwashed to blame Israel exclusively. Well there is at least one Palestinian grandmother in Gaza who does realize the truth. This morning on the CBS Morning News one crying grandmother (amidst the rubble that was probably her former home) was grieving over the catastrophe that has befallen her. and to my surprise she openly and courageously placed the blame squarely upon Hamas. My hope is that she is not the only Palestinian in Gaza that feels that way.
Nonetheless, it is Israel that is dropping those bombs. There is no question about that. And there are some observers here, openly warning Israel to be more careful about civilian casualties. One such individual was former President Barack Obama.
I could not believe my ears when he was quoted moralizing about Israel that way. In what seemed like an almost angry tone he rebuked Israel for not caring enough about civilian casualties in Gaza. Adding (in so many words) that the world is watching and they could lose support from their allies.
I never thought President Obama to be an arrogant individual. Despite my strong disagreements with him in the past over his support for that stupid nuclear deal with Iran - and allowing the UN Security Council to pass an anti Israel resolution, I believed he was a man of integrity that believed that what he was doing to be in the best interests of both the US and Israel.
But telling Israel to be more careful about civilian casualties is the height of hubris. He thinks he is morally superior to Israel?! Does he really think Israel is being careless about human life? No other nation at war has done more to spare the lives of civilians than Israel has. Sometimes at the cost of their own soldiers lives. They always warn Palestinians of what they are going to target – giving them enough time to evacuate. What other country in the world signals their military targets to the enemy in order to spare the lives of innocents?
There is a reason there are so many civilian casualties. Hamas deliberately places its terrorist infrastructure amidst civilians. Thereby maximizing casualties which they can blame on Israel.
The former president should know that. He is not stupid. He nonetheless chose to ignore those facts acting like Israel’s moral superior. Making matters worse, I have not heard a word from him about what Israel has gone through. His tepid preface about Israel having the right to defend themselves was practically a throw-away line which was followed by a much lengthier warning. I’m surprised he isn’t out there protesting with all the other Palestinian sympathizers.
Israel has no choice. They have to do what’s necessary to rid themselves (and the world) of one of most cutthroat terrorist organization since ISIS. Their barbarism against Jews two weeks ago has proven them to be no different. They must be eliminated. Which Israel is about to do at great cost to themselves in both blood and treasure.
I am happy to see that the current president has parted company with his former boss and sees things far more clearly. Giving full support (both morally and materially) to Israel’s mission to destroy Hamas. In fact his request for a delay in the ground war Israel is about to embark on - in order to get the hostages out first- is probably the right thing to do. But ether way, Biden’s support for Israel mission has not wavered.
Why Israel is doing this should be obvious. But I was pleased to see PBS Mideast reporter Leila Molana-Allen make some very revealing comments yesterday about that (in what was at times - emotional tones). Even though on a daily basis she has been reporting sympathetically about suffering Palestinians, here is exactly what she said in response to PBS news anchor, Amna Nawaz’s question about a video of Hamas atrocities reporters were shown by the IDF:
So, officials told us they decided to show us.
It was a 45 minute film at a screening held in private of hundreds of hours of footage that they have collected.
They said they felt that we had to see this.
You saw a small clip of it there.
That's all that's been released, because it is so graphic.
And I have to say that, in 15 years of reporting on conflicts, this is some of the worst, most brutal personal violence I have seen.
We saw horrific scenes.
I can't describe a lot of it to you because it's too graphic.
But we saw a parent rescuing his two young boys half-dressed in the morning, trying to take them into a safe room, a Hamas militant immediately throwing a grenade in there.
The two young boys screaming for their father as they watched him die covered in shrapnel wounds, as were they.
We still don't know the fate of those young boys.
They put together footage from victims' phone cameras found at that music festival together with Hamas body camera footage.
And we can see the victims after they had been piled into the shelter together.
We see some of them alive on a phone video, and then we see most of them dead piled on top of each other, others with missing limbs being piled into trucks as they're taken into Gaza.
And it is the treatment of those hostages as well that really was a focus today.
We see them being taken into Gaza.
And people are, of course, incredibly worried about their welfare.
And this is one of the things that's created such a fear, a chill in the heart of Israelis across the country, because this does feel like an existential fight with this level of horrific violence they have endured.
Only ignorant fools and antisemites would want to see Israel stop what they are doing in Gaza right now.
If those protesters were honest about who to blame for all the carnage, they should be directing their anger towards Hamas. Not Israel. Same thing the former president. Fully supporting Israel. Demanding that Hamas be utterly destroyed. - KNOWING that civilians are never their targets. But as I said they are either too stupid to realize that or are blatant antisemites disguised as caring humanitarians. I do not believe the former president is either one of those But he sure is acting like it! And that sickens me.
May God protect the IDF in their holy mission to destroy Hamas once and for all. They may not be able to kill their ideology. But just like ISIS - they can destroy their leadership and infrastructure to the point of making them impotent. May it be God’s will.