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| The people Hamas doesn’t really care about (Reuters) |
With respect to that last item, Israel is accused of preventing humanitarian aid from getting through depite Israel’s strong denials to the contrary.
That Israel is at fault for it all has been the mantra of just about every leftist sympathetic to the Palestinian cause: Palestinian journalists reporting from Gaza; Palestinian doctors in Gaza hospitals; ‘Doctors Without Borders’ volunteering there; UN officials... all of them are either saying it directly or more often implying it. All of which sounds very believable based on the daily images coming out of there. Bolstered by sympathetic mainstream media reporters stationed in Israel who rubberstamp those reporting it from inside Gaza. With news anchors nodding in sympathy.
Hamas claiming over 32,000 deaths of mostly women and children is never seriously questioned by the media. Not the numbers. Not who is actually being killed., And not what percentage of the casualties are actually Hamas terrorists. It is just reported matter of factly.
The message is that Israel must cease fire so that the humanitarian aid can get through and Palestinian suffering can end. And a not so subtle secondary message is that Jews are immoral and don’t care about human life
Well here’s a question for all of my friends on the left. Why has there not been anyone on the left demanding that Hamas stop the war? Which they could easily and quickly do by releasing all the hostages they kidnapped on October 7th and laying down arms? Why hasn’t the President suggested that? Or Schumer? Or anyone in the Biden administration? Or any of the Jewish Democrats in congress?
Why are they focusing all their attention and blame on Israel? Or more specifically Israel’s prime minister? Why have they not directed there blame where it belongs? Hamas could end their people’s suffering in a flash if they chose to. I have heard very few on the left say a word about that. Not the president. Not Schumer. Not Blinken. Not Austin. Not Sullivan. Not even the Jewish Democrats in congress. I have however heard more than a few Republicans make that comment. The only administration official I recall making it is Defense Department spokesman, Admiral John Kirby who suggested it a few times. Nope. For the left, its all Israel’s fault. Or more specifically Netanyahu’s fault. If only he were gone.... all would be right with the world.
Hamas is loving all this devastation. They could not have asked for a better scenario. World sympathy is directed at the Palestinians while Hamas, their chosen leaders, are practically ignored. And the hostages only mentioned these days as an after thought by the media – if at all.
Why is Hamas and the antisemitic UN believed about Israel preventing food from getting in over Israel's denial? Israel claims that Hamas commandeers the food trucks and takes the food for themselves. And then sells the rest of it to starving refugees at outlandishly high prices. Food that was supposed to be given to them for free. I heard one desperate Gaza Palestinian say he paid $1000 for a bag of flour. Does anyone want to guess who is selling it to him?
It is so much easier to blame Israel and believe UN officials who have been given undeserved credibility despite a history of anti Israel bias.
Exposing the truth about what is going on there is long overdue. But better late than never.