Surrender or Die
"We will continue the war until the end. It will continue until Hamas is destroyed, until victory.""Whoever thinks we will stop is detached from reality.""[Every member of Hamas is] marked for death.""Surrender or die."Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Trucks with humanitarian aid wait to enter the Palestinian side of Rafah on the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip on December 11, 2023. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP) |
Skilled
at perpetually extracting compassion from the world community,
portraying itself as the champion of Palestinian human rights, Hamas has
never hesitated to sacrifice the lives of Palestinians for the greater
cause of destroying Israel and accomplishing the mass murder of Jews,
for their charter sets out just that very goal it is determined to bring
to fruition. And while Hamas trains Palestinian children in Gaza to
become the next generation of dedicated shaheeds fully incorporated into
holy jihad as their purpose in life for the glory inherent in killing
Jews, it portrays itself abroad as both liberator and victim.
Palestinians
generally have taken great pains to persuade the outside world that
they are victims of Israeli aggression, that Jews have committed the
greatest of sins in 'occupying' land consecrated to Islam by reinstating
their ancient ancestral lands into 20th Century Israel for all future
generations of Jews to find haven from a hostile world. Jews have
rediscovered anew just how hostile the world is to their presence after
an all-too-brief post-Holocaust interregnum from discrimination and
persecution.
Palestinian
public relations campaigns have convinced the gullible West that
Palestinians are invested in the concept of a state of their own
alongside that of Israel, that perpetual slogan of a 'two-state'
solution to the current state of simmering conflict. But it's really a
one-state 'solution' that they hold dear, the prospect of which they
shield from the West, but pursue by indoctrinating their young to
consider Israel an interloper, illegally and immorally sitting on
Palestinian geography, and it is the duty of all Palestinians to 'resist
the occupation'.
Smoke trails are seen as a salvo of rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel, as seen from southern Israel, December 21, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne |
Funding
terrorist attacks is a great inducement in support of appealing to
Palestinians' sense of nationalism and victimhood. Fatah's campaign is
more subtle but it is one of total reclamation of the land and
destruction of Israel; Hamas is more upfront about its ambitions, hiding
from no outside source its lethal intentions against Israel and Jews
living in their ancestral homeland. The savagery of the October 7
incursion into Israel with its planned sadistic rapes, mutilations and
mass murder was Hamas showing the world what it is dedicated to: pure
terrorism.
And
show the world it did, in evidence they produced themselves through
videos proudly demonstrating their capacity to inflict pain and
suffering on the innocent, from babies to the elderly and infirm, from
girls and women being repeatedly raped, tortured, mutilated and finally
murdered; even dead bodies of old men, of African farm workers, of women
are desecrated, driven through the streets of Gaza City, eliciting
great whoops of joy at the bodies of dead Israelis, whipping up
enthusiasm for striking at the corpses. Incredibly, even the airing of
these monstrous atrocities failed to convince the world that Israel's
loss is worth mourning.
Yet
now that Israel is responding, even while Hamas and Palestinian Islamic
Jihad continue bombarding Israel with rockets, the world condemns
Israel for the deaths of Palestinians. While Israel warns civilians to
remove themselves from harm's way, Hamas orders its civilian population
to remain in place, and will even shoot to kill those who waver and
intend to move to safety. Western media hang on every statistic that the
Hamas Health Ministry publishes of Palestinian death numbers attributed
to Israeli bombing in Gaza. Wildly inflated numbers to elicit greater
sympathy cannot be validated.
Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in this handout picture released on December 21, 2023. Israel Defense Forces/Handout via REUTERS |
That
bombing is strategic and meant to target Hamas infrastructure,
including the vast network of tunnels it has built under the Gaza
Strip's cities, towns and 'refugee camps'. The tunnels and their shafts
are built into and under mosques, hospitals, UNRWA-operated schools,
apartment complexes and ordinary houses. In those tunnels, weapons
caches are stored, and Hamas operatives find safe haven when they shoot
off rockets from depots placed in crowded civilian areas, inviting a
response from the IDF. The greater the number of civilian casualties,
the lustier the outcry from the press and Western governments, playing
right into Hamas's schemes.
The
tunnels have been useful in providing hiding places for some of the
hundreds of Israeli children, elderly, women and men that the terrorist
groups and ordinary Palestinian civilians have taken hostage. Each time
rockets are aimed at Israel, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank
cheer and applaud when they reach their goals. Support among the
Palestinians, whether in Gaza or the West Bank, is robust, the majority
support Hamas and feel the atrocities of October 7 were justified in the
name of 'freedom' for Palestinians.
Qatar,
Egypt and the United States have been playing host and interveners
between Israel and Hamas in negotiations for temporary ceasefires when
prisoners in Israeli jails can be exchanged for hostages. It is in very
fact, Hamas terrorist elites that are giving the orders and calling the
shots. All of the commanders of the terrorist groups, in the wake of
October 7 made themselves very scarce, going into hiding to preserve
their lives, leaving their lower-order operatives to battle with the IDF
under their instructions.
Their
lives are expendable, those of the civilian population are
ultra-disposable, while the commanders shield themselves from
repercussions of their wholesale slaughter of Israelis and foreign farm
workers on October 7. With pressure on Israel to be 'proportionate', and
empathy for the plight of the Palestinians brought upon them by their
psychopathic leadership Hamas leaders feel emboldened to dictate
acceptable strategic variances from combat for access to humanitarian
shipments of aid to the embattled Strip.
Armed, masked men reportedly affiliated with Hamas can be seen atop trucks carrying humanitarian aid that arrived in the Gaza Strip via Egypt's Rafah crossing, December 17, 2023. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law) |
When
agreement is secured to open border crossings, another opportunity is
presented to terrorist leaders to slip out of the Gaza Strip in an
escape from the punishment meted out by Israel's military. At the same
time, while tractor-trailers stuffed with needed food, water, medical
supplies, oil and gas are brought in to relieve the crisis for civilians
to endure the conflict, the trucks and their humanitarian goods are
commandeered by Hamas operatives for their own use, once more depriving
the civilian population of access to life-saving food and medicine.
Drone footage |
Labels: Hamas/Islamic Jihad Invasion of Israel, Humanitarian Aid, Israel Defense Forces Response, Sadistic Savagery in Deaths of Israeli Citizens, Terrorism From Gaza
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