Sacrificing Israel to Appease Hamad's Jihad and Conquest

"The name Palestine, in its Geek form Palaistine, was both a  transliteration of a word used to describe the land of the Philistines and, at the same time, a literal translation of the name Israel."

Historian David Jacobson, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 

 

"The Palestinian people does not exist ... there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese."

"We are all part of one people, the Arab nation [...] Just for political reasons we carefully underwrite our Palestinian identity. Because it is of national interest for the Arabs to advocate the existence of Palestinians to balance Zionism."

"Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons[...] Once we have acquired all our rights in all of Palestine, we must not delay for a moment the reunification of Jordan and Palestine." 

1977 interview with PLO's Zuheir Mohsen  

Caanan/Palestine/Israel NASA

Palestine in the ancient world was part of the region known as Canaan where the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah were located. The term `Palestine' was originally a designation of an area of land in southern Canaan which the people known as the Philistines occupied a very small part of.

The Canaanites, Canaanite-Phoenicians, and the Israelites, among others, established themselves in the area much earlier. The Philistines are thought to have come to the area toward the end of the Bronze Age c. 1276 BCE and established themselves on the southern coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea in an area afterwards known as Philistia.

The whole of the region was referred to as `Canaan' in Mesopotamian texts and trade records found at Ebla and Mari as early as the 18th century BCE while the term `Palestine' does not appear in any written records until the 5th century BCE in the Histories of Herodotus. After Herodotus, the term `Palestine' came to be used for the entire region which was formerly known as Canaan.

Joshua J. Mark, World History  

 

Hamas is fulsome in its praise for the definitive statements on Palestinian statehood issued by France, Britain, Australia and Canada, among others. All of these countries formerly while supporting Palestinian statehood as an aspiration were supportive of the diplomatic channels between Israel and Palestinian leaders to reach a joint agreement on such a declaration in support of statehood for 'Palestinians'. Time and again efforts to reach that historical agreement failed. And time and again it was those calling themselves Palestinians that rejected that two-state solution, just as they had in 1947.

 

It took a cataclysmic event to convince Israel's purported allies to jettison their historical approach to Palestinian statehood. With the full knowledge available to them that it would take a final and absolute agreement on the part of the Palestinians to recognize Israel's existence, and to no longer challenge that existence. That event was the October 7, 2023 savagery that Palestinian terrorists - from Hamas operatives to the PLFP, Fatah, Islamic Jihad and Palestinian civilians themselves breaching the border from Gaza to Israel to launch a well-planned raid of farming communities; raping, mutilating, murdering and  hostage-taking.

 

That wholesale sadistic barbarism led inevitably to the launch of a military invasion by Israel, which responded as any other country that would have reeled in shock and disbelief at the scope and depth of the depravity of terrorism targeting their civilian population by marching into the enemy territory from whence wholesale death emerged to destroy the structure, weaponry, and leaders, alongside the foot soldiers of terrorism in a determination that never again would that source commit such a mass atrocity. A source more than committed to offering up its own civilian population as protective shields.

 

The victimhood plight of Palestinians used as a public relations tool whereby Palestinian  terrorist groups could arrest and manipulate international public opinion to damn Israel and support Palestinian statehood aspirations. "We're under no illusions that this [recognition of a Palestinian state] is any sort of panacea, but it's necessary, in our judgment and the judgment of most other countries in the world, that we have to push on this now. So, we're doing what we can, but recognizing limitations", offered Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney. 

 

A prime minister and a government in Canada that has permitted its own Muslim population and Palestinian student groups to maximize the pressure of threats on Jewish Canadians for two years, since October 7, violating the very hate laws of the country in the process, and committing continual civic infractions of the public and social and law-and-order weal with impunity, because Jews are expendable and all the more so, Israeli lives under ongoing threat of the Middle East Islamist threat to the existence of a Jewish state. 

 

Hamas itself, the instigator and perpetrator of the mass atrocity that ultimately spurred Europe and other 'allies' of civilized, democratic Israel to abandon justice for the sake of their sanctimonious perceived need to avoid the spirit of 'genocide' purportedly threatening Palestinians, is delighted with those allies and indeed the entire reaction of the United Nations' membership. Aside from continuing to attack Israel, alongside its other Iran-sponsored-and-armed surrogates Hezbollah and the Houthis, Hamas fairly chortles with delight over the success of its propaganda war uplifting its agenda of Jewish annihilation and territorial conquest.  

"[Recognition, representing reward for] years of struggle, perseverance, and sacrifice."

"This action [of state recognition] is an important step in establishing the right of the Palestinian people to their land and sanctities and on the path to establishing n independent state with Holy Quds [Jerusalem] as its capital, which is the result of years of struggle, perseverance, and sacrifice of our people on the path of freedom and return."

Hamas statement

 

"We welcome these developments and consider them in the right direction toward isolating the fascist Israeli government globally, and ending the longest-ever occupation in our modern time.
"[Israel] constitutes a security, military and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation, and must be finished."

Ghazi Hamad, Hamas spokesman 

"There is no solution to the Palestinian question except by Jihad. All initiatives, proposals, and International Conferences are all  waste of time and vain endeavours." 

"The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [endowment] consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up." 

"The question of the liberation of Palestine is bound to three circles: the Palestinian circle, the Arab circle and the Islamic circle. Each of these circles has its role in the struggle against Zionism."

"Arab countries surrounding Israel are asked to open their borders before the fighters from among the Arab and Islamic nations so that they could consolidate their efforts with those of their Muslim brethren in Palestine. As for the other Arab and Islamic countries, they are asked to facilitate the movement of the fighters from and to it, and this is the least thing they could do."

"Writers, intellectuals, media people, orators, educators and teachers, and all the various sectors in the Arab and Islamic world - all of them are called upon to perform their role, and to fulfill their duty. Jihad is not confined to the carrying of arms and the confrontation of the enemy." 

"The Zionist project is a racist, aggressive, colonial and expansionist project based on seizing the properties of others; it is hostile to the Palestinian people and to their aspiration for freedom, liberation, return and self-determination. The Israeli entity is the plaything of the Zionist project and its base of aggression."

"Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea."

"Hamas welcomes the stances of states, organizations and institutions that support the rights of the Palestinian people."

Hamas Doctrine, Wilson Center 

Whatever is Old is New Again

"Hamas, the terrorist group controlling Gaza, endeavors to turn Israel’s military superiority to its own advantage by portraying the Israeli response to intense rocket and mortar fire as disproportionate and indiscriminate. In doing so, it hopes to turn public opinion against the Jewish state, as well as bolster its own standing at the expense of the Fatah-led Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank. 

Fatality figures provided by Hamas and other groups should be viewed with suspicion. Not only do Israeli figures cast doubt on claims that the vast majority of fatalities are non-combatants, but a careful review of Palestinian sources also raises doubts.

Analyses of the casualties listed in the daily reports published by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, a Gaza-based organization operating under Hamas rule, indicate that young males ages 17 to 30 make up a large portion of the fatalities, and a particularly noticeable spike occurs between males ages 21 to 27, a pattern consistent with the age distribution typically found among combatants and military conscripts. Palestinian sources attempt to conceal this discrepancy with their public message by labeling most of these young men as civilians. Only a minority is identified as members of armed groups.

We have seen this before. A similar dispute over casualty figures occurred during Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead” in the Gaza Strip in January 2009. The Israelis contended that the majority of the fatalities were combatants; the Palestinians claimed they were civilians. The media and international organizations tended to side with the Palestinians."

Steven Stotsky, Time Magazine, July 29, 2014 

 Smoke rises from a building following the Israeli attacks in Gaza City on July 25, 2014.   Anadolu Agency—Getty Images

The more things change and time marches on, the more we realize that nothing has really changed. The world has been treated to the spectacle of conflict between the State of Israel and Palestinian terrorists claiming to be victims of Israeli aggression and occupation when in fact it has been made clear from the very earliest days of Israel's existence to the present, that the aggression and the violence emanates from the Palestinian contingent living next door to Israel, forcing Israel to maintain vigilance the PA characterizes as 'occupation', merely to protect its population from never-ending lethal violence.

From time to time, the suicide bombings and stabbings and vehicular homicides give way to actual combat when Israel has been provoked one time too  often. Palestinian terror groups have become quite sophisticated in manipulating Western audiences to believe their fantasy of victimhood, to take as gospel whatever slanderous allegations of 'genocidal' intent lobbed against Israel, pointing to the high death rate of children and women as a result of the Hamas propensity to use them as human shields. Placing rocket launchers in close proximity to schools, hospitals and mosques, inviting a response that will detonate in crowded civilian areas is a specialty of Hamas.

 

Their statements of civilian losses, always inflated, always geared toward building a case of 'war crimes' against Israel by claiming women and children are dying in massive droves, hide the fact that it is Hamas that is responsible for their deaths, that they instead make attributable through their media manipulation to Israel, deliberately and directly aiming at the destruction of Palestinian children and women. This strategy, as baldly manipulative as it is, is grasped as truthful by Western legacy media without question.

There is something about Israel that makes it so very special -- the the very specialness that it is a tiny country devoted to the preservation of Judaism and Jewry, surrounded by hostile neighbours who take no pleasure in a Jewish state living amongst the majority Sunni Arab population of the Middle East. At a time when finally, those neighbours are at last grudgingly coming around to accepting Israel's presence, the Palestinian terror groups are frantic to destroy any opportunities for Arab-Jewish rapprochement. 

And while it is becoming increasingly clear that the Arab Sunni states recognize and have no real wish to continue working alongside the depraved destabilization of Palestinian politics, the West continues to be fallible to the lies and slanders, accepting them at face value; giving credence to the outlandish claims of terrorist groups which they themselves list as such, against the proven credibility of proof through evidence and intelligence emanating from a reliably-lawful Democratic-liberal state whose system of justice is second to none, and whose military is known to be the most moral among its peers.

The Time Magazine article, a decade old, published during a previous conflict between Israel and Hamas, analyzes just that; the propensity of Western media (and their governments) to credit a pathological terrorist group with honestly revealing the truth, while giving short shrift to the honour-clad recounting of events and statistics arrived at by a legitimate state. 

 

"Here's the problem with this data: the numbers are not real. While the evidence is not dispositive, it is highly suggestive that a process unconnected or loosely connected to reality was used to report the numbers", concluded Abraham Wyner, a professor of statistics and data science at University of Pennsylvania of his study of Gaza health ministry reports, uncovering anecdotal evidence of Hamas exploiting Western credulity.

The article cited at the top, published ten years ago, is well worth the read to verify how gullible Western media is to the cynical and totally out of whack statistics fed to them by the 'media arm' of Palestinian terrorists: https://time.com/3035937/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinian-casualties/   Steven Stotsky is a senior analyst with The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), a U.S.-based group that monitors the news media for what it considers to be anti-Israel bias.

"The military leader of Hamas has said he believes he has gained the upper hand over Israel and that the spiralling civilian death toll in Gaza would work in the militant group’s favor, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal, citing leaked messages the newspaper said it had seen."

"“We have the Israelis right where we want them,” Yahya Sinwar told other Hamas leaders recently, according to one of the messages, the WSJ reported Monday. In another, Sinwar is said to have described civilian deaths as “necessary sacrifices” while citing past independence-related conflicts in "countries like Algeria."

The WSJ said it reviewed dozens of messages sent to ceasefire negotiators from Sinwar, who has not been seen in public since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel left 1,200 people dead and another 250 taken hostage. The ensuing Israeli assault aimed at eliminating the group has killed more than 37,000 Palestinians in the strip, according to health authorities there."

 Mostafa Salem and Kylie Atwood, CNN

Hamas' Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar.

Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images