Countless protesters, academics, and street thugs are attacking Jews worldwide — beating, harassing, and in some cases murdering them — in defense of pure evil. They blame Israel, and by extension Jews, including Jews with no connection to Israel, for the deaths of Hamas fighters and Gazan civilians.
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It must be made clear that 100 percent of those killed in the war between Israel and Hamas are the direct responsibility of Hamas. Hamas caused each and every death. If Hamas-supporters can’t wrap their heads around that, they have no sense of right and wrong.
On October 7, Hamas and civilians who joined the massacre stormed into Israel. They targeted women, children, babies, and festival-goers. They murdered 1,200 people with a level of sadism that would make Satan flinch, and they dragged 250 hostages — including infants — into Gaza. That is how this war began.
When Israel struck back, Hamas fired from behind its own people, from tunnels under hospitals and mosques. Hamas built no shelters for civilians while their fighters hid underground. No army in modern urban warfare has faced an enemy that so deliberately manipulated its own women and children as human shields — and still managed to fight with the restraint Israel has shown. Animals protect their young. Hamas does the opposite.
Hamas placed its own civilians in the line of fire and then exploited the resulting carnage to generate international outrage against Israel.
That strategy strangely worked.
What kind of leaders do this to their own people as a tactic to gain world attention and support? Worse, who would fall for it? The sad reality is that many fell for it and still do. It would be a better question to ask the gullible why they would fall for it, but historians will inevitably condemn their ignorance.
Naïve newsreaders are content to accept Hamas’s casualty figures — figures collected by a regime designated as a terrorist organization by virtually all the democracies of the world. The same regime perpetrated the October 7 attack directly aimed at civilians — women, babies, youngsters at a music festival. And their supporters believed those numbers.
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Hamas didn’t break out the percentage of the total death count attributable to their own terrorist fighters. It didn’t seem to matter to their supporters.
Hamas didn’t itemize the Gazans who died from natural causes.
Hamas didn’t list those they killed: the multitudes hit by their own inaccurate rocket fire or members of rival groups branded as Israel-aiding collaborators.
And yet their supporters didn’t seem to care. They seemed remarkably uninterested in examining the numbers beyond their usefulness in condemning Israel.
But mostly, Hamas-supporters and number-counters didn’t care or notice this one astonishing reality: Hamas would have murdered every single Jew in Israel — all seven million — if they hadn’t been stopped. Almost half the world’s Jewish population. It’s staggering. For all the Hamas terrorist supporters out there, they should think about that before casting aspersions against the most discriminated people in world history. They should compare numbers in that light.
Hamas leaders have vowed to repeat their October 7 atrocities again and again. Hamas has not fully disarmed, and Israel cannot simply pretend the organization responsible for the massacre no longer poses a threat. Hamas must be fully defeated. It must be disarmed. Israel must be able to protect its citizens from another Oct. 7.
Israel will survive this fight as, it has done so many times before, and it will thrive. Defenders of Hamas — those who denounce Israel’s defensive military operation with righteous indignation — will be forever remembered as terrorist-enablers.
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