How Do I Feel About Gaza?

We all live in the world where horrendous events can occur. At the same time for some it may be peaceful, a gentle sun warming the skin, a breeze rustling the hair. What about the other places?

 I am in a rage, boiling with anger. Some may be weary of my anger? Why should you, they, care about my anger? The sun mat may still shining around you. You have may things to do, people are waiting. Someone has to make dinner. Someone has to go to class. Someone has to go to work. You may be watching a program, reading a book!

You don’t know those people you may have heard about whose throats were cut, or know of the babies whose heads were chopped off, or have seen those women who were raped and paraded around, those old people burned alive in their homes and the youngsters at the songfest fusilladed as they ran.

Are those hundreds of hostages taken still alive. How many are dead? The IDF checked the DNA of 200 bodies found in the main Gaza hospital and found two identified as Israeli hostages. Are there others?

Just doing what comes natural for Hamas folks going on about their business. You know we are terrorists, after all! What! You expect civilized behavior? You just don’t know who we are!

Getting lots of advice! Isn’t it time to act with restraint? What’s done is done! What about those poor Palestinians being held as human shields, what about them? Haven’t they suffered enough? Shouldn’t we spare Gazans even if that is precisely why they are there, to protect the guilty terrorist murderers so they can do what they have done again and again?

What about those Gazans? The Israelis were supplying electricity and water, letting food supplies in every day, giving thousands employment. What did Hamas do for them in return for their support? Has there ever been the breath of opposition - except for competition for a place at the trough? Perhaps the Palestinians shared Hamas objectives, making the Middle East judenrein. Those who were given jobs by Israel served as willing spies for Hamas.

Just a little pogrom like we’re used to in Europe. Those Jews, it’s their own fault for being asleep at the switch. They thought they were so smart. If you leave your doors so easy to open, whose fault is it? The terrorists (funded and advised by Iran, funded by Qatar,) planned their assault. The hostages, shouldn’t they be our first concern, isn’t that why Hamas took them? So concerned about them that we should let the guilty off with just a slap on the wrist?

Shouldn’t we call our enemies to negotiate for us because they are the only people the terrorists will talk to? What about the poor Palestinians hiding in the hospitals and the babies in incubators? Oh ,oh, Israelis brought in incubators for them!

Where were people when they were suffering under Hamas? Not a word off concern, or for the thousands of Moslems slaughtered the last few years all over the Middle East. It’s only important if those pesky Jews might do it. Double standards anyone!

Gosh, look at those IDF soldiers bringing in what’s needed! Look at the IDF protecting Gazans from Hamas shooting to prevent them from fleeing the areas of danger. But whatever it is, it’s not enough if the Jews are doing it.

 Did you see the arms stored by Hamas in the Al Shifa hospital? Did you see the tunnel entrance in the hospital that the IDF blew up so they couldn’t pop up to kill IDF soldiers?  Do you understand why no one, i.e. the U.N., in Gaza dares to tell the truth about how Hamas was running things? Did you hear them lie about the real situation? What are the real figures on casualties and how many are dead terrorists?

So I am still very angry and I want to see Hamas gone. Why are so many worrying about the Palestinians when no-one complained about the thousands of killings in Syria, in Iraq, Yeman and in Ethiopia? What about the women killed in Iran for not wearing a scarf? Where are the crowds, the protests? Why is it only when Jews are involved defending themselves that there are public demonstrations and politicians calling for ceasefires?

Don’t non-Jews of various persuasions realize that they would be next? Jews are the canaries in the coal mine. Some countries in Europe are already half-way there. The U.K chose the economic cost of BREXIT to try to save themselves.

Looking for fresh solutions! No Arab country wants to play a role.  Does anybody remember that Israel left Gaza so they could govern themselves? Does anybody know of any Arab democracy we could copy? The Squad in the U.S. Congress clearly believes Hamas is compatible with U.S. democracy. They are morally bankrupt, as is the P.A. The Palestinian Authority is a failure, paying Palestinians to kill Jews, and failing, after so many years, to create an economy that improves the lives of its people. Billions have gone to corruption. No future there!

Yesterday I read an article by Husseign Aboubakr Mansour*. He admits to the world that the Free Palestine movement condones the indiscriminate killing of Jews. Free Palestine, from the river to the sea, simply means the total eradication of Israel, another Holocaust. Their spokesmen say it only in Arabic. Why should we be surprised at the Hamas action? What we saw is an accurate representation  of the immoral 7^th Century philosophy underlying the Free Palestine message and the thinking of Islamic fanatics. Aren’t you angry too?

How can Islam be a religion of peace when the narrative is driven by the extremists? Enough of the fairy tales about a two-state solution! Biden must stop dreaming in technicolor!

So, I told you how I feel. How do you feel?

*The Savage Nihilism of “Free Palestine”. Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, Director, EMET