Sometime late Sunday afternoon, my phone lit up with the Wall Street Journal alert:
It was yet another heartbreaking tale (if true - the propaganda is extremely hard to sift through) from the center of the Israeli-Palestinian war, documenting how innocent people are suffering. Regardless of propaganda, innocent people are suffering, and I feel extraordinary sympathy and sadness for those affected.
Yet I cannot shake equal feelings of righteous anger over the fact that it is all needless. It is all unnecessary.
To be clear, I'm not parroting the mindless appeal for Israel to cease firing on Gaza. A ceasefire already existed on October 6, but Hamas, with the approval of a majority of Palestinian citizens who empowered them, foolishly chose to violate that ceasefire in the most contemptible manner imaginable.
No, when I say it is needless, I am referencing the appalling practice of Hamas terrorists hiding and cowering behind hospital-bound human shields. Any legitimate military, any respectable "resistance," would seek to courageously place themselves between the citizenry and harm's way. But not Hamas. Portraying themselves valiantly, they consistently reveal what little mettle Satan provides to the souls he infects.
- There is no honor in building missile launchers in hospital parking lots.
- There is no valor in placing rockets inside the fencing of an elementary school playground.
- There can be no pride in storing stockpiles of weapons and munitions in places of worship.
- There is no dignity or character in operating your war machine from the basement of a hospital.
Only fools fail to see this godforsaken, cowardly strategy for what it is: Offer up your most vulnerable as sacrificial lambs, lead them to the slaughter, place them under falling bombs, all so that you can accuse the bomb droppers of war crimes.
Those who fall for such heinous manipulation are either cognitively impaired or religiously devoted to a demonic faith. Either way, they prove themselves incapable of sound, moral discernment, and have utterly forfeited their right to advocate on behalf of the suffering Palestinian people.
If you feel sorry for the suffering in Gaza, condemn the election and leadership of the Hamas regime that admits in their charter, their written constitution, that they "love death" more than Israel loves life. They would rather see every last one of their own Palestinian brethren suffer and die than find peace with Israel.
If you feel sorry for the suffering in Gaza, condemn the only regime in the modern world that leaps at the chance to create international leverage on the bloodied corpses of their own children.
If you feel sorry for the suffering in Gaza, condemn those who ripped up water mains to use as rocket launchers and stole humanitarian aid to fund their terror machine.
If you feel sorry for the suffering in Gaza, condemn an ideology that has killed 500,000 Muslims in Syria, 200,000 Muslims in Yemen, 25,000 Muslims in Myanmar, and that begs to kill hundreds of thousands more in its death-by-Israel conduct in Gaza.
Until you do, until there are anti-Hamas signs appearing at pro-Palestinian protests, the world community should scoffingly regard your angry cries for what they are: a pitiful charade of timeless antisemitism.
