Friday, March 29, 2024

Gaza: Truths Behind All the Lies

Gaza: Truths Behind All the Lies


“Occupied Gaza.” Prior to October 7, there were roughly two million Arab citizens of Israel but no Jewish citizens in Gaza. Gazans in 2006 voted in Hamas to rule them. It summarily executed its Palestinian Authority rivals. Hamas cancelled all future scheduled elections. It established a dictatorship and diverted billions of dollars in international aid to build a vast underground labyrinth of military installations.So Gaza has been occupied by Hamas, not Israel, for two decades.

“Collateral Damage.” Hamas began the war by deliberately targeting civilians. It massacred them on October 7 when it invaded Israel during a time of peace and holidays. It sent more than 7,000 rockets into Israeli cities for the sole purpose of killing noncombatants. It has no vocabulary for the collateral damage of Israeli civilians, since it believes any Jewish death under any circumstances is cause for celebration.


Hamas places its terrorist centers beneath and inside hospitals, schools, and mosques. Why? Israel is assumed to have more reservations about collaterally hitting Gaza civilians than Hamas does exposing them as human shields.

“Disproportionate.” We are told Israel wrongly uses disproportionate force to retaliate in Gaza. But it does so because no nation can win a war without disproportionate violence that hurts the enemy more than it is hurt by the enemy.

The U.S. incinerated German and Japanese cities with disproportionate force to end a war both Axis powers started. The American military in Iraq nearly leveled Fallujah and Mosul by disproportional force to root out Islamic gunmen hiding among innocents. Hamas has objections to disproportionate violence—but only when it is achieved by Israel and not Hamas.

“Two-state solution.” Prior to October 7, there was a de facto three-state solution, given that Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza were all separate states ruled by their own governments, two of which were illegitimate without scheduled elections.

It was not Israel, but the people of Gaza and the West Bank who institutionalized the “from river to the sea” agenda of destroying its neighbor.

Israel would have been content to live next to an autonomous Arab Gaza and West Bank that did not seek to destroy Israel in their multigenerational efforts to form their own “one-state solution.”

“Ceasefire.” The so-called international community is demanding Israel agree to a “ceasefire.” But there was already a ceasefire prior to October 7. Hamas broke it by massacring 1,200 Jews and taking over 250 hostages.

Hamas violated that peace because it thought it could gain leverage over Israel by murdering Jews.

Hamas now demands another ceasefire because it thinks it is no longer able to murder more unarmed Jews. Instead, it now fears that Israel will destroy Hamas in the way Hamas sought but failed to destroy Israel.

Did Hamas call for a cease-fire after the first 500 Jews it massacred on October 7?

“Ramadan.” Joe Biden believes that the Muslim religious holiday of Ramadan requires Israel to agree to a ceasefire.

But did either Hamas or any other Arab military ever respect Jewish—or even its own—religious holidays?

The October 7 massacre was timed to catch Israelis unaware while celebrating the Jewish religious holidays of Simchat Torah, Shemini Torah, and Shemini Atzeret on Shabbat. 

Moreover, Hamas’s surprise attack was deliberately timed to commemorate the earlier sneak Arab attack on Israel some 50 years earlier.

On October 6, 1973, the Israelis were the target of a surprise attack when celebrating the religious holiday of Yom Kippur. Arab armies also assumed they would achieve greater surprise when attacking during their own religious holiday of Ramadan.

So, Arab militaries fight opportunistically both during Jewish and their own Islamic holidays. Egyptians and Syrians still boast of their 1973 surprise attack on Israel as the “Ramadan War.”

Only Westerners, not Arabs, believe there should be no war during Ramadan.

“Civilian Casualties.” Israel risks the lives of its soldiers to prevent civilian deaths. Hamas risks the lives of its civilians to prevent terrorists’ deaths. Israel considers it a failure, and Hamas considers it globally advantageous when more civilians die than its soldiers.

“Foreign Aid.” The Biden administration threatens to cut off or slow-walk aid to Israel if it continues to retaliate against Hamas even though they started the war. So the administration promises to give more aid to Gaza after the October 7 Hamas massacres than it gave to Gaza before them.

“Prisoners.” The international community that favors Hamas, nevertheless, knows it would be safer to be a prisoner of Israel than of Hamas. It knows women are not going to be raped in custody by Israelis but are by Hamas. And the unarmed are more likely to be mutilated and decapitated by Hamas than Israelis.

Is the international community more likely to charge Israel than Hamas for war crimes because the Jewish state seeks to avoid civilian deaths that Hamas finds useful?

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There has been a recent series of unprovoked, broad-daylight attacks on women in New York City. The savage assaults have prompted outrage, even among some Democrats.

One Democratic New York City councilwoman in particular asked why men were not altogether stepping up to address the issue. Critics swiftly provided Councilwoman Amanda Farías with one possible reason why: She and other leftists have cried foul when men have previously stepped into the breach.

The attacks

Blaze News previously reported that various women peacefully navigating Manhattan sidewalks have been viciously attacked in recent weeks. Halley Kate Mcgookin, a social media influencer, was apparently one of them.

Choked up and tear-soused, Mcgookin recently noted in a viral video, "I was literally just walking and a man came up and punched me in the face."

"Oh my God, it hurts so bad. I can't even talk," added Mcgookin.

Sarah Harvard, another recent victim, was on her way to a comedy gig on the Lower East Side on March 19 when she was attacked from behind.

"I was walking, and out of nowhere, BAM!" she wrote on X. "I almost fell over. The back of my skull throbbing in pain, brain feels rattled."

At least one arrest has been made — 40-year-old Skiboky Stora of Brooklyn — but there appear to be multiple attackers.

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Amid mounting outrage over the attacks, the New York City Council's predominantly leftist Women's Caucus stated it was "deeply disturbed and concerned about widespread reports of attacks against women in New York City that have been confirmed by the NYPD."

"The Women's Caucus calls on the NYPD for an immediate and comprehensive investigation into these incidents with transparent updates to the public," continued the statement. "We are encouraging New Yorkers with similar experience to notify the NYPD to conduct a thorough investigation. Amid an alarming trend in violence against women, this kind of violence is reprehensible."

New York City Council Majority Leader Amanda Farías shared the statement, adding, "Where are the men calling this out?"

Handcuffed heroes

In May 2023, Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man with a history of criminal arrests, was said by witnesses to have threatened various passengers on a New York City subway train.

One witness told Fox News Digital, "I'm sitting on a train reading my book, and, all of a sudden, I hear someone spewing this rhetoric. He said, 'I don't care if I have to kill an F, I will. I'll go to jail, I'll take a bullet."

Passengers crewed on one side of the train to avoid Neely, especially after his alleged use of the words "bullet" and "kill."

"Why in the world would you take a bullet? Why? You don't take a bullet because you've snatched something from somebody's hand. You take a bullet for violence," said the female witness.

With women and men alike ostensibly in danger, former Marine Daniel Penny, then 24, did not simply call out the danger. He did something about it.

"The three main threats he repeated over and over was 'I'm going to kill you,' 'I'm prepared to go to jail for life,' and 'I'm willing to die,'" Penny later recalled.

The former Marine put Neely in a chokehold. Neely subsequently died. 

The female witness said, "It was self-defense, and I believe in my heart that he saved a lot of people that day that could have gotten hurt."

Leftists such as Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) rushed to condemnPenny and paint Neely as a victim.

Amanda Farías was among the loudest critics of Penny's attempt to restore order and protect women.

Farías tweeted on May 11, 2023, "I continue to be heartbroken and outraged by the death of Jordan Neely and the lack of justice. The @BLACaucusNYC stands together to demand justice for Jordan and to pay attention to the systems that failed him so we do not lose any more Black New Yorkers to senseless violence."

Penny was ultimately indicted by a Manhattan grand jury of second-degree manslaughter. His trial is scheduled for October.

Backlash 

Critics seized upon Farías' Thursday comment, noting her past contempt for the kind of New Yorker who might intervene if he saw a woman attacked randomly.

Christina Pushaw, an aide to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), was one of many who responded to Farías' question with a picture of Penny.

One X user wrote, "'Where are the men calling this out?' On trial right now, that's where."

Second Amendment activist Dana Loesch wrote, "Ya'll jail them."

Michael Seifert, the founder and CCEO of the conservative Amazon alternative PublicSq.wrote, "They're all getting arrested like Daniel Penny."

Heritage research fellow Jason Bedrick responded, "NYC policies are doing this. Here's an idea: stop punishing the men who step up and help and stop releasing dangerous perpetrators awaiting trial."

The New York Post editorial board noted that while Farías is now desperate for police to do something about the trend of random attacks on women, she was previously desperate to kneecap the police.

The Post highlighted how Farías, when still a council candidate, underscored the need "to significantly divest from police precincts" and pledged to support "the reduction of NYPD's operating budget and partnering alongside the community to create real solutions and justice for New Yorkers."

Since taking office, she has made good on her anti-police promises, sponsoring the "How Many Stops Act," legislation that serves to stymie policing efforts. She also helped to override Mayor Eric Adams' subsequent veto attempt.

Republican NYC Councilwoman Vickie Paladino noted that a real fix to the problem Farías now seems to care about may require addressing the laws that allow criminals to prowl the streets freely.

"'Calling out' a problem isn't really going to do much unless it's followed up with solutions, and progressives are completely opposed to the solutions which actually work," wrote Paladino.


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