Reality? What is this?

 

                                               

 

Let us look at the facts as simply as we can.  Just name a few of them.  Most of them known to all.  However, if you cannot substantiate them, let me know, I will send the substantiation to you.

 

What is the difference between Hamas and Israel.

 

1.   Does Israel wish Gaza to vanish from the face of the earth?  No.  Does Hamas wish to annihilate Israel?  Very much so, as is reflected, inter alia, in Hamas’s constitution.

 

2.   Every few years Hamas escalates tension between Israel and Gaza by shooting thousands – yes, thousands - of rockets, indiscriminately all over Israel.  True, Israel manages to challenge the vast majority of these missiles – this does not make such shooting less of a crime. When Israel is blowing up a building in Gaza, it gives prior notice to the residents to leave.  Each of such buildings hosts a Hamas enterprise.

 

3.   Does Israel use schools, Hospitals, mosques, or synagogues, from where to shoot the other side? No.  Does Hamas? Yes, it does.

 

4.   Ah yes.  There is no electricity in Gaza or medication.  Israel, yes, Israel, while fighting the terrorists, have trucks full of goods cross the border to Gaza to help the man in the street.  How does Hamas react? Rocketing the area where the trucks are [Kerem Shalom].

 

5.   The world pours billions in Gaza.  Where is the money going to?  Built hospitals? Try again.  Schools? Wrong again. Infrastructure? Hmmmm.  Sorry.  Tunnels under Israeli kibbutzim so terrorists can infiltrate them. Just as Hezbollah does in the north. And, oh yes, finance the stunning glamorous life style of its leaders who dare not be in Gaza now, but reside in palaces around the Arab world.

 

6.   Some say that this time escalations had to do with Jerusalem.  A touching and moving argument – if only it was true. Was it the first time Hamas shot rockets at Israel, this argument might have been a good excuse?  But it is not.  So, Jerusalem is an excuse. Yes, just an excuse.  So why is Hamas taking a risk?  Hamas in Gaza is like Hezbollah in Lebanon.  A Proxy to do Iran’s bid, whose sole aim is to destabilise the Middle East.  Did you ask yourself where are all these rockets originated?  Look carefully.  Iran.

 

7.   And of course, there is another “reason”. Or excuse.  There is Mahmoud Abbas, the chairman of the Palestinian Authority.  He almost lost an elections in The West Bank to Hamas,  just now.  Yes, just before the rockets were fired from Gaza. So, like in a very “healthy” democracy, the chairman “postponed” the elections.  Hamas leaders who were about to win the elections could not retaliate against Fatah [Hamas kills opponents usually after winning elections, as they did to PLO personnel in Gaza after winning the first round of elections there in January, 2006]. There is no court within the Palestinian Authority to force Abu Mazen to hold the elections.  So, the best way to implicate the chairman is to fight Israel. Incite  the young in the West Bank, and so, deepen the dispute and hostility between Arab and Arab. No.  This is not an original idea.  When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, he justified the invasion as Kuwait been  the first step on the way to Jerusalem.

 

8.   What is amazing is that leading media personalities are blind.  We hear on various networks, that Israel is at fault as it has less victims and less devastation than Gaza.  So, Israel reacted with “lack of proportions”.  Hmmmmmm. New York was not shattered during World War II.  London stood still, the Blitz notwithstanding. Berlin was ruined, Dresden was almost annihilated.  So binding to this logic, Germany was the victim, the allies represented evil.  The fact that Hamas shot indiscriminately all over Israel is not relevant.  The fact that Israel managed to protect itself, is. Now, those “great thinkers” in the media demand proportionate reactions.  What does that mean? “proportion”? Just protect yourself and await the second round? I am sure that is what they will say when North Korea attacks the South, or Cuba infiltrates Florida, or Iran invades the Gulf, or China attacks Taiwan.  [Well, The West inclusive of  the US could not do very much when Russia invaded Georgia or the Ukraine, so may be the same will be in other international conflicts as well, as can be seen now in the manner the West  challenge Russia, Turkey or Iran in Syria].  But Israel has a special place.  It is true, it does.  Israel, and only Israel will supply food and medicine to the people ruled by an enemy because the enemy simply does not care about its people, as long as its leaders and their children are safe in Dubai or the South of France. Only Israel’s hospitals will cater for Arabs from the region. Syria [victims of Bashar Assad’s policies], and, yes, Gaza [even at the risk of a terror attack, as was the case in the hospital in Beer Sheva that cared for a Palestinian girl from Gaza, whose mother  - during one of her visits – was found carrying a bomb at the border with Gaza.

 

9.   Ah, I almost forgot.  How does the US fight terror? Keeping an eye on the law? Or keeping an eye on how to avoid the law?   And that is how Guantanamo Bay became famous.  As in this location, there is no need to address human rights issues.  In the past, following 9/11, suspected Al Qaida members were sent by the USA to places like Egypt for interrogations, because the USA will not violate the law.

 

10. Israel is more honest.  We do not “mess around”.  We will devastate a terror entity, but while doing that, we will supply food and energy to the needy on the other sides.  The real needy.  Not funds that go to finance lifestyles or tunnels to add to terror, because “Iran said so”.

   

11. And my compliments to President Erdogan, whose purity and ethics are second to none.  Well except for the killing of Kurds indiscriminately, and having  jailed more journalists  than in any other country [yes, he deserves the top prize, he even beats Putin].  So, his criticism of Israel, should be treated like the gutter it is.

 

12. Those who now criticise Israel.  Many of you are good people.  You are misled.  Such misleading will hunt you.  Just remember. Hamas, Hezbollah, Boko Haram, the Mujahedeen Council, Taliban, ISIS, followers of Hadith,  or Al Qaeda, all follow Wahhabi or Salafi ideology. Israel is only the front door.  These entities are after Western civilisation, they are after Muslims who are tolerant.  Hamas is no difference.   That is why you do not find a statement by Hamas, against any terror acts in London, in Bali in Africa or even in Moscow.  In a detailed biography of Yasser Arafat, two British writers,  Andrew Gowers and Tony Walker made the following conclusion:  -  “to talk about world terrorism and not to mention the PLO, is like talking about the blood circulation and not mention the heart”.  Recently during a debate in Oxford Debating Society, a question was asked. Why are all terrorists being  associated by others  with Islam?  The question was applauded. Well, the truth is, do we know of people of other faiths who behead? What is the origin of the vast majority of terror activities around the World? What is the origin of the reasons for security at airports? Who killed more people in the name of religion in the last 100 years?  Let us remember. During the 1970s all terror groups around the world [The Italian Red Brigades, the IRA, The Japanese Red Army, to name just a few] had their military trainings in the Palestinian Refugees camps in Lebanon.  So the world moved on. No more Red Brigade. No more Red Army, not even  IRA. But Islamic terror extended. Yes, beyond the PLO. Hamas is just one such arms. One. Out of many.

 

Allow me a very daring political statement.  Supporting Hamas, you are risking your lives, your future not mine.