One of the soothing notions being disseminated by the Biden administration is that Hamas must be clearly distinguished from the “ordinary people” in Gaza, who, we are led to believe, deplore the terrorist atrocities and want only to be left alone to lead peaceful lives. It’s a comforting thought, but it isn’t true. In recent polls, taken after October 7, 76% of Gazans said they support Hamas, in the full knowledge of what Hamas did on that day, when it beheaded babies, burned children to death, raped, tortured, and murdered young girls, gouged out eyes, sliced off breasts, and cut off the genitalia of Israelis, both before and after death, murdered children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children. Three-quarters of those we keep being told are “innocent civilians” have approved of those atrocities. Can they be called “innocent”? More on this can be found here: “‘Show Me One Palestinian Who Tried to Save a Jew on Oct. 7’: Hostage Families Highlight Culpability of Gazan Population,” by Debbie Weiss, Algemeiner, November 27, 2023:
Families of hostages seized by the Hamas terror group on Oct. 7 experienced a mix of relief and anxiety at a rally marking “50 days of hell” on Saturday night as they grappled with the bittersweet reality of the release of some hostages while many others remained in captivity, amid multiple delays on the part of Hamas.
Speakers at the rally, which drew some 100,000 people to the renamed Hostage Square outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, called to “bring home all of them now.”
As of Sunday night, a total of 40 Israeli hostages were released with Hamas indicating that it was interested in extending the ceasefire. Terrorists led by Hamas abducted over 240 people during their Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel.
Thirteen hostages, mostly from Kibbutz Be’eri, were released on Saturday some six hours after the 4 pm deadline after Hamas accused Israel of short-changing on the promised delivery of fuel and humanitarian aid — a claim that was denied by the International Committee of the Red Cross — and releasing the wrong Palestinian security prisoners in exchange.
As usual, Hamas makes unfounded accusations against Israel — claiming that it had “short-changed” on the amount of fuel and humanitarian aid it had promised to allow into Gaza. But this time, the ICRC (the International Red Cross) firmly took Israel’s side, and Hamas dropped its specious complaint.
Be’eri resident Nir Shani, whose son, Amit, turned 16 in captivity, was not surprised by the delay.
“It’s not unexpected, sadly. It would’ve been weird if it would have gone smoothly as planned. It was obviously going to happen,” Shani told The Algemeiner.
Shani further said he wasn’t surprised by the Oct. 7 massacre perpetrated by Hamas.
“They did exactly what they said they would do if they got the chance. We’ve seen it before,” he said, pointing to terror attacks against Jews even before the founding of the state.
Shani’s views stand in sharp contrast with those of other members of his kibbutz, who maintain that a peaceful resolution to the conflict — likely in the form of two states — is still possible.
He also refused to extend clemency to the Palestinian population in Gaza as being innocent.
“I don’t make a distinction between them and Hamas. We’ve all heard about the righteous among the nations in the Holocaust. Tell me of one Palestinian who tried to save one Jew after Oct. 7,” he said.
There are no such stories, alas. Not a single Arab appears to have tried to save an Israeli’s life. In fact, it was not only Hamas operatives who committed atrocities that day, but also ordinary people from Gaza who accompanied the Hamas invaders, joining in the orgy of killing, theft, and also in raping Israeli girls, taking some of them back into Gaza — these are not, remember, Hamas operatives but ordinary Gazans joining in the fun — to serve as sex slaves. Some of them, not in Hamas’ hands, may still be alive.
Shani cited Daniel Lifshitz, the grandson of 85-year-old released hostage Yocheved Lifshitz, as saying that his grandmother was “spat on by hundreds of Gazans on the back of a motorbike.”…
The contempt and cruelty shown by “hundreds of Gazans” who spat on an 85-year-old Israeli grandmother, who had been taken into Gaza by a Hamas operative on a motorbike, is one more bit of evidence that we should not call such people “innocent civilians.”
Images of Ohad Munder, who turned 9 in captivity, blowing bubbles and playing with a Rubik’s cube shortly after his release on Friday, flooded Israeli media. He was released along with his mother, Keren, 54, and grandmother Ruth, 78. His grandfather, 78-year-old Avraham Munder, is still in Gaza. Avraham’s niece, Merav Mor Raviv, cited Keren as saying that the food supply in captivity was up and down and on some days there was nothing more than a bit of rice.
She told Israel’s Channel 12 that there “were also many Hebrew speakers [in Gaza], who spoke to them.”…
Who were these Hebrew-speaking Arabs? They were undoubtedly among the 20,000 Gazans who had been given permits to work in Israel. Some of them, we now know, provided information to Hamas on the best ways into Israel, the layout and populations of the kibbutzim, the presence or absence of security, and in some cases, even the number, and age, of family members.
Despite Israel’s claim that the ceasefire agreement included the release of mothers whose children were set free, Hila Rotem, a 13-year-old, was captured by Hamas terrorists along with her mother Raya Rotem, aged 54, but only Hila was released on Saturday, leaving her mother still held hostage in Gaza….
By freeing 13-year-old Hila Rotem but not her mother, Hamas has violated the agreement, by which it had been obligated to release mothers whose children were set free. But no Israeli is surprised that Hamas tried to get out of honoring its solemn promise. There will be many more such violations, by Hamas, during this interminable hostage-for-prisoner exchange.
As for those “innocent civilians” whom the terrible Israelis have not spared with their airstrikes, let’s not forget that three-quarters of them approved of Hamas’ atrocities. And don’t forget, either, about the mobs of Gazans who screamed blood-curdling threats, and threw rocks at the hostages as they were brought into Gaza on October 7. And what shall we call those hundreds of Gazans who spit on an Israeli grandmother as she was brought to Gaza on a motorbike? What about the Gazans who threw rocks at the hostages who were being taken out of Gaza to be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners? Can any of these people be considered “innocent” civilians? Given half a chance, they would set upon these Israelis and finish the job that Hamas operatives had chosen not to complete, in order to use those Israelis as bargaining chips in a trade for Arab prisoners.
There are some “innocent civilians” in Gaza. But there are not nearly as many as we are led to believe by the media, which assumes that anyone who is not a member of Hamas automatically becomes an “innocent civilian.” Those who admire Hamas, support Hamas, happily celebrate the atrocities it committed, who furthermore express murderous hatred of Israeli hostages, both as they were first brought into Gaza and then, in the hostage exchange, brought out, should be considered willing collaborators with the terror group, and ought to be treated as such.
Jim says
It suggests a new book, Hamas’ Willing Executioners.
Big Dude says
I seem to remember that after the war there were no Nazis in Germany or in Austria. Everyone helped a Jew. In fact, there were 30 million Jews saved, each one by a smiling, evil person, often a woman, who was simply the best friend of the family she denounced and turned in. With friend like that, in Gaza, we don’t need enemies
If a Gazan tried to help a Jew the Gazan might be killed Or not. You want Nazis like this after the fight.
We killed enough at Nuremberg. Why don’t we have a new movie … Judgment at Nazareth… How Hamas fooled the world, killed Jews, and destroyed hope for three generations.
From the river to the sea
Hamas, Gd willing, will cease to be
Hugh Fitzgerald says
“We killed enough at Nuremberg.
I disagree;oOnly ten were executed as a result of the Nuremberg Trials. Goering took a cynaide pill. Hundreds of thousands of Nazi war criminals were never punished. S0me continued to live in West Germany, without being bothered by the police. Others fled to Brazil, Argentina, Egypt,and Syria. Some were brought to America, because their usefulness to the American military — chiefly our missile program –was held by some to outweigh their unspeakable Nazi past, including their use of slave labor at Peenemunde. I am thinking of Arthur Rudolf and Wernher von Braun.
One of the first laws passed by the West German government was to ban capital punishment. They didn’t want any Nazis who might be [rosecuted in the future — there were only a handful to ever faced trial-in Germany – to be subject to that well-deserved punishment.
Billy Corr says
You are right, Hugh.
Albert Speer served every day of his sentence in Spandau, documented in some detail in “Spandau Diary.” He paced his cell with mathematical exactitude, recording when he had reached Moscow, then Irkutsk and then the Bering Straits.
On the other hand, Von Braun and his subordinates – men whose potential utility to the post war USA far outweighed that of Speer – were whisked away to a breathtaking magical land of Idaho steaks, California red wine, swimming pools, immense convertible automobiles and all the labor-saving appliances known to humankind.
Von Braun’s willing employment of wartime slave labor was simply brushed under the carpet and tactfully forgotten.
You mentioned West Germany, Hugh. One lady doctor close to stay in the Soviet Zone – which later became the German Democratic Republic – and was greatly honored for her meticulous research. It was only on the eve of German reunification that she was identified as one who had actively participated in activities which can be tactfully described as Involuntary euthanasia of the retarded, useless and unwanted.
Walter Sieruk says
The sad reality is that done of the “Palestinians” actually attempted to aid or help the Jewish people who had been just viciously and murderous attacked by the jihadists of Hamas on October 7th 2023.
The reason why this is so is because they are , in many ways , just corrupted in the mind ,soul and therefore their cognition by Islam with it’s Quran which refers to Jews as “apes and pigs” 2:65. 7:166. 5:60.
Furthermore, the terrible reality is that many times history repeats itself, as then evil happenings do reoccur.
As with that October 7th. 2023 murderous jihadists attacks against all those young people at that music festival, which was intended by the Israeli’s to be a joyful event but the vicious and death infecting jihadist of Hamas turned it into a tragic event.
Six years before that Islamic abomination occurred at that place in the State of Israel ,there was that murderous jihadist bombing at a music concert in the city of Manchester of the United Kingdom, the British of the city had intended that concert to be a joyful event but that vicious and death inflecting jihadist suicide/homicide bomber turned it into a tragic event.
The deluded dangerous deadly and demonic evils of Islam’s jihadists has no limit.
Walter Sieruk says
A terrible number of “Palestinians” Muslims had actually celebrated the murderous jihadist attacks by Hamas against the Jewish people because they consider Jews “disbelievers “ and likewise those “ Palestinians must know that those jihadist in the ruthless killing are obeying the instruction found in the Qu ‘ran , which teaches in Surah 9:123. “O you who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you and let them fond harshness in you…” Using firearms are a very effective way of showing those Jews in the State of Israel much “harshness.” Likewise there are other places in the Qu ‘ran the teach violence and killing. As in 4:89. 5:33, 9:5,111.
Furthermore, on Middle Eastern television it was recorded that Imam Suliman Satari said “Annihilate the Infidels… Allah count them and kill them, to the last one and don’t leave even one.” Furthermore, Imam Abu Hamza Al-Masri said “What makes Allah happy? Allah is happy when Kafiers get killed.
. The above words of these Imams reflect the example of Islam’s prophet and the teachings of the Quran. “Muhammad now fell upon them [the Jews] slew all the men, nine hundreds of them…”
Moreover, the Quran reads “When ye encounter the unbelievers strike off their heads, until ye have made great slaughter among them. …” Surah 47:4 let’s face it using firearms can sure make a greater slaughter “slaughter among them” than a sword a can.
In short, these Imams and their murderous prophet with their bloody Qu ‘ran show the world what Islam really is. After all, Jesus did teach, “by their fruits you will know them.” Matthew 7:20. [NKJV]
Thus are the fruits of Islam.
John Smith says
It’s part of curriculum of the Palestinian authorities to indoctrinate their children into jihad, and Jew hatred, from the moment they are born. It’s only the lucky few that manage to escape from this evil ideology, One that springs to mind is Mosab Hassan Yousef who’s father is a co-founder of hamas. He is one of the most outspoken critics of hamas. Unfortunately (I believe) most Palestinians are still in support of hamas, and I can’t see this changing in the near future.
Billy Corr says
The basic premise of this misguided article is false.
Assuming that one accepts that Arab citizens of Israeli count as “Palestinians”, there were numerous examples of quite selfless heroism. An Israeli-Arab bus driver rescued several of the music festivalgoers at grave risk to his own life, for example.
Israeli English-language media, the “Times of Israeli”, “Jerusalem Post” and “Haaretz” – the last partly concealed behind a paywall – have documented enough true tales of altruistic courage to gladden the heart of any reader of “Readers’ Digest”
Billy Corr says
THE BEDOUIN BUS DIVER:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/bedouin-bus-driver-credited-with-saving-30-israelis-from-hamass-outdoor-party-massacre/
Billy Corr says
https://www.timesofisrael.com/bedouin-bus-driver-credited-with-saving-30-israelis-from-hamass-outdoor-party-massacre/
Billy Corr says
Arabs in the IDF fought for Israel on October 7th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxvQAFAY4fU&t=5s
Billy Corr says
This clan are stalwart Israeli citizens
https://www.timesofisrael.com/unaccounted-for-four-members-of-zaidna-family-from-rahat/?_gl=1*kh3s43*_ga*NzQ3MjQyMzEzLjE2Nzc4MDcyMzI.*_ga_RJR2XWQR34*MTcwMTM4MjcxMC4zOTMuMS4xNzAxMzgyNzEwLjAuMC4w