No one can fail to be saddened, shocked and empathetic as they view the humanitarian crisis in Gaza - the dead, the pathetic citizens fleeing from the bombing, food, fuel and water shortages, slum over crowding conditions and even worse. The world is holding its breath at the collateral damage an Israeli invasion will cause, although the Israeli Defense Force, (IDF), will heed the rules of war. Nevertheless the Palestinians like the Israelis on October 7 are not combatants.
All the pain raises the question as to who ultimately bears responsibility for the safety of the citizens of Gaza? Jay H. Ell will argue that it is it’s government, Hamas, who came into power in 2007 and as a result of a coup haven’t held an election since. Hamas however have perpetuated their propaganda con that their citizens are everyone else’s problem from the consequences of their initiation of the conflict. The Palestinian population are also Hamas’s victims and major diplomatic moves are at least attempting to provide humanitarian aid because Hamas won't.
As predicted, (Blog:“The Consequences of Hamas’s Barbarism and the Genesis of the Conflict”), it didn’t take long in the media domain for Hamas to become the victims and Israel the perpetrators, No one should believe anything Hamas says. Hamas’s briefings are treated by the media with the same equivolancy as the measured Israeli statements as the explosion at al - All hospital has vividly illustrated. Israel is also blamed for the humanitarian situation that Hamas provoked in the hope that Israel would hit back. Hamas are experts at spreading mendacious propaganda .
THE BIG LIE,
The immediate Hamas condemnation of Israel, within an hour of the devastation in the car park at the al - Ali Hospital lit the fuse which ignited universal anger against Israel. Hamas’s press release was headlines from the New York Times to Al Jajeera blaming Israel for the incident and accepting that 500 civilians had been killed. Nothing would change the narrative from then on as the protests thundered menacingly particularly in the region. So when the same Hamas Health Authority gives the daily total of civilians killed in Gaza, the media dutifully reports their scorecard. At time of writing they give the figure at 4385. Jay H. Ell doesn’t believe a word of it. For all he knows the number is 40,000 or 600 or whatever. Who would take the word of sociopaths who savagely mowed down 1400 civilians of all ages, burning some of them alive and then took over 200 hostages ranging from babies to geriatrics?
One fact is for sure Hamas have once again successfully changed the narrative. The Jews are once again the evil. The Arab world is aflame and in Western Capitols the tens of thousands scream support for Hamas, decrying what is happening in Gaza. There is talk about proportionality even about the Israelis being hellbent on genocide.
However the safety of the population of Gaza has to be ultimately the responsibility of Hamas. Even in Ukraine, who didn’t provoke a war, Zelensky’’s administration accepts responsibility for ensuring the safety of it’s citizens.
WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS THE SAFETY OF THE CITIZENS OF GAZA?
The tragedy in Gaza has many culprits who have allowed the Palestinians to fester in the hell of Gaza and the West Bank refugee camps but ultimately the major responsibility has to be their rulers. The latter’s principle objective is to drive the Israelis into the see and kill all Jews, not the wellbeing of their citizens,
This Iranian supported terrorist movement sees its citizens as cannon fodder and human shields. Jay H Ell was told by a retired member of their IDF that he is haunted by incidents in Gaza and Lebanon. In the former he was being shot at by a terrorist who held a mother and child in front of him and in the latter an 11 year old boy was firing at him with a Kalashnikov machine gun. To survive he killed them all. He mournfully detailed that this was a common occurrence,
A Hamas official told CNN that this operation took two years in planning. Guess where all the money from Qatar was going? Not for the welfare of Palestinians. According to a retrospective analysis there were at least 5 training camps. Mock kibbutzim settlements were built while agricultural land was commandeered to expand the preparation for the killing fields to come. Paratroopers practiced their skills for when the time was ripe. Sophisticated intelligence was obtained of the objectives which were found in the manuals on the dead terrorists. There were maps with street numbers, names of owners and location of shelters annotated. Instructions on the taking of hostages and to execute any of them who resisted or contemplated suicide. Top Israeli security communication centers were known and put out of action.
The sophisticated network of underground tunnels was extended. Some are three hundred feet below ground, with electricity and sewerage and where fuel, provisions and ammunition was stockpiled. The estimates of the building of the latter is between a billion and two billion dollars. They were said to have been constructed with the help of children. In this two year period they added to their ammunition dumps, rocket launching sites and the like. The latter, were situated where attacks would invoke universal outcry - schools, mosques, medical centers and apartments.The manufacture of tens of thousands of rockets required factories and labor. In fact that had to be the largest industry in Hamas.
The war crimes were not only against the “Godless Infidels”, they were directed at their own people. During that 2 year period, as the most barbarous act against the Jews since the Holocaust was planned, their other major preoccupation was to fire rockets into Israel.
Not one cent was spent on building bomb shelters for the civilians when the hoped for Israeli onslaught began. Not one tunnel was allocated for the safety of the women, children and elderly. Not one liter of water, not one tin of baby food or any sustenance for anyone, no hygiene products, no medicines and of course no fuel for the people they supposedly represented. In addition not one extra bandage, bottle of Tylenol let alone anesthetics. All that was apparently the obligation of the Israelis, Biden, the UNO, the Arab world, civilians and relief organizations.
Yet at the moment the world treats Hamas as an equal actor in a war. The onus and pressure is on the Israelis. To give credit where it is due Hamas are extremely inventive knowing that every civilian catastrophe can be cynically exploited which brings Jay H. Ell to the calamity at the al - Ali Hospital.
THE TURNING POINT AGAINST ISRAEL - THE ACCUSATION THAT THEY CAUSED THE AL - ALI HOSPITAl EXPLOSION
Within one hour of the explosion related to the aL Ali Hospital Hamas turned world opinion against Israel. In an instant the Palestinians became the Jews and the Israelis became the Nazis. Lie upon lie ensued as the world gobbled up the fiction word for word. Screaming head lines maintained that the Israelis had bombed a hospital killing five hundred patients and women, children and elderly who had shuttled there for safety. Their brazen lies halted a meeting between The President of the USA who was traveling into a war zone to meet with the heads of the Palestinian Authority, Jordan and Egypt. It unleashed the world wide protests in response to Hamas’s enjoining a national day of rage. Students at prestigious universities heeded the call. Most importantly it sent a firecracker into the explosive Middle East where Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, Yemen and Iraq -“The Resistance” were all looking for a reason to extend the struggle.
In the teeth of this mayhem the Israeli response was that they “needed to investigate”. It turned out to be one big lie. Not only have the endless videos and analyses, some by independent entities, shown that the damage was caused by a rocket, it was a misfired rocket from the Islamic Jihad an ally of Hamas in their “struggle”. It was shown that the rocket was fired from a cemetery behind the hospital. The explosion was magnified by the inept rocket’s own fuel, fuel from the cars and probably fuel hidden under the hospital. The hospital had not been hit. Moreover the USA intelligence assessment was a death toll of between 200 and 300 while the EU placed the number at 50.
Most importantly the Hamas operatives knew all this without a painstaking laborious examination. From the get go the Israelis knew they couldn’t flat out deny it as it wasn’t IDF policy, which obeys the rule of war, because no - one would believe them!
There were a number of conversations intercepted by the IDF intelligence of discussions between Hamas operatives. One was their conversation, in the light of knowing it was a Jihadi rocket, they planned the deception on the world by releasing their murderous mendacious narrative within an hour of the drama.
Unlike the investigation that is to follow in Israel, for their military and intelligence failure, the Hamas citizenry will live with the lie that it was the enemy.
Whichever way this is viewed this was a major propaganda coup by Hamas. The USA intercepted missives emanating from Yemeni Houti while its troops were fired upon in Syria and Iraq. Hezbollah stepped up its attacks on Israel from the North resulting in return volleys and the evacuation of nearly a million Israelis from the Northern border area. Iran upped the rhetoric while the world protested against Israel bombing a hospital. There is every indication that "The Resistance" are upping their aggression.
THE HOSTAGES
In human terms the seizure of civilian hostages has to rank up there with most evil of evil. Innocents, in this instance babies, disabled of all ages - a preteen is without his glasses and all the elderly are without their medicines,- a young woman paraded in the streets with blood in her crotch as evidence of her rape and on and on. Over two hundred captured are in tunnels fearful of what is to follow. The sadists have tantalizingly released two American citizens who were vacationing in Israel and a similar number of 80 year old women.
There is little doubt that the Israeli invasion has been delayed because of hostage negotiations. As a Hamas spokesman explained on Russian TV, Hamas’s big advantage was that Israel valued life above all else while they thought martyrdom was righteous. Israel previously had swopped over a 1000 Palestinian jailed terrorists for one IDF captive. The fear too is not only will the hostages be utilized as human shields they may well be tortured. There is powerful forensic evidence that those slaughtered on October 7 were initially tortured.
Hamas will never release all the hostages as that will hasten their demise.
AT THE END OF THE DAY
Nothing but nothing can erase or blur the unbridled savagery and ISIS like ruthless sadism and brutality that marked October 7. A fact that should be etched in the world’s psyche. However history is interpreted, (See Blog; “The Consequences of Hamas’s Barbarism and the Genesis of the Conflict”), it is what it is. Hamas posted on line their own admission of guilt.
Sooner or later Israel will enter Gaza and a bloody war will ensue. They, rather than Hamas, will be screamed at to prevent civilian casualties while Hamas cynically will keep their charges in harms way and announce death tolls whether true or not.
Consider if Hamas won the war, women would still not be afforded equality, nor would the LBGT obtain their rights, or free and fair elections result.
Bibi Netanyahu has to take into account the regional, (Saudi Arabia deal) and global situation by delaying the invasion as counseled by Biden. There has to be an end game. In addition there needs to be humanitarian aid which besides from basic decency will help change the narrative. In addition Netanyahu has to allow the hostage negotiations to play out. This is his last hurrah in the history of Israel to create a legacy as 70 percent of Israelis want anyone but him to be Prime Minister.
Whether Netanyahu likes it or not he and his right wing fanatic coalition partners had already knocked the final nail into a peaceful solution for the century long tension between the Palestinians and Israelis. His hubris, not yet acknowledged by him, left the country unguarded. No one should hold their breath that Bibi will accept reality. There are two reassuring factors in this crisis. There is an adult in the War Cabinet, Bennie Gantz and there is Joe Biden, who is Israel’s security for the future, just outside the room.
Hamas have condemned the Palestinians to the political wilderness. As the face of the Palestinians they have hardened opinion against their supposed objective of an independent state. The most powerful country in the world, as well as all its allies, have unambigiously taken sides. The USA won’t even go through the motions of “peace talks” as long as Israel stick to the rules. Hamas will find that its allies, Iran and its major power friends will only support them as long as they are useful. The only axiom they all share is Fascism.
But for what matters now, the government of Gaza does not believe it is their responsibility to keep their citizenry out of harms way. On the contrary they are dispensable in the goal of Jihad and heaven will reward them all as they commit mass suicide in their futile attempt to drive Israel. and all the Jews into the sea.
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