When it’s okay to kill Gazans

In the handbook of how to be a proper Israel hater, it’s always wrong to kill Gazans…unless it’s Hamas that’s doing the killing.

Never mind the barbaric massacre, perpetrated on October 7th or the reaction of the Gazan people, who celebrated in the street after hearing about the atrocities that took place. The moment that the Israeli military fought against the bloodthirsty terrorists, who invaded their sovereign country, world response was to roundly condemn the killing of Gazans by the IDF.

Of course, when the political agenda is geared at pointing to the poor and disenfranchised neighbors who live across from Israel’s southern border, no differentiation is made between Hamas murderers, including their collaborators, and the unintentional deaths, which accompany every war. Each Gazan death, according to pro-Palestinian activists, is grounds for a war crime.

Over the last two years, the outcries of anti-Israel voices have flooded the Internet and every media source known to man, loudly sending the message that it is never acceptable to kill Gazan residents. To do so earned the IDF the label of Nazis and a few other choice epithets.  Self-defense was no excuse!

But then why would it be if the savage attack was described as a warranted act of resistance? For 24 months, haters of the Jewish state called for an immediate ceasefire.  The fact that starved and tortured hostages remained in the terror tunnels, chained and isolated, was never seen as a mitigating circumstance, refuting the absurd demand as to why ending the war was not an option.

All the while, we were told that Israel was committing a genocide, systematically starving and murdering Gazans. In fact, the ICC wasted no time formally condemning and then pronouncing guilt on the Jewish state, to the extent where IDF soldiers, visiting or just traveling through member nations, ran the risk of being arrested, just for serving in the defense of their country.

Our military and political leaders, likewise, found themselves unwelcomed in some geographic areas abroad, warned that they, too, might be picked up and detained. 

All of this was the strong message being sent to let everyone know that Israel can be attacked in the worst possible way. They can suffer devastating blows where whole communities are nearly wiped out. They can even have babies, young children, grandparents and foreign workers be abducted and held for 737 days, under the ground, in the most brutal conditions, but heaven help them if they make the fatal mistake of fighting back.

Now, with a ceasefire, already activated, and the return of all of the live hostages, the rules have changed.  Who would’ve guessed? The cold-blooded murder of Gazans suddenly became acceptable and even defensible!

According to reports, “Western anti-Israel activists have increasingly come out in support of Hamas’s extrajudicial executions of Gazan dissidents in the wake of a ceasefire with Israel, casting those slain as traitors in a narrative that often calls for revenge for the death of pro Hamas influencer Saleh Al-Jafarawi.”

What a remarkable turn of events! Hamas gets to murder individuals they deem to be dissidents and those opposed to them, with no due process, the much beloved guarantee, hailed by human rights groups.  

But not in this case. Public execution ceremonies, displaying blindfolded men on their knees, has become a common sight. And here’s the kicker – no one is shouting “foul” or calling this a genocide! It’s almost as if the world has suffered a temporary case of night blindness, rendering them incapable of seeing what is in front of their own eyes.

What is actually happening is the struggle between rivaling tribes. These clans are now being branded as collaborators who have betrayed Hamas. By labeling them as such, they can be executed with impunity.

If it wasn’t so hypocritical, honest reporters might actually be motivated to come out against what is being done, but why condemn what some on social media are now characterizing as an act which is causing “every single one of the collaborators to face justice?”  

The fickleness of a world who claims to be able to distinguish right from wrong and oppressors from the oppressed, has decided that they’re going to remain loyal to the most depraved and inhumane monsters that have risen up since the dark days of the Holocaust.

If Hamas has made the determination that Gazan lives should come to an end, then that decision must be justified and one which was made based on truth. But what screams loudest, in all of this faux justice, is the realization that it’s okay to kill Gazans – even sometimes valid and merited. Because these particular residents are being accused of the unforgivable – coming to the aid of the enemy state next door, and such a transgression can only be met with death.

In this case, however, no one will ever know what the real motive was for killing these men who had the misfortune of being at the receiving end of Hamas’s rampage. Apparently, when confronted by the suspicion that anyone else might be vying for full control of the enclave, held captive by Hamas since 2006, they will be swiftly eliminated – no questions asked.

I’m just saying... that for those who claim to be the arbiters of meting out fair and equitable justice, you’d think that we’d all hear some backlash from the media, which considers themselves to be the messengers of truth or from Europe’s vast pro-Palestinian contingency.  Perhaps the ICC might want to weigh in, labeling someone else war criminals, for a change.

What about world leaders who have, in recent days, come forward to reward such individuals with recognition of their own state? Or, maybe we missed something from Hollywood’s elite, who preface the acceptance of all their awards by advocating for Palestinians. Not a peep!

How truly revealing it is to discover that all of the tears and outrage was reserved for Gazans who happened to be in the crosshairs of a peaceful country whose retaliation was warranted and obligatory. 

Muslim leaders must be racking their brains over how to lay all of this at the feet of Israel, because only then will the screaming voices be re-activated. Gazans killing Gazans doesn’t get too much publicity, because it doesn’t serve the agenda of pushing a narrative that portrays Jews as evil beings.

But from where the rest of us sit, it’s not only Hamas who are the perpetrators of wicked and horrendous acts, but also those who are quiet when it’s done to their own kind!