Douglas Murray
NY Post, Dec. 28, 2023
“Major Y and other people on the ground I have spoken with say that they estimate about one in every two or three homes in Gaza they go into has military weaponry, including AK47s, grenades and rocket launchers. And they routinely find entrances to Hamas’s terror tunnels inside civilian houses. And not just anywhere, but most often in the children’s bedrooms and even under cots.”
Much of the world continues to condemn Israel for waging its war against Hamas.
As the casualty figures on both sides grow, Israel is facing the usual calls for a ceasefire. A call that this country has rightly not joined in.
But as well as the Hamas supporters and antisemites who hurl accusations against Israel whatever it does, there are also well-meaning people who genuinely do not seem to understand the war that Israel is fighting.
Every time a home is destroyed in Gaza, or a civilian building is targeted much of the world seems bewildered and outraged. In the process the worst libels against the Jewish state get repeated.
Claims that the Israelis deliberately target civilians. Claims that Israel is committing war crimes, and more.
Take the case the other week when photos emerged of Hamas terrorists in Gaza stripped to their underwear by the IDF. People who had no desire to speak up when Israeli women were raped suddenly seemed furious that suspected terrorists might have been stripped down to their underwear. Of course these online, armchair warriors seem to presume that they themselves are experts in counter-terror techniques. They seem to assume that there either are no Hamas militants in the Gaza, or that no member of Hamas would ever wear a suicide bomb under their clothes. … [To read the full article, click here]
