Keeping Civilians Out of Harm's Way
Bipartisan candlelight vigil with members of Congress to commemorate one month since the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel (Photo: Drew Angerer / Getty Images) |
"The human tragedy that is unfolding in Gaza is heart-wrenching, especially the suffering we see in and around the Al Shifa Hospital.""I have been clear that the price of justice cannot be the continued suffering of all Palestinian civilians. Even wars have rules.""[Hamas needs to stop using Palestinians as human shields and release all hostages] immediately and unconditionally.""[The violence urgently needs to stop] so that Palestinians can get access to life-saving medical services, food, fuel and water, so that all hostages can be released, so that all Canadians and other nationals can leave Gaza."Prime Minister Justin Trudeau"@Justin Trudeau...It is not Israel that is deliberately targeting civilians but Hamas that beheaded, burned and massacred civilians in the worst horrors perpetrated on Jews since the Holocaust.""While Israel ls doing everything to keep civilians out of harm's way, Hamas is doing everything to keep them in harm's way. Israel provides civilians in Gaza humanitarian corridors and safe zones, Hamas prevents them from leaving at gunpoint.""It is Hamas not Israel that should be held accountable for committing a double war crime -- targeting civilians while hiding behind civilians."Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
The
problem here is that it is the Israeli prime minister who is facing a
dilemma; wholly invested in ensuring that Hamas will never again be
capable of slaughtering Israelis because they are Jews, while at the
same time Israeli forces are responding to the terrorist atrocities
committed by Hamas in southern Israel, aggressively searching out the
terrorist Hamas operatives in their densest most civilian-occupied
areas, primarily Gaza City, while care is observed to keep civilian
casualties to a minimum.
Even
while the Israel Defense Forces have been dispatched to Gaza to rout
out the terrorists, Hamas and Islamic Jihad have never stopped
bombarding Israel with rockets, aimed at Israel's civilian population.
When Israel warned Gazans to move south in the event of the IDF entering
the northern regions of the Strip, Hamas ordered its civilians to
remain where they were -- to be defiant -- but the agenda really was to
continue their role as sacrificial martyrs to the Hamas death-cult
imposed on Israel.
Netanyahu's
rebuke of a democratic colleague who has never faced such a dilemma
offering suggestions that appear to equate the legitimacy of a military
fully involved in securing the safety of civilians while engaged in an
existential battle for security for its population -- with the actions
of a terrorist group that precipitated the war. Trudeau has shown
himself time and again prepared to assume the worst of Israel, taking
the word of Hamas, an organization listed on Canada's own terrorist
list, over that of the Israeli authorities.
In
repeating the Hamas mantra of Israel committing genocide by killing
women, children and babies, Trudeau has selected terrorist propaganda
over the concerns of a Western liberal democracy doing all it can under
the circumstances to ensure that women, children and babies are as safe
from harm as can be possible in a war situation where they are abused as
human shields. Israel has carefully and selectively entered parts of
Gaza's hospitals in its search for Hamas operatives in the knowledge
that the terrorists use hospitals as covers.
Hamas
command centres are set up in and under hospitals, a reality that both
Hamas and the medical staff at Shifa Hospital deny. Urging "maximum
restraint" upon Israel expresses a total lack of understanding of the
situation and the care taken to exercise just that. War was mounted in
the wake of a vicious surprise attack by Hamas terrorists on Israeli
communities bordering on Gaza, where an estimated 1,200 mostly civilians
were subjected to mutilation and murder; women raped, children killed
in their homes alongside their parents.
Trudeau's
foreign affairs minister, Melanie Joly, terming the situation
unacceptable, mimicked the concerns of her political governing leader: "Civilians
must be protected and enough food, fuel and water must get into Gaza so
that [the UN's] life-saving work can continue"; an
obvious concern to Israel, grappling with the humanitarian crisis that
it did not create of its singular volition. And while Trudeau stopped
short of calling for a 'ceasefire', his foreign deputy went considerably
further.
It
was her considered recommendation that Israel sit down with Hamas and
Qatar to discuss a cessation of 'hostilities', a return of the hostages
and everyone will be reconciled. In the face of the atrocities committed
by Hamas, in the reality of Qatar harbouring Hamas leaders, and funding
its operations, precisely who is it that this woman is recommending
that Israel trust and bargain with?
Hamas terrorists move Israeli hostages down a street in Be’eri, a kibbutz in southern Israel, video posted to X shows (Photo: Screenshot) |
Labels: Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas Invasion of Israel, IDF Invasion of Gaza, Justin Trudeau, Sadistic Savagery, Searching Out Hamas
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