Israel Alone

"[Some of Israel's closest allies want Israel to] stand down and accept that Hamas's army of mass murderers will survive."

"I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer, when mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you, you're on the wrong side of justice."

"You're on the wrong side of humanity, and you're on the wrong side of history."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel's PM has accused the leaders of the UK, France and Canada of being on "the wrong side of history"  Reuters

No other nation on Earth, constantly threatened, attacked and forced to defend itself on an ongoing basis from forces intent on destroying it, faces the unrelenting 'advice' by other nations considered allies, on how it should comport itself as does Israel. In a region of the world where might is right, and inflamed tensions build inexorably to violence and where well funded, trained and armed militias that most countries designate as terrorist entities, attack, the only response that works when attacks take place is to respond in kind.

 

Israel, in responding to a mass barbaric attack led by Hamas and joined by other Palestinian terrorist groups like Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Fatah, as well as Hezbollah and the Yemeni Houthis, knows that it has an obligation to itself and its people, long targeted by death squads of the death-cult movement of Palestinian terrorism to finally vanquish and destroy the ability of these death-dealing groups to continue threatening and attacking the Jewish state. 

 

There is no country on the face of this Earth that would hesitate to counter-attack when thousands of terrorist operatives trained in terrorism tactics bring sadistic savagery to play in hunting down women for mass rape and mutilation, fire automatic weapons to kill any civilian child, woman or man, elderly or in uniform identified as an Israeli target, that would not invade the territory that had desecrated its state of security by mass bloodletting. 

 

Israeli soldier patrols near the Supernova music festival attack in Be'eri, Israel, on Oct. 12.   Aris Messinis / AFP via Getty Images

This is a conflict that terrorism initiated with a stated goal -- to annihilate Jewish lives and in the process destroy the state that protects and secures those lives. Israel's military responded in kind, but a measured kind as a civilized nation, seeking to avoid causing as many casualties among the civilian population ruled by the terrorists as can be possible when Hamas and its sister groups deploy a strategy of shielding themselves among the civilian population, within hospitals, schools and mosques for maximum shelter from the consequences of their actions.

 

During war, civilian populations inevitably suffer. They disproportionately pay the  cost of their governing representatives' decision to wage war on others. In the case of Palestinian terrorist groups there is another role within the conflict scenario; to encourage the civilian population to willingly become decoys, to offer their lives in protection of the lives of those who brought war to them. Collateral damage can be kept to a minimum relatively speaking, when a humane military warns civilians beforehand.

 

There is, however, no way during an active war situation, that civilian lives can be spared during the drive to destroy and eliminate the warring element of the population. Even so, Israel's Defense Forces have been the cause of fewer civilian deaths than in any other active war situation. And the situation is that Hamas holds Israeli  citizens as hostages when to return them could bring an end to the conflict. Even while the IDF in fighting mode seeks out Hamas leaders and their operatives, and Israel's 'allies' urge a ceasefire, Hamas and its terrorist colleagues continue to send rockets into Israel.

 

 

 

What country would unilaterally lay down its arms and allow terrorists to continue their agenda of destruction and death unimpeded because its critics are allied in offering advice that they themselves in similar conditions would never consider as a reaction to a war imposed upon them? Yet the allies do not desist, and Western legacy media, infused with a sense of national moral righteousness from afar, portray Israel as a human rights-abusing nation, never hesitating to use the public relations agenda of Hamas to portray Israel as actively pursuing a 'genocidal' course in its response to an actual genocidal intent.

 

The world has accustomed itself to denying Jews the right to self-defense because they prefer Jews as victims. As victims during the Holocaust when Nazi Germany with the aid and assistance of occupied Europe, just as content to be rid of their Jews as was Germany, and lending themselves to the enterprise with gusto, it was seen as revelatory and shocking when the death toll was counted and those still alive presented in their pathetic state of survival. Empathy to their plight was a natural human reaction.

 

Now it appears that another natural human reaction is taking place, when Jews  refuse to be perpetual victims, and inconveniently have a military and a nation whose purpose of existence is to ensure that Jews themselves endure and exist despite the best laid plans of Jew-haters intent on destroying their lives. The very idea of a competent and still humanitarian military with the capacity to lay low belligerents whose thirst for Jewish blood is unappeasable, fails to sit well with critics whose Jew-hate creeps through their civilizational facade. 

 

People in Tel Aviv light candles on Oct. 12 for those who were taken hostage and in memory of people killed.  Amir Levy / Getty Images file