This past weekend, the pro-terrorist Democrats were out in full force. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted for the US government to withhold military aid to Israel because of the genocide they are committing in Gaza. Ilhan Omar called on Columbia University to “not to be complacent [complicit] in the ongoing Genocide in Gaza.” Elizabeth Warren said that Israel’s war in Gaza will legally be considered a genocide. And Bernie Sanders tweeted, “I’m proud to see students protesting the war in Gaza.” Let’s be very clear. Anybody calling what Israel is doing in their war against Hamas a “genocide”, is firmly on the side of the terrorists. They are eating up and spitting out the propaganda of the terrorist organization whose charter is to exterminate the Jewish people. There is no gray area here. Israel was the victim on October 7, they have a right to fight back; they have a right to defeat their attackers, yet Israel defending itself is now called “genocide”.
500,000 civilians were killed in Syria in 2011 and no one has called that a genocide; 500,000 civilians were killed in the Sudan since 2023 and no one has called that a genocide; 400,000 civilians were killed in Yemen since 2014, 300,000 civilians were killed in Iraq, 250,000 civilians were killed in Afghanistan, and no one has called those genocides; Every single one of those were called wars, and the civilian deaths were classified as “collateral damage”. Allegedly, there have been 30,000 civilian deaths in Gaza, but those numbers are from the terrorists, so the actual number of civilian deaths is most likely much less than that. So, we must take the word of a group that uses civilians as human shields to determine if Israel is committing genocide.
Israel has sent out emails, text messages and dropped leaflets into Rafah urging the Palestinians to evacuate ahead of their ground operation into that Hamas stronghold. Israel is the only country in the history of the world who warns the people in the cities that they are going to attack weeks in advance so the civilians can evacuate. Did the United States warn Hiroshima it was going to drop the atomic bomb? Did we warn Nagasaki? Did the British warn Germany before the bombing of Dresden? Did the United States warn Afghanistan before invading? Did George W. Bush warn the Iranian people prior to his “shock and awe” campaign into Baghdad? No. Did Iran warn Israel before they attacked them last month? Of course not. No other country does that except for Israel and Israel is the only one being accused of genocide.
You know who didn’t warn the civilians that they were going to attack? Hamas. They didn’t warn Israel prior to October 7. They didn’t target military installations. They targeted civilians, because they wanted as many civilian deaths as possible. And Hamas has been using civilians in Gaza as human shields and preventing them from evacuating the area because Hamas wants to maximize civilian casualties. And when they achieve that aim, brain dead people like Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren will line up to condemn Israel as genocidal. Everyone has already forgotten about Iran targeting Israeli civilians a month ago, just as they have already forgotten October 7.
Israel warns the civilians of an impending attack, even when it puts Israel at strategic disadvantage, because they want to avoid as many civilian casualties as possible. And now, after Israel has made their intentions of invading Rafah – a Hamas stronghold – quite clear, Hamas has said that they will accept a ceasefire with Israel, after rejecting every cease fire Israel has proposed for weeks. Once again, Hamas is playing the propaganda game. Just before Israel attacks, they announced that they are willing to accept a ceasefire agreement, but only the watered-down version written by Qatar and not agreed to by Israel, so when Israel attacks Rafah, Hamas can flip the script and claim that they wanted peace and Israel wants war.
Juxtapose the calls for cease-fire in Gaza with what is going on in Ukraine and Russia. We are told that we need a cease-fire in Gaza to prevent more civilian deaths. Immediately after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, both sides came close to a peace deal that would have required some concessions to Russia, but the Biden administration stepped in and nixed the deal. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been killed or wounded in this war, and over 500,000 have fled their homes. If the goal in all of these conflicts is to get to a cease-fire to prevent civilian deaths why was the Biden administration so willing to offer up the civilians in Ukraine to die in a war that could have been ended with a peace deal within the first weeks? The bottom-line is don’t believe anything these people say. They’re all liars. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. None of these people give a damn about one civilian in Gaza or Ukraine or anywhere. They don’t.
If you really think about it, every person who is siding with Hamas, who is calling for a cease-fire without the return of every single Israeli hostage, and without the unconditional surrender of Hamas, is merely aiding in the future attacks and future deaths that will be caused by the appeasement of terrorists. A cease fire, is just that – a cease fire. It is merely giving Hamas the ability to reload and prepare for their next terrorist attack into Israel, which will kill thousands of more Israelis, after which Hamas will be screaming for a ceasefire once again. Hamas is like those punks in the playground, who punch someone they don’t like in the face, and when the victim fights back, they run and hide behind the teacher claiming they started it, so the teacher will punish the person who the bully punched in the face. That is what’s happening. Hamas punches Israel in the face, Israel fights back, Hamas hides behind a call for ceasefire and lies about Israel, so the world punishes Israel. And Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren side with the terrorists. It is people like these four congressmen who so easily believe the lies of the terrorists, who end up causing more civilian deaths.
Did Hamas not expect that Israel was going to respond to the October 7th attack? Of course they did. And in that retaliatory attack by Israel, did Hamas not understand that some civilians in Gaza were going to be killed? Of course they did. Hamas knew what was going to happen. Hamas knew that by attacking Israel, the way they did on October 7, many Palestinians would be killed, and they chose an unprovoked attack anyway. Think about that. They knew the October 7th attack was going to kill, not only thousands of innocent Israeli civilians, but also thousands of Palestinian civilians. They knew all of that, and they attacked anyway. They did not seriously believe that they would be able to attack Israel like they did on October 7th, and Israel would not respond in kind. They surely did not believe that Israel would merely accept the deaths of 1,200 of their citizens in an unprovoked terrorist attack without a military response. No one believes that. So, Hamas knew Palestinians were going die the moment they launched their attack on October 7th and they did it anyway, and somehow Israel is the bad guy. Every ounce of blood that has been dropped in this war lands squarely at the feet of Hamas and the Palestinians who voted for Hamas to be their leaders.
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J Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.