On Sunday, December 31, 2023 at 12:15:28 AM UTC+5:30, a425couple wrote:
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> https://nypost.com/2023/12/28/opinion/hamas-philosophy-all-civilians-all-children-are-tools-of-war/
>
> Hamas’ philosophy: All civilians, all children are tools of war
> By Social Links forDouglas Murray
> Published Dec. 28, 2023, 4:22 p.m. ET
>
> A minibus is carrying people who are fleeing from the central Gaza Strip
> with their belongings in Deir Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on
> December 28, 2023
> A minibus is carrying people who are fleeing from the central Gaza Strip
> with their belongings in Deir Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on Dec.
> 28, 2023.
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> DOUGLAS MURRAY
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> America must aid Ukraine AND secure our own borders — or what kind of
> superpower are we?
> Israeli president on college bosses: Can't they understand this is a
> fight against evil?
> Idiot anti-Israel protesters wreaking havoc in NYC are just fanatics
> wrapped up in lies
> In Israel, a long wait of hope and fear to see if their children will be
> freed from hell
> 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 which 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.
>
> Which is the sort of thing that means that IDF soldiers have to get them
> to strip down.
>
> But worse is when people make claims that the IDF somehow deliberately
> target civilians.
>
> Even children.
>
> Earlier this week The Post published a story about Hamas hiding
> explosives in toy boxes.
>
> That is absolutely true and the tip of the iceberg.
>
> To get a better sense of what the IDF is actually facing on the ground
> in Gaza I spoke this week with a man I can only identify as “Major Y.”
>
> He is an American who went to Israel to fight in the immediate aftermath
> of October 7th.
>
> He has been fighting in Gaza constantly since then in a special forces unit.
>
> These are some of the things he told me about his experiences there.
>
> The first thing that the outside world does not seem to know is that
> Hamas routinely uses civilian houses as weapon stores.
>
> This is a complete flouting of the laws of war, including the Geneva
> conventions which mandate that armies must not use civilian sites for
> military use.
>
> 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.
>
> Indeed one member of the IDF I spoke with this week says that this is
> such a pattern that when they search a house they now go straight to the
> children’s bedrooms to uncover weapons caches and entrances to the tunnels.
>
> They recently found an RPG underneath a baby’s crib.
>
> Furthermore, Major Y says that every single mosque they go into has a
> Hamas weapons store.
>
> As has every UN school that they go into. Again this violates every rule
> of war.
>
> Hamas use places of worship — while pretending to be such “devout”
> Muslims — because they know the Israelis will not target their places of
> worship.
>
> They use schools as arms dumps because they know that if Israel targets
> an empty school the world will go berserk.
>
> It is a cynical tactic, that of course puts at risk the very
> Palestinians who Hamas pretend to be representing.
>
> According to the Major, “every school and kindergarten we go into we
> find guns in the basement. In each one we found more than ten AK47s,
> machine guns and grenades.”
>
> And that’s when Hamas terrorists are not there.
>
> On the ground, amid the intense fighting in the south of Gaza, the major
> tells me the sort of things he has encountered.
>
> On one occasion recently his unit spotted an old lady in a wheelchair
> alone on a street corner in the south of Gaza.
>
> They approached the elderly lady “who looked like my grandmother”
> according to the major.
>
> And as they approached her they were suddenly fired on by a Hamas terrorist.
>
> He had placed himself under her wheelchair in order to fire on the
> Israeli soldiers.
>
> This is the Hamas that pretends to care for Palestinians but would even
> use an elderly disabled Palestinian woman as a human shield.
>
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> On another occasion recently the major says that his unit was beside an
> UNWRA school.
>
> The soldiers saw a 13-year old boy running with a bag near one of the
> schools.
>
> He put it down and ran away.
>
> A few minutes later it detonated, badly wounding one of the Israeli
> soldiers nearby.
>
> When people ask how Israel could treat even some children as potential
> terrorists, this is why.
>
> As the major said, Hamas didn’t think for a moment “about the
> Palestinian civilians” who were nearby when the bomb went off.
>
> I ask about the claims that Israeli troops have to treat even people
> coming towards them with white flags with suspicion.
>
> I have seen this myself in the Gaza — where the IDF ask people to step
> forward very slowly even when are waving white flags.
>
> The major says that on many occasions in recent weeks he has seen Hamas
> use precisely these people to carry out attacks.
>
> Recently he says “a group of old women and old men” came out of a
> building waving a white flag.
>
> Then someone came out from within their ranks and started shooting at
> the soldiers.
>
> Because of the civilians the Israelis did not shoot back at the terrorist..
>
> In other words, the Israelis expressed more care for the Palestinian
> civilians than this Palestinian terrorist. Situations like this happen
> “every day” says the major.
>
> Add to this the rockets and grenades they routinely uncover in UNWRA and
> other UN bags.
>
> And the tunnel entrances and weapons stores are everywhere.
>
> One tunnel entrance was just found in a school’s playing fields.
>
> This, then, is the Hamas way of war.
>
> And the Israeli way of war.
>
> One side uses civilians as human shields.
>
> The other tries to locate terrorists.
>
> So how strange it is that so many Americans — especially young Americans
> — condemn the Israelis.
>
> It is Hamas that started this.
>
> And Hamas that is the real enemy not just of Israel but of the
> Palestinian people.
>
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> Ayellet Target
> 1 day ago
>
> As usual, Douglas Murray is correct he always nails it, and I wish the
> whole world would read the truth. I cannot wrap my brain around what is
> going on and how the world seems to love the terrorist the terrorist
> that would be happy to be everyone that marches for them. How ironic is that
>
>
> Truth B. Told
> 1 day ago
>
> The only thing left out of his article is the support Hamas gets from
> the Palestinian people living in Gaza. I don't believe for one moment
> they are
>
> the innocents in all of this barbarity, that some idealists in this
> country and
>
> around the world would like to pretend they are.
>
>
>
> Miss Fit
> 1 day ago
>
> "Hamas" are the brothers, fathers, sons, and cousins of those who were
> killed by Israel in the past decades.
>
> The brothers, fathers, sons, and cousins of those who are being
> exterminated by Israel now, will form a new resistant movement.
>
> People that live under occupation and oppression tend to resist that
> occupation and oppression.
>
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> RHCA57
> 1 day ago
>
> Thank you for your consistent reporting and speaking on the true nature
> of Hamas and the war Israel is fighting. There is such a massive pro
> Hamas propaganda machine out there polluting our media and social media,
> that it makes your reporting all the more important for the world to
> hear. God Bless ...
>
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