The Israel-Hamas-Gaza conflict is complex
Simple answers to complex questions are invariably wrong
Kathleen Parker
The Washington Post
Re: “Video proves that outrage against Hamas is justifiable,” (Nov. 20, 2023)
Hi Kathleen,
I would submit that truth regarding the ongoing Israel-Hamas-Gaza-Palestinian harrowing conflict is more chiaroscuro than the prime colors you insinuate at least in part.
The CIA is notorious like other intelligence agencies including Mossad for planting false evidence to incriminate the enemy. Any CIA officer will confirm that truth. You might consider skepticism is warranted about the video shown by the IDF purporting to show Hamas stored weapons or otherwise used tunnels under hospitals to plan and engage in hostilities against Israel. The motive for Mossad fabrication is overwhelming. Who wants another fiasco like WMD in Iraq to justify an invasion? Maybe the evidence was not planted. But your readers would profit by know the history of planted evidence which militates in favor of withholding judgment at this point.
Additionally, your readers would profit by knowing that Israeli leaders have declared that all Palestinians in Gaza are complicit in the Hamas atrocities. They are thus all fair game for the IDF.
The President of Israel maintained, “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It’s not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true.”
An Israeli Knesset member declared, “The Children of Gaza brought it upon themselves,” apparently including babies clinging to life in incubators.
Minister of Defense Yaov Gallant proclaimed, “We are fighting human animals and will treat them accordingly.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu leapfrogged his colleagues in characterizing the conflict as between 21st century progress and “the barbaric fanaticism of the Middle Ages” and a “struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness.” He betrayed the Israeli goal of destroying all Palestinians by invoking the Holy Bible and Amalek as the game plan for Gaza: “You must remember what Amalek has done to you says the Holy Bible. 1 Samuel 15:3, ‘Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.’”
Your readers should also be alerted to David Ben Gurion’s conviction that Israel had provoked Palestinian blowback by stealing their land:
“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true, God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” printed in The Jewish Paradox, p. 121 by Nahum Goldmann.
There are simple answers to complex questions. But they are all wrong. The Israel-Hamas-Gaza conflict is no different.
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Bruce Fein
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