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Victor Davis Hanson: Gaza: Truths Behind All the Lies
American Greatness ^ | 28 Mar, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 03/28/2024 4:51:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber

From civilian casualties, the use of disproportionate force, and international biases, the mainstream narrative of the Gaza conflict often obfuscates the truth behind lies.

"Occupied Gaza.” Prior to October 7, there were roughly two million Arab citizens of Israel but no Jewish citizens in Gaza. Gazans in 2006 voted in Hamas to rule them. It summarily executed its Palestinian Authority rivals. Hamas cancelled all future scheduled elections. It established a dictatorship and diverted hundreds of billions of dollars in international aid to build a vast underground labyrinth of military installations.

So Gaza has been occupied by Hamas, not Israel, for two decades.

“Collateral Damage.” Hamas began the war by deliberately targeting civilians. It massacred them on October 7 when it invaded Israel during a time of peace and holidays. It sent more than 7,000 rockets into Israeli cities for the sole purpose of killing noncombatants. It has no vocabulary for the collateral damage of Israeli civilians, since it believes any Jewish death under any circumstances is cause for celebration.

Hamas places its terrorist centers beneath and inside hospitals, schools, and mosques. Why? Israel is assumed to have more reservations about collaterally hitting Gaza civilians than Hamas does exposing them as human shields.

“Disproportionate.” We are told Israel wrongly uses disproportionate force to retaliate in Gaza. But it does so because no nation can win a war without disproportionate violence that hurts the enemy more than it is hurt by the enemy.

The U.S. incinerated German and Japanese cities with disproportionate force to end a war both Axis powers started. The American military in Iraq nearly leveled Fallujah and Mosul by disproportional force to root out Islamic gunmen hiding among innocents. Hamas has objections to disproportionate violence—but only when it is achieved by Israel and not Hamas.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; hamaslies; israel; truth; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 03/28/2024 4:51:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

By siding with Hamas, the left is showing their true colors for all to see.


2 posted on 03/28/2024 4:51:19 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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As Prager has noted: Israel is the only country the world does not allow to defend itself. When Israeli’s act in their own defense, the world condemns them for doing so.


3 posted on 03/28/2024 4:54:39 AM PDT by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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To: MtnClimber

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4 posted on 03/28/2024 4:55:36 AM PDT by gattaca (Once a nation loses control of its borders, it is no longer a nation...Ronald Reagan)
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To: MtnClimber; bitt; Lazamataz; Allegra; Fred Nerks; Lakeside Granny; Jane Long; azishot; Albion; ...
Ping to an excellent article on the historical status quo between Israel and Hamas.

It leaves no doubt that Israel acts in self defense,and reveals the necessity to annihilate Hamas.

5 posted on 03/28/2024 5:14:30 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


6 posted on 03/28/2024 5:20:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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...”their multi-generational efforts to form their own one-state solution”.

“Jehad is a continuos and NEVER ENDING struggle waged on all fronts including political, economic, social, psychological, domestic, moral and spiritual to obtain the objectives of policy.”

The Quranic Concept of War - pp 115/16

CAPS mine


7 posted on 03/28/2024 5:29:26 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: glennaro

The only country in the Middle East where all citizens have equal rights is Israel.

Try being of “Palestinian “ descent no matter how many generations removed from “Palestine “ and see how many rights you have, and these are Arab nations


8 posted on 03/28/2024 5:30:12 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: MtnClimber

The IDF started evacuating civilians last night in preparation for an offensive. They have told Qatar and Egypt That the offensive will begin at the end of Ramadan, or before or during Eid al-Fitr. which will be on April 10-12.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/387462
Interestingly enough, the Solar Eclipse will be on April 8th. Could the offensive start on the day of the solar eclipse?


9 posted on 03/28/2024 5:31:12 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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And shortly after Hamas taking over Gaza they began firing missiles into Israeli towns. They are followers of Satan and need to be eliminated at whatever cost.
And the Gazan's are going to suffer due to THEIR decisions to support them!

Oh and the real truth???

LET'S GET THE TRUTH OUT THERE!! Historical and biblical truth.

The “Palestinian refugees” are neither Palestinian nor refugees. Here are the facts!

https://www.frontpagemag.com/__trashed-14/

10 posted on 03/28/2024 5:31:15 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: MtnClimber

“A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.”

William Blake

Paging Prof. Hanson.


11 posted on 03/28/2024 5:32:23 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: MtnClimber

The world of the left will be angry with Israel no matter what they do. I say do what you have to do and don’t worry about what breathless pearl clutching leftards think about it.


12 posted on 03/28/2024 5:33:06 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

EVIL collective. A “multi-generational” anti-truth, anti-freedom, ant-individual, anti-life ideology still roams earth.


13 posted on 03/28/2024 5:34:56 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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By siding with Hamas, the left is showing their true colors for all to see.

The true colors of the left have been evident for a long time, for anyone who wasn't blinded by their own bias, hatreds, or chosen ignorance.

14 posted on 03/28/2024 5:43:35 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: MtnClimber

Marking.


15 posted on 03/28/2024 5:45:26 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.c)
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To: 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; Alouette; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

Prisoners.” The international community that favors Hamas, nevertheless, knows it would be safer to be a prisoner of Israel than of Hamas. It knows women are not going to be raped in custody by Israelis but are by Hamas. And the unarmed are more likely to be mutilated and decapitated by Hamas than Israelis.

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16 posted on 03/28/2024 5:46:11 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: silent majority rising

Signs in the sky?


17 posted on 03/28/2024 7:12:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

We will see.


18 posted on 03/28/2024 7:22:32 AM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: silent majority rising

Yes we will see

Bibi is too arrogant for his own good, let alone to be of service to Israel.


19 posted on 03/28/2024 7:40:34 AM PDT by Sunsong
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To: Sunsong

I am sure Comrade Biden agrees with your opinion.


20 posted on 03/28/2024 8:09:57 AM PDT by ohioman
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