Posted on 02/20/2025 1:47:20 PM PST by Rummyfan
This week, the world was reminded of the deep and abiding evil that has wormed its way to the center of Palestinian nationalistic culture by the news that the Bibas family — a mother, Shiri; a 4-year-old boy, Ariel; and his 9-month-old brother, Kfir — who had been kidnapped back to Gaza on Oct. 7 had in fact been murdered. Their bodies are to be returned to Israel this week; Hamas held the corpses hostage, and in return received the release of imprisoned Palestinian terrorists.
It is instructive to recall the circumstances of the Bibas family's kidnapping. They were not, in fact, kidnapped by identified members of Hamas. They were kidnapped by Palestinians in civilian dress, who joined Hamas for their murderous spree. For over a year, zero Palestinians apparently revealed the whereabouts of the Bibas family to the Israelis; zero worked to keep them safe or to restore them to liberty.
This fits with a pattern of civilian involvement in Palestinian terror activity: the reality is that the Palestinian terror apparatus is incestuously intertwined with the Palestinian civilian population. That is why released hostages tell of being held by civilian families in Gaza; why terrorists merge so easily into the surrounding civilian population; why the popularity of Palestinian terrorist groups remains sky-high among Palestinians generally. The hard division between terrorist and civilian so cherished by the West simply doesn't exist in practice in places like the Gaza Strip.
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These children and their mother will continue to haunt me. Just horrible. Not unexpected but awful. The look of the mother’s eyes while holding her sons as they are taken... I hope the Israeli government does what it needs to.
“Hamas held the corpses hostage, and in return received the release of imprisoned Palestinian terrorists.”
The dark side of me thinks the terrorists should be returned, in a box. But the Lord say’s “Thou Shalt Not Murder”.
Killing a lethally poisonous parasite is not murder, it is self defense.
“Killing a lethally poisonous parasite is not murder, it is self defense.”
While I might agree in principle, I don’t make the rules.
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