Things changed on October 7th, 2023, but the response from the Muslim nations remained the same. Hamas launched a ground assault into Israel, kill 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 multinational people from a Peace Concert. Hamas killed men, women, and children in their assault, and then fled back to Gaza carrying the 251 kidnapped people of different nationalities (not just Israeli). Hamas then hid kidnapped individuals underground, among their civilian population, under hospitals, and in residential areas.
Once Israel starts going into Gaza, the world screams stop, and accuses Israel of war crimes against civilians. This scenarios has played out continually over many years. The Muslims attack, Israel responds, and the world at large blames Israel for responding to the attacks, and the Muslim world declares that Israel should be wiped out entirely, for daring to respond.
Socialist of all stripes side by rioting throughout the west. The strange thing about this is that the majority of socialist would be wiped out in Muslim countries for voicing their ideas. Stalin would have referred to them as “Useful Idiots”. Hitler did the same thing during the Weimar Republic era and then threw them all into concentration camps once in power.
The original Palestinian Mandate (originally ruled by the Ottoman empire prior to WWI) was intended for the establishment of a Jewish homeland. The British were given the responsibility to carry out the mandate, but then gave two thirds of the land meant for the Jewish homeland to a Saudi Prince, and name the area as the “Emirate of Transjordan”.
The remaining one third of the original mandate area should have be given to the Jews, but Arabs protested, the British reneged, and not until after WWII did the UN try to address the problem again.
In 1948 the Jews said they would accept what the UN was willing to give. The Arab armies attacked declaring whatever Islam had conquered in the past still belongs to Islam (by the way they still believe that Spain, and large portions of Eastern Europe should be under Muslim control). Israel was able to prevail, but lost control of part of the remaining mandate to the Arab armies that attacked the new state.
Jordan occupied Judah (where Jesus was born), and Samaria (the area originally ruled by Israel's Northern Kingdom), and occupied what became the eastern part of Jerusalem. This included the Temple Mount (where two Jewish Temples originally were located, prior to Rome destroying the city in 70 AD).
Transjordan renamed itself “Jordan”, since Transjordan meant across the Jordon (not including Judah, Samaria, or Jerusalem). This area became known as the West Bank. In 1967 Israel gained control of the part of the Palestinian Mandate meant to be part of its homeland. Strange thing the Quran states that Israel belongs to the Jews (Muslim politics dictate something else).
Eventually Jordan renounced ownership (following the 1967 war), and after the “Arab Palestinian” population in Jordan rebelled against the king, and tried to take over Jordan.
Hamas’ founding documents state they cannot accept the existence of Israel. Most Muslim terrorist groups founding documents, including the Palestinian Liberation Organization state the same thing. Get them to renounce their founding document, and then maybe, just maybe a conversation can happen. As Golda Meir stated, “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
Hamas had a civilian family house three hostages in their home in a residential area, guarded by 200 Hamas soldiers. Israel commandos kill the 200 soldiers and rescued four hostages (one from a separate building). The headlines were that Israel killed 200 Palestinians during the rescue, and condemned them for the act of freeing the hostages.
So another quote from Golda seems appropriate, “The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.”
“The headlines condemned them for freeing the hostages…the world hates a Jew who fights back.”
The sun rises in the East and sets in the West. Vanity of vanities - there is nothing new under the sun.