Disinformation About Israel

[alon]

With the Israel-Hamas war right now there is a lot of discussion. And of course along with that comes a LOT of disinformation put out there by the biased media, idiot politicians, and often well meaning but woefully brainwashed Christians and even Messianics. In my own kehilah there has been some false ideas surfacing. So I (with my pastors blessing) wrote up a paper with excerpts from my notes. It is a bit long (8 pages) so I will break it up into at least 2 posts here. I hope it will help others to make informed arguments and in being advocates for Israel.


Along with this I would like to put out an idea I came across. One of the owners of a UK sports franchise (can't recall which) started a "Blue Square for Israel" campaign. The idea is to wear a blue square to show that you support Israel. I made up some 3" squares for my coats and jackets, and some 2" squares for my shirts. I simply cut some squares from 3X5 cards, then cut some oversized squares of blue cloth. I folded the excess onto the back of the cards and glued thm in place. Then I pinned these to my clothing. I would encourage everyone to show your support boldly and be ready with the truth to counter the forces of ha'satan when they speak up against Israel.

עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי    Am Yisroel Chai!    The people of Israel live, or the nation of Israel lives!  -  Was also a slogan of the Zionist movement and later of Israel's war of independence fought against terrible odds.  -  Today it is a slogan of resistance to terrorists in the wake of the recent attacks- loosely meaning "Long Live Israel! / We (still) Live!"          

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Reason for the Wars Between Islam and Israel

There are several popular theories to explain the fighting between Israel and her Islamic neighbors. The most common theory is the “Ethnic Political Struggle” between Isaac and Ishmael. The assumption being made is that Ishmael is the father of the Arabs. Ishmael is NOT the father of the Arabs! Many Muslims claim that he is, but he isn’t. One cannot be the first Arab if Arabs already existed! Iraqis are direct decedents of the Chaldians/Babylonians, and they are Arab. Ur of the Chaldeans was hundreds of years old when Avraham was born, and there were thousands of Chaldeans at the time. Abraham himself was an Arab until becoming a Jew at age 99. Ishmael was born Arab, Isaac was born Hebrew. So Arabs existed long before Ishmael.

There are twenty one Arab nations in the world today, some descended from Abraham; but not even one from Ishmael! How could that be?

Abraham was alone after Hagar and Sarah had died. He then took a third wife: Genesis 25:1 (NASB) Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. Keturah is a Semitic name, so she is likely descended from Shem, father of all Semites. Keturah bore six sons to Abraham, all fathers of Arab nations: Genesis 25:2 (NKJ) “And she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.” These names, written in cuneiform are on official documents from the Assyrian and Babylonian Empires. They are listed as “aravim,” the Semitic word for “Arabs.” Thus as early as 700 BC the children of Keturah are known as Arabs:
Midian- father of the Midianites who often warred with the Hebrews, their half-brothers. (Numbers 31 & Judges 6)
Jokshan- father of Dedan and Sheba: Genesis 25:3 (NKJ) “Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan...”
Ancient Sheba, on the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula is the home to the Queen of Sheba; today two nations occupied by North and South Yemen.
Dedan- father of the Saudi Arabians whose ancient capitol today is called Mecca.
Arabs in Kuwait, Bahrain and the UAE are descended from Medan, Ishbak and Shuah.
The six sons of Abraham and Keturah are all fathers of Arab nations who to this day live on the Arabian Peninsula.

Abraham also had at least two more sons born by concubines: Genesis 25:6 (NKJ) They also went to ‘the east country’, Arabia, when leaving the home of Abraham. All these are Arabs, they are not descended from Ishmael.

Today the countries of North Africa, known as Arab nations are actually a mixture of Hamitic and Semitic blood. Both Egypt and Libya are ancient nations. Genesis 10:6 (NKJ) “And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.” Egypt is Mizraim and Libya is Phut in Hebrew. The Bible tells us these two nations are descended from Ham. Egypt and Libya maintained their Hamitic character until the Moslem conquests in the 8th. and 9th. centuries CE. There was mixing of the blood of the conquering Arabs and Egyptians and the Libyans, which is why they speak Arabic and call themselves Arabs. The Egyptians and the Libyans were not originally Arabs. They are mostly Arabic today though. Their Arabic blood came from the Saudi Arabian tribes descended from Abraham and Keturah. Egyptians and the Libyans can claim Abraham as their father, but not Ishmael.

Other Arab nations of North Africa have their Semitic lineage from the Phoenicians who migrated there and founded Carthage. They were a mixture of Hamitic Canaanite and Semitic Amorite and not from either Abraham or Ishmael.

There were three nations in what is now Jordan: Ammon, Moab and Edom. All three are from Semitic stock and today speak Arabic and call themselves Arabs. Edomites were descended from Esau, twin brother of Jacob. Esau married three wives: a Hittite, a Hivite, and a daughter of Ishmael. Thus Edomites of southern Jordan can claim Abrahamic lineage indirectly through Esau, and a very few directly through Ishmael’s daughter (but they never became a nation).

Ammon and Moab are descended from Abraham’s nephew Lot, thus having blood ties. The two sons of Lot, Moab and Ben Ammi fathered the Moabites and Ammonites. Moab and Ben Ammi were also his grandsons due to the incestuous relationship between Lot and his daughters (Gen 19:31).

So not one Arab nation can be traced to Ishmael. Who are his descendants, and where are they? Genesis 17:20 (NKJ) “And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.” Two important points in the prophecy concerning Ishmael:
1. He’d have twelve sons who would become princes, not kings. Kings would imply nations because one nation cannot  have twelve kings.
2. God would make Ishmael a great nation, singular: thus all the many Arab nations cannot be from Ishmael.

Ishmael’s descendants are the Bedouin of the Sinai region. Ishmael’s mother was Hagar the Egyptian. Her mother tongue was Egyptian. The language spoken in the tents of the Bedouin in Sinai and southern Israelis a dialect based on ancient Egyptian. When scholars want to study ancient Egyptian, they go to the Bedouin. There are twelve tribes of Bedouin which speak this dialect. Other groups of “desert dwellers” and “nomads” cal themselves Bedouin. The Bedouin of north Africa, which includes Mumar Khadaffi and Bedouin in parts of Saudi Arabia who do not speak the Egyptian dialect of the Ishmaelites. Also Bedouin in the Galilee region. Language is the determining point- only Ishmaelite Bedouin speak ancient Egyptian. The other (so called) Bedouin speak Arabic.

There are today hundreds of Bedouin living in Beersheba, coexisting with the Jews; serving in the IDF and carrying weapons throughout Israel. They wear Israeli uniforms, but instead of army berets they wear kaffiyahs; head coverings of the Bedouin. Bedouin are intensely loyal to the country in which hey live; this includes the Bedouin of Israel. These are Ishmaelites fighting with, not against Isaac!

Many Arabs do hate Jews; but not as a continuation of some mythical “Isaac - Ishmael enmity.”
The second reason often given is these recent wars are for military and strategic reasons. This sounds plausible because Israel historically was the land bridge between Africa, Asia, and Europe. A cardinal rule of military operations is “secure your supply lines.” A nother is “leave no enemy threat to your rear.” HaEretz Yisroel was a major choke point for all the best trade routes, and so was fought over by all the powers of the region and the world.

People assume the same conditions apply to Israel today; but they fail to consider the nature of modern warfare. The advent of larger, faster and more powerful ships, and now aircraft greatly diminish the strategic importance of Israel as a route for either trade or invasion.

Next we consider the argument it is an economic struggle. Poor nations look enviously at their neighbors, especially when those neighbors have made the desert bloom as they never could; or more to the point would.

Israel has no vast oil reserves, no exotic gems; no precious metals or metals of any kind. She has no vast forests, no mineral wealth. Many prophecy teachers tell us the ‘great Gog of the North’ will come to conquer Israel to get the ‘vast wealth’ of the Dead Sea. There are trillions of dollars worth of mineral deposits in the Dead Sea. However the expense of recovering these is so great as to make it no more plausible than recovering these same minerals from sea water. Dead Sea water is extremely corrosive, eating up iron based metals in short order. Salinity is so high it is hard to separate other minerals, the procedure being time consuming and costly.

Israel’s economy is based on agriculture, computer based technology, and tourism. Lebanon and Jordan have the same soil as Israel and grow the same products. Israel has her Dead Sea Salt Works and Jordan has operations on her side of the Dead Sea. Israel just does not have any great wealth that would arouse her neighbors into attacking. Especially when so many of the surrounding countries are rich in oil. Lebanon is more fertile. In fact, the only country in the area not better off than Israel is Jordan. The main difference between them is the educational level of their citizens rather than the worth of the land.

So much for the economic rationalization. Could the problem be spiritual? To answer we must understand God set His Throne on a mountain He picked from all other mountains.

It was on this mountain, God’s Holy Mountain that the Covering Cherub, Lucifer, rebelled and sin entered creation. Ezekiel 28:16 calls this mountain “The Mountain of God.” This is where God rules from and is “the” place of authority. This mountain is Har Tzion! It also goes by the names Har Moriah, Har Miaggidon (The Mount of Rendezvous); Har Moed (Mount of the Congregation). This place of authority is what ha’satan has always been after. He wants to exalt his throne above G-d’s throne: Isaiah 14:13 (KJV) “For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the Mount of the Congregation, in the sides of the north:” Ha’satan wanted, and stills wants to take God’s Throne. In order to show that he is God, ha’satan must have his throne on Har Tzion, on the sides of the north. That is where God put His Throne, and if you are going to replace Him that is where your throne must be placed.

This is the reason for all the turmoil. It is a battle for God’s throne. A battle between good and evil. It is not ethnic, political or economic. The root of the problem is ha’satan, trying to be God. The enemy will do everything he can to undermine G-d’s work and plan.

[alon]

History

The land of Israel has been populated by the Jewish people since 2000 BCE:
1900 BC: Abraham chosen by God as the Father of the Jewish Nation.
1900 BC: Isaac, Abraham's son, rules over Israel.
1850 BC: Jacob, son of Issac, rules over Israel.
1400 BC: Moses leads the people out of Egypt and back to Israel.
1010 BC: King David unites the 12 tribes into one nation.
970 BC: King Solomon, son of David, builds the first temple in Jerusalem
930 BC: Israel divided into the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
800s BC: The rise of the prophets, God's messengers.
722 BC: Kingdom of Israel is conquered by Assyrians.
605 BC: Kingdom Judah is conquered by the Babylonians.
586 BC: Solomon's Temple is destroyed by the Babylonians.
539 BC: Persians conquer the Babylonians and take control of Israel.
538 BC: The Jews return to Israel from exile.
520 BC: The Temple is rebuilt.
450 BC: Reforms made by Ezra and Nehemiah.
433 BC: Malachi is the end of the prophetic age.
432 BC: The last group of Jews return from exile.
333 BC: The Greeks conquer the Persian empire.
323 BC: The Egyptian and Syrian empires take over Israel.
167 BC: Hasmonean's recapture Israel, and Jews are ruled independently.
70 BC: Romans conquer Israel.
20 BC: King Herod builds the "second" temple
6 BC: Yeshua HaMoshiach born in Beit Lechem
70 CE: Romans destroy the temple
After that, the people were captives to the Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, and Crusaders. Through all of these events, the Jewish people continued to live in Israel. There were more or less of them, depending on the centuries, but there was never a time when the Jews didn't live in the land. They stayed, built communities, raised families, practiced their faith and suffered at the hands of many outside rulers; but they always kept their faith. It is what sustains them, even now.
1948 CE: the UN established the State of Israel.

Don't buy the Islamic lies they are entitled to the land because they alone have been there. It simply is not true.

In all those centuries of history there has never been a nation, people, or land called “Palestine/Palestinian.” The term was applied by Rome after the narrow defeat of the Hebrews in 136 CE when the Bar Kochba Revolt was crushed. They had been mauled by this upstart small nation which came within a hairs breadth of booting them out! It was an insult, harkening back to the Philistines who were a thorn in Israel’s side for centuries. Palestine is Latin for Philistine. But even at this time there were no so called “Palestinians,” or Arabs living in “Palestine;” only Jews. Any way you slice it, the only real owners of the real estate of Israel are the Jews.

Arabs did occupy Israel but with no real authority for centuries. But they let the state of that land run down to the point when Samuel Clements visited it, this is what he had to say: “A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds, a silent mournful expanse, a desolation, we never saw a human being on the whole route, hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country." (The Innocents Abroad, p. 361-362) Only the Jews and their God ever made the land flourish. Thereby God placed His own seal on the title of the rightful owners- His own chosen people, the Jews.

Trading Gaza for peace- If there is one word that best explains Israelis’ current frustration, it is “disengagement.” In 2005, Israel uprooted over 9,000 Israeli citizens living in 25 settlements scattered through Gaza and northern Samaria. Initially there were some weapons in Gaza, no tunnels, and a limited terrorist infrastructure, because Israel still retained some control. Yet, almost immediately after withdrawing from Gaza, primitive Qassam rockets started bombarding Israel – while critics kept bombarding Israel with the occupation charge. The violence against Israel – and the criticism — intensified when Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007, brutally killing fellow Muslims in the process. Now facing an implacable foe vowing to exterminate the Jewish people Israel blockaded Hamas. As a result, a whole series of lies burst forth: that Israel is occupying the territory it withdrew from completely; that Gaza is the “most densely populated place on earth” (it doesn’t compare to Manhattan, Hong Kong, and other major cities); and that the Zionists have made it an “open air prison” or concentration camp. You can see on a map that Egypt controls Gaza’s southern border, and know it keeps Gazans far, far away from Egyptians. In short, Israel did everything it said it would when it disengaged, betraying many of its own citizens in the process. Predictably Israel ended up with no peace, no peace of mind, and a piece of territory that became Hamasistan rather than the Mediterranean resort it could have been if its governing body had put its generous international aid to good use. Today, Israel has on its border a hostile, seething launching pad for tens of thousands of rockets and marauders, exporting so much trauma and misery while those responsible treat their own people as cannon fodder and human shields.

Israel is Moral, Compassionate

Typical quote pulled from a news artical: “As Israeli actions aimed at grabbing Palestinian land, making Palestinian lives miserable and murdering them on a mass-scale intensify and become more and more shameless, …”

Israel is vilified in news reports and assemblies around the world. However they have acted, and continue to act with compassion and a moral imperative seen in few wars.

They have from the start warned Gazans, and thus their enemies days in advance when they are going to bomb an area. They “knock” on buildings just prior to bombing, giving occupants ample time to leave. And as much as possible they only target enemy facilities and forces. This however is difficult to do when your enemy uses occupants of hospitals, schools, mosques, and urban areas as human shields; firing on Israeli soldiers and civilians from behind their own civilians, and on Jewish infants and children from behind their own infants and children.

Israel has now set up a field hospital for Palestinian Arabs on the beach in Gaza. Why? Because countless reports indicate that many of the hospitals in Gaza have functioned as military headquarters for Hamas.

Moral Equivalency

Palestinians and the left often use false equivalency. They draw parallels between Israeli actions and historical atrocities, such as South African apartheid or Nazi Germany. This not only overlooks the unique historical contexts of each situation, but also trivializes the suffering experienced by those who lived through those horrific events.

Ideology

The 1988 Hamas Charter draws heavily on quotations from the Hadith and Qur’an, building the argument “Jews deserve Allah's enmity and wrath because they received the Scriptures but violated its sacred texts, rejected the signs of Allah, and slew their own prophets.” The introduction of the charter characterizes Hamas' struggle as a continuation of "Our [long and dangerous] struggle with the Jews….” Article Seven concludes with a quotation from a Hadith: “The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say, 'O Muslim, O servant of God, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’” Hamas religious ideology dictates this is not a struggle for freedom, for land, or any reason other than the extermination of every Jew, everywhere. The Charter further states "The day that enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem. In face of the Jews' usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised.” All Islam, according to Hamas is duty bound to make war on all Jews.

"From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free"- “From the River to the Sea” is a one-state solution, meaning a no-Jewish state solution; and no Jews anywhere else, either. Some Palestinians prevaricate. The phrase’s history is exclusionary and exterminationist.

In 1964, three years before the Six-Day War, the slogan was popularized by Palestinian terrorists who founded the “Palestine Liberation Organization.” Their war aims were not to liberate the “occupied territories,” which Israel only secured three years later. They wanted to liberate the world from Israel itself. Since Hamas emerged in the late 1980s, the slogan has been a Hamas and Islamic Jihad mainstay.

October 7 offered at least one clear lesson: the enemy calls for Israel’s destruction, and Jews should take the death cries seriously; just as Americans must start taking the Iranian mullahs’ death cries seriously. “Palestine from the River to the Sea” leaves no room for Jews or the Jewish State. Most Israelis don’t hate Arabs, but they must pass laws protecting themselves against enemies who seek their extermination.

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Lies About Israel

Jews didn’t come back to Israel until after the Holocaust- the first wave of Jews returning to Eretz Yisroel was in the Zionist Movement spearheaded by Theadore Herzl. About 50,000 Jews made aliyah between 1882 and WWI. Many Jews did leave Europe for ha’eretz after WWII, but they settled on land already owned by Jews who had bought mostly swampy or dry, rocky land at exorbitant prices from Arab occupiers and made it produce magnificently. They took nothing of value from their Muslim neighbors, paying dearly in money and lives for everything they got.

Israelis have always refused to compromise- Israel has almost always accepted compromises, even when against their interests. This includes giving Gaza to Muslims for promises of peace. Instead they have been continually attacked from Gaza.

Israel expelled Muslims after becoming a state- About 700,000 Muslims fled Israel before her war for independence having been assured of victory and the chance of spoils when they returned after the war. Israel pleaded for them to stay in peace, but once they left they were not allowed to return. Islam called the exodus and eradication of much of their society inside Israel the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” and blamed it on the Jews. However clearly this “catastrophe” was of their own making.

Israel ‘occupied’ Islamic territories- In 1967 Israel launched a preemptive defensive war against Jordan, Egypt and Syria as they were preparing to invade. Israel seized the Sinai peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria, and the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan. Israel’s capture of all of Jerusalem and newly acquired control over the biblical lands of Judea and Samaria opened the way to the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Israel did not simply “occupy” anything. Arab nations started another war, Israel won, Israel got the dirt; simple as that.

Israel caused the second intifada- The second intifada was different from the first intifada because of widespread suicide bombings against Israeli civilians launched by Hamas and other groups. By the time the uprising ended in 2005, more than 1,000 Israelis were dead over 5 years of continual terrorism. This led to a hardening of attitudes among ordinary Israelis who now had to face the reality of the resolve of their enemies. Not what was intended by Hamas, but this change must be laid squarely at their feet. The intifada was a reaction to the ill fated Camp David Conference. Bill Clinton, more interested in establishing a legacy (his own words) than brokering peace rushed the conference to finish it before his term ended. The (so called) “Palestinians” tried to exact as many concessions as possible from Israel without ever seriously intending to reach a peace settlement. Israel did turn down several conditions being leveraged against her as they would have been disastrous to the security of the state. Arafat, then head of the Gaza government rebuffed almost every proposal for his own compromise. So we might say the second intifada was the result of another of Clinton’s legacies of failure, consistent left-wing press bias against Israel inflaming “Palestinian” anger, and the man Rush called “Yasser That’s-my-Baby Arafat’s” refusal to negotiate in good faith.

Israel’s blockade of Gaza which has contributed to deteriorating living conditions and deepening poverty- Israel only stops munitions from entering Gaza. In actuality, due to their having been given one of the best vacation destinations in the Med (possibly the world) and due to all the relief they get from charitable organizations all over the Christian world the income of the average “Palestinian” should be far higher than that of even the middle and lower-upper class Israeli. However this money is diverted, stolen by Hamas to build infrastructure for terrorism and to buy weapons and smuggle them in. The poverty of Gazans is fully a Hamas controlled problem.

Israel is practicing apartheid- Israel is seen by the left as a Jewish-supremacist state, and settler-colonialist enterprise. In the 1990s, Israel was racist, colonialist, and imperialist, as well as guilty of “ethnic cleansing” once the Balkan mess introduced that phrase into the international vocabulary. Since the 1970s Israel has been called an apartheid state. Apartheid was a system of racial differentiation – apartness – based on racial classifications. The Apartheid Wall in Johannesburg’s Apartheid Museum lists 148 laws sifting people into different racial categories to keep them apart and calibrate who deserved which privileges, and which restrictions. Israel has never passed one law defining people by racial categories. Israeli-Arabs enjoy equal rights and have served as Supreme Court judges, Knesset members, key members of the last coalition. With about 20% of the population, Israeli-Arabs are overly represented in Israel’s upper classes.

Israel has colonized Israel- Foolish on its face, since one nation may colonize another, but not itself. Yet the shrill liberal cry for “decolonization” is pervasive. Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), born in Martinique, helped make decolonization trendy among some of the most settled and privileged people in the world’s richest and most expensive universities. As a revolutionary, he wanted colonies to break free – even violently. Considering violence cleansing, restoring some balance, some dignity to the powerless, he called violence “man recreating himself.” Fanon built on Marx’s binary dividing the world between the oppressing ruling class and the oppressed proletariat. For Fanon, the forever-guilty oppressor was the colonizer, the forever-innocent oppressed was the decolonizer. For the colonized, Fanon preached, “there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization is simply a question of strength.” The oppressive colonizers in this black-and-white world are always guilty, while the oppressed are forever pure and innocent, no matter what they do. Viewing the world through this distorting prism, Israel is always guilty, the "Palestinians" forever innocent, even of the basest and most horrific crimes. To see the world this way requires much fanaticism, many simplifications, multiple distortions, and, at the end of the day, a very, very bruised soul. But those blinders explain how so many feminists failed to see Hamas’s rape culture and child abuse, how so many liberals failed to acknowledge the despotism, how so many humanists failed to cry out in shame and horror as Palestinian marauders crossed every civilizational red line.

Israel is carrying out genocide- Genocide is a systematic series of violent acts “committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.” For decades, Gazans have been crying “genocide,” claiming Israel seeks to wipe them out. Yet their population has at least quintupled since 1967, from just over 1 million to nearly 5-and-a-half million people. Pure hatred often involves projection: You hate in others what you hate in yourself, you imagine your enemies would do to you what you would do to them if you had a chance. These false cries that Israelis are targeting Palestinians for genocide reflect the sweeping, categorical, ideology in the Hamas charter, and in the sadism of their actions.

Israel is engaged in disproportionate bombing- When terrorists attack your civilians, then hide behind their civilians, inevitably some of those human shields will die.

And when you have an air force, and so a choice between bombing an enemy and sending your troops in door-to-door, what’s the moral call? A leader’s primary moral responsibility is to the led – and a defender’s primary moral responsibility is to defend those unfairly and viciously attacked. In April, 2002, Israel chose to send reservists into Jenin to apprehend terrorists instead of bombing from the air, U.S.-style. The result was a terrorist ambush that killed 23 Israelis. Israel’s supporters may have felt momentarily pure – but 23 families were scarred for life that day. When an enemy attacks, then cowers in mosques and hospitals and kindergartens and schools, those protected places become military objectives. Complaining about a “disproportionate response” from a regular army when fighting terrorists embedded in a city is in essence complaining about any response from the army. When your enemy calls for your annihilation, tries acting on it, then vows to try again and again, it’s unrealistic to expect no collateral damage. Let’s be clear: the moral onus for every death, every injury, every misfire, remains on Hamas for initiating this round. It’s unfair to forget that ultimately war is a clash of powerful, ugly forces. If you want to win, it’s logical – and moral – for your own side to mobilize as much force as you can within the bounds of reason. Israel is immediately criticized for acting to neutralize her enemies while protecting as much as possible her own citizens and soldiers. But she is only acting as any realistic but moral nation would.

Israel must agree to a humanitarian ceasefire- In the Middle East today, that phrase may be the ultimate oxymoron– like a moral terrorist, a pragmatic Hamasnik, a feminist Islamic Jihadist, a liberal-democratic Palestinian Authority member, a healthy cancer. For 18 years the world has yelled “disproportionate bombing,” demanding “humanitarian ceasefires” whenever Israel defends itself. Most “humanitarian aid” has been diverted to Hamas itself. After Hamas invaded and raided and shattered so many lives, what would be “humanitarian” about a premature ceasefire?

It’s just a chance for Hamas to regroup, rearm, and then more of the same, usually before the ceasefire is over so as to catch as many of the hated Jews out and unprepared. “When do the hostages get such a pause, especially those who might be tortured or enduring the agony of sexual slavery?” Until the hostages are released, Israel cannot relent. Israel can and does move to ease the burden of the truly innocent stuck between Hamas and the IDF. They set up field hospitals and temporary refuges where they can. But let’s not kid ourselves- Hamas will take advantage of any break or kindness. At least one-third of the first wave of what was supposed to be foreign nationals evacuated to Egypt were wounded Hamas terrorists, trying to sneak away. Fuel delivered by international organizationsis hijacked by Hamas for its war machine.

Some claim Hamas is a small group holding the peace-loving Gazans hostage. But if Hamas is abusing people, a humanitarian pause giving the terrorists a break increases Palestinian misery, too. It delays the liberation they need.

In fact, most Gazans celebrated the carnage on October 7, and many zealously participated. Such a massive buildup could not go unnoticed, yet there were no warnings to Israel about it. Gazans are not innocent. Their complicity is only a matter of degree. So while it is good and moral to limit suffering where you can, it is immoral to do anything that restores in any part the system that is responsible for this war in the first place.

Israel must pursue a two-state solution- In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 181 recognizing the Jewish right to a national home; a right rooted in the Bible, promised in the Balfour Declaration and at San Remo, redeemed through the blood, sweat, and tears of Zionist pioneers who had already built an impressive infrastructure for the state that would be declared in May, 1948. To treat Palestinian Jews and Arabs fairly, the U.N. partitioned the area, envisioning a Jewish state and an Arab entity, while internationalizing Jerusalem, the Jewish people’s forever-capital.

This compromise was devastating to the Jews, but their leadership accepted. The day after the U.N. Resolution passed, as Jews finished singing and dancing, Arab rejectionists rioted, trashing Jerusalem’s commercial district. That started an historic pattern. Again and again, Jews and the State of Israel offered compromises, were willing to split territory, to cede territory. Yet again and again, the Palestinian Arab leadership rejected it.

In 1974, the U.N. passed a resolution endorsing “two States, Israel and Palestine side by side within secure and recognized borders.” Thus began this diplomatic Holy Grail, pursuing a “two-state solution.” The most dramatic attempt to achieve it – the Oslo Peace Process of the 1990s – ended in bloodshed, when after the Camp David Peace Talks in 2000 Yasir Arafat rejected any compromise and led his people back from peace to terror.

For decades now there has been talk of a “two-state solution,” but the phrase reeks of three lies:
1. When Palestinian propagandists play the two-state game, they imply that once they have their territorial share, one of two states, the conflict will be solved. But the Palestinian leadership consistently refuses even to adjust its sweeping, all-or-nothing rhetoric promising to wipe Israel off the map. Americans worked hard in the 1990s to get Yasir Arafat to change the PLO charter calling for Israel’s destruction. But again and again, especially Arafat in 2000, Mahmoud Abbas when he rejected Ehud Olmert’s compromise in 2008 and, most dramatically Hamas in Gaza, showed no interest in any “solution” that leaves Israel intact. Hamas’s charter is explicit about that.

2. Today, the phrase is even more misleading and infuriating because it’s usually used as code in the international community “Israel, just do the right thing, give them their territory ‘back’ and we will have peace.” But most Israelis know that the call on the Palestinian side is a ruse. Gazans had the potential to make a state. Israel and the international community would have showered peaceful, constructive Palestinians with money. Instead, they turned their strip of land into a multi-layered stationary warship – and the international community still showered them with money.
Most upsetting, “the two-state solution” represents the lies we told ourselves. Under great international pressure Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s military, diplomatic, and intelligence establishment decided that Hamas was “pragmatic,” Hamas could be contained. After all, no credible person could really believe the rantings in Hamas’s charter using the Quaran to justify destroying Israel and killing the Jews.

3, That particular slogan is too compromised, and too associated with the lives and limbs and love and faith Israelis just lost. Clearly, the Palestinians and their propagandists have developed a whole lexicon, a series of talking points and slogans that distorts words, negates history, and obscures their intentions. Israel went along with these lies for too long, often bullied into guilelessness by a gullible international community. October 7 was a nightmarish wake-up call. Israel must be moral – for its own sake, for its soldiers’ consciences and its national soul. But the game of buying into Palestinian lies and international niceties ended when those terrorists swarmed the peaceful kibbutzim and villages, sowing death and destruction.

Israel is killing far more “Palestinians” than Jews that were killed- on the surface true. The left-wing press dutifully reports in the disparity in number of Israelis killed and the number of so called “Palestinians” killed in Israel’s “retaliation.” Israel is not merely retaliating. They are in a declared war with Hamas. Hamas controls Gaza by force, and uses its citizens as human shields. Hamas is also radicalized to the point they will die before surrender. They believe death in violent jihad is the only way to guarantee their place in Paradise without first going to Hell to pay for their sins: “Think not of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead. Nay, they live, finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord; They rejoice in the bounty provided by Allah:” Quran (3:169-170).

Some basic truths:
- Not all cultures are morally equivalent. Some cultures prize truth as a value above others. Other cultures value death over life. Multiculturalism in the West requires a particular narcissism that, at root, everyone thinks like us. It's simply not true.
- There’s a vast difference in moral scope between deliberately going into a civilian area and murdering everyone you can find and trying to eradicate terrorists who are deliberately hiding behind civilians.
- Legitimate sovereign governments work to protect their people from attack. That's why Israel has moved tens of thousands of Israelis away from the northern border with Hezbollah. Meanwhile, Hamas uses its own civilians as human shields.
- Whatever human rights atrocities happen in Gaza are a direct result of Hamas doing what it is doing right now. Their headquarters is under a hospital. They plant weapons underneath mosques and in schools. They have no regard for innocent lives.
- “Civilians” who celebrate and/or perpetrate genocidal murder are terrorists! Morality cannot support this for any reason.
Hamas steals resources given them as aid and uses them to support terrorist activities. One example is fuel donated by the UN. Even after being given fuel for their generators they tell us they had no fuel for power to hospitals, yet they had enough to power their tunnels, weapons factories, Hamas’ admin sections of those same hospitals, etc. In fact, Hamas’ main headquarters is under Shifa Hospital- Gaza’s biggest hospital.
- Hamas routinely places rocket launch sites in hospitals, schools, and other civilian areas to dissuade Israel destroying them. If they are destroyed it is a propaganda win as it will be reported as Israel killing civilians.
- Israel’s 1.5 million Arabs enjoy full privileges. They work as doctors, lawyers, and any profession they want. They serve on the Knesset. All Israel’s neighbors have either kicked out or killed their Jews.
- Nowhere are Jews marching in the streets calling for violence and death against Muslims.
- Israel is willing to give aid and comfort to her enemies (who by dent of force will get the lions share of any resources) in order to try and limit as much as possible any innocents being harmed. Islam, under the banner of Hamas this time is willing to inflict as much harm to innocent civilians, as they are "soft targets." They are an easy “victory"
- “You cannot negotiate peace with somebody who has come to kill you.” Golda Meier.

How you know the Gaza-Israel protests are antisemitic:
- Many protesters are invoking antisemitic slogans and writing antisemitic graffiti
- After the rapes, beheadings, burnings and executions, before a single shot was fired in self defense protestors came out  attacking Israel and Jews.
- HAMAS terrorists, who protestors sympathize with, call for the genocide of Jews, and have vowed to commit more atrocities. HAMAS seeks to install a world wide Islamic Caliphate.
- Israel is accused of genocide while HAMAS uses its population as human shields, prevents civilians from leaving the war zone and has located its headquarters under a hospital.
- Protests don’t occur when Arabs commit real genocide in places like Sudan, Syria, Yemen, where hundreds of thousands are slaughtered.
- Israel is portrayed as the apartheid state when Arab Israelis have rights as citizens, are in the government and Supreme Court. (70% support Israel in the war.)
- History has been misrepresented. The Palestinian side has refused a two state solution many times. 70% support a One State solution with no Jews.
- Israelis/Jews are misrepresented as “white” European colonizers, when they are predominantly “non-white”. This is to portray Israel as the Oppressor in the Victim/Oppressor narrative.