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The devastating reframing of Israel’s just war against Hamas
Suggesting symmetry between Israel and Hamas fundamentally ruptures the sense that the lives of Jews and all Israelis matter
Throughout this conflict, global leaders have almost universally condemned Israel for its actions in Gaza, largely granting Hamas a pass, and worse, often lionizing Hamas with privileged victimhood status. Sinwar’s text messages intercepted and published by the Wall Street Journal confirm he had banked on exactly this response knowing Israel could be crushed by international pressure. German writer and Nobel Laureate Herta Muller in her poignant and raw Open Letter delineates exactly how Hamas orchestrates images to manipulate our feelings ‘as their strongest weapon’. A wider look at the context of the killings and military actions has never been more urgent.
Since the inception of the Israel/Hamas war, the world has witnessed the remarkable, rapid, and deeply persistent denial by millions around the world of the Hamas atrocities. The war has become the ‘Gaza war,’ erasing Hamas from the title of the war it intentionally launched.
As an observing Muslim who has protested Islamism, the vicious imposter masquerading as my great religion, I chose to travel to Israel in mid-October to see the outcomes of the actions of Hamas in person. I arrived in Israel – at my own expense – as a physician, to see firsthand the sites of violations, the bodies of the dead, their charred, mutilated remains, their X-rays and CT scans, their incinerated teeth and vertebrae, their ashes.
See Also:
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Netanyahu says post-war Gaza needs inter-Arab sponsorship, deradicalization process
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