Continuing debacle

Israel’s battle to crush Gaza’s ruling Hamas militants will continue with ‘full force’.

An astonishing development is the way the tables have been turned on Israel’s campaign to end terrorism in the Gaza Strip, to bring home 239 hostages, and to hold the Hamas terror organization accountable for the 7 October massacre.

From being the victim, which is what Israel was after the bloodbath inflicted by some 3,000 Hamas terrorists that broke through the Gaza border, the Jewish nation is now being painted as the villain for denying a ceasefire.

The pogromists have amazingly convinced, through temporal incentives or by tapping the gullibility of the bleeding hearts, to instigate anti-Israel protests around the world.

Included in the campaign is the so-called Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, a movement that targets the marginalization of all supporters of Israel.

The BDS movement uses terms that incite emotional reactions like “apartheid,” “genocide,” “settler colonialist,” and “supremacists” to refer to Israeli actions and policies.

In some cases, Israel is equated with the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler, which is bizarre since it was the Third Reich that tried to obliterate the Jews in World War 2 in the infamous Holocaust.

BDS campaigns and advocates, thus, engage in antisemitic rhetoric to justify violence inflicted on Israelis, with some making clear their opposition to the existence of the state of Israel altogether.

All the BDS campaigns may create an environment in which antisemitic actions and expressions may be emboldened. In the US, the movement is particularly seen on college campuses.

The intensification of the war is fanning the anti-Israel campaign as Israel nears its objective.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed back against the amplified international calls for a ceasefire.

He said Israel’s battle to crush Gaza’s ruling Hamas militants will continue with “full force.”

Israel has been consistent in its stand that a ceasefire is possible only if all 239 hostages held by the Hamas terrorists in Gaza are released.

More than half the hostages have foreign passports from 25 different countries, including 54 Thais, 15 Argentinians, 12 Germans, 12 Americans, six French and six Russians.

There is also one Chinese hostage, one Sri Lankan, two from Tanzania, and two from the Philippines.

This also made up the largest single group of foreign dead and missing, with 24 confirmed killed and 21 unaccounted for.

Government figures also showed 328 people from 40 countries were confirmed dead or missing after the surprise attack by Hamas fighters on southern Israel. In all, an estimated 1,400 people were killed in the assault.

Israel has a clear plan instead of the ceasefire proponents who can’t offer direction if their demand is complied with.

The Israeli leader envisioned that after the war, Gaza would be demilitarized and Israel would retain security control, which means that its forces would have access to Gaza freely to hunt down the militants.

Demilitarizing Gaza would mean that the radical force would no longer have the capability to launch terror assaults on Israel like the 7 October event.

“There is no alternative to victory,” Netanyahu stressed.

Israel is doing the world a favor in being resolute as it will show the terror groups that there is no compromising when it comes to abuses using the barrel of a gun.

Forgetting that Hamas raped, burned, mutilated, tortured, and abducted individuals of varied nationalities, the protest movements now support giving the terrorists a chance to extricate themselves from being cornered in Gaza.

Human frailty is truly unfortunate as it contributes to the propagation of evil.

Credit belongs to: tribune.net.ph