Joel Ellis, The Aquila Report, 10/23
This is not a political disagreement. It is evil incarnate. Evil must be recognized for what it is and eradicated. Every leader, soldier, and financial supporter of Hamas should be identified, hunted down, and executed. Every apologist and sympathizer for Hamas should be ashamed, publicly denounced, and removed from any position of government power and influence. This is what is right. It is what is just and necessary to protect the citizens of Israel, both Jews and Arabs.
Two people groups are at war in the Middle East. The conflict is longstanding and complicated by multiple generations, and centuries, of political, social, and religious history. Grievances are claimed by both sides. Arguments are made for the righteousness of each one’s cause and for the injustice of the other.
One of these groups is an organized nation. The other is an acknowledged terrorist organization. One side allows members of the opposing ethnic and religious group to live in their society, participate in their economy, and even serve in their parliament and government positions. The other is openly committed to eradicating their opponents from the earth, not just destroying the nation, but annihilating the people as an ethnic group. One side is charged with the “sin” of occupation and colonization. The other explicitly states their commitment to genocide.
Whenever there is war, there will be collateral damage, innocent casualties, and various atrocities. Even in the most just war, prosecuted according to the strictest standards of justice and martial ethics, innocent men, women, and children will be harmed, intentionally or unintentionally. In this conflict, one side works to limit collateral damage and casualties and is committed to punishing evil and injustice within its own ranks. The other side films the atrocities its soldiers commit and publishes them on official social media platforms, celebrating the horrors which are that organization’s ordinary means of warfare, not exceptional or regrettable departures from the standard.
Hamas is deliberately, systematically, and openly making war on a civilian population. Women raped publicly and repeatedly, children decapitated, civilians taken as hostages, bodies mutilated, unarmed communities burned. How do we know these things are happening? Because Hamas films them, publishes them, celebrates them. These are not aberrant and regrettable actions set within a larger program of just war. These are war crimes, hundreds of them, terrorism and barbarity adopted as official strategy.
How did America get to the point when legislators and leaders of executive agencies would be so morally bankrupt as to offer sympathy, “context,” and patience for such evil? “Hamas’s actions are unacceptable, but we must remember the larger context,” or so we are told. “Yes, decapitating babies and serial raping and sodomizing women is bad, but Israel should suspend all military action and enter into peace negotiations.” Really? These are the same people who lecture us about blaming the victim when it comes to sexual assault. If they didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all. Similarly, how did the American Church get to the point that we would tolerate such moral equivocation from its leaders? Pastors who hem around the edges of this issue demonstrate that they have no moral discernment.
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Patriot and Liberty . . . we need summary executions . . .
We Westerners must understand that this is not a mere territorial dispute over an area called “Palestine”. This is what Islam has done for hundreds of years to those who won’t submit to their Allah, which is to perpetrate extreme violence on them. In times past there have been numerous times when Islam’s “infidels” were treated with extreme cruelty. Even after death they were shown utter disrespect where their decapitated heads were stacked together to create a spectacle of their achievements.
This is what they’ll do to all those who won’t submit to their Allah. They’ll bring the sword to Israel and to all Westerners who won’t capitulate to them. They will not stop murdering for their caliphate except where they’re defeated in war as in past centuries.