Is all the violence in Gaza Israel’s fault?
Approximately 30,000 Palestinians marched on the border between the Gaza Strip
and Israel last Friday, beginning what Hamas is calling the “Great March of Return.”
This so-called peaceful march, scheduled to last six weeks, has already seen
18 people killed and 1,500 injured, according to Palestinian estimates.
Western media and politicians worldwide immediately blamed Israel.
To the West, the Israelis are the perpetrators of crimes against innocent
and defenseless Palestinian victims.
What is the truth?
The Israelis have no desire to conquer Gaza. In fact, they had control of it and
gave it up. Israel exercised sovereignty over the Gaza Strip until the mid-2000s,
when the government ordered the complete withdrawal of more than 8,000 Jews
from the territory.
After Israel pulled out, the Palestinians had free reign. After vicious infighting
between Palestinian factions, in which rivals threw each other to their deaths
from the tops of buildings, Hamas came out on top. The terrorist organization
won subsequent elections and has ruled Palestinians in Gaza ever since.
Ten years later, many Gazans would be happy to come out from beneath the yoke
of Hamas. But Hamas remains in control of the area and of this March of Return.
This background seldom features in the chorus of criticism against Israel.
https://www.thetrumpet.com/17111-hamass-march-of-return
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According to the pope, many defenseless people have died in this conflict.
Many innocent people have indeed been killed over the years of Israeli
-Palestinian conflict. But how defenseless are the Palestinians involved in
the Hamas-backed March of Return?
Israel Defense Forces (idf) soldiers have been widely criticized for using
live ammunition against protesters instead of rubber bullets. But the soldiers
were not indiscriminately firing bullets into masses of unarmed protesters.
They were targeting specific individuals.
The idf recently released information and pictures of 10 of the 18 individuals killed
on Friday. All of them were Hamas operatives or involved in terrorist activities.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-a...at-gaza-border-were-members-of-terror-groups/
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The Israeli military is generally scrupulous about protecting civilians and upholding
the rules of war. Its enemies often use this against them. Hamas orders women and
children onto the rooftops of buildings where it has stored missiles, knowing that
Israelis will spare their lives and therefore spare the missiles.
Israel also repeatedly warns people ahead of time of where it is about to strike.
Before targeting an area, Israeli forces call people on their phones and drops
leaflets into areas warning civilians, We are about to bomb your location.
Of course, Hamas receives these leaflets as well and is often able to relocate
their terrorist weaponry before the strike.
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Yet Israel still goes through this process in order to save civilian lives.
It’s clear that the people targeted by the idf are those who were charging
the border to get over the fence, laying explosives and shooting.
This is not quite the peaceful protest it has been portrayed as. But none
of that matters to the media—those people were apparently “defenseless.”
Like European Union Federica Mogherini also defended the Palestinians in a
statement last week. Her March 31 statement made [not one mention of Hamas].
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Hezbollah has been fully funded by Iran for decades, while Hamas’s relationship
with Iran comes and goes. Recently, Hamas and Iran have been rekindling their
relationship, which was damaged during the Syrian civil war. Over the past year,
Hamas has attended several meetings in Tehran.
Times of Israel published a piece on March 22 titled “Hamas Seeking Alliance
With Iran, Hezbollah to Foil Trump Peace Plan.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas...an-hezbollah-to-foil-trump-peace-plan-report/
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The six-week Great March of Return will culminate on May 15, which is known by
Palestinians and Arabs across the Middle East as Nakba Day, or catastrophe day.
On May 14, 1948, Israel was made a state. Arabs across the Middle East saw this
as a catastrophe. May 14 also marks the day that U.S. President Donald Trump will
move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Added to that, the Iranian deal
might be terminated around the same time on May 12.
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The danger is that this march could incorporate more than just Hamas. In refugee
camps in Southern Lebanon, there are around 500,000 refugees including their
descendants from the 1948 war. In Syria and Jordan, there are even more.
What if they decide to join the march as well?
As Simon Tisdall of the Guardian brought out in his article from March 31,
all of these factors culminate in “a spring season of looming flash points ….”
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ip-israel-conflict-border-season-of-conflicts
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The bible says that The Palestinians will take half of Jerusalem, in the end time.
