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Writer's pictureAlex Sternberg

Protecting the “Peaceful“ citizens of Gaza

Immediately, beginning on October 8, the vocal Hamas Choir began a worldwide cry to demand

a cease-fire to protect the peace-loving citizens of Gaza. The Innocent population. On campuses

in the US, Europe, and Australia, keffiyeh-wearing students marched to show solidarity with

Hamas and applaud the campaign of atrocities perpetrated by savage and inhuman terrorists.

The campaign to try to prevent Israel from striking back was begun immediately and vocally.

The US administration stood fully behind Israel and loudly proclaimed Israel’s right to defend

herself. But it didn’t take Biden(or his advisers) long to realize that the Arab vote could be lost

in light of the US support of Israel. Biden, Blinken, and Harris immediately began to speak out

of the other side of their mouth and demanded Israeli restraint. Biden did not demand a “cease

fire”. Rather he was pressuring Israel for a “pause” in the fighting, as if there was a difference.

Unfortunately, the Democrats know they can always count on the Jewish vote, so they can take

the Jews for granted.

Those of us who weren’t born yesterday saw the handwriting on the wall from the very start

when Biden rushed to Israel to “review” Israel’s military plans.

While in Israel, ‘General’ Biden exerted enormous pressure to force Israel to let Hamas off the

hook. Meanwhile, the other side of his mouth assured the Jewish voters that the US stood firmly

behind Israel’s right to self-defense. Blinken, one of the architects of the Iran nuclear giveaway

under that famous friend of Israel Obama, kept shuttling to Israel in a frenetic effort to slow the

IDF down.


Biden and co. keeps assuring the pro-Hamas lobby among the Democratic members of Congress

and in the “Arab street” in Michigan, that they want to prevent “innocent’ Palestinians from

suffering because of the despicable deeds of Hamas. Even Vice President Harris joined in the

double talk as she warned Israel not to cause needless suffering among the civilian population.

However, she neglected to include in her military advice just how Israel can accomplish that.

Perhaps she learned such sage insight from her successful campaign closing the US southern

border.

But just how uninvolved are the Palestinians living in Gaza and Judea and Samaria?

Back in 2021, a poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research revealed that over

59% of Palestinians were against any peace with Israel. In a more recent poll, 74.7% of

Palestinians were against the two-state solution, opting instead for one Palestinian state “from the

river to the sea”. No Israel

A recent opinion poll conducted by Bir Zeit University's Arab World for Research &

Development (AWRAD) revealed that a majority of surveyed Palestinians in the West Bank

support the October 7 massacre (83.1%) carried out by Hamas, and an even wider majority have

a positive view of the various terrorist factions. Gazans showed a similar zeal for Hamas and


their attack. It was revealed that ordinary Gazans drove across the Gaza-Israel border not to miss

out on the Oct 7 th blood orgy.

The Bir Zeit poll additionally reported that 98 percent of respondents felt more proud to be

Palestinian after Oct. 7 and that 90 percent felt "Coexistence is increasingly impossible."

So, where are these “peaceful” Palestinians of Biden?

How innocent are the Gazans when they teach their children math: “If you find 10 Jews and you

kill 3, how many Jews will be left to kill another day”?

This charade is reminiscent of the story in the Bible when Abraham was bargaining with God

about not destroying Sodom if they could find 50 righteous men. God agreed he would not

destroy the city for the sake of the 50. How about 40? What about 30? Perhaps 20? How about

10? And we know the city of Sodom was destroyed. There were not even 10 innocent or

righteous men there.

To lessen the impact on civilians, international pressure should bear down on Hamas, forcing

them to give back all remaining hostages. They should be pressed to stop hiding among the

civilians they care about.

Biden has been speaking out of both sides of his mouth. He proclaims Israel’s right to protect

her citizens in public, while he threatens to withhold aid unless the IDF stands down, in private

conversations with Netanyahu. This schizophrenic performance fools only those Democrats

who want to be fooled.

Of course, Netanyahu is no Menachem Begin.

In 1982, when Sen Biden of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee threatened Prime Minister

Begin with withholding military assistance unless Israel stopped building new communities in

Judea and Samaria (Yehuda and Shomron), a proud Menachem Begin retorted:

“ I am not a weak-need Jew who trembles at threats”

Begin continued to lead Israeli policy as needed and Israel received assistance from the United

States.

But ‘Bibi’ is no Begin.

After Biden’s effort to threaten Israel with withholding aid succeeded, he was able to force the

IDF to stand down, to pause. Every military person understands that a pause only benefits

Hamas and allows them to reorganize. We all remember from our youth

“he who fights and runs away…lives to fight another day”.

A Hamas spokesman promised, in a press conference, that they are determined to repeat Oct 7

many more times.

As Menachem Begin admonished us years ago “When your enemy threatens to kill you, believe

him”.


This is why Israel must wipe them out of Gaza. It is a kill-or-be-killed game.

Unfortunately, The Palestinian Arabs support Hamas not because they have to but because

they want to. They have consistently chosen death and destruction then coexistence and

peace.

As Abba Eban famously said after the Geneva Peace Conference with Arab countries (December

21, 1973). “The Arabs never miss an opportunity…..To miss an opportunity”

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