OPINION:
A senior Hamas member, Ghazi Hamed, said on Al-Jazeera that “weapons constitute the Palestinian cause” and “no Palestinian is saying now that the resistance must end.”
And by “Palestinian cause,” of course, it’s meant “eradicate Israel, kill all Jews.” From the rivers to the sea, people!
This, after Canada followed France and the United Kingdom with announced plans to recognize the state of Palestine at the September meeting of the U.N. General Assembly.
“We, as Palestinians, will not surrender our weapons,” Hamed went on, Newsmax reported. “Surrendering our weapons will only come as part of the political solution. Israel can only dream that we will ever surrender our weapons to it.”
Note the language.
“We are not terrorists and we are not using any terrorist methods,” Hamed said.
It’s a resistance movement; it’s a cause; it’s a justified military action — it’s never, ever, never terrorism.
The reasons Hamas gets by with its lies — with its double-talk about desiring peace with Israel, while calling for death to the Jews — with its agreements to make a peace agreement with Israel, only to push for agreements of provisions that would lead to Israel’s destruction — the reasons Hamas gets by with all this, and more, is a) an ignorant and antisemitic media and b) an evil and antisemitic batch of governments around the world.
If the United Nations weren’t filled with representatives of nations that hated Israel, or that continually drew moral equivalencies between the Jewish people and the terrorist organizations that want to kill the Jewish people — well then, there wouldn’t be so much pressure on Israel to forge a peace agreement, or a two-state solution, with those who have no intention of allowing the Jewish people to live peacefully. Ever.
If the media didn’t rush to report the lies of the terrorist-enabling groups, and instead took the time to check facts and question the motives of the terrorist-enablers, then maybe there wouldn’t be so much bad press floating about that sets Israel as the hostile, wicked, aggressor and the people of Gaza as poor victims. Poor, innocent, starving victims.
“The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine,” The Guardian wrote a few days ago.
‘Lest it be forgotten: Israel did not attack Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023. Hamas launched a terror assault on Israel — at a music festival, attended in large part by youth — during which the terrorists raped, murdered, tortured and abducted hundreds. Hamas, the group elected into power by the Palestinian people in Gaza. Hamas, the group that still holds hostages in its Gaza tunnels.
“NY Times’ erroneous cover photo of Gaza child joins series of media blunders framing stories against Israel,” Fox News reported. It was an erroneous cover photo that was widely shared as evidence of Israel’s atrocities against the Palestinian people. Too bad, so sad it was totally false.
“Last month, the Times ran the somber headline, ‘Young, Old and Sick Starve to Death in Gaza.’ … Accompanying it was a grim image of a malnourished infant and his mother. The action read, ‘Mohammed Zaharia al-Mutawaq, about 18 months, with his mother … who said he was born healthy but was recently diagnosed with severe malnutrition. A doctor said the number of children dying of malnutrition in Gaza had risen sharply,” Fox News wrote.
And then this: “Critics quickly called out the Times for prominently featuring Mohammed, whose image was featured by numerous other media outlets, without mentioning that he has a genetic disorder,” Fox News wrote.
Oops.
The New York Times stuck an editors’ note about the child’s pre-existing health problems at the end of the story — four days later.
Meanwhile, video and images of a starving hostage, Evyatar David, 24, who was forced to dig his own grave and who has been held by Hamas terrorists for more than 600 days, have surfaced and made media waves.
Who’s starving whom?
It’s impossible to trust Hamas, and just as nearly impossible to trust the media on Israeli coverage, and definitely as impossible to trust the European Union, the United Nations and other governments with anti-Israel views, on matters of involving the impacts and outcomes of this long-running Israel-Hamas war.
But one thing is clear: If Hamas had not attacked on Oct. 7, there would be zero reports of Israel starving Palestinians in Gaza.
This is war. And for Israel, this is a righteous war of defense and protection, to fend off an enemy that launched an unprovoked attack with an end goal of total annihilation of the Jewish people.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.;
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