ITAI’S SPECIAL BULLETIN #XV
By: Joseph Puder
January 30, 2024
The Biden administration is knowingly or naively aiding and abetting the Hamas terrorist organization. It is doing so by pressuring Israel to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza, which serves to sustain the Hamas fighters. Although the aid is intended for the innocent civilians fleeing the fighting, Hamas has laid its hands on a large portion of the aid. Most Gazans being sympathetic to Hamas and its activities, have looked the other way as Hamas operatives have stolen food, medicines, and fuel from the mothers and children who needed most.
The fuel, intended for the people’s needs, has been taken to fuel the rockets Hamas is continuing to fire at Israel, while some has met other needs, including generating electrical power.
Without food, medicine and fuel, Hamas would have little ability to continue their fighting. Hamas apologists in the US have accused Israel of trying to starve the Gazans while deliberately overlooking Hamas’ theft of the aid intended for displaced Palestinians. Likewise, these apologists ignored Hamas’ use of civilians as human shields.
US Senator Rick Scott, (R-FL), called the idea of giving aid to Gaza “crazy.” Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis predicted that Hamas would commandeer the aid and use it for terrorism. “I say no US tax dollars to the Gaza Strip,” invoked DeSantis.
Moreover, while the Biden administration is spending taxpayer dollars for Palestinians in Gaza, it has not insisted on conditioning the aid on food and medicine being delivered to the Israeli hostages in Gaza.
Additionally, the Biden administration is aiding Hamas is by succumbing to the pressure from the “progressive” Congressional democrats to end the war in Gaza - a move that would mean victory for Hamas - precisely what the Hamas chief terrorist Yahya Sinwar, who initiated the October 7 massacres, wants.
The Administration has called on Israel to scale down its war in Gaza. Giora Eiland, a retired Israeli general, said Israel’s thinning its forces in Gaza will enable more civilians, and Hamas terrorists along with them, to trickle back into northern Gaza.
General Eiland, a former head of Israel’s National Security Council, in an interview with Israel TV Channel 12, expressed appreciation for the US support for Israel’s campaign to destroy Hamas in Gaza, but stressed that the US is having trouble appreciating that Gaza is not Mosul and not like the areas where Islamic State was fought.
On Gaza, Eiland said, “Hamas is the most fortified place in the history of humanity, with the best of Iranian technology, and billions invested.” Eiland pointed out that the American administration regards Hamas thinks as the bad people and the civilians in Gaza as innocents who must be saved. Eiland went on to say that Gaza is, to a very great extent, a Nazi state, in which they have managed to recruit the entire civil society in support of the struggle against Israel.
Every other home in Gaza has an entrance down to the underground tunnels. All the hospitals and school administrators are Hamas workers and are united around their leadership, not opposed to the leadership.
American generosity and humanity are misplaced in dealing with Gaza. That is not to say that innocent Palestinians, particularly women, children, and the elderly do not deserve food, water, medicine, and shelter, but the tortured Israelis in Hamas dungeons are in desperate need of care, medicine, and food. This aspect is being completely ignored by the international community.
To destroy Hamas, which vowed to repeat the October 7th massacres, many times over, the Biden administration mustn’t restrain Israel - they must let the Israel Defense Forces finish the job.