Defending Israel and Western Civilization More Urgent than Ever - by Guy Millière for the Gatestone Institute - 13.04.25
- Michael Julien
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All Hamas needs to do to prevent this destruction is return all the hostages it should not have kidnapped in the first place. Amnesty International has served up a remarkable inversion of facts.
"What's shocking is that people in the Cease-Fire Now crowd don't appear to have much interest in making any demands of Hamas equivalent to those they make of Israel. They want Israel to stop firing. But do you often hear them insisting that Hamas return the favor? They want Israel to provide Gaza with humanitarian relief in the form of electricity, fuel and other goods.
But I haven't seen those protesters in the street demanding that Hamas provide Israel with humanitarian relief in the form of immediately freeing all hostages....
For Israelis, what 'Cease-Fire Now' means is 'Surrender Now.' No wonder they decline to heed the call.... Whatever else one thinks of Israel, no country can be expected to sign its own death warrant by indulging those who, if given the chance, would annihilate it." — Bret Stephens, New York Times, November 21, 2023.
Clearly a massive dark-money problem obscenely exists within far too many universities and cities both in the US and Europe.
It is also important to highlight the unabashedly toxic role of the United Nations.... The United Nations quickly became the world's leading organization for, among other unsavory practices, propagating hatred of Israel and a general hatred of Jews.
The Palestinian Authority to this day pays its citizens to murder Jews -- the more Jews, the larger the payments.
In Europe, organizations that fight anti-Semitism.... Often left-wing, they primarily denounce far-right anti-Semitism, but never far-left anti-Semitism, and never ever Islamic anti-Semitism -- currently the only form of anti-Semitism in Europe that attacks and kills Jews. Most Jewish organizations in Europe support Israel, but more often than not advocate for dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians and still support the mirage of a "two-state solution."
The vast majority of Israelis seem finally to have understood that the goal of Palestinian organizations is not to create a state living in peace alongside Israel, but to destroy Israel. The West, wrote the columnist Melanie Phillips, needs "to take off its blinders, join up the dots and fight like Israel to survive."
In the mainstream European and American media, the unspeakable October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre in Israel seems largely forgotten. The media rarely describe Hamas as a terrorist organization with genocidal aims. When the word "genocide" is used, even by self-described "human rights organizations," it is to accuse the victim of the attacks, Israel.
Israel forcibly removed every Jew from Gaza in 2005 – long before the October 7, 2023 massacre. Nevertheless, one of Amnesty International's current campaigns, "End Israel's Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza," continues to refer to the "occupied Gaza Strip." Gaza has not been occupied for twenty years; it is not occupied now. Gaza is the theater from where Palestinians are still firing rockets and missiles at civilian targets in Israel.
Apparently Hamas had been planning the October 7 attacks on Israel years before 2023. October 7, 2023. On that day, Hamas bulldozed Israel's fences to slaughter and torture to death 1,200 Israelis, including roasting an infant to death in an oven, among other savage atrocities.
The terrorist group then kidnapped another 251 people and brought them to Gaza, where 59 are still being held, only 24 of whom are thought still to be alive. Many of these horrors were triumphantly photographed by the Palestinians on iPhones,
In the Amnesty report, the October 7, massacre is cited only once and in extremely sweetened way as a "Hamas led attack".
The problem, it seems, was that Israel had the check to retaliate and had the check ask for its tortured hostages back. For this lack of courtesy, Amnesty International excoriated it with ferocity:
"Israel's brutal onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of people, wiped out entire families, flattened residential neighbourhoods, destroyed critical infrastructure and forcibly displaced 1.9 million Palestinians, over 90% of the population of the Gaza Strip, causing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe..."
"Israel committed acts prohibited under the Genocide Convention and did so with the specific intent to destroy Palestinians in Gaza. These acts include killings, inflicting serious physical or mental harm to members of the protected group and deliberately creating conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza."
In reality, of course, all Hamas needs to do to prevent this destruction is return all the hostages it should not have kidnapped in the first place. Amnesty International has served up a remarkable inversion of facts.
Amnesty's report, which basically reads like incitement to hatred of Israel, appears based on accusations that are breathtakingly unfounded. Israel has never sought the destruction of the Gazans. Several American millionaires in 2005 had even pooled together $14 million to ensure that when the Jews left Gaza, the Palestinians could use their greenhouses.
Within days after the Jews withdrew, every greenhouse had been looted and destroyed. Israel, has always done everything possible to avoid killing civilians, and had reportedly been hoping that Hamas would create a Singapore on the Mediterranean.
Instead, Hamas, by using its own civilians as human shields, invites civilian deaths –- as many as possible precisely so that organizations such as Amnesty International will falsely accuse Israel of as many deaths as it can. That Hamas tradition, however, Amnesty International does not report.
Another self-described "human rights organization", Human Rights Watch, in December, released another, highly inaccurate, defamatory report on Israel and Gaza: "Extermination and Acts of Genocide". Apart from the word "extermination" – apparently a tip of the hat to Hitler's extermination camps –the report deceptively states that Israel is "deliberately depriving Palestinians in Gaza of water" and adds that "Israeli authorities' actions have deprived the majority of the more than 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza of access even to that bare minimum amount of water, which has contributed to death and widespread disease." Everything written in this libellous "report" is, disappointingly, false.
The pro-Hamas propaganda that flooded American university campuses in the aftermath of October 7, 2023 – and before it -- and which, with staged demonstrations, have continued to flow for months -- often openly pro-Hamas, anti-American and slamming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not releasing the how stages, as if he were hiding them in the Knesset, has been particularly repugnant. The American entrepreneur Elon Musk has written that he would like to know who are the "puppet masters" organizing everything.
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Dr. Guy Millière, a professor at the University of Paris, is the author of 27 books on France and Europe.
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