Israel war: For Palestinians, there are no Israeli civilians
Conn Carroll
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It can be disorientating at first. Despite all the images of dead grandparents, mothers, and children, despite the eyewitness testimony of concertgoers describing how Hamas murdered and raped their friends right in front of them, Palestinians still go on live television and claim with a straight face that Hamas is not killing civilians.
“No, they are not,” Mustafa Barghouti, general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria after Zakaria said Hamas was targeting “women, children, grandmothers.”
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“Isn’t that classic terrorism? They are not fighting the Israeli government. They are fighting ordinary people,” Zakaria pressed.
“That’s one way of putting it,” Barghouti responded. “But that’s not true.”
What could Barghouti possibly mean? How is it not true that Hamas is targeting civilians?
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A Hamas spokesman later shed light on the Palestinian worldview in an interview with Sky News. When asked how he could claim no civilians were killed after being confronted with the massacre at the music festival, the Hamas spokesman said, “We have to redefine what it means to be a civilian. I cannot consider a settler in the West Bank, carrying guns, burning the city of Huwara, a civilian.”
There is no evidence that anyone at the music festival had a gun or burned a city in the West Bank, but the rest of his statement is the clarifying answer: Palestinians consider everyone of Jewish descent living in Israel to be a “settler” who is fair game for immediate execution. It doesn’t matter if he or she is an unarmed musician, an elderly grandmother, or a newborn baby. For Palestinians, they are all occupiers, they are all equally guilty, and they are all, therefore, fair targets for rape and murder.