Does ‘genocide’ involve Israel giving Gaza two weeks to evacuate its citizens?
Tiana Lowe Doescher
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Israel is the real humanitarian power in the Levant.
Alas, roving that we tragically all live on an extension of campus now, the Nazi sympathizers holding rallies to stand with Hamas have graduated from the Harvard Yard to the halls of Congress. Outside of the local offices of normie Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi in California and John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, and to the Cannon Office Building across the Capitol, surrogates for terrorism have been blasting Israel’s self-defense, after the single worst day of antisemitic violence since the Holocaust, as “genocide.”
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For those of you mercifully living under a rock for the past fortnight, recall that Hamas, unprovoked by any particular Israeli action, initiated its unprecedented attack on Israel, complete with the murder of more than 1,400 civilians and capture of hundreds of hostages, including American, French, and German nationals. Yet for literally two full weeks now, Israel has held off on its necessary ground invasion into Gaza. Despite the fact that Gaza is reliant on Israel for its water supply because it has used its water pipes to create rockets to use against Israel, the Israeli democracy has restored some of its water output to southern Gaza, and Israel is allowing Egypt to admit humanitarian aid into Gaza through its Rafah crossing.
All Israel has asked in return is for those supposedly peaceful civilians to declare themselves as such and get out of Gaza so Israel can raze Hamas to the ground. And somehow, this order, after two weeks of preternatural grace, has been blasted by Hamas sympathizers as “genocide.”
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Of course, the alternative that these antisemites want is Israel’s suicide, because that’s indeed what a ceasefire would mean for the world’s only Jewish state. So if Israel must defend itself, and that requires obliterating Hamas and its weaponry in Gaza, where is the rest of the world in helping Israel’s honorable efforts to preserve civilian safety? Hamas has made clear it wants to continue to hide behind civilian hostages, putting up roadblocks and IEDs to keep its people trapped in this supposed open-air prison — but where are the Egyptians, whose support for the Palestinian cause in the abstract seems not to extend to the Palestinian people in reality? Where are the international agencies such as the United Nations, who ought to be using their infrastructure to evacuate these Palestinians? Where is the International Monetary Fund, which can use its power to coerce Egypt into opening the Rafah crossing?
That Israel has bent over backward and waited 14 full days for Palestinian civilians to be granted safe refuge into southern Gaza, and then into the very Arab nations that claim to stand with the Palestinians, just goes to show that Israel has more care for Palestinian noncombatants than the Palestinian warlords who hide behind their own civilians. To ask that Israel wait even longer for the Arab world to pretend to care for Palestinian refugees is idiocy. To ask that they stop their defense altogether is the real call to Jewish genocide.