Where Were These Ceasefire Bleeding Hearts for the Past 20 Years of Hamas's Carnage?

The only way this will end is for Israel's complete annihilation of Hamas.

Survivor Mia Schem is paraded during her drug-induced Hamas release in front of a Gazan crowd. Female survivors all describe how the women captives are all raped.

On Monday six foreign aid workers and a Gazan driver were killed in a what was described as an Israeli precision attack. Netanyahu said in a statement that it was a “tragic event in which our forces unintentionally harmed non-combatants in the Gaza Strip. This happens in war … We are conducting a thorough inquiry and are in contact with the governments. We will do everything to prevent a recurrence.” The country has launched an investigation.

They were killed because Gaza is a war zone and as admirable as some may be in serving others, it does not insulate you in a war zone. It’s one of many reasons why war is horrible, but sometimes necessary when nothing short of crushing defeat will end the conflict. It’s a war zone because Hamas chose for it to be a war zone.

If Hamas released the hostages and stopped firing rockets at Israel tomorrow, Israel’s response in Gaza would end tomorrow. Hamas does not want this — in fact, after breaking a ceasefire and brutally attacking Israel on October 7th, Hamas has repeatedly vowed to do it again.

Israel has taken great care to limit the loss of life that Hamas so flagrantly spends as collateral damage. For the past twenty years Hamas has hid munitions in mosques, famously built its headquarters beneath Gaza’s largest hospital (and another under the literal Gazan UN HQ), fired rockets from the rooftops of schools, cruelly using Gaza’s population as living shields. When accidents happen — since being elected to power in 2006 Hamas has turned the strip of land given to Gazans into a war zone — Hamas turns manufactured grief into Pallywood theater with fabricated casualty numbers for the purpose of engendering pity from the international community while obfuscating its role as sole antagonist (when not bombing Israeli hospitals).

The terror group markets itself as an underdog while digging up pipes to make bombs, hoarding aid money, and endlessly buying explosives. They appeal to idiocy and youth’s inclination to back the underdog — but Hamas isn’t an underdog. It’s a well-funded Iranian proxy run by rich terrorists who live in Qatar, not with the poors in the strip they’ve ruined.

Democrats want Biden to abandon the United States’s only ally in the Middle East because they don’t believe that a nation, particularly Israel, has the right to defend itself when horrifically attacked. He’s already distancing himself from Israel to keep the Michigan (and Wisconsin) vote and the Squad happy. Now the far left and the international community (that masks it’s hatred of Jewish people by playing motte-and-bailey with blatant anti-Semitism and criticism of Netanyahu’s government) is using this latest strike as further reason to disengage the U.S. from Israel.

There is more outrage from the left over these innocent aid workers than there was over the 200+ Israeli, American, and other hostages taken on October 7th, or the over 1,160 innocents murdered by Hamas — and it isn’t hyperbole to state such. The reason why is because the aid workers weren’t Israelis. It isn’t that the loss of their lives is any less tragic, but that it is tragic how nationality and faith determine outrage. Few outside of Israel talk about the hostages anymore, least of all Biden concerning the captive Americans.

The only way this will end is for Israel’s complete annihilation of Hamas.

Are there innocents in Gaza? Of course, but you get the government and policies you elect. Hamas, which has only grown in popularity since winning the election and control of the strip in 2006, is still incredibly popular after its October 6th attack on Israel. In fact, Hamas’s popularity is why elections were previously suspended as the terror group was poised to dislodge rival party Fatah from West Bank rule. People didn’t blindly back the terror group in elections — or on October 7th. Everyday Gazans, U.N. workers, even members of the press aided Hamas in its terror attack on Israel.

One hostage survivor described his captivity: “One family that kept me captive would let their children come and look at me and point at my wounds. I felt like I was their trophy and like no one in Gaza cared about me.” Another hostage survivor, Mia Schem, wondered why she was kept with a Gazan family: “Suddenly I realized that I’m with a family. Suddenly I’m asking myself questions: ‘Why am I in some family’s home? Why are there kids here? Why is there a wife?’”

Jordan Schachtel observed on X that “Defeating your enemy in a righteous war of self defense means forcing an unconditional surrender. Historically speaking, there is no other way to conclude hostilities. I know this makes lots of people uncomfortable, but it's reality.” He’s right. Not everyone understands the cost of war. When the people afraid to make tough calls are in charge you get mission creep, never-ending conflict, soaring casualties, and drained resources. You get people who allow Hamas to wage a battle of murder and chaos for twenty years because people fear losing favor with barbaric zealots more than they fear losing innocent lives.

There will be no peace with Hamas in Gaza. There will be no peace with Hamas anywhere on earth. Opposition to the wholesale obliteration of Hamas is support for more decades of murder and chaos, more October 7ths, more loss of innocent life. There is no gray area. War is hell. It’s why it should always be the final recourse when all else fails — because afterwards, there is no going back. There is no mission creep, no politically deliberating actions for months, there is just destruction of the threat.

Those who find such a reality offensive should ask themselves why they didn’t screech into the wind just as loudly these past twenty years — when Hamas was building its HQ under Al-Shifa, launching rockets from schools, bombing Israeli hospitals, et al. — then, when there was time to stop what is now inevitable, just as loudly then as they are now. Time for ceasefire was then. Time for fire is now.

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