Demonstrations In New York Make Several Things Clear

[The Magistrate]

166. Bloody-Minded Nonesense

Your line was that others share the blame with Hamas. This is apologia of the lowest order, and a barefaced attempt to shift blame from the criminal onto the victim of his crime.

'Weaponization' is but a worship word, like 'gaslighting': something chanted in expectation its magic will confound one's opponent. Were one to extract any meaning from your use of 'weaponization' here, it amounts to a charge that Israel was just waiting for an excuse to launch all-out war in Gaza, and glad of one come to hand. It's groundwork for 'Netanyahu let it happen' noises, and stretches on from there clear to false-flag rants about just who really killed whom. And they all hinge on what you claim, that Israel has 'weaponized' Hamas atrocities so it can slaughter hecatombs of innocent Palestinians.

The brutal fact of the matter is not one resident of Gaza would have been killed or maimed, not one bomb dropped there, nor one round fired there in the last eight months or so, had Hamas not indulged its killers in a sadistic spree of torture, rape, murder, and kidnapping, on the 7th of October last.

If more dead Palestinians did not serve the interests of Hamas, if more dead Palestinians are not the chosen weapon of Hamas, they can end the killing in a heartbeat. They can free their captive victims and surrender. Hamas prefers to keep Gaza residents between them and the weapons of the Israeli military. None of the demands over which they will keep the killing going aid the people of Gaza in the slightest. They want a 'ceasefire' that leaves them in power over Gaza's residents, and replenishes depleted ranks with freed prisoners.