Congratulations, You Officially Sided With Baby Killers
Nice going, Hamasholes!
Making the rounds this past week was a fun little article detailing what many of us had long suspected. From Yahoo!:
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib reveals footage of Hamas hiding baby formula in Gaza during the hunger crisis. Israel’s Foreign Ministry condemns Hamas for using civilians' suffering for political gain.
Hamas terrorists deliberately hid baby formula over the past six months in clandestine warehouses belonging to Hamas's Health Ministry, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib accused on X/Twitter on Wednesday.
Alkhatib, a Gazan native and anti-Hamas activist who resides in the US, shared video footage of the "literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes," which he says were hidden "during the worst of the days of the hunger crisis."
"Now, activists in the Strip are documenting the waste and deliberate disposal of tons of infant formula, nutritional children’s shake, and children’s powdered milk, which Hamas had hoarded away, given the saturation of the coastal enclave with humanitarian aid after the ceasefire two months ago," he wrote.
"What those in the West continue to fail to understand is that there is no being pro-Palestine without also having a serious vigilance against Hamas’s continued manipulation of international public opinion to hide behind the Strip's civilian population's suffering, something that the terrorist organization’s own actions have led to and created," he continued.
"Never allow yourself to be a useful idiot in Hamas’s propaganda. You can have compassion for the real suffering of the Palestinian civilians of Gaza, and demand Israeli action to facilitate aid entry into the coastal enclave, while still holding Hamas accountable for its part in causing a hunger and starvation crisis in the first place," he concluded.
Useful idiot is far too kind a term for the Hamas groupies. These privileged Gen Alphas roughing it in REI tents and demanding their revolution to be catered, failed the most basic tenet of a functional democracy: evaluating their information. Had they done so, they would have realized that Hamas (the actual terrorists) had a history of propaganda and misinformation, especially against Israel and the Jewish people. But taking 3 minutes to look this up was simply too burdensome. It was too much effort to learn about Hamas' infiltration of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Or the fact that the Gaza Ministry of Health was a Hamas propaganda arm that tried from the earliest days of the war to blame Israel for an attack that ended up being their own rocket misfire. Heaven forbid, these armchair revolutionaries waited 3 weeks after the smoke had cleared, and it was obvious that there was a concerted effort by pro-Hamas social media influencers to quickly sway pubic opinion against Israel. But waiting wasn't in the cards for them when it came time to buy a keffiyeh and a Save Palestine placard at the local bodega. But who has time to get the facts right when the revolution awaits?
Yet this was never their revolution. It was a terrorist attack that viciously murdered over 1,200 Israeli men, women, and children. It was a subsequent invasion by the Israeli military to hunt down those responsible. Tragically, Gaza civilians were killed. But this was never the "genocide" that so many in our country claimed it to be. Even with questionable sources, roughly 3% of the population has been killed in Gaza, a number very much in line with traditional large-scale ground assaults throughout world history. Did the IDF make mistakes? Absolutely, and they received critical media coverage warranted for their actions. However, Hamas seemingly got off the hook for their October 7th attack, despite it being the catalyst for the entire war. For over two years, we saw protests from college students to end the "Gaza Genocide," but not once did we see a single protest demanding that Hamas release the Israeli prisoners. How was it that so many of our own missed the forest through the trees?
While this answer involves multiple parts, the overarching reason is that they missed it because they didn't want to see it. These students and cosplay Gazans wanted a nice, simple revolution they could make their own. One where there were clear good guys and bad guys. One where they stood up for the poor, oppressed Gaza people. One where Israel and Zionists (whatever that was) were clear enemies. Never mind that they didn't understand the region's history. They just knew that Israel was in the wrong. Never mind that they didn't understand the definition of genocide. They just knew that Israel was committing it. Never mind that children were being starved. They just knew that Israel and Israel alone was the cause of all the pain and suffering having to be endured by the Gaza people.
Except as we learned this week, Hamas themselves were actually the culprits. And if you were paying attention to non-Hamas propaganda, you would have understood this. You would have understood that Hamas were never the good guys. You would have understood that it has been their long-standing ambition to wipe out Israel and the Jewish people at any cost, and that includes starving Gazan civilians. You would have understood that Hamas were always the bad guys and not some benevolent freedom fighters standing up to the terrible, genocidal Zionists. A simple Google search in the hours after October 7th would have told you that throwing your support behind one of the worst terrorist groups on the planet was not the wisest course of action. But you saw a chance to buy a cool scarf, camp out, and publicly hate Jews, so you took it. Through your selfishness, you helped turn the tide against the one candidate who would have helped Gaza, and instead, you prolonged a war and the needless suffering of innocent children.
But it was never about the children. We knew that from day one. If it were, then these pro-Hamas groupies wouldn't have sided with the terrorists who killed dozens of Israeli children on October 7th and took another 30 hostage. It was always about punishing Israel. It was about succumbing to a coordinated disinformation campaign by bad foreign actors to play on the vague idealism of college students who envision peace in the Middle East but have no idea what that would even look like. But instead of doing the research to learn about the region, countless individuals simply jumped on the bandwagon and began hating Israel because they were an easy scapegoat. Never mind centuries of antisemitism, college students just knew that Israel was committing genocide because TikTok told them so. In the 26 months since the October 7th massacre, we've seen countless examples of antisemitic violence, with this past weekend's Bondi Beach mass shooting simply being the latest event to unfold. For every violent act that occurs against the Jewish community here in the United States, a generation of pissant college students will have blood on their hands.
All because siding with the terrorists was the cool thing to do.