Calling a Hack a Hack
1st October 2026
Fact: In 2005, Israel closed down all civilian Jewish settlements in Gaza, and withdrew all military units. Israel continued to monitor the borders of Gaza in an effort to keep out weapons. While successful in keeping out tanks, the Israeli’s were not successful keeping out rifles and small rockets. With two million Palestinian inhabitants, Gaza became completely self governing.
Fact: Through a combination of ballots and bullets, Hamas acquired political and governing control of Gaza in 2006. Despite millions in annual aid from the outside world, Hamas did not make Palestinian prosperity a priority. Hamas had two priorities: Indoctrinate the children of Gaza to hate Jews and Israel, and the construction of miles and miles of tunnels for the purpose of hiding, storing, and transporting soldiers and weapons.
Fact: On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded sparsely populated portions of Israel with the intention of avoiding Israeli military units as much as possible. Their objective was to find and kill / rape / torture / kidnap as many civilian men, women, and children as they could find before running back to Gaza. They kidnapped 251. They murdered 1,195. They held the captives in secret scattered locations and dared the Israeli Army to come and rescue them.
Fact: in the recorded history of urban warfare, no army has successfully minimized civilian casualties as well as the IDF. Minimizing civilian casualties was an unquestioned high priority for the IDF. Hamas, on the other hand, systematically used Palestinian civilians as human shields to protect themselves as they fought.
Fact: Gaza has never been able to feed itself. It has always been dependent on a daily parade of trucks for most of its food. Throughout the 30 month hostage rescue mission, Israel never prevented any food from entering Gaza. Starvation was never a concern for the people of Gaza. Hamas, on the other hand, routinely commandeered food trucks so that they could demand civilian cooperation by the threat of withholding food.
Fact: During the 30 month hostage rescue mission. There were civilian casualties and deaths notwithstanding extraordinary Israeli efforts to minimize such consequences. Gaza was and is a community of over 2 million. Fact: During the 30 months of alleged Israeli genocide, more babies were born in Gaza than civilians killed. When the hostage-release agreement was finally signed, the population of Gaza was higher than it was on October 7.
The accusation that Israel engaged in genocide in Gaza routinely comes from the mouths of American academics, American entertainment celebrities, Arab-American activists, far-left activists, and occasionally, Democrat politicians. American journalists routinely report and disseminate such accusations uncritically.