So what, would you ‘estimate’ is a ‘proportionate response’ to the brutal (and if you want details, its all online, but you’ll need a strong stomach or a bucket) murders of 1400 people? Should Israel have simply gone ‘an eye for an eye’ and murdered 1400 Gazans? Randomly and with horrendous brutality? That would have been pure, but ‘proportionate’, revenge. Which really is not what this current assault on Gaza is all about. This is not for ‘revenge’. It’s about proportionality of intention.

Since its inception Hamas has had but one goal; the destruction of Israel, the death of all Israeli Jews and better still, all Jews in the world. That’s it. The statement, its in their charter, unapologetically. But it’s been a battle cry, a bold statement to rally the troops, mere words. ‘From the River to the Sea’ may sound almost biblical in its origins but it is the statement that Hamas wants all of Israel’s land, but none of its people alive. Which is why there is no current ‘2-state solution’, its been offered numerous times but always rejected by the PLO or Hamas.

What happened on October 7 turned this intention from rhetoric into stark reality. Leaving Israel in a truly existential crisis. Here is Hamas, murdering innocent Israelis, as always promised. Spurred on by a lifelong passion against Israel, armed and abetted by Iranian dollars and rockets, they embarked upon their lust for death. Which, if left, would repeat. As threatened. Leaving Israel no choice but to eliminate Hamas before it eliminates them.

Hamas is NOT ‘the people of Gaza’. It does not ever represent their best interests. It uses them as disposable, throwaway pawns in a PR battle against its enemy. Hamas murders Palestinians. The hospital that Israel yesterday demanded be evacuated has a Hamas command centre built in a tunnel underneath it. Not in a dark, dusty, muddy place but lined with concrete, carpeted, filled with computers and an arms depot. Rocket launchers are strategically placed near schools. If Palestinians disagree with Hamas they are killed. Thrown off of buildings. Hamas does not care about Palestine or the people in it, other than as their use in scoring points and garnering sympathy from naive imbeciles at the UN.

And from Jeremy Corbyn who yesterday demanded the end of ‘killing innocent children’. Whereas during all the Russian bombing killing Ukranian children, all he could say was: ‘the West must stop supplying Ukraine with arms’. He didn’t mention the Israeli babies and children killed or burned alive during the initial raid. Why would he? And anyway, the world’s forgotten the October 7 raid now, because other people are being killed by Israeli bombs. And that’s far more important. Far more inflammatory. Far more a worthy cause for marching, protesting and shouting ‘Jihad’ and ‘death to the Jews’ in Trafalgar Square.

What is really ‘disproportionate’ is the level of hatred that has suddenly arisen for Israel and for Jews. In Russia yesterday a plane due to land from Tel Aviv had to be redirected because of a group of ‘protesters’ waving Palestinian flags who broke into the airport and actually made it onto the runway ‘looking for Jews’. For a ‘pogrom’. Another pogrom. The Palestine flags waved here are now slowly being replaced by Hamas flags, Isis flags and all manner of other jihadi hate mongers. And the waving is not just by Muslims but by good, English Corbyn-types so easily and moronically led into anti-semitic rage. Of course ‘its not anti-semitism to be anti-zionist’, but when you only and ever protest against Israel and never when Syria murders 10,000 of its own civilians, or Russia destroys working schools and hospitals, then it kind’a looks like anti-semitism, smells like anti-semitism, as demonstrated by the United Nations so regularly.

I wish I knew what the answer was. But getting rid of Hamas (or the current incarnation of it, at least) is definitely the place to start. As many have said, but few have listened, ridding Gaza of Hamas would free the Palestinian people as well as safeguarding the state of Israel so that us Jews of the diaspora still feel we always have that safe haven should ‘the shit hit the fan’. Again. And currently, I’m not standing too close to any fans.

Happy Monday

A xxxx