Guess who, in their official capacity as Trudeau’s anti-denti…I mean anti-Islamophobia czar…is throwing shade at the Jews for being Jews, etc….???
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…& to add balance to the universe:
On Saturday, the Israel Defence Forces, along with other branches of Israel’s security establishment, carried out Operation Arnon — a hostage rescue mission described by many as one of the most daring and complicated in military history. Disguised as displaced Palestinians, covert Israeli special forces made their way through dauntingly complex urban terrain controlled by Hamas and successfully rescued four Israeli hostages from two separate civilian homes.
For Israelis, the Jewish diaspora and their allies, this hostage rescue was not only a desperately needed morale boost, it was a powerful reminder of just how far Israel will go to protect and save its own. Others, including Canada’s special representative on combating Islamophobia,
described the operation as a “massacre.” This desperate mischaracterization of a country saving its own people from a genocidal terrorist group is terribly misleading.
For starters, data on civilian casualties is being reported by the very group responsible for the kidnappings — Hamas. While civilians were certainly and unfortunately killed in the operation, it is impossible to say how many of the reported 274 Palestinian civilian casualties were in fact innocent bystanders.
"With the battle having ended twelve seconds ago, we can now confirm that exactly 274 Palestinian civilian dead," said Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ismail al-Thawabta. "They were all of course civilians, we've never seen such carnage, the hospital is overwhelmed, et cetera, you guys know the drill."
In what was viewed as a potential breakthrough in addressing tensions in the war-torn region, Palestinian researchers discovered a startling correlation between holding hostages in your home and people shooting you.
The new study's findings came on the heels of a rescue operation conducted by the Israeli military to free hostages being held in Palestinian territory, with results pointing to a clear link between agreeing to imprison hostages in your home and subsequently having soldiers firing live rounds on you in an attempt to free said hostages.
"There is a distinct connection here," said lead Palestinian hostage-holding researcher Amah Salibi. "All of the data we collected showed that keeping hostages in your home leads to an exponential increase in the risk of having people shooting at you at some point in the very near future. The evidence is staggering, really."
When asked if this statistical correlation would cause Palestinians to shift their strategy away from holding hostages in their homes, Salibi was non-committal. "No, I don't think so," he said. "We will likely continue helping Hamas keep their hostages by holding them in our homes, thereby creating situations where our homes will be shot at and raided. This makes no difference whatsoever."
An Israeli Defense Force spokesman confirmed the study's findings. "Yes," said David Ben-Avraham. "If we find out hostages are being held in a Palestinian home and the occupants of the home refuse to turn over the hostages, we will shoot. This is true."
At publishing time, the same Palestinian research team had also discovered a link between firing rockets at Israel and having artillery fired back.
Indeed, it is now known that
a Palestinian journalist and his physician father were among two of the people holding the four Israelis hostage in their homes — a revelation indicative of the complexities the IDF has been facing since October 7. We also know — based on troves of intelligence, combat footage and hostage statements — that Hamas almost always operates in civilian clothing and in extremely densely populated civilian areas, further undermining the reliability of civilian death-toll figures, but Shhhhh…!!!
As this war drags on, with well over 100 civilians still held hostage in Gaza, the IDF and the Israeli government will have to grapple with more impossibly tough decisions. If opportunities arise to rescue other hostages in densely populated civilian areas, will the risk and potential fallout be worth the reward? For senior decision-makers, Israeli commandos, the country’s civilian population and for many around the world, the answer is most certainly “yes.”
Instead of vilifying Israel and the IDF for this remarkable hostage rescue, people should wake up to the fact that desperate times call for desperate measures, that the fog of war is real and that any blame for civilian casualties in Gaza should be placed squarely on Hamas.
Saying the IDF deliberately killed scores of civilians is not only dishonest and blatantly false, it is a symptom of being wildly uninformed
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