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We need to counteract the false accusations that Zionists are genocidal or indulging in pogroms against the Palestinians. Israel has not committed those crimes. Hamas and its terrorist leaders, armed and supported by Iran, have stated objectives that are explicitly genocidal against Israelis and Jews. They have threatened, in their charter and proclamations, to continue on that path.
The Gazans targeted by Israel are those who planned and executed the Oct. 7 cross-border beheadings, burnings, kidnapping and raping of Israeli men, women, children and seniors. Most noncombatant Gazans who have been killed or injured have been heartlessly put in harm’s way by Hamas.
Hamas has deliberately chosen neighborhood, hospital, mosque and school areas to position their fighters and missile launchers to protect themselves and engender worldwide sympathy. Israel has tried to limit casualties and has never intentionally terrorized or murdered innocents, as Hamas proudly has.
Esther Geil
Makiki
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