SWORDS OF IRON WAR. Day 126.

FRIDAY 09.2.2024

A part of an article copied from: 

https://allisrael.com/blog/the-absurdity-of-the-hamas-proposal

Picture this scenario. A notorious gang member comes to your house, beats you within an inch of your life, puts you in the hospital, and just as you’re about to be released, you’re handed a bill for your beater’s dry cleaning, whose clothes were splattered by your blood.

That about wraps up the absurdly offensive and insulting proposal made by Hamas to free Israel’s hostages. Not only did their demands include a complete withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza, ending their military efforts to finish off our enemies, but other demands included:

• ·A return to 2002, when no Jew could enter the Temple Mount or the Al-Aqsa Mosque area

• ·Guarantees that released Palestinian prisoners cannot be re-arrested

• ·Improvement of conditions for all remaining Palestinian prisoners

• ·A minimum of 500 trucks with humanitarian aid, including fuel

• ·Return of all Gazans to their homes as well as the opening of all crossings with no restrictions

• ·Provision of heavy equipment to clear out rubble

• ·Provision of health equipment along with the rehabilitation of hospitals

• ·Setting up residential camps, along with 60,000 temporary shelters (15,000 per week) and 200,000 tents (50,000 per week)

• ·Restoration of infrastructure, including water, electricity and communication

• ·Restoration of UNWRA with its funding intact.

• ·Provision of diesel to operate the Gaza power plant

Let’s get this straight – Hamas terrorists parachuted into Israel’s sovereign territory, for the purpose of committing a savage massacre against innocents, wiping out whole families and slaughtering 1200, but we are supposed to compensate them, to the max, for all the suffering which their people endured as a consequence of their heinous actions? 

If that’s not the height of chutzpah (gall), then what is? 

It’s almost as if Hamas purposely provided a laundry list to which they knew, in advance, that Israel would never agree. So why waste anyone’s time? It could be that they were banking on the tremendous pressure which has been unrelenting by hostage families to bring their loved ones home at any cost. Yet, as much as everyone is committed to their return, there are just some demands which are so out of the realm of reality that they just cannot be met.

It should be noted that Hamas also made it clear that they would not release any of the hostages until they saw a good faith movement towards the above demands first – meaning that we would already need to withdraw troops and begin providing equipment and shelters, at our expense – of course, before we would see the first hostages released.

The worst are the notices we get every so often from our friends: The USA notified us yesterday that 50% of the hostages are dead. We know they may be all dead, but, we pray that God saved them and kept them alive and free of trauma. We know that Israel will be blamed for it when it is found out for certain; That a finger will be pointed at our leaders saying, “They were too slow to react and to attack back”.

But hearing from the soldiers themselves, we are winning in Gaza. Sinwar and Hamas are fleeing and know that their time is up. The ridiculous demands show that Hamas is flexing the muscles they lost with their terrorizing action when they mutilated and cut off babies' heads from their bodies and they are trying to regain some respect. 

That is the truth of it. 

Shabbat Shalom Anyway