Andrew Fox
Today’s Hamas social media line-to-take is the first photo. I’ve seen it twice already. They appear to be trying to spin the damage to Gaza as something unusual or especially vindictive on the part of Israel. The second and third photos are Mosul. We did that. (Including 2000lb bombs, btw - and up to 26,000 civilian fatalities in that campaign overall. No silly shrieking about genocide in Mosul, though. Odd, that.) In Mosul we were fighting ISIS. Hamas and ISIS are different, but in terms of animalistic, inhuman behaviour (against Israelis AND their own people) they are entirely comparable. Israel’s war against Hamas is every bit as valid and necessary as our war against ISIS. All three photos are what block-to-block, building-to-building urban warfare looks like. The only difference in the Gaza pic is that Hamas wanted this to happen. They deliberately used almost every building to fight from, to dig tunnel shafts from, to launch rockets from and to cache weapons in. Don’t be sucked in by Hamas propaganda. Gaza is just a terrible urban war with all the usual human suffering that comes with it. It’s what happens when Jihadist psychopaths like Hamas and ISIS start these wars. Nothing more. h/t @havivrettiggur for the inspiration for this post.
