Western Standard - October 12, 2023


Only Gazans can end the bloodshed


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In this episode, I talk about the need for the citizens of Gaza to abandon their support for Hamas and its terrorist activities. I also talk about why it s time for Gazans to do the opposite of what they ve been doing in support of Hamas.

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00:00:00.000 Now, Hamas, it didn't emerge from a vacuum, you know, it was popularly, it is a popularly
00:00:06.480 supported organization in Gaza. It's their governing body, and it's been running them
00:00:10.240 for 18 years. It was selected by the citizens of Gaza, this representative, they were elected
00:00:14.860 initially. Now they haven't had elections since, but they put them in there. Now it's time for the
00:00:20.020 citizens of Gaza to abandon Hamas, if only for their own sake. I mean, it's only when locals 0.99
00:00:24.960 stop supporting and shielding the terrorist efforts of Hamas, will those terrorist efforts
00:00:31.580 come to an end? And when those terrorist efforts come to an end, Israel will stop retaliating. This
00:00:36.600 is the cycle of events that has to happen. I mean, the active participants within Hamas might be in
00:00:41.440 a minority, but it's looking like they still enjoy the support of most of the Gazans, if only passively,
00:00:46.660 and that support has to end. I know that not every citizen of Gaza supports the terrorist act of Hamas,
00:00:51.860 and I know that they're suffering under the retaliation. Innocent civilians are going to
00:00:56.620 suffer, and they're going to get killed. I know it's easy for me to sit safely in Canada and tell
00:01:01.480 people in Gaza to turn on their fellow Hamas members. I mean, these members are often friends,
00:01:06.540 family, community leaders. I can't imagine the punishment for a citizen caught opposing Hamas
00:01:12.060 in Gaza right now. But when the option is, having most of Gaza leveled in airstrikes and shelling,
00:01:18.600 the loyalties to the terrorists of Hamas has to start weakening. They can't just sit back and
00:01:24.840 keep blaming Israel. What's Israel expected to do? The scumbags of Hamas slaughtered people at a music 0.98
00:01:30.220 festival. They murdered babies, raped women, and tortured them. They shot down entire families,
00:01:36.440 and now they're holding hostages. Is Israel supposed to just shrug and let bygones be bygones?
00:01:41.820 Not going to happen, guys. Israel isn't going to stop now until this threat is neutralized, 0.89
00:01:45.980 and that threat is Hamas. It's going to be a long and bloody war if Hamas can continue hiding among 0.78
00:01:51.800 the citizens of Gaza. The terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah, they're cowards. They love using 0.97
00:01:56.740 their own people as human shields. Cowardice is a hallmark of terrorism. I mean, they purposely put
00:02:02.140 military installations in schools and hospitals and, of course, play victim when the inevitable
00:02:06.720 retaliation occurs. I mean, clearly Israel had a breakdown in intelligence that allowed them to be 0.95
00:02:11.380 caught so off guard when Hamas attacked last weekend. I'm sure they're working feverishly to 0.98
00:02:15.740 figure out what went wrong. We're going to prevent such a lapse from happening again.
00:02:19.180 But how many Gazan citizens knew this attack was in the works? Tens of thousands of them must have
00:02:24.800 known as the missiles were being stockpiled, the terrorists were being trained, and the plans were
00:02:29.380 being made. None of them were in Israel, and all of them must have known what retaliation was going
00:02:34.140 to come. And that's because tens of thousands of Gazans support the terrorists of Hamas, if not hundreds of
00:02:39.220 thousands of them. But there are millions of people there in Gaza, and they surely know the
00:02:43.800 retribution is going to be swift and unforgiving. They remain silent. If Gazans want the violence to
00:02:49.300 end, they have to stop supporting Hamas. They have to stop feeding them, stop housing them, and stop 0.56
00:02:53.380 donating to them. They need to stop hiding them and remaining silent when they know the terrorist acts
00:02:57.720 are pending. No approach is going to stop all the violence that's surely coming in that we're going to
00:03:02.560 be watching over the coming weeks, possibly months. But this violence isn't going to end until Hamas is 0.95
00:03:07.080 gone. That's the way it is now. The world's not going to defend Hamas. Sure, there's some sympathetic 0.90
00:03:11.660 left-wing journalists and union heads and academics, but when it comes to developed nations,
00:03:16.680 civilized people, Hamas is on their own. They've been condemned roundly by nations, and sympathy for 1.00
00:03:21.540 their plight as their Israeli retaliation ramps up is going to be muted, to say the least. Hamas didn't 0.98
00:03:27.580 even pretend to make their actions look like a military strike. They targeted civilians with the intent of
00:03:32.140 being as inhuman and cruel as possible. They dug their own graves as they went so far over the line
00:03:37.460 of humanity that no civilization can offer them sympathy. Hamas is a dead organization, even if
00:03:42.840 they don't know it yet. They're going to be brought down. The only question is by whom and how long it's
00:03:46.640 going to take. If Gazans shed themselves at Hamas, the violence will end at least more quickly, 0.81
00:03:52.040 and then leave them, you know, if they leave the task to Israel, it's going to take a long time,
00:03:56.040 and it's going to be rough. They can only play victims for so long when they've been clearly supporting
00:03:59.800 this horrific terror organization. However, the reign of Hamas comes to an end, it's coming to an 0.79
00:04:05.600 end. Now, whenever it ends and Gazans start rebuilding, hopefully their new leadership can focus on the 0.53
00:04:09.900 needs of their citizens rather than spending 18 years building bombs and fostering hate, as Hamas did. 0.80
00:04:14.780 Israel pulled out of Gaza nearly 20 years ago. How long can they still be blamed for the mess there? 1.00
00:04:18.880 Like I said, Egypt used to occupy that land. Can they be blamed too? And again, Egypt isn't in any hurry to
00:04:23.560 have it back, that's for sure. Only Gazans can determine what's going to happen once this conflict
00:04:28.040 settles down. Hopefully they're ready to look at ways of improving their state of affairs, rather than just
00:04:33.040 fostering more hate and tearing down their neighbors.