HAMAS Terror Apologia in the West is a Huge Problem

Nothing Could Justify Massacre of Innocent Israeli Civilians

To be sure, Western Leftist one-sided approach to Israeli-Palestinian conflict when Israel was blamed for everything while Palestine with its HAMAS terrorists was forgiven everything, was ALWAYS problematic but NEVER as much as now on the background of HAMAS full-scale military invasion into Israel and massacre of innocent Israeli civilians. Hence, when I see many people in the West, mostly on the Left (or Woke 'progressive' Left, to be more precise) STILL trying to EXCUSE even THAT monstrosity, it makes me SO angry and SO scared for the future of humankind, that I feel compelled to write this post and to debunk all the arguments of HAMAS terror apologists. 

HAMAS apologists claim that Israel 'had it coming' due to its 'countless human rights abuses' in Palestine. They even went as far as to call Israeli rule in Palestine an 'apartheid regime'! So, no wonder, Woke HAMAS apologists continue, that 'driven to utter desperation', 'poor Palestinian victims' were forced to resort to violence - the 'language Israel had told them', to quote some HAMAS apologists. 

So let's debunk those arguments one by one. Hamas apologists love to say about 'countless Israeli human rights abuses in Palestine'. However, under closer inspection it turns out that at least half of those 'abuses' are actually downright FAKES manufactured by Pallywood (Palestinian Cinema Fake Production) which are being spread without any basic fact-check by gullible Western Woke Left and even mainstream media outlets such as CNN. I personally had seen many of those fakes. For example, this one - https://www.theblaze.com/news/female-tattoo-artist-identified-as-woman-paraded-around-gaza-by-hamas-report?utm_source=theblaze-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily-Newsletter__PM%202023-10-08&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Daily%20PM#lnixz9dj9cf77cjaisf

Now, I know that no one is perfect and that Israel might also go over the top with its defense against HAMAS. So, I allow that at least SOME of 'Israeli human rights abuses' in Palestine might actually be true. But does it justify HAMAS full-scale military invasion and brutal massacre of innocent civilians? Not really. Again, NOTHING justifies massacre of innocent civilians. Even if HAMAS and Palestine have some legitimate grudges against Israeli government, to take their revenge on innocent Israeli civilians is downright evil, monstrous, and totally unacceptable. 

Also, just out of curiosity - this is how HAMAS and Palestine intended to extract some sympathy to their alleged predicament from international community, by bombing and killing innocent civilians? Seriously? Not really a good way to present oneself as a victim, to be honest. 

Secondly, I really wonder why Western Woke Left pretend to care so much about 'Israeli human rights abuses in Palestine', but ignore pretty much any other human rights abuses in another places. For example, what's about Saudi Arabia regularly bombing Yemen (with Western weapons, by the way!) and massacring thousands of innocent Yemen kids in the process? What's about concentration camps for Uyghurs in China? What's about Ukrainian government regularly bombing Russian-speaking regions of Donbass prior to current Russian invasion? The West refused to acknowledge the latter one, dismissing it just as 'Russian propaganda' again, and even if it DID acknowledge it in the end, Western politicians said that 'Donbass people deserved it for turning against Ukraine and colluding with Russia'. Like, SERIOUSLY? Innocent civilians AGAIN DESERVED it, just like Israeli ones? 

Overall, I'm just astonished at the Woke Left ability to viciously condemn any, however small, episodes of violence on their OPPONENTS side, and to fully justify all episodes of violence, however big, on their OWN side. This double standard on violence is just monstrous. Let us remember how very differently American Democrats and Woke Left treated BLM and Capitol Hill violent riots. That is, Capitol Hill riot where NO ONE from Congress or police had died but  four rioters were shot dead by Capitol  Police, was presented as a'vicious insurrection and existential threat to our democracy' by Democrats and their Mainstream Misledia, while actually violent BLM riots with all their looting, burning and even occasional shooting, which lasted for the whole summer and caused millions of dollars property damage, were called 'mostly peaceful protests'. Again, double standard is glaring, and asymmetrical approach to the SAME episodes but on DIFFERENT sides is obvious. 

Let us also remember Russia-Ukraine again - how viciously the West condemned Russian military invasion into Ukraine, dismissing all Russian claims of Ukrainian Nazi, of Ukrainian bombings of Donbass and other human right abuses of Russian minority in Ukraine, and of NATO encircling Russia, merely as 'Russian propaganda'.

But now it turned out it was not just 'propaganda' after all - it is proven that Ukrainian army is infiltrated with Nazis, that Ukraine indeed discriminated against its Russian-speaking minority (by banning to learn Russian language in schools, for example), and NATO chief recently admitted that Putin had actually WARNED him that NATO further expansion would lead to serious problems, but decided to expand nevertheless. Again, this is NOT to justify Russian invasion into Ukraine but to point out the tremendous Western (mostly Leftist) hypocrisy with regard to it - that Western Left had ignored ALL Russian arguments in defense of its invasion and unanimously condemned Russia as a 'war criminal', but now are making ALL kinds of excuses to defend another military invasion - HAMAS invasion into Israel. Again, the hypocrisy is just monstrous. 

But coming back to HAMAS. The last argument HAMAS apologists use to justify HAMAS terror is that 'there are MORE victims on Palestinian side than Israeli one'. Well, first of all, even THAT is HAMAS fault and NOT Israel's. HAMAS is notorious for its dirty and monstrous 'human shields' strategy when HAMAS terrorists use Palestinian civilians as a shield against Israeli attacks in order to accuse Israel of 'war crimes' and 'massacre of civilians'. But, if it is HAMAS who had brought civilians under Israeli fire, then WHO is really to blame for their death? You could read more about this HAMAS 'human shields' strategy here -  https://stratcomcoe.org/cuploads/pfiles/hamas_human_shields.pdf

But, again, EVEN if there were MORE human victims on Palestinian side, then WHAT does it prove? How does it justify HAMAS brutal military invasion into Israel? HAMAS still invaded and massacred innocent Israeli civilians, while Israel was DEFENDING itself. If Israeli defense was more efficient than HAMAS attack, does it turn a defender into an offender? Not really. With that logic one might say that Nazi Germany was a 'true victim' of WWII because there were MORE Germans killed than say Brits who fought against them. And SO WHAT? Does it justify Holocaust? Sigh. 

In the end, I'd like to say that even if you condemn state of Israel for its policies towards Palestinians, to justify HAMAS military invasion into Israel and massacre of innocent Israeli civilians is still TOO MUCH. NOTHING could excuse that. If you desperately try to excuse THIS, then you might excuse literally anything, up to Holocaust, and that is actually evil and monstrous.