Saturday, April 27, 2024

Why Would They Do This?

This piece by Matthew Xiao at The Washington Free Beacon should receive more air time than it's been getting.

Ever since October 7th we've heard that the Israelis are causing a huge humanitarian crisis in Gaza. This, despite the fact that the Israelis have been allowing hundreds of relief trucks into Gaza and the United States has been air-dropping food and medicine to Palestinian civilians.

The U.S. is even constructing a pier to offload humanitarian relief into Gaza, but true to their nature, Hamas has launched a mortar strike against the pier:
Gazan terrorists on Wednesday launched mortar shells at a site off the coast of Gaza where the United States is planning to construct a floating pier to deliver humanitarian aid, according to a report from Israeli outlet i24NEWS.

The mortar attack damaged American engineering equipment and left one person injured, i24NEWS reported on Thursday. The United States could start building the humanitarian pier as early as this weekend, with the Israel Defense Forces reportedly in charge of providing security during the construction.

President Joe Biden first announced the pier’s construction during his State of the Union address on March 7. U.S. military personnel will assemble the floating pier, an 1,800-foot-long causeway attached to the coast of northern Gaza, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said the day after Biden’s speech.

"As the president has said, not enough aid is getting in [to Gaza]," Ryder said, noting the pier is expected to help deliver "up to 2,000,000 meals in a day."
One has to ask, what kind of individuals are these who would attack this facility in what was apparently an attempt to thwart efforts to get food and other necessities to their own people? Why would they do this if they cared at all about their own kin?

Well, in fact they're the same barbarians with whom the moral blank slates on our university campuses across the country have chosen to identify themselves.

This incident should tell us something about both Hamas and the young people who think Hamas is worthy of their praise and support.