The ubiquitous and outrageous lie that Israel committed a “genocide” in Gaza has been further debunked, inadvertently, by Hamas itself. The Israelis have prosecuted an aggressive yet defensive war after their territory was breached by hordes of bloodthirsty terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023. The barbarian invaders slaughtered nearly 1,200 people during the atrocity, including dozens of Americans, and seized hundreds of hostages. They documented much of it on video, some of it streamed live. They wielded sexual violence as a weapon, which even an investigation by the anti-Israel United Nations has confirmed, to the chagrin of the ghoulish rape denialists.  

Hamas started the war with an orgy of violence against civilians, reportedly with an explicit blessing and assistance from the Iranian regime, with an eye toward derailing further peace agreements between the Jewish state and additional Muslim-majority nations in the region.  

For years, Hamas repeatedly refused to end the war it initiated by simply releasing the surviving hostages and disarming. Its fanatical intransigence kept the deadly war raging. The group used an elaborate tunnel system it built (by misappropriating international aid) under Gaza to shield itself from Israeli bombs, while denying similar protection to Palestinian civilians, whom it exploited as human shields. Hamas used hospitals (even Doctors Without Borders has admitted this, terribly belatedly), schools, and mosques for terrorist purposes.  

This was no coincidence. It was part of a deliberate and long-standing strategy to make it as difficult as possible for Israel to strike Hamas targets without endangering civilians in the process. Unintentional Israeli killings of non-terrorist Palestinians, as well as errant terrorist rocket attacks, were instantly blamed by the terrorists on the Jewish state, often with the enthusiastic complicity of many in the international media. Hamas could not, and did not, win the war it........

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