NY Times prints total pro-Hamas propaganda piece. Worth reading

The ghastly New York Times is a total Leftist propaganda rag.  But its editors piously claim "We're committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor."

Of course that's horseshit: The Times would never publish a solid defense of, say, Donald Trump.  But the pious claim fools the rubes, which serves the Left's purpose.

So...on Christmas Eve the Times published a masterful propaganda piece from the mayor of Gaza City, wailing that the Palestinians are merely innocent victims of duh mean Israelis.  See, to hear duh mayor tell it, the Palis are total victims: dey dindoo nuffin when dey elected Hamas to rule Gaza.

So when 2,000 Hamas terrorists blew holes in the fence and invaded Israel, viciously raping and murdering Israelis and capturing 240 or so as hostages, duh Palis were, like, "We din' know nuffin bout dis!  So if yew Israelis retaliate, yew are murderous terrorists!  Cuz, see, none of us innocent Pali civilians knew our sons an' husbands wuz gonna do dis.  Yep yep yep."

What utter horseshit.  Sure, only a few hundred folks outside of the terrorist troops probably knew, yet no one tipped off the Israelis.

Now, that's totally understandable.  Tipping off the enemy gets you killed.  Well, unless you're a CIA or FBI agent spying for Russia, in which case you're tipped off in time to flee to Russia before they can arrest you.

In any case: The Palis are now engaged in their classic Media offensive, wailing "We din'doo nuffin, an' yet dem mean Israelis are killing us innocent civilians!"  And of course the Media is parroting that line.

Got a clue for ya, sparky:  Don't do that unprovoked invade/rape/murder stuff, and none of this happens.

I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I don't blame the Israelis for saying "Enough is enough" and being determined to kill any Hamas fighter who refuses to surrender.

Here's the propaganda piece from the Times:
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As a teenager I watched the construction of the beautiful cultural center in Gaza City, with a theater, grand hall, library and printing press.

Wait, I thought the Israelis wouldn't allow you to import construction material--you know, duh "blockade" you constantly wail about.

The center was the gem of Gaza City. Watching it being built inspired me to become an engineer, which led to a career as a professor and eventually mayor of Gaza City.
   Now that gem is rubble. It was destroyed by Israeli bombardment.

Wow.  Ever heard the famous line "Don't START nothin', won't BE nothin'"?

The Israeli invasion has caused the deaths of more than 20,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and destroyed or damaged about half the buildings in the territory. The Israelis have also pulverized something else: Gaza City’s cultural riches and municipal institutions.

Again, you've been claiming you couldn't import anything due to the alleged "blockade."  And yet you built hundreds of modern buildings.  And hundreds of miles of costly tunnels.  

The unrelenting destruction of Gaza — its iconic symbols, its beautiful seafront, its libraries and archives and whatever economic prosperity it had — has broken my heart.

I do understand, really.  Sounds like you'd built a successful, thriving society.  Imagine how much more fabulous it would have been if a) your thug leaders hadn't embezzled ten BILLION dollars in aid money; and b) spent another billion or two on tunnels.  Suggest you review famous line above.

The Gaza zoo has been destroyed, with many of its animals killed or starved to death, including wolves, hyenas, birds and rare foxes.

Yes that IS sad.  They were innocent.  Suggest you review the famous line...

Other casualties include the city’s main  library, the Children’s Happiness Center, the municipal building and its archive, and the seventh-century Great Omari Mosque. Israeli forces have also damaged or destroyed streets, squares, mosques, churches and parks.

Say, how many churches were in Gaza?  Cuz Muzz aren't known for tolerating Christianity.  And "Children's Happiness Center"?  Well done!

One of my goals after the Hamas administration appointed me mayor was to improve the city’s seafront and foster the opening of small businesses along it to create jobs. It took us four years to finish the project.  It took Israel only weeks to destroy it.

Talk to the people who lived in WW2 Germany and Japan.  They died in the hundreds of thousands because of stupid decisions by their rulers.

Why did the Israeli tanks destroy so many trees, electricity poles, cars and water mains? Why would Israel hit a U.N. school? The obliteration of our way of life in Gaza is indescribable. I still feel I am in a nightmare because I can’t imagine how any sane person could engage in such a horrific campaign of destruction and death.

"Don't START nothin'...."

Gaza was established in 1893 and [as of October 7, 2023] had about 800,000 residents.  Even after Israel forcibly displaced more than one million Palestinians from northern Gaza after the war began, much of the population in the city remained.

The IDF warned residents of Gaza to evacuate to the soutwest end of the territory.  Hamas prevented many tens of thousands from leaving, hoping the presence of so many civilians would deter the IDF from attacking.  Using civilians as shields is a classic Muzz tactic, but the IDF was having none of it this time.

If you force civilians to act as a shield for your terrorist troops, you can't wail and cry if they get killed--because you counted on the IDF being guilted into not attacking.  You chose badly.

Almost everyone in Gaza has lost a home or relative.  My oldest son was killed.  Israel, which began its blockade of Gaza more than 16 years ago and has maintained what the UN and human rights groups call an ongoing occupation for far longer, is destroying life here.

Wait...you're claiming Israel has "maintained what the U.N. and others call an ongoing occupation for far longer" than 16 years?  "Ongoing occupation" implies it's still going on.  Apparently you counted on the leftist NY Times not to tell stupid American readers that Israel totally withdrew from Gaza back in 2007.

And that Israel supplies Gaza with much of its electricity and water.  How brutal!

I call on the everyone to pressure world leaders to stop this mindless destruction.

"Don't START nothin'...."

Why can’t Palestinians be treated equally, like Israelis and all other peoples in the world? Why can’t we live in peace and have open borders and free trade?

Even with the top leaders of Hamas having stolen billions in aid money, Gaza was a thriving society: hotels, cultural centers, restaurants, car dealerships, everything.  You allowed some very thuggish, dumb, selfish people to rule you and use you as shields.  You chose badly.
 
You've made a great living by playing on the sympathy of gullible rubes, with the help of leftist Media types.  To do so you decided to leave Hamas in power, and now that the results are in, we see no evidence that anyone in Gaza has decided to re-examine your strategy.

We had a huge civil war here.  Despite brilliant military leadership, the South was eventually defeated by the larger, far more industrialized North.  General Robert E. Lee could have ordered his troops to switch to guerilla warfare that could have lasted another four years, but he was brilliant, and realized the eventual outcome would be the same.

In 1913--fifty years after the battle of Gettysburg that marked the high point of Southern advance--survivors of that battle gathered on that battlefield and embraced across a symbolic fence.  

They realized--as you and your fellows clearly don't--that the past need not define and rule the present.  God gave humans free will--every morning we get to choose whether to do this or that.

Someone said that the surest sign of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.  So, a modest suggestion: take a page from the life of the great general Lee.  Turn in your weapons, vow to embrace peace, and see what happens.  

It seems to have worked for us, at least for 160 years or so.  Of course we're starting to have serious problems, but we--like you--must believe they can be solved.  You can choose a new and better way.

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