Tel HaShomer, ISRAEL — 600 Israeli troopers have died and 1000’s extra been injured since October 7, when Hamas attacked the Jewish nation and the IDF was activated to root out and kill the terrorists. That’s in accordance with the most recent stats on the IDF’s “Fallen and Injured Troopers” webpage.
However most all of the media go: What concerning the poor Palestinian kids?
That is the unhappy and sorry deception that’s happening — the truth that the true victims of the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror assault on Israel are being pushed to the aspect for a brand new narrative, a brand new politicized narrative, a brand new leftist-pushed and antisemitic and sure, most undoubtedly evil narrative that claims the killed Jews, whereas deserving of compassion, really aren’t deserving as a lot compassion because the civilians in Gaza. And oh, sure, in fact then maybe, possibly, there’s a case to be made that the Jewish folks form of, form of even deserved this assault as a result of they’re, in any case, the unlawful occupiers of Arab land and the Palestinians have each proper to win again what was robbed.
As an example: “We can not and won’t say [the October 7] actions by Palestinian militants are unprovoked,” IfNotNow, a corporation vital of Israel, said in a press release to Newsweek on the heels of the Hamas terror assault. “Every single day beneath Israel’s system of apartheid is a provocation. The strangling siege on Gaza is a provocation.”
Quick-forward to 2024, and increasingly more governments world wide are equally equivocating, claiming on one hand to face quick on Israel’s proper to defend itself whereas on the opposite, calling for Israel to stop its assaults on Hamas in Gaza — to face down and ceasefire and cease the IDF from advancing in Rafah — to return to the desk and forge a two-state resolution that might pave a path of peaceable coexistence between the Jewish folks, the Jewish nation and people — and that is the disingenuous half — who would search to eradicate the Jewish folks and the Jewish nation from the face of the earth. After which carry that “demise to Israel” mantra to America and to the West and do the identical.
Ludicrous. The Palestinians voted for Hamas. The Palestinians, to at the present time, proceed to assist and cheer Hamas. The Palestinians consider Hamas is partaking in a legitimate, righteous, proper conflict towards Israel — once more, to at the present time. The Palestinians, sure, the civilian Palestinians, knowingly allowed Hamas to assemble tunnels beneath their houses; tunnels that might be used within the terror conflict towards the Jewish folks and nation. The Palestinians, sure, the civilian Palestinians, knowingly allowed Hamas to retailer RPGs and rifles and different weapons of terror and demise beneath their beds of their houses; that’s in accordance with police and regulation enforcement and troopers and IDF members who entered these houses in Gaza. Palestinian innocents?
However that is the place a lot of the world now stands with reference to Israel’s conflict of justice and righteousness towards the Hamas terrorists. The true victims, at first honored, at first acknowledged, at first recognized because the Israelis, are actually being downgraded and changed by Palestinians who’re being labeled as harmless civilians — regardless of the actual fact they voted for Hamas, cheered Hamas, and proceed to assist Hamas — and increasingly more alarmingly, by even Hamas terrorists who some are seeing as defenders of a righteous trigger.
Let’s keep in mind the actual victims right here and cease taking part in into the propaganda goals of the terrorists.
“I enlisted once I was 19,” mentioned Daniel Kapilov, a solder with the IDF who was severely injured one yr and 4 months later when his unit entered Gaza to root out Hamas and have been met with a booby entice explosion. He got here along with his household to Israel from Ukraine, with the help of the Worldwide Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and is now 20 years outdated, dealing with a restoration from an harm that by no means ought to have occurred within the first place.
“I used to be aware the entire time,” he mentioned, recounting how the pressure of the explosion severely wounded his leg, his abdomen, his face, his arm. He was evacuated by helicopter for medical remedy, and after weeks in a coma, misplaced his leg.
Now, he’s recovering in Sheba Medical Middle in Tel HoShomer, Israel. After a number of extra weeks, he’ll be fitted for a prosthetic leg and be taught to stroll once more.
He doesn’t suppose he’s a hero.
He thinks he was simply doing his job.
And he hopes to return to navy service when he’s healed — not in a fight position, however maybe certainly one of coaching.
“I considered returning to the Military … to show folks the way to shoot,” he mentioned.
There are 1000’s extra like him — victims of Hamas who refuse to behave like victims, however who nonetheless discover their lives modified dramatically as a result of evil actions of others.
From IDF: Because the starting of the conflict towards Hamas, 1,842 troopers have been “mildly injured;” 849 “reasonably injured;” and 497 “severely injured.” These numbers fluctuate, on account of ongoing battles towards Hamas. What’s essential to recollect is that this: These numbers would all be zero if Hamas had not attacked Israel on October 7.
The true victims are the Israelis.
To recommend something totally different is to embolden the terrorists, to buoy the fear teams’ lies and to pave the way in which for extra assaults towards Israel.
For extra on Daniel in his personal phrases, click on on the video.
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