Understanding the Gaza Crisis: A Deep Dive

"For decades, Israelis tried to work with the Gazans, believing the impossible, that people who have declared they want nothing more than to have Israel destroyed and Jews killed might be able to be persuaded to be friends by giving them land, money, resources, opportunities, and an infinite amount of patience.

During those decades, huge amounts of humanitarian aid was sent to the Gaza Strip, which they used to militarize, to spend many years planning a savage surprise attack against the people helping them.

Almost everyone in the world took up their cause, even many Israelis who lived right next door, even though the Gazans were taking advantage of all that help.

They were offered everything but wouldn't accept it because all they wanted was Israel to be destroyed and Jews to be driven out, but preferably dead.

They were so fixated on that goal that nothing else mattered and nothing else was good enough.

They even used water pipes to build rockets, dug terror tunnels under their city, and deep into Israeli territory to prepare for a surprise war.

On an important Jewish holiday and their Sabbath, the Gazans sprung their surprise attack.

That was October seventh, twenty twenty-three.

They launched over a thousand rockets at six thirty AM.

The Israelis heard the sirens and knew they only had seconds to hide in their shelters from these attacks." By the way, every Israeli house has a bomb shelter in it because these kinds of attacks are so frequent.

Also, every Israeli adult and child, little boys and little girls, knows from as soon as they could walk that when the sirens sound to go to the shelter because it is so important and so common.

"As the Israelis went exhausted and sleepy to their shelters to hide from the rocket attack, the Gazans sent a, uh, the Gazans sent a large armed force across the fence into Israel, did the most heinous things to the Israelis that you can imagine.

Over a thousand were murdered.

Things so horrible you cannot describe them to children happened everywhere.

The Gazans celebrated and filmed themselves and put it on the Internet, bragging and boasting about the unimaginable horrors and murders.

They dragged Israelis, including women and children and babies and dead bodies, into their terror city and terror tunnels and started abusing and killing them slowly, using them and their corpses as collateral against the Israeli people and military.

This lasted for over two years, with the last hostages remains returned at the end of Jan-January twenty twenty-six after being taken in October twenty twenty-three.

The scale and nature of this attack is so horrific that it cannot be described politely.

But its true evil wasn't just in the barbarity of its forces, which did unspeakable things to completely innocent men, women, and children everywhere they went, including many who openly supported them for years, but in how they took advantage of the trust and help they were given to do it.

Gazans have spent years exploiting the goodwill of Israelis in the Gaza envelope to gather intelligence, working as gardeners, housekeepers, taxi drivers, et cetera, to gather detailed intelligence of the neighborhoods and homes they would systematically attack on October seventh.

So many Israelis were betrayed at their trust and goodwill towards the Gazans and by it.

While they hid from those rockets in their shelters, Hamas terrorists systematically went through and carefully mapped streets of their neighborhoods, broke into their houses, and shot them dead through the doors of their shelters, or crashed in through the walls from the outside using their own farming equipment to do it.

Hamas terrorists knew the Israelis would be hiding from the rockets and knew there would be-- and knew where they'd be hiding, and they murdered them while they hid, deliberately, planned out in advance for years.

These people weren't just Israelis or Jews.

They were innocents, in fact.