It has been nearly a week since Hamas’ despicable attack on Israel.  Nobody needs more horrific details.  At the bottom of this page, you can find a link to an article that I read this morning.  The headline is very deceiving, so I am hoping those who love Israel can ignore it.  Instead, as you read the article, read between the lines.  This article caused me to ask myself some questions.  Here they are:

1. Israel has spent billions of dollars on high technology specifically earmarked to warn and save its citizens concerning incoming bombs.  Why hasn’t Hamas spent a dime to do the same?  Why do they spend all of the money they receive from other nations on more bombs to lob at Israeli citizens?  Why don’t they care enough about their own citizens to protect them?  Well, of course, they are never attacked unless they attack first, or unless there is a specific threat of them attacking.  Also, when their citizens are killed, it results in more sympathy and more donations.
2. Also, since Israel knows that Hamas will not warn their own citizens, and since they know their controversy is not with the Palestinian citizens, but with Hamas, isn’t it unusual that the Israeli military sends out automated calls to people in Gaza to warn them?!  Do you know of any other nation in the world that calls citizens of the place that they are going to bomb in order to warn them that they should get out?  And since Israel does that, why don’t the people who receive the calls have some sort of warning system?  Perhaps a special bullhorn or something.  Granted, the warning calls give them only a few minutes to run.  Of course, Israel cannot give a lot of time.  That would end up in Hamas’ hands.  Also, other neighboring countries who are sympathetic to the Palestinian people could make it easier for the people in the most imminent danger to get out.  Since Israel has already given several days’ notice of their ground invasion, where are the buses and the extra help or whatever to help those people get out?
3. The article blames the blockade for the lack of a warning system, saying that they can’t get the right materials to create such a system.  Would Hamas actually use any materials received for that purpose?  They receive a lot of sympathetic press with the current situation.
4. Israel has made a vow: Never again.  They will do everything in their power to ensure the safety of all of their citizens.  They go out of their way to retrieve hostages.  They have studied and practiced how to launch precisions attacks and precision incursions specifically to save the lives of their citizens.  Why doesn’t the Hamas government value the lives of their citizens more than their inflamed desire to obliterate Israel?  The Washington Post says, “the terrorist group deliberately hides out in densely populated areas, using the large numbers of Palestinians there as human shields.”  That is just sad, and very evil.
5. And finally, why do people living in countries that recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization then sympathize with them?  Sympathize with the people, not that government.  Free the people, not from the Israelis who live in peace until provoked, but free them from Hamas.  Help them build a government that respects the rights of its own people and those of its neighbors.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/12/middleeast/gaza-airstrikes-warnings-invs/index.html