On Saturday, March 2, the U.S. government used the U.S. military to airdrop emergency supplies into Gaza.
Five months earlier, on Saturday, October 7, Hamas and its fellow travelers fired some 3000 rockets into Israel, as its homicidal paramilitary groups poured over the border into Israel, murdering well over 1100 immediately, taking 250 hostages (many of whom have been abused and/or killed since, in captivity) and injuring countless more.
Since that evil day, Israel has been carefully, surgically, meticulously neutralizing Hamas operations throughout Gaza.
Hamas – and its allies and predecessors – have had 50 years to build up their operations, including countless hundreds of miles of well-equipped underground command centers and arms storage facilities in Gaza. In some areas, a sizable minority of apparent civilians are really Hamas operatives. In other areas, virtually all apparent civilians are really Hamas operatives.
The challenge of wiping out the homicidal maniacs while minimizing truly innocent civilian casualties is one that the Israelis take seriously. That’s why it’s five months in and still incomplete. If Israel didn’t mind civilian casualties, Israel could have turned the whole Gaza strip into a burning cinder in weeks.
But Hamas disguises its operatives as civilians, disguises its weapons caches as civilian apartments, disguises its rocket launch sites as schools and nurseries. Hamas works as hard as they can to make Israel kill civilians, no matter how hard Israel tries to avoid it.
This is why it’s taking so long.
The Left – and to be clear, that’s the anti-semitic, anti-capitalist, anti-Western, hard left, the crowd we know here in the USA as the socialists, the progressives, the anti-humans – the real power pulling the strings in the modern Democratic Party – the Left is firmly on the side of Hamas, arguing on Hamas’ side, supporting Hamas’ outlandish demands. So, if Hamas calls for ceasefires to give Hamas a chance to regroup, and if Hamas calls for more humanitarian aid to help the suffering civilians, then the Left will support these calls.
Following the orders of the far Left, as the Biden-Harris regime always does, the order went out last week: to do air drops of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and to double down the pressure on Israel to back down, to call it quits, to give Hamas a chance to regroup, to rebuild, to become a lethal force again.
Any reading of history would demonstrate the foolishness of such a position. Israel has placed Gaza under siege, in order to wipe out the terrorists in charge of it, and to bring a chance for peace to the innocent civilians who have suffered under Hamas rule for decades.
Ceasefires and humanitarian aid strengthen Gaza’s rulers, enabling them to resist the siege longer, guaranteeing that this painful war will last longer and longer. The Left doesn’t admit that this is their goal, but it is. It has to be. There is no other reason to undermine Israel’s effort by softening the siege with food and other aid.
In fact, one thing that has been clear to many of us for years, but was finally most clearly revealed on October 7, is the fact that Hamas has always used “humanitarian aid” to support the ruling class and its military.
Hamas directs irrigation pipes to the weapons caches to make rockets. Hamas directs food to its paramilitary/terrorists so they’ll be strong for their next mission. Hamas directs money and materials to the construction of military infrastructure such as tunnels and weapons plants.
Anything the US military “air drops” into Gaza will be treated the same way. Why should anything change, after all these years? It’s the same place, with the same people on the ground. Hamas is still in charge of it, and rules their refugee class with an iron fist.
If our C-130s air-dropped 38,000 meals into Gaza, as the weekend’s reports proclaimed, then we – the United States of America, longtime purported friend and ally of Israel – have just nourished thousands of the terrorists who murdered innocent Israelis on October 7. We have just undermined Israel’s police action in the territory. We have just undermined Israel’s siege of their brutal, soulless enemy.
And it means that we, the United States under the Biden-Harris regime, have sided with our enemies and chosen to fund and strengthen evil instead of good.
There are only two things you air-drop into enemy territory during wartime: leaflets warning of what will happen if they don’t surrender, and then bombs when they don’t take the advice of the leaflets.
If you air-drop humanitarian aid into an enemy territory during a war, then what you’re saying is that you’re actually on the side of the enemy, not the side of your ally. And that is what the Biden-Harris regime has just done, in no uncertain words.
The US has been talked into – or has talked itself into – a number of wars that were unnecessary. There have been times – we see now, with the advantage of hindsight – when the USA and the world itself might have been better off had we stayed out of a conflict, but at least we have generally chosen the right side when we chose to get in. It’s a rare thing when we have gone so far as to aid the absolutely wrong side in a conflict.
The American people are on the side of Israel here, and rightly so.
The Biden-Harris administration however – along with the vocal and unamerican crowd known as the Left – are on the side of Hamas.
And who is left to suffer? The innocents in both Gaza and Israel who have been terrorized by Hamas for decades – and the American taxpayer, who now knows that, through no fault of his own, his own tax dollars are being used to fund and feed the terrorists in Gaza.
November 2024 can’t come soon enough.
Copyright 2024 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation and trade compliance professional and consultant. A onetime Milwaukee County Republican Party chairman, he has been writing a regular column for Illinois Review since 2009. His book on vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel) and his political satires on the current administration (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I and II) are available only on Amazon, in either paperback or eBook. His latest book, “Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volume Three,” was just published in November, 2023.
As an actor performing in Chicagoland theatre, John will be featured as “Old Joe” Boyd in the musical comedy “Damn Yankees” at St. Stephen Protomartyr in Des Plaines, IL, only on Fridays, March 1 and 8, 2024.
If you enjoyed this article, then please REPOST or SHARE with others; encourage them to follow AFNN. If you’d like to become a citizen contributor for AFNN, contact us at managingeditor@afnn.us Help keep us ad-free by donating here.
Truth Social: @AFNN_USA
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/afnnusa
Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/2_-GAzcXmIRjODNh
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AfnnUsa
GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/AFNN_USA
CloutHub: @AFNN_USA