Sending waves of Palestinian youth to crash through the Israeli border fence with the Gaza Strip, Hamas looks for a much carnage as possible to regain world sympathy for their cause. Unlike the past, Palestinians’ latest uprising looks like its falling on deaf years where it counts in the world press and United Nations. Several European countries, including the U.K., France and Germany, have already said Israel has a right to defend itself against Palestinian encroachment on the Israeli border. Telling Gaza citizens to crash through the fence and reclaim ancestral lands, Hamas exploits in the most cynical way possible Gaza’s impoverished population. Killing 55 today for breaching the Israeli border fence, Israeli Defense Forces [IDF] said more deaths will come if Hamas continues to instruct residents to crash the Israeli border fence. White House officials blamed Hamas for today’s carnage.
Celebrating its 70th anniversary and President Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem today, Hamas wanted riots to show Palestinian outrage. Tomorrow’s “Nakba” event, marking Israel’s 1948 declaration of independence, Palestinians look to make the final push to break through the border fence. Like today, more of the same could happen tomorrow, if Hamas continues its suicide mission for Palestinian youth. None of Palestinians’ leadership finds itself close to the border fence, staying out of harm’s way. “The responsibility for these tragic deaths rests squarely with Hamas . . . Hamas is intentionally and cynically provoking, as and as the secretary of state said, Israel has the right to defend itself,” said State Department Spokesman Raj Shah.. Watching Hamas send its youth to their graves violates every U.N. protection for children.
Killing more Palestinian children, Hamas thinks it brands Israel as baby killers, rather than shows its cynical use of civilians as cannon fodder. “We believe Hamas as an organization has engaged in cynical operations,” said Raj, blaming the Gaza-based terror group for provoking violence on Israel’s Gaza border. Hamas calls the demonstration on Israel’s border the “Great March of Return,” referring to the thousands of Palestinians who voluntarily left Palestine after Israel after declared independence May 14, 1948. Armed with Hamas militant wing Issedine al-Qassam Brigades, Gazan’s get caught up in the cross fire as militants hope to breach Israel’s border fence. Israeli Defense Forces dropped thousands of leaflets warning Palestinians to stay away from the Israeli border fence. Instructed to breach Israel’s border fence by Hamas, Palestinians find themselves in armed conflict with Israel.
Amassing 35,000 protesters on the Israeli border, Hamas has pulled out all the stops, inviting Israel to massacre its youth population. Hamas continue PLO founder Yasser Arafat’s mythology that Palestinains held sovereign territory in the Holy Land before 1948. Before the British handed Palestine to Zionists in 1948, it was British territory since 1920 when seized from the Ottoman Empire. Ottoman Turks controlled the Holy Land for 500 years, before the Ottoman Empire was broken up after WW I. Yet Palestinians insists it’s their territory. Hamas doesn’t want Israel to return to the pre-1967 Six Day War borders, they want Israel out of the Holy Land, period. Despite knowing they cannot defeat Israel, Hamas continues to tell Gaza citizens that the March of Return to Israel is imminent, as simple as Gazan’s breaching Israel’s border fence and taking over Israel.
When Palestinians celebrate Nakba tomorrow, the IDF can expect more martyrdom from Hamas, encouraging protesters to break through Israel’s border fence. IDF has warned all Gaza residents that Israel will defends its border, no matter what the Palestinians casualties. Blaming the border violence on Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, Trump let Palestinians know they don’t control U.S. foreign policy. No matter how many countries condemn the move, it was Trump’s call not Hamas or the PLO’s decision. Threatening to break off diplomatic relations with anti-Israel countries, Trump’s Dec. 23, 2017 decision to move the embassy hasn’t changed U.S. relations with most Arab states. Deviating from conventional wisdom, Trump decided to roll the dice and find out where it lands. Riots and violence are expected to die down after tomorrow’s Nakba events.
Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was designed to get Palestinians back to the peace table. White House officials have said consistently that everything’s up for grabs once Palestinians return to peace table. Eighty-two-year-old PLO Chairman Mahmod Abbas broke off diplomatic relations Dec. 24, 2017 only one day after Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Before that, Palestinians showed no interest in resuming the peace process, preferring instead to launch more terror attacks. Once Hamas’s latest grandstanding ends, Abbas would be well-advised to return to the peace process. More riots and violence won’t win concessions from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Nor will it score points with Trump and his new national security and foreign policy team led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton.
