Speaking on Sunday morning news talk shows, 45-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan called on Israel to provide safe passage out of Gaza should Gazans chose to get out harms way with an expected Israeli ground invasion of the Mediterranean sea side enclave. Since the gruesome Nazi/ISIS genocide of Jewish Kibbutzes and music festival Oct. 7-8, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on Hamas, the terrorist group holding power in the Gaza Strip. Israel is defending itself against a repeat of the Holocaust, where Germany’s Nazi regime exterminated 6 million European Jews. Hamas, who’s funded primarily by Iran, commits to Hitler’s Final Solution killing all Jews. If anyone had any doubts about Hamas’ plans, they witnessed firsthand the genocidal rampage in Southern Israel, taking over 150 hostages, including Americans.
Like past wars with Hamas over the last 16 years when they seized the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian Authority, the press is obsessed with the humanitarian crisis, rather that seeing Hamas removed from power. “The critical thing from our perspective is that there be a safe places for civilians to go that will not be subject to military bombardment, where they can be safe physically, and where they can have access to essential food, water, medicine, shelter” Sullivan said. Sullivan didn’t say that the only ones preventing Gaza’s civilian population from safety is Hamas. Hamas told the civilian population to defy Israel’s order to evacuate because Hamas uses civilians as human shields. Hamas operates inside the civilian population to protect its command-and-control centers. No Gasan is safe with Hamas in power because the terror group’s survival takes priority over everything.
Reading between t he lines, Sullivan tries to present the humanitarian concerns as the U.S. gives Israel the green light to do what must be done to eliminate, if possible, Hamas’ stranglehold in Gaza. Gazan’s fear Israelis, not remembering that Israel controlled the seaside enclave between 1967 and 2005, assuring that Gazans received the necessary food and medical supplies needed for the kind of dignity required by all people on the planet. Hamas has told Gazans that Israelis are the murderous thugs out to harm the civilian population, when, in fact, Israelis operate under the 1949 Geneva Convention an international rules of war. Only Hamas puts its bloodthirsty obsession with destroying Israel and killing Jews as its only priority. Hamas was founded in 1987 by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin to serve Palestine Liberation Organization [PLO] founder as its military wing.
Arafat was poisoned most likely by Hamas Nov. 11, 2004 because of participating in U.N. –approved peace deals with Israel, morphing from chief Israeli terrorist to peacemaker, something strictly prohibited by Hamas ideology. Hamas sees Israelis as stealing Palestinian land in the Mideast when Palestinians never had sovereignty over the terriroty. Palestinians, or Arab Bedouins settling in the Holy Land, lived under Ottoman Turk rule for over 500 years, then, in a brief window, from 1920 to 1948, Palestinians lived under British rule. Great Britain was give sovereignty over the Holy Land in the Treaty of Sevres after WW I. Britain deeded the British Mandate of Palestine to the Jews in 1948, starting a series of unending wars with Arabs states. Muslim states simply couldn’t accept Jewish sovereignty over the Holy Land, seeking to annihilate the Jewish State from Day One.
Deeply imbedded in Hamas ideology is Muslim control of the Holy Land. In fact, the Kingdom of Jordan—not Palestinians–was awarded sovereignty of the West Bank and East Jerusalem until the 1967 Six Day War when Israel annexed the territory after another war of annihilation. So, when it comes to Hamas, it rejects all U.N.-brokered peace plans with Israel, especially with President Jimmy Carter’s 1979 Camp David Accords where Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel agreeing to give back the Sinai Peninsula. When Arafat joined the peacemaking process at Oslo in 1993, he signed his death warrant with Hamas recognizing Israel’s right to exist. Hamas militants felt betrayed by Arafat who realized that over 45 years of armed conflict with Israel had gotten Palestinians nowhere, other than war. So, when Sullivan talks to the press about Israel’s Gaza War, he won’t make any guarantees.
Sullivan refused to say when Israel would finish the Gaza War, only saying the U.S. has asked Israel to provide safety for Gazan citizens. Sullivan would not say that the current Gaza War was about regime change when the current authority breached its right to power by committing genocide on Israeli civilians. “The many, many Palestinians who have had nothing to do with the brutal terrorist organization Hamas—the vast majority of the population of Gaza—they deserve dignity. They deserve safety, and security,” Sullivan, saying the “United States was working with regional partners to ensure that,” Sullivan told NBC’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.” Sullivan said it was up to Israel Defense Forces [IDF] to decide when it would launch its ground offensive. Showing support for Israel, Sullivan told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” it’s all up to Israel what must be done.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
