Poisoned fruit

Regarding “A Rafah operation: The stakes” (February 12): Everyone pretends to care about Gaza’s civilians, but their actions show just the opposite.

Who are the Gazans? They are the people who voted Hamas into becoming a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council. They are the people who made good wages working in Israel, where some of them collected the intelligence Hamas and Islamic Jihad needed to carry out the October 7 crimes against humanity. They passed out cake and candies and celebrated their children’s terrorism on that black day.

Was there ever a thought Israel would just curl up into a fetal position and do nothing to defend itself? Now there is a war. People are dying and the systemically antisemitic UN and Muslim Students’ Associations across the world are whining. “It’s not fair.” “It’s a genocide.” They don’t see the irony of the chants calling for genocide against Israelis and all Jews.

Israel is absorbing more casualties than any other army would. They adjust their plans to minimize civilian casualties, though telling fighters from civilians is impossible as they are interchangeable. The way to get “civilians” out of harm’s way is to move them across the border into Sinai. Setting up temporary tent cities, with all aid necessities to sustain the population while the war is raging, could be accomplished in days. But there are problems. Egypt does not want them. The PLO started civil wars in Jordan and Lebanon and supported Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. They are seen as poisoned fruit. Hamas brought this war on themselves and will do their best to keep the people as human shields.

If you want to end this war, force Hamas to surrender.