What Good Is Your Cause If You’re Not Willing To Kill Children For It?

by Yahya Sinwar, Hamas Chief

Gaza City, July 5 – We boast often that we courageously place minors and other noncombatants in or near positions of military importance, with the intent of provoking Israeli strikes on those positions and exploiting the international condemnation of Israel for the inevitable deaths of those noncombatants, thus contributing to our true goal, i.e. undermining the Zionist Entity’s international legitimacy. None of that would be possible if we had any qualms about putting those noncombatants in harm’s way, a policy that the enemy has never had the resolve to implement, or even consider. And that is why we will win: what good is your cause if you’re not willing to kill children for it?

It never ceases to amaze me that the masses blame Israel for killings that, morally and legally, we caused. Perhaps cowardice lies behind that phenomenon; perhaps something else. Either way, it remains clear that the side with no compunctions about endangering its children, and indeed, making the deaths of those children a cornerstone of its strategy, has many more options, even if it is outgunned and out-technologied.

It helps that the media in general amplify our point of view while downplaying that of Israel.

The fundamental clash of cultures comes into play each time a mini-war erupts between us and the Zionists: their highest value has always been preservation of human life, even the ones on our side, whereas we view human life merely as a tool for a larger goal, in this case the long-term endeavor to erase the humiliation of Jewish control over Islamic lands. A few thousand children’s lives are a pittance to pay for such a noble achievement, which, I assure you, we are ever-closer to attaining. Any day now the Jews will pack up and leave.

Where? That’s not my business. They’re the ones who care so much about life; let them worry about it.

Thus, not only will we risk, nay, invite, the deaths of our own children at the hands of the IDF; we will take no measures to prevent our children from coming to harm as a result of our own weapons- and explosives-handling. And the media still remain silent on our responsibility for such deaths! They amplify demands that Israel take greater care of our people than we do, and rain opprobrium down on those Zionists for failing to prevent the very deaths we plan and count on – not on us. Who are we, after all, but poor, volition-less dark people? It never gets old.

This is hardly the only realm in which everyone gets angry at Israel for doing things we do all the time, while the “international community” and “rights” organizations never let out a peep when it’s just little old Palestinians “defiling” Al Aqsa with sports, weapons, fireworks, or violence. Only when Jews do it is it evil.

Fine by me. From the River to the Sea.

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