The usual biased take on Gaza-Hamas from Alex Lo and the SCMP.
Not mentioned by Alex Lo:
- That the Hamas-sourced Gaza casualty numbers are exaggerated, as even Hamas recently acknowledged.
- That almost half the casualties are Hamas fighters, making the proportion of civilians to combatants killed the lowest in any war. (around 1.5 to 1).
- That the IDF takes extraordinary care not to kill civilians, taking many more deaths of its own soldiers as a cost of that care. (And, btw, the SCMP doesn't include IDF deaths in the casualty figures it regularly reports. 650 since 10/7).
- That there is no famine in Gaza; there is more food going into Gaza than there was before the war.
- That distribution of food, not the amount, is the problem and that's down to Hamas.
- That Hamas are looters of the vast quantities of aid that has gone into the territory since 2005. And have stashed away vast personal fortunes in Qatar.
- That the devastation of Gaza is, ultimately and directly and unequivocally and historically and practically and morally the responsibility of Hamas, the most Nazi-like group in the world since the actual Nazis.
- And that the destruction in Gaza, the alleged "genocide", could stop in an instant if Hamas surrendered and gave up the hostages. The ones that they have not already killed, that is.
- And that little of the above is ever mentioned in the western legacy media.
But, you know: Jews Bad. America Bad. The West Bad.
The Alex Lo take. The SCMP take. The take of most of the commenters. (While Alex Lo, sits comfortably in his Canadian pad, spewing bile on the U.S., the Jooz and the West…).
Mind you, I think Lo is right that the U.S. calling the Chinese treatment of Uighur Muslims "genocide" is hypocrisy. I thought so at the time Blinken announced it.
Words have meaning and the specific meaning of "genocide" is the deliberate and publicly stated, act of trying to wipe out a whole group of people on the basis of their race, ethnicity or religion. As in 1920s Armenia. As in Hitler's Germany. But not as in Gaza; not as in Xinjiang.
What the Chinese are doing in Xinjiang, no matter how repressive and distasteful, is not the wiping out of the Muslims, but the suppression of radical Islam, which is a major threat right there on their distant, western borders. Some might cavil and wish the Han were a touch less robust about it, but we can't — or we shouldn't — argue against the attempt, when radical Islam is in yet another of its all-too-regular resurgent phases. Now come to an Ivy League campus near you!
My comment at the site, awaiting "moderation":
There is one way for Gaza-Hamas to have immediate ceasefire: surrender and give up the hostages. That is, the remaining ones they have not already slaughtered. Bigger picture: remove the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran regime, which funds all the murder and chaos in the region: Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, awa the murderous Syrian regime.Peace is impossible with Hamas in power, as their Charter specifically calls for the world-wide slaughter of Jews. Now THAT's Genocide!
