The 20 Oddest Things People Actually Claim to Believe about the Hamas/Israel Conflict

by Jeff Ballabon

If you can't trust genocidal terrorists, who can you trust?
Want Peace? Send Hamas more concrete now.
It is a "cycle of violence"... which will end if the Palestinians get more power.

1. Israel started it:

• "Look Carefully at Who Started the Current Israel-Hamas Conflict"
• "What drove Hamas to take on Israel?"

2. War Crime -- Israel should have provided Iron Dome to Hamas:

• "U.N. condemns Israel, U.S. for not sharing Iron Dome with Hamas"

3. Israeli conspiracy: Hamas is innocent:

• "BuzzFeed Gets a Big Story Wrong"
• "Did Israel Say Hamas Didn't Kidnap Its Teens? No."

4. It is all an Israeli marketing campaign for Iron Dome:

• "A war to market the Iron Dome"

5. Hamas: Democratically elected terrorists with hearts of gold:

• "Understanding Hamas: part terrorism, part good works"

6. Hamas does not want to eradicate Israel; it is just frustrated by the occupation... that ended in 2005:

• "Legal Acrobatics: The Palestinian Claim that Gaza is Still "Occupied" Even After Israel Withdraws"
• "Is Gaza still occupied?"
• "Gaza is not occupied by Israel under international law - if you actually read international law"
• "Hamas leader admits Gaza isn't occupied"

7. Want peace? Send Hamas more concrete now:

• "Legitimizing Hamas's War Criminality"
• "Kill 'all' Jews, Hamas TV host urges kids"
• "'We Must Massacre Them': Hamas Politician Says Palestinians Must Kill, Humiliate and Tax the Jews"

8. War Crime: Israel has bomb shelters & Gaza doesn't:

• "Deadly Sixth Day for Israel and Hamas"
• "Hamas' mega-attack through Gaza terror tunnels exposed"
• "Why Gaza Doesn't Have Bomb Shelters"
• "Why Gaza doesn't have bomb shelters"

9. It is a "cycle of violence"... which will end if the Palestinians get more power:

• "Moral clarity in Gaza"

10. No human shields, here... it is just that Gaza is small:

• "Hillary: Hamas Uses Human Shields Because 'Gaza is Pretty Small'"
• "The empty spaces in Gaza"
• "Top Nine Gaza Media Myths"

11. Apartheid!

• "Israel and Apartheid: The Big Lie"

12. Genocide!

• "Murder by Numbers"

13. Hamas: fighting for freedom:

• "To the Students for Justice in Palestine, a Letter From an Angry Black Woman"
• "The Hamas Threat to the West Is No Different from ISIS"

14. PLO + Hamas "Unity Government" = bold step for peace:

• "How to Fix It: Ending this war in Gaza begins with recognizing Hamas as a legitimate political actor."

15. Just critics of Israeli policies; no anti-Semitism here:

• "The Everyday Antisemitism Project"
• "Western Anti-Semitism Rages Again Beleaguered Israel"
• "Anti-Semitism Rises in Europe Amid Israel-Gaza Conflict"

16. Israel - Not a partisan issue:

• "Democrats, Republicans Differ Most on Views of Cuba, Israel"
• "Why Don't More Democrats Support Israel?"
• "Obama's Divide-and-Conquer Strategy on Iran Sanctions"
• "ADL backs down on pro-Obama pledge"

17. They must be good guys; Human Rights is in their name:

• "Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast"
• "Right Turn: Morning Bits"
• "HRW appoints alleged terrorist to Mideast Board"
• "Human Rights Watch's Ken Roth Goes to Bat for Hamas War Crimes"

18. But UNWRA says:

• "The UNRWA is Hamas"

19. If you can't trust genocidal terrorists, who can you trust?

• "Palestinians Use Photos from Syria to Smear Israel Online"

20. It's the Occupation, stupid:

• "Is Israel Truly an 'Occupying Power'?"
• "Does the Levy Report Doom Israel?"
• "A Japanese View of the Palestinians"
• "The Illegal-Settlements Myth"

Jeff Ballabon

Source: http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4591/people-believe-hamas-israel-conflict

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