The question that no one is asking is why Hamas was so bent on maintaining control over aid deliveries?
Here’s the roadmap for what just happened in Gaza with the aid deliveries.
Israel wanted to take out Hamas terrorists who claimed to be escorting aid. Biden barred Israel from doing that unless Israel handled the aid distribution itself.
Biden administration officials raised their concerns with their Israeli counterparts and asked that Israel stop targeting the Hamas civilian police as long there is no alternative that could provide security to the aid trucks, Israeli and U.S. officials said.
The IDF tried to distribute the aid and Hamas staged an attack, at one food delivery, and a riot at another in order to be able to maintain control over aid. The two incidents are unlikely to be a coincidence. Which means they were the work of Hamas.
Now Israel is once again under fire, accused of a massacre, and Hamas is in a position to retain control over aid.
The media is carefully not providing any of the relevant context such as why Israel was there distributing aid.
And the question that no one is asking is why Hamas was so bent on maintaining control over aid deliveries?
The answer is that Hamas, like most Islamic terror groups, wants two things from humanitarian aid.
1. It uses the aid as currency, to reward supporters and then to resell for profit.
2. It uses the denial of aid to create a humanitarian crisis that it blames on Israel
It’s hard to say which of these is more valuable, but in the latest incident, we see both prongs at the same time.
Hamas needs to retain control over aid because it can use the supplies to buy loyalty and reward its terrorists, and because denying aid to civilians put political pressure on Israel to stop attacking Hamas.
somehistory says
hamas personifies islam. Anything evil is praised and undertaken with intent to hurt and spread the filth; and any good is destroyed.
Kosh's Shadow says
So far. no one has pointed out something very important:
If Hamas had been distributing the aid fairly, there would have been no mobbing of the convoy.
But Hamas steals the aid, so desperate people take desperate actions and storm the aid convoy.
abu taleb says
Muslim leaders who are well off, do not want non muslims helping muslims, because it will show how good the non muslims and how evil the muslim leaders who do not really want their own people. Any help from non muslims intended for poor muslims must be channeled through the muslim leaders, it will give two benefits for the muslim leaders, they can steal the help and they can claim that the help comes from them, not from non muslims.
John Smith says
I see were you’re coming from with that comment Abu.