There is a disconcerting detail on those videos mounted by Hamas in Gaza in which you can see the Israeli hostages reduced to skin and bones, skeletons compared with the Gazawi civilians exhausted by months of fighting. And the disconcerting detail is that, net of some isolated protest voice, it almost seems that public opinion has welcomed the logic imposed by terrorists without a blow: You see them so thin because they eat what the Palestinian civilians eat.
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No, it is not normal for poor Evyatar David to be skeletal and that the pit on live video is digging. It is not normal for a group of Israeli civilians for 667 days (not “enemy prisoners”, as Hamas calls them) is buried alive in the tunnels of Gaza. It is not normal for their face to be used for propaganda purposes, to sow terror, to cause disdain, to make requests in negotiations. It is not normal because the 50 hostages still in the hands of Hamas should not be there. Point.
It is not Israel’s fault or Netanyahu if Evyatar cannot cook a hot meal in her apartment: it is Hamas’ fault that took her hostage during a terrorist attack. Accepting the logic of “are thin because they eat little as Palestinian civilians” means accepting that their condition of kidnapped is “just” or “justified”. But no. You see them so Magri not because they “eat like the GazaWi” but because Hamas torn them to their families, deprived of freedom, underlying alive in the catacombs of Gaza, transformed into exchange coin, inhumanized, mutilated, in some cases killed. And this, however indignant the suffering of Palestinian civilians, should not be forgotten.
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