In other words, our president is rewarding Hamas for committing war crimes.
News broke Wednesday night that President Biden on Sunday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the Israel Defense Forces mustn’t approach post-cease-fire operations in southern Gaza the way it has in the north: Biden’s worried about the risks to civilians and wants Israel to ease up.
In other words, our president is rewarding Hamas for committing war crimes.
Again.
Gazan civilians are in danger because Hamas for 15 years has placed all of its military assets under and among civilian areas, with a preference for bases dug under hospitals, mosques and schools.
All by itself, that’s a war crime, expressly forbidden by the Geneva Conventions, which clearly state the folks using the human shields bear all blame for the civilian suffering.
That Hamas ordered civilians not to flee as the IDF moved in — and fired on Gazans who sought to leave — is just another war crime.
Hamas’ goal, of course, was to maximize civilian casualties so it could blame Israel for all of them — on the confident assumption that world media and Hamas’ other apologists would play along, as they have.
