Many apologists for Israel and its government claim that the recent sea change in Western attitudes towards Israel is largely due to Hamas propaganda. Such are much too generous in this accreditation (as well as implicitly condescending of Western peoples). The Palestinian motto “from the river to the sea,” unreasonable and pragmatically impossible in light of the facts on the ground, only appeals to an extremist minority and repels the rest.
It is rather that the Israeli government and Jews, both Israeli and Diaspora, have become their own worst enemies. In their hubris, the Netanyahu government thinks that they can do in Gaza what the Americans could not do in Afghanistan, namely, to extinguish the organization that massacred innocent civilians. Even if the IDF could exterminate Hamas, they could not extinguish the animus. Other violent partisans would just replace them.
In this attempt, the civilian to combatant kill ratio, a measure of “collateral damage,” which was estimated at 2 to 1 by the IDF early in this war, has now climbed to between 3 and 9 to 1 as of July 29, 2025. By February 24, 2024, 12,000 Hamas combatants had been killed, according to the IDF, estimates not at wide variance with Gazan health ministry estimates of 30K deaths. Latest estimates of Hamas combatants killed is between 15K and 20K, all which are dubious estimates. It is in the interest of the Israeli state to pad those numbers. The total direct death toll of Gazans is cited as over 60K as of July 29, 2025. Hence, while another 30K Gazans have died since the earlier estimate, between 3 to 8 thousand have ostensibly been actual combatants. Hence, the risen civilian to combatant kill ratio.
As of January 2, 2025, 891 Israeli soldiers had died since the beginning of the Hamas War in October 2023. The number, as of August 12, 2025, has only increased by 7 soldiers. There have been far more traffic fatalities in Israel (266) these last 7 months.
It is obvious to the impartial, that an Israeli Goliath continues to ravage Philistia with little substantive resistance. Yet, Israel continues to ever punch down in murderous melee. What seemed like merely imprudent policy a year ago has now become criminal, regardless of any tangible incidents of war crimes.
I’ll tell you something about Mrs. Thatcher which people haven’t particularly remarked. She could be extraordinarily brutal and blunt and occasionally rude, but only, only to people who were in a position to fight back.
Be it true that ideological fanaticism continues to exist among Hamas supporters. But the ability to project any substantive harm to the state, populace, and military of Israel is another matter. Israel is like the man, who, in self-defense, has completely debilitated his assailant, yet continues to kick him in the groin. Judge and jury would normally indict such a “vigilante.”
Israel may have invaded Gaza under some Just War theory. But can a ‘just war’ not stop being a ‘just war’ when the conduct of the initially justified becomes unjustifiable?
A Reversion to Barbarism
I lived as a guest worker in Israel in 1979, six months in Kibbutz Dan, another three months for a hotel, south of Eilat, which is now part of Egyptian Sinai. While a denizen, I never sensed the moral decadence in Israeli society to the extent that it appears nowadays. I did not feel inordinately mistreated. Else, my stay would have been cut short. Concern for their standing among the nations of the world served to circumscribe any conduct unbecoming among Israeli Jews and their government.
Nowadays, even as Israel overwhelmingly dominates its immediate geopolitical surroundings, and are clearly the Goliaths in Philistine, most in Israeli society, spearheaded by its Haredi and Orthodox factions, would forcibly expel the “Amalekites” from Gaza, the West Bank, and even Israel proper.
According to a survey by Haaretz, “82 percent of respondents supported the expulsion of Gaza’s residents, while 56 percent favored expelling Palestinian citizens of Israel.” This is considerably higher than in 2003 wherein “support for such expulsions stood at 45 percent and 31 percent, respectively.” In that such support was so high, even prior to and without the context of the recent pogrom, it is indicative of a hubris inclined to oppress. (Some Israeli Jews complain about the methodology in that survey, citing a more comprehensive survey wherein “among Jewish respondents, agreement stood at 53 percent . . . while support for population transfer is indeed appallingly high, it is far from a public consensus.”)
Earlier this year, the American President floated the proposition of displacing the Gazans and turning Gaza into an American-style resort, this to the giddy glee of Netanyahu’s Israel, who like the turning on of the lights on the Sabbath, welcomes that this crime against humanity be committed on Jewish behalf by the goyim.
Hilariously ironic, the Haredi, who are fighting tooth and nail not to be conscripted into the IDF, are most extreme (97% in favor) in expelling the Gazans and Israeli Arabs (91% in favor). Most shocking to the moral sensitivities of, at least, civilized human beings, about 60% of Traditional, Orthodox, and Haredi Jews in Israel favor killing all the residents of a conquered enemy city.
Just as in Orwell’s Animal Farm, the victims of the Nazis have themselves become the Nazis! In light of all this, can any Jew continue to play the Holocaust card with any credibility among the goyim nowadays? Modern Israel, or a majority thereof, has reverted to the barbarism of the Assyrian and Babylonian eras, prior to Persian king, Cyrus the Great, whom Jews honor and have had much reason to honor. The hypocrisy is suffocating.
Water Off a Duck’s Back
Netanyahu’s government has dispatched its Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Toronto-born Sharren Miriam Haskel, to agitate against Carney’s plan to recognize a Palestinian state in September, “if certain predicates are met,” an intention with a plurality of Canadian support.
“This is not the Canada the world once knew,” Haskel’s complains, another irony as I had just publicly stated the same about the Israelis a few days ago.
Haskel cites Ghazi Hamad, who boasted that the October 7 pogrom was intentioned to acquire Western recognition. Few are competent in 3d chess, let alone 3d diplomacy. The conventional wisdom, promulgated by Israel two years ago, was that Hamas was merely attempting to scuttle Saudi Arabia’s normalization with Israel.
Haskel states, “let’s be absolutely clear: this decision changes nothing for the people of Gaza, nothing in Israel, and nothing for peace.” This is probably true. The arrogance of Netanyahu’s Israel is not subject to the common rules of humanity (ius gentium) nor of God.
Yes God, the God of the Hebrews. The Torah and Prophets do not grant such treatment as we are allowed to glimpse against the aliens within their midst. Several commands forbid the exploitation and oppression,1 and denial of justice and equity2 towards non-Jews.
But if Carney’s decision changes nothing, why is Haskel lobbying against it? Last year, the Trudeau government ostensibly stopped arms exports to Israel, which had amounted to an insignificant twaddle in 2023 (about $31M). Canada has now progressed to meaningless diplomatic recognition, albeit another signal to the Netanyahu government. Even if Canada progressed to boycotting all Israeli goods, it would only affect, at best, 0.1% of Israel’s GDP. They do not need us. But contrary to Jewish protestations, we really do not need Israel. We have our own Goliath in our vicinity, threatening our national existence and livelihood.
But 50 of our hostages remain in Hamas’s dungeons of torture — starved, brutalized, some even forced to dig their own graves . . . acting at a moment when our hostages remain in brutal Hamas captivity and tensions are extremely high, Canada sends a terrible signal.
Two years ago, even one year ago, I would have cared about Jewish hostages. But in the Jews’ callous and murderous disregard for the goyim in Gaza, their melodramatic pleas have become but water off a duck’s back.
The two-state solution is imprudent, in of itself, if the newly formed state is warlike and destabilizing to its neighbors. Yet, considering Israeli barbaric attitudes which feeds into their murderous conduct, an independent Palestinian state has become necessary. In the American civil war (1861–5), only 2% of the population was killed. The same percentage is true of Spain, during its civil war (1836–9), or during Napoleonic France’s Peninsular War (1808–14). Israel is but two years into its extermination, and Gazan casualties are already nearing 3% of its population. And self-righteous Jews ask, “why do they hate us?”