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** A Hundred Days after Gaza's October 7 (Part 3 of 4) ([link removed])
Culpable Ignorance and the Devil's Spreadsheet
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by Gwythian Prins • January 30, 2024 at 5:00 am
* Sir William Shawcross's much delayed and now recent report on "Prevent" - the British Government anti-radicalisation programme - which has documented the failure of efforts at integration and the degree of risk residing within Muslim extremism has secured this disturbing knowledge its place on the public record.
* In a climate of Israelophobia, where moral compasses go haywire, Hamas is not being held to account. Predictably, the BBC has presented international law as superior to national law and the International Court of Justice as a higher court than any national court. Neither is true. Under the guise of "human interest", the BBC repeatedly broadcasts prurient details of injuries to individual children in Gaza. Why? It is designed to shock and anger the listener and to demonize Israel; and it leaves those implications unspoken, hence deniable.
* Predictably, the BBC has presented international law as superior to national law and the International Court of Justice as a higher court than any national court. Neither is true. The former Director of BBC Television asks, "When do individual errors add up to something more? When do 'mistakes' become a clear pattern of institutional bias? These are questions the BBC must answer when it comes to its reporting of Israel's conflict with the terrorist group Hamas." He then lists nine other cases of gross error since 7/10 where the bias has been always the same, namely anti-Israel. "...Is the BBC just unlucky that this keeps happening? The answer is no."
* Hamas has nowhere to hide under Geneva 4. Its crimes are war crimes of the highest order. The ICJ's interim ruling is vexatious and, while unable to make an objective finding, tarnishes that Court by implying that Israel might in the future commit "genocide" when there is neither evidence of intention nor a community which meets the criteria to be victims of genocide. The same day as its ruling, evidence arrived that UNRWA on which in part it had relied had itself now been discredited by evidence of its operatives' involvement in 7/10. This is the latest form of Holocaust denial.
* It is a matter of moral and legal judgment about how a country with high moral standards wages war against a terrorist enemy that has none. The framework for such an assessment has not been satisfactorily spelled out.
* Israel's entire ground force is part of an interactive all-arms cyber/air/sea/land concept of operations optimised for precision targeting to minimise collateral casualties, maximise the extinction of Hamas terrorists and ensure the effectiveness of its own force protection.
* Hamas, conversely, has only a homicidal interest in its own Gaza civilian residents. Bluntly, for its purposes, the more that are killed the better because their deaths can then be blamed on the IDF and added to the undifferentiated butcher's bill in which Western media take figures issued by Hamas uncritically as being all civilian. Hamas repeatedly obstructed Gazans trying to evacuate south of Wadi Gaza, blocking the route -- even shooting them -- when, before the first phase of ground operations began, the IDF gave civilians notice to move.
* The devil's spreadsheet therefore brings the ethical terms of engagement squarely front and centre. Israel did not bring war on 7^th October. It has Just Cause, is fighting by just means, and has clear precedent.
* So the relevant ethical compass is all too clear. It is Hamas and by extension its supporters wherever they are – on the world's streets, even in the BBC it seems – who carry all moral blame for the fate of Gaza and its people.
* In the modern trope of woke "intersectionality", as victims of purported "white, Jewish colonialism", Arabs are licensed to do freely any depraved act; and by definition Jews can never be victims.
* [F]ar from being an agent of indiscriminate warfare, the IDF is probably the most successfully discriminate modern army. Has the comparison with other modern armies been heard or discussed in BBC analyses? The genocide case was just an attempt to smear with loose language... and has no relevance to Israeli conduct, which will not stop attempts to claim that it has.

Since 7th October, the jihadist plus radical left alliance of Jew-haters in Great Britain directs phalanxes of ignorant British members of the "woke" movement, expressing support as the latest radical-chic virtue signal. Pictured: Anti-Israel protesters in London on January 13, 2024. (Photo by Henry Nicholls/AFP via Getty Images)

For ten days after 7^th October 2023, the jihadist plus radical left alliance of Jew-haters in Great Britain was quiet. On the one hand, there are the truculently non-integrated Salafist Muslim immigrants centred on many mosques, including Hamas leaders who, incredibly, have been allowed to settle in Britain since 1997. The scale of this group has been long known to the intelligence services; but it is Sir William Shawcross's much delayed and now recent report on "Prevent" -- the British Government anti-radicalisation programme -- which has documented the failure of efforts at integration and the degree of risk residing within Muslim extremism. It has secured this disturbing knowledge its place on the public record.

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