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Yulia Latynina: Hamas did not expect to break through the border with Israel, it was necessary to increase the number of victims among their own and show them to the world

On May 18, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution condemning Israel "for the unwarranted use of force" and calling for an immediate investigation into the "murder of peaceful protesters" in the Gaza Strip. It follows from the resolution, as well as reports from CNN and other media that preceded it, that:

1. all those killed were civilians.

2. the demonstration was peaceful.

3. Trump is to blame for everything, who moved the American embassy to Jerusalem.

Unfortunately, these statements are not true.

After fiery CNN reports, Hamas spokesman Salah Bardawil admitted that of the sixty killed, fifty were members of Hamas. Three more were recognized as their “Islamic Jihad” ( the organization was recognized by the court as terrorist, its activities are prohibited in Russia. - Ed. ), And information about some of the victims was sucked out of thin air. So, Hamas registered an 8-month-old girl as a victim of the Israeli military, who, as a Gaza doctor later told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, died of medical problems unrelated to the protests. In general, the final figure of 60 is known to us from the words of Hamas, and this is the same reliable source of information as Channel One - with its boy crucified in Slavyansk.

The protests in the Gaza Strip were by no means peaceful: it was an action to break through the border with the help of a "human shield".

Numerous pages created by Hamas on Facebook contained detailed instructions on how to command from above and to the cry of "Allah Akbar!" knock over fences, and even detailed maps of exactly where to do it.

These instructions recommended bringing knives with you, and Hamas leaders right at the border called for "Israeli hearts to be torn out" after the barrier was breached.

Among the locations chosen for the attack was the Kerem Shalom checkpoint. The protesters broke into his territory and, probably believing that they were already in Israel, began burning and looting. Their actions were fully coordinated by the organizers of Hamas.

In fact, the protesters were still in Gaza, and they burned down the only terminal through which fuel enters Gaza.

Cause? The money for transporting goods through Kerem Shalom is received by the leadership of the Palestinian Authority, with which Hamas is at enmity.

In the coming days, we will no doubt hear about the fuel plight in Gaza.

Even before the Kerem Shalom was restored, the Israelis sent 14 trucks with humanitarian aid through it. Hamas deployed aid and sent it back. The next day, Hamas deployed two Israeli truckloads of medical supplies.

In the coming days, we will no doubt hear about the plight of hospitals in Gaza.

The story of the Kerem Shalom checkpoint, where the energy of the crowd's hatred was used by Hamas to strike at Abbas's wallet at the cost of an economic disaster for the people of Gaza, is a typical example of what is actually happening in Gaza.

The main obstacle to the creation of a Palestinian state is not Israel. The main obstacle to the creation of a Palestinian state is Hamas itself - the Palestinian ISIS ( an organization recognized as terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation - ed. ), which does not recognize Israel's right to exist, strives to build a Sharia state throughout its territory and believes that every Israeli , including old people, women, and children, should be slaughtered by the warriors of Allah.

“There is no other solution for the Palestinian problem than jihad,” says the 13th chapter of the Hamas charter. “Allah is our goal, the Prophet is our pattern, the Quran is our constitution, jihad is the way and death in the name of Allah, the greatest of desires,” says Chapter 8. This Charter reads like an Islamist version of Mein Kampf: it blames the Jews for all the troubles of the world (including the Freemasons, the French Revolution and the First World War) and quotes profusely from hadiths calling for the killing of Jews everywhere, anytime, anywhere. Israel's refusal to accept such a position is called "unreadiness for compromise" by useful idiots.

Hamas shows children cartoons about how to slaughter Jews, publishes magazines with UN money with articles glorifying Hitler, and strictly ensures that the inhabitants of the enclave have no other money than that given to them by terrorists and have no other career opportunities. except through hatred of Israel.

"Over the past several decades, the Palestinian leadership has missed opportunity after opportunity and rejected every peace initiative that was offered to them." These are not the words of an Israeli expert or a Western observer. These are the words of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “Sit down at the negotiating table or shut up and stop complaining,” bin Salman said recently.

Hamas won the 2006 Gaza elections.

In 2007, he sealed the victory with a massacre, slaughtering about 100 members of the hostile Fatah, and became the only force in control of the Gaza Strip.

Many observers hoped that, once in power, Hamas would move towards more constructive policies within the "stationary bandit" theory.

Unfortunately, the "stationary bandit" theory does not take into account what would happen if the wealth and power of a bandit who controlled a territory increased the worse the situation of the people in that territory.

This is not to say that the Gaza Strip has flourished under PLO rule, but the nightmare it has become under Hamas is beyond all probability.

The Gaza Strip's own power plant has stopped working. Electricity is supplied there (from Israel) for two to three hours a day. The fact is that Hamas did not pay for the electricity of the Palestinian Authority, and in 2017 its leader Mahmoud Abbas asked Israel not to supply electricity until it was paid for.

Electricity could be obtained from Egypt, but the Egyptian leadership made a demand in return: to extradite 17 terrorists to Egypt. This demand was, of course, indignantly rejected.

The lack of electricity in the Gaza Strip killed even those small industries that somehow managed to survive under the bandits, corruption and PLO militants.

Garbage in the Gaza Strip is not removed, treatment facilities are not working. In the summer of 2017, the sea along the sector turned into a cesspool: 100,000 cubic meters of sewage was dumped into it every day. Hamas got smart and started pumping sewage into a river that flows through Israel. Fucked up in the literal sense of the word. The Israelis had to build a dam.

The first catastrophe for the population of the Gaza Strip was the 2007 massacre and the rupture of relations with the Palestinian Authority. The second is a military coup in Egypt and the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood religious and political association ( recognized as terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation by a court decision. - Ed. ), whose subsidiary is Hamas.

Having overthrown the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian military blocked the underground tunnels through which smuggling from Egypt was delivered to the Gaza Strip. Hamas, which controlled the smuggling going through the tunnels, lost $500 million, two-thirds of its annual income.

From all these catastrophic events, it was necessary to somehow distract the people, and Hamas always had the same means of distraction: terror against Israel.

Since 2007, Hamas has fired 10,000 rockets into Israel.

Then came the turn of the tunnels: in 2014, Israel discovered that Hamas had run 32 tunnels into Israel with the aim of kidnapping and killing Israelis. The total cost of building the tunnels was $90 million.

People who did not have electricity, garbage disposal, medicines - for 90 million dollars they built not hospitals, not roads, not schools. They built tunnels, and not even for smuggling, but simply to kill Israelis.

You may ask: did this really not affect the popularity of Hamas? Answer: it did. As of September 2017, only 31% of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip would vote for him. This is a striking result, given the atmosphere of terror.

All of the above allows us to give an answer, what was the true reason for the action announced and coordinated by Hamas. That reason was by no means President Trump's decision to move the embassy to Jerusalem. And not even the eternal resentment that fills the heart of every warrior of Allah with the existence of the state of Israel.

Hamas urgently needed to arrange another “our Crimea”. Hamas urgently needed to bomb Voronezh. Hamas urgently needed to rally the people in the face of an insidious enemy.

The real purpose of the action announced by Hamas was not even to break through the fence. It is unlikely that anyone in the Hamas leadership seriously hoped that the Israel Defense Forces would allow armed enemies into the country. His plan was much more modest: to force the Israelis to shoot at the demonstrators in order to present their corpses as innocent victims of the demonstration shot by the Zionists.

Until recently, terrorists tried to maximize the number of enemies they killed. Now terrorists prefer to maximize the number of victims among their supporters. Your own corpses are always easier to organize than those of others, and the liberal media and useful idiots are directly responsible for the multiplication of paranoid regimes that are aggressors and portray themselves as victims.

Hamas knows full well that it can count on the support of CNN and The Washington Post whenever it needs to kick President Trump. Hamas solved its problem, CNN - its.