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Source: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-devastating-reframing-of-israels-just-war-against-hamas/
The Devastating Reframing of Israel's Just War Against Hamas
(Times of Israel) Dr. Qanta A. Ahmed - Since the inception of the Israel/Hamas war, the world has witnessed the remarkable, rapid, and deeply persistent denial by millions around the world of the Hamas atrocities. Global leaders have almost universally condemned Israel for its actions in Gaza, largely granting Hamas a pass, often lionizing Hamas with privileged victimhood status, and erasing Hamas from the war it intentionally launched. As an observing Muslim who has protested Islamism, the vicious imposter masquerading as my great religion, I traveled to Israel in mid-October to see the outcomes of the actions of Hamas in person. As a physician, I saw firsthand the bodies of the dead, their charred, mutilated remains, their X-rays and CT scans, their incinerated teeth and vertebrae, their ashes. I immersed myself in the findings of pathologists, forensic scientists and anthropologists, taking notes, photographs, videos and pouring over medical images. Many vilify Israel, and many more remain silent on the Hamas atrocities. This silence is perhaps the most powerful weapon in Hamas's arsenal. It has fundamentally ruptured the sense that the lives of Jews and all Israelis, including Druze, Muslims and Christians, matter. The writer, a British-American Muslim, is Associate Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York and an Honorary Fellow at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.