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Israel's Self-Defense Always Offends More than the Jihadi Atrocities that Triggered It
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - Since the IDF resumed the fighting in Gaza after the collapse of the ceasefire deal, the West has been up in arms about a return to bloodshed. The world is always far more aggrieved by the measures Israel takes to defend its people than the jihadi atrocities that demand them. If Israel pulled back from Gaza before a decisive victory is achieved, how will it ensure that its people are safe from future atrocities? We are dealing with jihadis here. The depths of the cruelty on display in Gaza - the torture, rape, executions and mutilations, the killing of women and strangulation of children, the propaganda ceremonies, the playing of games with dead bodies - should be enough to satisfy us that these people are not like us. They run on a different operating system. With Israel unable to accept anything less than the destruction of Hamas, and Hamas ideologically committed to the destruction of Israel, this has always been a zero-sum affair. For Israel, this is a war that must be won.