Do YOU Know What You Saw?

An obscene spectacle. Do the west's Israel-haters even understand what they saw today? Melanie Phillips Jan 19 Hamas terrorists “hold back” the Gazan mob menacing Israeli hostage Doron Steinbrecher at the moment of her release To all those in the west who have perpetrated the lie of Israeli genocide in Gaza for the past 15 months: look at the pictures of the mob surrounding the three Israel women hostages who were freed today, and see thousands of Gazans who are well-fed, well-groomed and well-dressed. What do you have to say now about the murderous libel you have perpetrated against the Israeli victims of these people, the lie that the Israelis were deliberately starving them, that they were the victims of Israeli-induced famine, that the Jews were behaving like Nazis? Do you have a scintilla of shame or regret about what you have done in spreading this foul incitement? Do you even understand what you saw today? Or are you too busy cheering on instead the pictures of those “pro-Palestinian” hate-marchers in London yesterday, dozens of whom were arrested by the police because they were absolutely determined to harass and terrorise British Jews at their synagogue Sabbath services nearby? Look at that horrifying footage of those Gaza mobs, those enormous potential lynch mobs jeering and threatening the three Israeli women as they were handed over to the Red Cross — the same mobs who abused the live hostages and desecrated the bodies of the murdered ones when they were all dragged into Gaza after the October 7 massacre; look at that footage and then tell us all again that the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs in Gaza are innocent civilians and victims of the Israelis. Enormous Gaza mob surrounds Red Cross vehicle involved in handover of Israeli hostages Listen to those mobs chanting ecstatically for the murder of Jews in a willed repetition of the slaughter of Jews by Islam’s founder Mohammed in 7th century Khybar; then watch Sky News report this as a “celebration,” and then begin to understand the depravity of the western media that’s sanitised this barbarism for 15 months and demonised its victims. Look at the thousands who have emerged in Hamas uniform and armed to the teeth, vowing to carry out more and more October 7 massacres until every Jew is dead and Israel is destroyed — Hamas murder squads loudly declaring that they will use the ceasefire to regroup, rearm and attack Israel; and then listen to the politicians hailing this development as the beginning of peace. Hamas emerge in full regalia onto the streets of Gaza in a show of strength following the ceasefire Look with breaking heart at the poignant joy and indescribable relief from suffering of the families reunited with their newly freed girls — how can this be anything other than a source not just of joy but also shuddering horror at what they have endured and at who knows what scars they will bear for the rest of their lives; and a source also of the most profound agony over the vast majority of the Israeli captives, both alive and dead, who remain incarcerated as pawns of these Palestinian Arab psychopaths, and who will now be used to eke out further unbearable distress among the hostages and their families, and to extort and manipulate the Israelis into ensuring that Hamas survive, regroup and resume the business of genocide. All you who have connived at this obscenity, including the members of the Biden administration and the incoming Trump administration — yes, even though it was indeed Donald Trump whose arrival on the scene forced Hamas/Qatar to yield up this limited number of hostages but at a terrible price that no civilised nation should have expected any victimised people to pay, including enabling its genocidal enemy to regroup and re-emerge as a force for evil in a way that threatens to render worthless the supreme sacrifice made by all those Israeli heroes who have fallen in battle — you who are all falling over yourselves to take credit for the release of the hostages today, know this: that the spectacle of these innocents having to run the gauntlet of genocidal menace after 15 months in hell, this hostage negotiation that was more akin to a mafia-style hit-job forcing Israel under unimaginable pressure to release dozens of men who have slaughtered Israeli Jews over the years, who left hundreds of families permanently bereaved and shattered and are now being released to do it all again — you have produced a sickening theatre of sadism and cruelty on the eve of Trump’s inauguration, which casts a baleful shadow over the new and transformative era that tomorrow’s dawn will supposedly bring. Let’s hope the Trump administration speedily redeems itself by helping Israel now rid the world once and for all of this evil. Because the Jewish people will never forget nor forgive what you have done. *** My new book The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West – and Why Only They Can Save It, can be bought on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk .