Six Israeli Hostages Murdered By The Palestinians Moments Before Their Rescue
Six Israeli Hostages Murdered By The Palestinians Moments Before Their Rescue
How did this tragedy happen and how can Israel never let it happen again?
This morning, six hostage bodies were recovered from the Gaza tunnels. Their names are Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lubnov, Carmel Gat, and Almog Sarusi. These poor souls were brutally kidnapped by the Palestinians as part of their October 7th massacre. According to IDF’s reports, they were murdered about 48 hours before the IDF raided the tunnel.
This is a very sad day in Israel.
The only ‘crime’ they committed was that they went to a party. Carmel Gat didn’t even attend the party. She was abducted from her own home in Be’eri. One cannot comprehend the horrors they’ve been through for the past 330 days, only to be shot just before their incoming rescue mission.
This senseless act of pure evil is revealing the nature of the Palestinian movement. If the so-called Palestinian movement was indeed about freedom and peace for Palestine, how did the kidnapping and murder of these innocent Israeli civilians promote that end?
Ask this question, anyone, who dares to put that ugly Palestinian flag, the flag that represents suicide bombing, murder, kidnapping, and rape, on their social media profile or, worse, walk with it on the streets.
This incident is precisely what this flag stands for, exactly as the German Nazi flag stands for the gas chambers and WWII.
Anyone who tells you that the Palestinian movement doesn’t stand for rape and murder is a liar and an active collaborator of this regime.
As we mourn the senseless deaths of Hersh, Eden, Ori, Alex Carmel, and Almog, we must remember the cause of their deaths and what led to them so that it will never happen again.
It is obvious that the Palestinians are the forces of evil, and therefore they are the ones directly responsible. However, evil can only flourish insofar as the good allows him to exist. And the good force that allowed this to happen was Israel, or more specifically, Netanyahu’s government, which ruled Israel for the past 15 years.
It is true that there are previous mistakes that have led to this path. One very important example is the Jibril prisoner exchange from 1985, which Netanyahu called “a fatal blow to Israel’s efforts to form an international front against terrorism”.
Netanyahu was elected prime minister in 1996 because of his supposed fierce stand against the Oslo agreements, which paved the way for the murder of thousands of Israelis in the countless subsequent conflicts between Israel and Palestine.
Yet, it is Netanyahu, who didn’t undo the Oslo agreements, and it is he who continued to negotiate with the various Palestinian groups to release more hostages. The worst example of such negotiations is the Shalit deal of October 2011, in which 1,027 Palestinians were released from Israeli prisons in exchange for one single Israeli soldier. One of these released Palestinians was Yahya Sinwar, who would later become the head of the Palestinian movement.
Throughout these years, Israel has continued to negotiate with the Palestinians, making them understand that only if they manage to kidnap one single Israeli, they are willing to pay astronomical prices. Sinwar made the simple calculation: if they are willing to pay us more than a thousand for one, what if we kidnap hundreds?
Add to that, despite the clear statements by the various Palestinian political groups that they exist for the sole purpose of annihilating Israel, Netanyahu has allowed them to continue to rule in Gaza and parts of the West Bank. Despite many opportunities in countless military operations, when the Palestinian military was much weaker, and it lacked the tunnel infrastructure (which is now used to hide our hostages) it has today, Netanyahu refused to engage in decisive war, only in so-called “operations” which always ended in the IDF retreating back to Israel, leaving no territorial change.
Imagine the Soviet Red Army totalising Berlin, only to retreat and leave the Nazis in power and let them rebuild. What would happen? Would the Nazis all of a sudden become peace-lovers? The pursuit of aggressive war, was a part of the nature of the Nazi movement, as it is in the nature of the Palestinian movement.
If we are to pay respect to these six victims and to all the other victims of October 7th and the victims of the war ever since (which is 1,650 in total, at the time of writing), we must reject any negotiation with evil and advocate for deceiving, uncompromising action against the Palestinians to ensure they could never raise their ugly heads again.
Should Israel concede again and continue to negotiate with evil, continue to embolden them, and show how weak and emotionalistic it is, the Palestinians will only grow stronger, and kill more Israelis.
Instead of going to the streets and protesting for a “deal now”, we must demand from the Israeli government to “end Palestine now” so that no more Israeli blood will even be so senselessly spilt ever again. It is our moral obligation to these fallen six, and to all the rest of the many soldiers who heroically died in battle and all the other victims of the October 7th war.