Israel’s War on Hamas Is Justified and Morally Correct
The bodies of people, some of them elderly, lie on a street after they were killed during a mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, southern Israel, Oct. 7, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Zionist prophet Ze’ev Jabotinsky once reportedly said, “The past lays a railroad track for the future.”
Jabotinsky also reportedly asked, “‘Everybody is wrong and you alone are right?’ No doubt this question springs by itself to the reader’s lips and mind. It is customary to answer this with apologetic phrases to the effect that I fully respect public opinion, that I bow to it, that I was glad to make concessions …. All this is unnecessary, and all this is untrue.”
All of these things are true in June 2024, and they will always be true when it comes to the Jewish people.
Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said no to a proposal that France, the United States, and Israel would form a contact group to work on defusing escalating tensions with Hezbollah on the northern border.
As Gallant said, “As we fight a just war, defending our people, France has adopted hostile policies against Israel … In doing so, France ignores the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli children, women and men.”
Rightfully, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently said, “If we must stand alone, we shall stand alone. If we must, we shall fight with our fingernails. But we have much more than our fingernails.”
The reality is that Israel is at odds with much of the world — but Israel did what any democratic country would do. It launched a war of defense to prevent Hamas from orchestrating anymore October 7 massacres, or fulfilling its mission to destroy Israel.
Hamas has stated that its goal is to annihilate Israel; the Oct. 7 massacre, and the recent attacks from Iran and Hezbollah, show how serious that threat is.
If a Hamas-like group was in control of Canada and launching wars from its territory, would the US end a war without destroying that terrorist group? Of course not. The same goes for any other free nation in the world.
The criticism of Israel for working to defeat Hamas comes down to one thing: Jew-hatred.
There are so many conflicts over the world — where, unlike in Israel, those armies are not trying to prevent civilian casualties. Sudan is the latest example — others in the Middle East alone include Syria and Yemen, where so many civilians have been killed.
But there are no street protests, no campus rallies, no calls for “intifada.”
Why? Because Jews aren’t involved.
Jews are in danger worldwide — but we have done nothing wrong, and we can’t let people convince us that we have. Israel is trying to avoid civilian casualties — but Hamas has embedded itself in civilian areas. This war is Hamas’ fault.
The US is delusional when lecturing Israel on a two-state solution. There is no partner for peace, with most Palestinians still supporting the October 7 massacre. Notably, in Gaza, where the war is being fought, less people support the war than in the untouched West Bank. That points to something quite newsworthy.
Israel knows we have to sometimes fight alone, as history has shown us. The Holocaust showed us we can never rely on anyone else for our safety — and that is why Israel was created.
As Jabotinsky noted, “We hold that Zionism is moral and just. And since it is moral and just, justice must be done, no matter whether Joseph or Simon or Ivan or Achmet agree with it or not.”
Dear world: yes, everyone is wrong and we alone are right. We are the Jewish people — and we will live.
Ronn Torossian is an entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist.
The post Israel’s War on Hamas Is Justified and Morally Correct first appeared on Algemeiner.com.