Gazans are on the brink of starvation, we are told. It is genocide. A humanitarian catastrophe. 

You know the propaganda, so I need not repeat it. Others do ad nauseam.

But they aren't quite so hungry and weak that they can't sit in what appears to be a luxury home and do food reviews of the MREs the US government is airdropping into the country to alleviate the suffering. 

The most notable part of this video (from a Hamas-affiliated account) is when the guy notes that the U.S.-provided food package "comes for free, but at the end we still have to buy it."

Who, exactly, do Palestinians in Gaza have to buy airdropped food packages from – and why? https://t.co/u2NERB0Df1

— Avi Mayer אבי מאיר (@AviMayer) March 17, 2024

This whining food review of the MREs--which our own soldiers eat when necessary--was posted by a Hamas-affiliated news source. So, in a sense, this is supposed to be propaganda about how mean the West is to the poor suffering Gazans. We didn't drop caviar and prime rib into the Gaza Strip in the midst of a war. 

Hamas somehow thinks this is going to work, and indeed they have a point; plenty of Leftists took to Twitter to share the complaints that MREs simply weren't good enough for the Palestinians. 

No doubt the average Gazan isn't living so high off the hog as this man, who apparently is from Canada and is there for some unknown reason (and posting videos for Hamas, apparently), and I have more than a little sympathy for the truly innocent people of Gaza who are caught between vicious terrorists and the soldiers trying to eradicate them. 

It's not like they have a choice--whenever they try to escape from Hamas' grip they get shot at, and as was slipped out by this "reviewer," MREs that were provided for free by the US are being hoarded by Hamas and refugees must pay to get what intended for their benefit. 

Hamas is evil. 

As much as I know that many "innocent civilians" are dedicated to the murder of Jews as Hamas terrorists, I also strongly believe that there are, in fact, hundreds of thousands of innocents who just want to live their lives. It is always thus in war. No doubt they harbor ill will toward Israel, but they are no threat and deserve no mistreatment. 

But there is only so much Israel and the United States can do when Hamas insists on using human shields. The alternatives are to 1) risk civilian casualties or 2) be as quick about destroying Hamas as humanly possible and start the process of humanitarian assistance as quickly as possible once the war is done. 

The third option is to be a perpetual victim of Hamas' evil. Hamas has made clear it will never stop, and no sane people will sacrifice its citizens to placate a terrorist group. 

War is brutal. Always. 

Israel didn't choose this war. Hamas did, and Hamas is the government of the Gaza Strip. Gazans can either get rid of them or suffer the consequences of Israel having to do it for them. 

The campaign against Israel, intended to force them to desist from destroying Hamas, does nothing more than guarantee more suffering in both Israel and Gaza. Until the regime in Gaza is defeated and replaced, human suffering will continue. That is an iron law of war. 

Ironically, it seems that Israel's Arab neighbors understand that better than the United States does, or at least our liberal neighbors. They make muted noises about civilian casualties, but all seem to agree that Hamas needs to be rooted out. There is no widespread anti-Israel movement in the Arab world because its leaders are fed up with the Palestinians. 

As they should be.