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Welcome to the buck brief. Let's talk about the latest in the Israel Hamas war. There has been now a report of a major airstrike that has hit a densely populated area in Gaza.

Near the Jabbalia refugee camp and a Jabbalia refugee camp and there are reports of a large number of casualties. Now this is going to be seized upon immediately by the critics of Israel to say this is why we need to have a ceasefire because there are civilian casualties.

I reject that. I think that anybody who understands what's going on here and the scope of the conflict ahead sees that the rules of engagement here should be very similar what they were for the US after 9-11 namely that if you are a nation that is responding to this kind of mass casualty terror attack.

You have the right to defend yourself and to do so in a way that is going to be imperfect when it comes to civilian casualties but is effective when it comes to defending yourself.

Now there is a balance there I understand that but Israel does not kill civilians on purpose Hamas does. That is a clear and defining difference between these two groups Israel does not kill civilians on purpose Hamas does.

And when Israel fires a missile or drops a bomb on a target as just happened here in the Jabbalia neighborhood.

There are going to be sometimes civilian casualties they will try to mitigate those to the degree they can but this strike it is believed went after one of the primary planners of the October 7 attack.

And so with that high value target even in a densely populated civilian area area you're going to have the Israelis making a decision that they just need to defend themselves through taking aggressive action because this guy could be planning another is certainly it's just question of when he would plan another attack this individual.

And some of those around him I'm sure there are other senior Hamas planners there too the this was an attack on the central Jabbalia battalion which had taken control of civilian buildings these deaths are all on Hamas and the jihadist cause that is embraced by a large number of Palestinians in Gaza they have caused this situation they are responsible for what is happening here.

And all these efforts at some kind of moral parity to create more power moral parity between Israel and Hamas are rooted in ignorance bad faith and honestly often anti-Semitism the Israelis have been very patient actually in the response to October 7 trying to hear from the U.S. which I know the Biden administration has been trying to hold them back and constantly telling them like oh you must obey the law.

But obey the laws of war as though then Yahoo and the IDF need to hear that and need to hear that from Joe Biden.

They are the good guys in this and sometimes conflicts do have good and evil at stake this is not some minor territorial dispute with two groups that are putting professional armies in the field and after some casualties are observed by both sides they'll come to some kind of an agreement that's not what's happening here.

Hamas wants to destroy the state of Israel and exterminate the Jewish people and that is what it says it wants to do and that is how it has acted.

The misery of the Palestinian people in Gaza is the fault of Hamas the terrorist group that runs Gaza and it's I think it couldn't be any more abundantly clear that the that misery falls upon Hamas's shoulders that the.

Civilian casualties that will come from this conflict fall on Hamas's shoulders you know all of these entities in the region when you think about it whether it's Hamas.

Hezbollah the Iranian regime that she abacked militias it's all rooted in hatred misery violence and destruction none of these entities are involved in happy well ordered societies.

There's there's something going on here right it's it's not like these these are our groups that are representing peoples in the region who are well governed and who are prosperous and law lawful and happy and no this all comes out of misery and it's worth understanding you know the the

emiseration I think is brought on by the leadership but also by at some level the ideology here.

And depends on what specifically we're talking about I mean certainly you could look at the role that militant Shia Islam just plays in all of this or militant Islam in general militant Islam is a recipe for misery for the people in the country that live under that regime and also for its neighbors because eventually they're going to cause problems not not even eventually it's usually rather quick.

That they are going to become aggressive and they're going to destabilize the region and that is what they do.

And also it's very it's hard I think people to wrap their minds around this but the depth of the hatred for the Jewish people that is inculcated at the very earliest age.

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