DO NOT FORGET THEM

These are the last words of an article written about the American hostages remaining in the filthy bloodstained hands of Hamas. They are Jews. They are Israelis. They are Americans and yet America has left them behind somewhere, in the land of we could care less. Three of them are already dead, known beyond doubt to be dead and four possibly surviving. Actually, with the slaughtered Hersh, I believe that makes eight. 

We know naught about the remaining hostages. Certainly, the exact fate of the Bibas family remains obscured. Argentina has forgotten her citizens as have the other nations of the world. France. England, Australia where are you? Guess you are too busy indulging the anti-Semitism rampant in your lands. Or perhaps you are voting for the sovereignty of Palestine in the UN which states most assuredly that Israel has on purpose caused starvation in Gaza. The same starvation claimed as imminent, two days away, 6 weeks away, on and on and on as of October 7th last year, after Hamas and thousands of "innocent civilians' joined in the rampage and/or cheered as the captives or their corpses were paraded through Gaza and desecrated. 

And here it is again. We are told that many have already died due to starvation. I am not quite sure where they are or where they have been, for I have perused the many photos that have come out of the war. I see wrapped 'bodies', but never an unwrapped corpse. I wonder, are there designated sheet wrapping stocks to use, for how are they so readily available and tied ever so properly? 

Beats me, but then again, having never plotted war nor mass murder I cannot answer, only can marvel at the foresight of laying out supplies of sheets in every building in Gaza. Amazing! Evidently, the planning heads of Hamas found a great sale for burial sheets and stocked every building, but somehow stocked only their tunnels with food, water, fuel, etc. All the necessities of life in order to inflict death and horror upon their own people!! Their people used as a weapon of war and accepted as such by the world. Oh, so welcoming of anything which could be laid at Israel's door. A world ever ready and accepting of any claims against Israel and all Jews for that matter.  

Foremost in those claims is the fairy tale of starvation. But I see no victims of starvation. I see no sunken eyes nor prominent ears. No hollowed-out skulls. No walking sacks of bones. No walking skeletons. No piles of bodies who died of starvation so rampant and endemic within Gaza. So many, impossible to gather and bury. And the world buys into these lies, hook, line, and sinker, even as Israel allows in trucks of food and supplies, even as Hamas hijacks the contents. Even as the supplies end up either in the black market or on the shelves of stores selling them for a profit. Everywhere, other than in fair distribution among the 'starving innocent' people of Gaza who are used as cannon fodder by their rulers. Their rulers whom they have tolerated and joined since 2005. 

 Sniff, sniff. Smell something rotten?        

What I and the world do not see are the hostages. Yes, their pictures are up all over Israel and in Jewish neighborhoods, in store windows. In homes well stocked with the myriad books and memoirs of the horror of Oct 7 and its ongoing horrid blood-soaked aftermath. This nation and nations of the world are crisscrossed by freed and rescued hostages, accompanied by relatives of those who remain in captivity or are known to be dead. I see and hear the words, the pictures, but evidently the nations of the world are selectively blind, able to ignore their own citizens still held in a captivity of brutality and torture, used as psychological items of warfare as a video is shown and then the prisoner is murdered. 

The hostages are real. Their situations untenable and intolerable, yet there they remain. The guilt of Hamas in that instigation and brutality of its attacks that began this war, foisted upon Israel, is totally denied. Hamas has screwed their own people, cutting them off from their jobs in Israel, which paid them decent salaries, enabling them to build homes, to educate their children. No more - thanks to Hamas. No more thanks to their acquiescence and cheering at the outset, now so different - yet inevitable.  

Israel has gone far above and beyond in her efforts to minimize civilian deaths but when civilians cannot be differentiated from combatants, on purpose, there are limits. Those limits and the consequences belong at the doorways of Hamas, not Israel. And yet, that obvious truth is denied.   Hamas brought this horror down upon their own. The conditions Gazans now have been the consequences of Hamas.  Due to the outrageous misplaced support for the beasts of Hamas, it behaves and demands as a victor. Israel should cede all, leave Gaza and perhaps, maybe, whenever, sometime, there will be discussion re the hostages. Maybe. Maybe not. Certainly not all. Of course not. And the world goes right along, the roots of JewHatred are deep indeed. No nation in the world would do this yet it is demanded of Israel.  

Ironically, awfully, the future for Israel and world Jewry rests upon the shoulders of a clearly demented man who delights in causing aggravation, in being perverse, immoral and a felon. Yet at present he clearly supports Israel. His appointments connected with the Middle East are pro-Israel, all clearly outspoken, Rubio rightly calling Hamas beasts - which they are. Yet how strong will they be should Trump change his mind, clearly a possibility, even a probability. And yet his support now is strong and hopefully will remain so. 

I now have a dichotomy within me. Difficult. There it is. I despise Trump for everything that he is, for everything that he proposes, for every antagonistic appointment he has made. Placing people who are diametrically opposed to what they are supposed to defend and protect. People of no relevant experience whatsoever, therefore grave doubt as to their capabilities in their most important sensitive positions. Yet he's outspokenly pro-Israel though statements re American Jews are not reassuring. Nor are some of his White Power buddies. 

And yet such is the reality, such is the dichotomy of my soul with which I must contend. Is there any wonder why the words of my prayers for the safety of Israel, the safety of my people, the sanity of the world, are ever more fervent and ever more frequent. Even as I see "I told you so" moments growing, there it is. Upon the man who is anathema to me in so many ways, is the best booster for Israel at present, other than the Lord Above. Frankly, I do not understand the Lord's actions and thoughts any more than those of Trump! 

 I hate it all. And yet ... I must tolerate my own personal schizophrenia in this manner and hope and pray for the best, albeit with great trepidation and unease. Not a pleasant situation. 

Do not forget them, the hostages, nor the standards of justice and truth which must prevail.