Sunday, December 31, 2023

Monday, December 4, 2023

OPEN LETTER

To: President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and other officials 

Stop pissing and moaning about the death toll of Gaza civilians. Stop warning Israel not to repeat the intensity of its attack on northern Gaza as the IDF starts operating in the south. 

Israel is not deliberately killing the civilian population of Gaza.  However, when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, the terrorists deliberately murdered at least 1,200 civilian Jews. And whenever Hamas is firing rockets at Israel, it is targeting  Jewish civilians, not the IDF.

Hamas is conducting its operations out of or adjacent to Gaza residential buildings, schools, mosques and hospitals. Because Hamas is using human shields, civilians are bound to be killed as Israel attempts to win a decisive victory over the terrorists. 

America is the very last nation on this planet with the right to condemn Israel's conduct in the war against Hamas.  During WWII, the US pulverized cities in Germany and Japan. Up to three million German civilians and one million Japanese civilians were killed during the bombings of their cities, most of which were carried out by the US.

Dresden after the bombing, as seen from the top of the town hall
Dresden, Germany after the bombing

A view of the devastation of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb                                Hiroshima, Japan after the atomic bomb

When the US pulverized German and Japanese cities, the primary targets were not industrial or military sites. The primary targets were German and Japanese civilians. The civilians were deliberately targeted in order to destroy the morale of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

Up to 210,000 Japanese civilians were killed by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The civilian death toll in those two cities from just two bombs caused the immediate surrender of Japan. It has been estimated that up to 400,000 American soldiers could have been killed had the US invaded Japan. That certainly justifies the high number of deaths suffered by Japanese civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

So, all of you shut up and let Israel do what it takes to win a decisive victory over Hamas. If that results in a lot of civilian casualties, so be it.

Howie Katz