The Killing of the 7 Aid Workers
A quick note on the IDF’s investigation and the World’s love of Scapegoats
Fault was found and two officers – the Brigade Combat Fire Officer who is a Major and the Lt. Colonel (res.) who is essentially the chief of staff of the brigade have been removed from their posts.
After reading the report and speaking to someone who is a battalion Combat Fire Officer (below a brigade) in a different brigade than the one involved, I would like to highlight two things.
The basic claim of the report is that the brigade was told by the Division staff not to shoot on the convoy. The reason they did shoot is that after the convoy started, pick up trucks accompanied them. Armed personnel were seen in the lead car. There was also at least one armed person on top of at least one aid truck. After the trucks brought the aid to the warehouse the pickups continued – and members of the first truck (the one with armed personnel) went to the other trucks. They continued on their way and the brigade officers tried to contact the aid workers and failed. The unit responsible for coordinating the aid contacted the organization’s headquarters who also could not get in touch with them.
The three pickups all belonged to Hamas and Hamas terrorists were in them and accompanied the aide. It was these three pick ups that were destroyed.
Two issues
- first, the IDF officers in the field have orders to shoot all armed personnel since they are all Hamas terrorists. If they were at fault due to contradictory orders from the Division is possible.
- Fault lies with the international community and the Israeli government for not doing more to make sure Hamas does not commandeer the humanitarian aid.
It is the second issue that is the major issue and the fault lies with President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, PM Netanyahu, Defense Minister Galant, the heads of UNRWA, the UN and the Red Cross, the PM and President of the UK and France respectively, the Foreign Minister of the UK and all other western leaders who have blamed Israel for not doing enough to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
None of these leaders have done enough to condemn Hamas, make demands on Hamas or pressure Qatar and Egypt to do their part and they should be held responsible for this tragedy in addition to the two officers who may have acted wrongly but certainly acted as they thought under battlefield conditions in the middle of the night (and why are these convoys going in at night?). This includes the leaders of Israel who have not done enough to pressure Qatar, Egypt the US and the so called neutral organizations like the Red Cross and the UN to keep aid that is supposed to go only to civilians to Hamas and their terrorists.
But the global elite lives on scapegoats – it allows those responsible to escape responsibility. For the Western world and the US in particular, Israel is the convenient scapegoat. For the Israeli political and military leadership, these two officers are the convenient scapegoats.
The problem of course is that those who suffer from the use of scapegoats are the innocents. If Israel is forced to surrender to Hamas due to this (as Biden-Blinken seem to want) then both the Israelis and the Gazans will suffer immediately – and the western public will suffer a bit later when the surrender to terrorist organizations and fascist states is completed.
If an employee of an international, humanitarian, or any other organization comes into contact with terrorists, this means that he accepts responsibility for his actions.
The organization's employees were together with the terrorists. They traveled with them in the same transport. They were performing some task together with terrorists.
What do you think can be said about this situation? Either they were human shields (perhaps deliberately), or they had the same goals.
The same can be said about the Red Cross employees who, together with the terrorists, carried out the task of handing over the hostages. They worked together with terrorists. But when it was necessary to transfer medicine to Israeli hostages, they did not do it.
Question. Who do international organizations work for?
Therefore, holding Israel responsible is unfair and immoral.
PENTAGON DODGES QUESTION ABOUT WHY NO ONE FIRED FOR AFGHANISTAN DRONE STRIKE
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/04/05/watch-pentagon-dodges-question-about-why-no-one-fired-for-afghanistan-drone-strike/
"Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder dodged a question Thursday about why no one in the U.S. was held accountable for a mistaken 2021 drone strike, while demanding Israel punish officials for a similar incident.
"As Breitbart News reported at the time, the Biden administration claimed that a drone strike on a target in Kabul was a “righteous” strike on a terrorist in the wake of the attack on the international airport that killed 13 U.S. personnel.
"Later, the U.S. admitted that the drone attack had targeted an innocent aid worker, who died along with two adults and seven children from his family. No one was ever fired, or reprimanded, for the mistake or the false explanation.
"Yet in recent days, President Joe Biden and White House officials have demanded that Israel hold officials accountable for a mistaken drone strike on World Central Kitchen aid workers who were mistaken for terrorists."