Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Israel vs. Hamas is no longer simple.

Divesting from Israel is not realistic. It is interesting to watch college campuses ignore the fact Iran’s attack on Israel has complicated the war to contain Hamas. I would be very surprised if the ICC ignored the Iranian escalation of war with Israel. There are now two sovereign countries involved in this conflict and not just containment of a terrorist organization.

The problem is the current status with this war is that attacking Israel through proxies is exactly the goal of Iranian armament of the terrorist organizations. When Iran attacked Israel directly it was proved as a goal of the war begun my Hamas. This action by Iran complicates the entire assessment of this war. Iran should have demanded the surrender by Hamas to stop the conflict and free the hostages. Iran didn’t do that. Instead Iranian leaders sent military advisers to escalate the fighting.

The status of this conflict escalated when Iran took an active interest in killing Israelis and providing its own military attack via missiles to attempt to tip the scales for Hamas. The anti-war movement demanding divestiture from Israel was defeated not by college administrators, but, by Iran’s plans for Israel.

One thing that has come out of the protest movement in the USA is the current commitment to building a dock for arrival of aid to the Palestinians. The dock is to provide for the arrival of humanitarian aid and only humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. So long as the USA is supervising the dock, boat arrival, and unloading of supplies to trucks Israel cannot complain.

The technology used at USA ports to end terrorist threats can be applied to the new dock as well. There will be no arrival and distributions of armaments to Hamas permitted through this dock. It will remove the propaganda warfare by Hamas that triggers the IDF to attack such truck movements.