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October 10, 2023       Share:    

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-is-an-iranian-war-gaza-israel-terrorism-massacre-kidnapping-military-4d6b2137

The Iran-Gaza War

(Wall Street Journal) Eugene Kontorovich - On Saturday, the Iranian-backed Palestinian militia Hamas invaded Israel from Gaza. Chilling videos have surfaced of them desecrating bodies and parading captives through the streets of Gaza, as large crowds yell "God is great." It is a rampage of unspeakable cruelty, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. An operation of such scale and complexity is unlike anything Hamas has previously attempted and strongly suggests significant Iranian involvement. Imagine if those who perpetrated the attacks also had control of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), a vastly larger territory with a much longer frontier a few miles from Israel's main population centers. The consequences would be orders of magnitude worse. False doctrines of international law have given Hamas in Gaza an insurance policy: No matter what atrocities they commit against Israel, they will come out of any conflict with no less territory than before. The writer is a professor at the George Mason University Law School and director of its Center on the Middle East and International Law.

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