by Robert M. Traxler
Who bombed the Christian hospital in Gaza? The world is lining up condemning Israel for the destruction of the hospital. As this column has maintained for over a decade, the first casualty of war is always the truth.
We can believe the left- or right-wing press as you wish, but the truth can always be found in the photos of the crime and not the words of the pundits. An old adage in felony investigation is that eyewitness testimony is the most unreliable evidence. The crime scene will tell the truth and eyewitnesses tend to see what they wish to see.
In the light of an unbiased investigation, we need to look at the crime scene. First, the photos show no “bomb crater;” not conclusive evidence in itself, but couple it with the widespread fire damage to the parking lot, it is not indicative of a bomb blast, but more indicative of a fuel air blast, like one found in exploding rocket fuel. Second, a bomb blast has a tendency to be more up than out.
Add in the fact that the damage to the hospital was mostly from fire (looking at the photos) and not as several the reports stated, and reasonable doubt develops into the aerial bomb theory. The reports maintained the that hospital was destroyed with 500 dead; the evidence disproves the reports.
The photos, at least of the pro-Palestine press, show the likelihood of the errant missile fuel explosion as opposed to a bomb blast, but it simply does not matter to the majority of the world, indeed the world press that is anti-semitic. A good historical example of a bias press was the Katyn Massacre in Poland during World War II. Some 3500 Polish military and civilian leaders were shot in the head and buried in the forest. For decades the Nazis were blamed, even though the evidence pointed to the Soviet socialists. We believe what we wish to, not what the facts dictate.
A factor that we also need to examine is that a sick or wounded person requires three to five times the assets of a healthy person. In the cold cruel calculation that is war, the hospital was and is a drain on the Palestinian/Hamas supply system. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) would be ill advised to destroy the hospital. If we just examine the evidence, it points to an accident of war on the part of a group allied with Hamas, and not the IDF. Again, it does matter to the American left and the rest of the anti-semitic world, who will always blame Israel.
The right wing of our nation is now calling for progressive college students protesting Israel to be arrested or removed from college. I say not no, but hell no; cancel culture is wrong left or right, we have free speech, or we should have free speech as contained in the Bill of Rights. I do not like their rhetoric, but they have the constitutional right to be wrong and publicly say it.
I only wish our socialist/progressive citizens would practice what they preach and denounce the cancel culture. My opinion.
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