Andrew Bolt: Israel invasion by Palestinian terrorists who prefer killing Jews to peace

The surprise invasion of Israel by Palestinian terrorists show what many on the Left have been blind to: Israel’s enemies are not like you and me.

The surprise invasion of Israel by Palestinian terrorists show what many on the Left have been blind to: Israel’s enemies are not like you and me.

The internet teems with videos of what these terrorists, sent by the Hamas leaders of Gaza, have done, and they say it all: these people have a different moral code.

They show Jewish civilians, men and women, gunned down in their cars, some of the more than 300 Israeli dead.

They show a Jewish woman, screaming for her husband, driven off on motorbike as a hostage, and three other terrified women in a truck.

A man in Tel Aviv after it was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants. Picture: Jack Guez

Another woman, probably someone’s grandmother, is driven into Gaza on a golf buggy by armed men – another hostage.

A Palestinian fighter, shouting in triumph, drags another Jewish woman, her arms bound and pants soiled in fear, out of his SUV.

Other fighters show off a dead Jewish woman, then drive her body through a cheering crowd of Palestinians.

All this and more – the kidnapping even of children – tell us Israel is dealing with an enemy that makes no distinction between soldier and civilian, men and women.

It is a radical Islamist enemy that revels in an attack which is militarily pointless but kills Jews.

But maybe the Left will now awake to the nature of Israel’s enemies, armed by Iran.

It has too often indulged in a fatal conceit – that all people are fundamentally like them, and will mellow if only we were nicer.

A young woman reacts as she speaks to Israeli rescuers in Tel Aviv, after the city was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip. Picture: Jack Guez

Take the response of America’s Office of Palestinian Affairs.

“We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks,” it tweeted. “Terror and violence solve nothing.”

That tweet was later deleted, and President Joe Biden declared he backed Israel’s right to defend itself.

But this US diplomatic body had instinctively urged Israel not to retaliate against mass-murdering Jew-haters, as if turning the other cheek would make them soften.

We’ve seen so much of this idiocy.

The Albanese government scrapped our recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and declared East Jerusalem and all the West Bank to be “occupied Palestinian territory”, as if Hamas would suddenly play nice.

But now everything is changed, and not just because Israelis will unite more behind a government wrongly denounced as a threat to democracy.

This brutality speaks. It says Gaza, a key part of Palestine, is ruled by people who prefer killing Jews to peace. Who now could seriously tell Israel to compromise?